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A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 4
If you were one of the folks who attended Ann Arbor during the festival's heyday years between 1969 and 1974, then you should thank your lucky star...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Avis Jones-Deweever, Executive Director of the National Council of Negro Women, the nation's oldest coalitio...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 28:25
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of Blues Unlimited, we're movin' and groovin' to the sounds of the Hammond B3 organ. Popular in Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, and Gospel,...
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustra...
- Added: Jan 11, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
Radio Curious continues our conversation about the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior-sexuality-with Eric Berkowitz, t...
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 29:01
In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustra...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Jan 05, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious brings you part one of a two-part conversation about the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior-sexuality. W...
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 29:01
In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustra...
- Added: Dec 23, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we count our way down through the biggest #1 R&B hits of the late 1940s. It was a period dominated by Blues shouters, wailing saxes, and...
- Added: Dec 16, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
WTIP's Ann Possis chatted Dec. 7 with John Watkins, professor of English at the U of MN, who specializes in sovereignty, queenship, and British his...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 16:03
Join us as we take a look at yet another handful of iconic, world famous blues songs, and trace their roots back through time to their original ver...
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
It's certainly Oscar material. But if you are interested in the real story of the 13th Amendment and the actual legacy of the Lincoln presidency, l...
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 01:00:05
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 02:27
More than 20 years after Germans tore down the Berlin Wall, they are still dealing with the stigmas of a formerly divided country.
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we explore the legendary field recordings of George Mitchell from the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley of southwestern Georgia and south...
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Join us for a tribute to the life and extraordinary music of Son House. His recordings from 1930 and the early 1940s not only helped define the ver...
- Added: Nov 25, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Sean Daley, AKA MC Slug from Minneapolis hip-hop group Atmosphere and record label Rhymesayers Entertainment talks with Charlie Pulkrabek about the...
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Join us as we dust off some of our favorite Holiday-themed Blues and R&B Christmas classics. From Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddie King, and Sonny Boy Wi...
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Join us as we profile some mid-1960s Chicago Blues classics. We'll be hearing selections from "Chicago/The Blues/Today!," rare LP-only tracks off o...
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:47
Join us as we profile some mid-1960s Chicago Blues classics. We'll be hearing selections from "Chicago/The Blues/Today!," rare LP-only tracks off o...
- Added: Nov 03, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 3
Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the electoral college discourages voting, lessens the power of the states, a...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
