PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 18:31
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Two lives, two philosophies, and a History Channel special collide as a relationship is forged with Iron Age techniques.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 09:24
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Lee Miller is a bootmaker with a storied history, carrying on the traditions and techniques of the best bootmakers anywhere in the world.
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 06:03
Accounts of immigration laws designed specifically to restrict Asian Americans. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS O...
Bought by KUT, Radio Catskill, WCPN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCPN and more
- Added: Apr 18, 2006
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 23
How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: May 24, 2005
- Length: 29:20
- Purchases: 26
A chronicle of rural life in Georgia unfolds between the lines of a farmers' newspaper.
Bought by Audible
- Added: May 24, 2005
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
In Pennsylvania farmland that was the first stop on the Underground Railroad, a strike by Mexican mushroom pickers polarizes a Quaker community.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, WRIR, KMUN and more
- Added: May 28, 2004
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 16
The art of hand turning a Louisville Slugger baseball bat
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 12, 2004
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 1
