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The Minnesota state flag has a history that dates back more than 120 years. Throughout that time, the flag has received both praise and criticism f...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 03:28
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed,and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the yea...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:15
The first African-American to become the president of a school board, William Howard Day worked with famous abolitionists Frederick Douglas and Har...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 03:55
The Partition of India uprooted 10 -15 million people, the largest mass displacement of the 20th century. 250,000 – two million died. Yet no museu...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2015
- Length: 13:13
James J. Hill is known as the “Empire Builder.” His vision for a Great Northern Railway in the 19th century helped put Minnesota on the map. Produc...
Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 2
“Minnesota 13” is the name of a corn seed developed at the University of Minnesota to suit the shorter growing season in the upper Midwest. But dur...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:48
Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:33
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 01:42
- Purchases: 1
For centuries, religion has sparked the design of some of the world’s most beautiful buildings. But what is that process? What built elements make ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:53
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 2
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 08:08
San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:01
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is one of the state's most iconic entities, renowned worldwide for its top-quality healthcare. KFAI produc...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
As the old year ends and a new year begins, the passage of time is on our minds. We check the time on cell phones, computer monitors, watches and w...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 1
The Francis Little House in Deephaven, Minnesota, was designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The building and design took some time--l...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 04:22
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 1
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...
- Added: Jan 24, 2015
- Length: 11:32
Sandip Roy is at the Jaipur Literary festival in Kolkata, India's old capital, speaking with Rana Dasgupta about Delhi, India's new capital...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 06:00
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
Shelton Johnson is a ranger at Yosemite National Park. He’s part Cherokee, part African American, and part Seminole. And he’s used his background ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 08:28
- Purchases: 2
The Old Mint was the only financial institution still operational following the 1906 earthquake and fire. At one time, it held a third of the natio...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:08
