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A School for All

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Caption: Louise Fraser, Credit: Fraser School

Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...

"You do not have to do this alone": A History of Women's Advocates

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Caption: Sharon Rice Vaughn, one of the founders of Women's Advocates, Credit: Women's Advocates

The St. Paul nonprofit Women’s Advocates founded one of the first shelters in the country for women escaping domestic violence. It started in the e...

The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy

From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic

More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...

King Denslow

From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds

The Wizard of Oz started as a perfect partnership between L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow -- until they became bitter rivals, with each owning half ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix

For Kids' Sake

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...

Bought by PRX Remix

RDD: It's BitterSweet

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Vicki Obee former director at Bittersweet Farms, a private non-profit that offers services to adul...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WNMU-FM

Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WCNY, KTOO, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTJU and more

Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - The hidden messages scrawled in library books

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), KKRN and more

Ferdinand, The Misunderstood Bull (feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...

Bought by KENW

Untethered Histories

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History

Historical fiction is an ongoing balance between fact and fiction, but what if the story takes place outside of reality? Author Sarah Shun-Lien Byn...

Why The Road Ahead For Psychology is Narrow

From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head

Jean Piaget was born in 1896 in Switzerland, and he died in 1980. His background was in biology and he became especially fascinated with studying ...

Anonymous and Diana

From: Littleglobe

Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art

An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

Young Americans: A History of Childhood

From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Caption: Harlem newsboy, 1943. Photograph by Gordon Parks, Credit: Library of Congress

With summer in full swing — and kids all over the country enjoying a blissful respite from school — BackStory is taking on the history of childhood...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBRP Community Radio, KREV-LP, WMMT, and WXDU

Poet John Ciardi

From: New Letters on the Air

This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection features the perfect poet to hear around Memorial Day--the late John Ciardi, who was a gunn...

Bought by KMUN and WJCU

Sisters of Mercy

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In a little known chapter of American history, hundreds of thousands of Irish Catholic children were taken from their families in New York City and...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KVSC, KRZA, KZYX and more

Tales from the South 031: The Greatest Generation I

From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season

Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio

Not a Foamer

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Griffin Bourassa possesses many traits of a typical 15 year old boy, but there is one facet of his life that is not normal.

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix

Divorced Kid

From: American Public Media

America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more

P.O.V.- Following Sean Filmmaker Interview

From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.

Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck talks with P.O.V. about the making of his film "Following Sean"

This I Believe - Josh Rittenberg

From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe

Despite of his parents' fears, teenager Josh Rittenberg believes his generation will see a better world.

Bought by WLRH, WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ

Commentary: Rubella Is History

From: KRCC-FM

A personal reflection on rubella eradication

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