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Youth producers from Grisham Middle School visit Naegelin's Bakery in New Braunfels, Texas, the oldest German bakery in the state.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:08
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On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 17:25
  • Purchases: 2
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Find out the astonishing answer as author James Baehler reads from his new book, Unbreakable: The 25 Most Unapproachable Records in Baseball. (Emai...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
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A reading from the Kings James Version of the Bible from Acts: Chapter 2 Verses 1 thru 39.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
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MN Reads talks with Kate Roberts, co-author (with Adam Scher) of Toys of the '50s, '60s and '70s (Minnesota Historical Society Press), a snapshot o...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 2
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March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
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March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
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March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
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During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
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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...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Harlem Newsboy, 1943, by Gordon Parks, Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Young Americans: A History of Childhood [rebroadcast]," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific...

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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Hunter Dyar tells this entertaining tale from history about a peculiar nautical collision in 1884 between two shipping vessels, the Frigorifique an...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 03:38
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
Caption: Dodge M37, Credit: Andreas von Huene
If only an an old truck could talk. Telling Room student Balthasar von Huene gives voice to a military work-horse that found a new life in Maine.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:17
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The current philosophy seems to be the more “friends” that we can amass on Facebook, or the more “followers” that we can attract on Twitter, the be...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 08:12
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
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
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My Choice My Voice teens Wanya Ramsey and Frank D interview Black Kold Madina a.k.a. Kimberly Roberts about her award winning film "Trouble the Wat...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:43
Caption: Cartoon from an AIDS comic book. , Credit: the National Museum of Health & Medicine.
Join us for the second installment of The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. We start by lookin...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 15:03
  • Purchases: 1
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A comparative generational discussion about hippies

  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Michael shares the empowering journey of claiming his own gender.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:17
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by Marcheta Fornoff - Held April 6th of each year, Tartan Day is a celebration of the day the Declaration of Arbroath was signed and submitted to P...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
Caption: Bob Marley , Credit: Dino Caderao
Locks, Dreads, or Jata (Hindi) is a kind of hairstyle that portrays different meaning and belief. In today's society, having dreads is something co...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Sylvia Santos looks into this fashion trend.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:26