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July 1st marks the anniversary of America’s first free library, established in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin. In this episode, Librarian of Congress Ca...
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 16:50
- Purchases: 1
Tom Germano speaks with his son, Thomas, about the Great Postal Strike of 1970, and his love of delivering the mail.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jun 15, 2020
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 1
Fifty years ago on May 21, 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young headed into a studio to record "Ohio" - the ultimate protest song, capturing the ho...
- Added: May 01, 2020
- Length: 50:05
Please join us for a rare journey through poetry and conversation with the Monacan Nation of Virginia regarding first contact, the birth of our nat...
Bought by WCPN, KWIS 88.3 FM, KWMR, WRNC-LP, WTIP and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 59:17
- Purchases: 8
In the conclusion of our look back at the Apollo 13 mission 50 years ago, Dave is joined by Barbara Lovell Harrison, John Aaron and Andrew Chaikin....
Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach and KCNP
- Added: Apr 09, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
In a time of global crisis, it's good to look to the lessons of history, to help us understand that we do have the ability to overcome terrible adv...
Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KCNP, and KUHF
- Added: Apr 02, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Jeremy Garrett visits Unreal Bluegrass to discuss his new solo CD Circles and and the latest from The Infamous Stringdusters, Rise Sun.Jeremy is a ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2020
- Length: 01:02:54
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we celebrate the 100th birthday of the League of Women Voters, the LWV. The League is a nonpartisan political ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 06:02
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 01:01:12
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:20
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” with David Jepsen, educator, historian, a...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 01, 2019
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 21:05
The Holocaust Through Music & Memory;
Sung by The Western Wind & Narrated by Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KWIT
- Added: Oct 19, 2019
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 2
"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...
- Added: Aug 16, 2019
- Length: 04:00
Features interview by Eric Marcus with Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin.
- Added: Aug 04, 2019
- Length: 58:39
Fred Haise was made famous by the movie Apollo 13, in which he was portrayed by Bill Paxton in the story of the most famous Apollo mission other th...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KSPB Pebble Beach
- Added: Jul 17, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack hangs out with St. Cloud State Un...
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 27:57
Today is Memorial Day. So happy Memorial Day. Many people have the day off work today and many will be spending time with friends and family. But w...
- Added: Jun 03, 2019
- Length: 15:53
- Added: Jun 02, 2019
- Length: :51
- Purchases: 1
Minneapolis and St. Paul are known as the Twin Cities, but relationships weren’t always so sisterly. During the summer of the 1890 census, both cit...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:38
The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...
Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, KMUN and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 9
On the fourth episode of A New York Minute In History, we detail Henry Hudson’s exploration of what would become the Empire State and how his journ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 52:02
Char Lewis shares her life stories and the wisdom she has accumulated over the years. Topics include hunting and traditional native american ways.
- Added: Dec 14, 2018
- Length: 05:24
Thomas Buergenthal saw the Nazi concentration camps through a child’s eyes. Luckily, he survived and later became a lawyer and eventually a judge o...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 22:54
- Purchases: 3
A new, single volume of history sets out to explore the experiment in government that is the United States. Award-winning Harvard historian Jill Le...
- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 25:00
