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Free to Be at Forty
From: Feinstein Center for American Jewish History Temple University
Caption: Free to Be....You and Me album cover (1972), Credit: Free to Be Foundation
In 2014, Free to Be... You and Me, the iconic feminist children's album, turned forty. Despite its age, the music and its message of gender equalit...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 19:12
Untethered Histories
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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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...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 15:12
Lester Amity Chalet
From: WDSE
Series: The North Shore
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Bryan talks about plans to revive the Lester Amity Chalet ... and shares a bit of a poem called "October's Bright Blue Weather" by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
Blood Quantum
From: Margaret Poethig
Caption: Anita, Summer, and Vida wearing Jingle Dresses
Anita Fineday is an Ojibwe Indian from the White Earth reservation in Minnesota. “Blood Quantum” is about how Anita reclaimed her Indian heritage a...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:29
The Parcel
From: Daniel Wanschura
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A family living in Idaho during the early 20th Century test the limits of the Postal Service, when they send a very special parcel through the Post.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
Why The Road Ahead For Psychology is Narrow
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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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 ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
Slinky! Gumby! Barbie! New MNHS exhibit explores toys of years past
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with Adam Scher, senior curator at the MN Historical Society, about their new exhibit, "Toys of the '50s, '60s & ...

  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 17:22
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...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Young Americans: A History of Childhood [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Harlem Newsboy, 1943, by Gordon Parks , Credit: Library of Congress
BackStory takes on the history of childhood in America. Have children shared a common core experience across American history? Or has the nature o...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Rediscovering Creative Lettering: Simple Rediscovery #512:
From: Teosson Wells
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For those of us who attended grammar school long before the arrival of the in-classroom computer, one of the greatest rites of passage (right up th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Haunting of Zona Heaster: The Greenbrier Ghost
From: Traveling 219
Caption: Telling the Story
The Traveling 219 Project teamed up with classes at the Greenbrier Episcopal School in Lewisburg, West Virginia this school year to bring local his...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Author Christina Baker Kline talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Orphan Train" by author Christina Baker Kline
In the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries unwanted children from east coast cities were the cargo of what were ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 2
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


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Promo: Young Americans - A History of Childhood
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: Seminole children on a reservation in Florida, c1948., Credit: Florida Photographic Collection
30-second promo for "Young Americans: A History of Childhood," with a 5 second hole for station-specific time/date tag.

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Distillations Episode 175: The Kid Show
From: Distillations
Caption: Children have been coloring in with crayons for almost 100 years. , Credit: Sruthi Pinnamaneni.
This episode kicks off a three-part series, The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. First, a loo...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 1
Poet John Ciardi
From: New Letters on the Air
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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


  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown: "Jettisoning Important History To Brighten the Future?"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
Culturology: Author Mary Losure Talks To Heidi Holtan in a Real Good Words Interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron." by Mary Losure
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 19:55
  • Purchases: 2
Born in the USA: A History of Birth [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Migrant cotton picker and her baby, Buckeye, AZ, 1940, Credit: (National Archives).
It’s BackStory’s birthday! To celebrate one year as a weekly show, the American History Guys are going back to where it all begins: birth. From mid...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio, WOUB, and WTJU


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Chapter 6 - A Summer to Remember
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 13:42
Chapter 4 - The Games We Played
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Friendships on New York City streets are made and solidified by the games young Richard plays after school and on Saturdays. Which game is played d...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
All Mixed Up with Martin Luther King Jr.
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: MLK Jr-Washington,DC 1963
A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr and the historic March on Washington that took place in August 1963, with new mixes featuring Israel Kamakaw...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Prairie Public, KVMR, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:43
  • Purchases: 26
Memories of the Traveling Carnival
From: Traveling 219
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In the age before television and the internet, traveling carnivals brought a glimpse of the exotic and the bizarre to the modest everyday lives of ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:21
EPISODE #123 “The Landing Of The Pilgrims!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
In December of 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In this episode of Did This Happen? we are there to get their first impressions of their...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
EPISODE #122 “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons!”
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Did This Happen?
Caption: Did This Happen?, Credit: Mike Hollingsworth
In 1927, balloons of cartoon characters were introduced to the Macy’s Thanksgving Day Parade! Find out what happened to those balloons when they we...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:00