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The latest episode of A New York Minute in History tells the story of Ronek Park, a non-discriminatory housing development built in 1950 in the vil...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 29:30
The Covid shut down occurred almost four years ago to the day. This piece includes On the Front Lines, with a guy by the name of Leigh Carter, a nu...
- Added: Feb 27, 2024
- Length: 23:28
During their revolutionary endeavors in 1970s California, the SLA employed guerrilla warfare tactics. Donald DeFreeze founded the SLA, which became...
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 05:53
The Black Panther Party’s founding in 1966 was inspired by the prevalent issues of police brutality, poverty, and lack of access to healthcare face...
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 09:58
Jack Kerouac’s influence on American literature cannot be overstated, particularly as a leader of the Beat movement and his connection to the post...
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 10:26
Herman Wouk, a literary giant renowned for his profound engagement with historical themes, is influential in World War II literature. His magnum op...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 08:38
thel and Julius Rosenberg grew up in New York City, a melting pot of cultural diversity, and faced economic challenges during the early 20th centur...
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 09:05
Ernie Pyle: The War Correspondent and his Impact – Exploring the life, reporting style, and enduring legacy of Ernie Pyle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
- Added: Jan 14, 2024
- Length: 08:26
Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle,” published in 1906, is a seminal work that exposed the harrowing conditions of the meat-packing industry in the...
- Added: Jan 13, 2024
- Length: 04:21
In the aftermath of World War II, Europe lay in ruins. Cities were devastated, economies shattered, and the continent faced a crisis of unprecedent...
- Added: Jan 13, 2024
- Length: 03:18
Scott Joplin often hailed as the “King of Ragtime,” made profound and lasting contributions to developing and popularizing ragtime music. His innov...
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 03:21
Andrew Wyeth, an American artistic luminary, transcended the canvas to become a masterful chronicler of the human condition and the natural world. ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
- Length: 10:27
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 25:23
In the first part of this story we heard from Uliana Bazar who, with her husband, Matthew Propert, left their home in Ukraine five hours before th...
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 24:18
This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 26:58
1996 was a turning point for Burning Man. Two people were run over in their tents. And another person died in a head-on collision.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 27:08
The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
In the words of one expert, California has “gone crazy for propositions.” In this episode, we tell the story of one of the state’s most notorious b...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 30:41
Nearly a quarter of Israel’s population gathered to watch the 20th anniversary military parade in a newly unified Jerusalem. We’re taken back to th...
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 11:21
Have you ever heard of the cartoonist Oliver Harrington? Probably not, but the artist played an instrumental role in German-American history. From ...
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- Added: Jun 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In wintertime, in springtime, and in the magic months of late Autumn, the desert is the finest place in the world. But now we are coming to the oth...
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- Added: May 27, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...
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- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
From the top of Tell El-Ful, an abandoned hilltop in East Jerusalem, you can see all the way from Amman to Tel Aviv, from Jerusalem to Ramallah. An...
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 01:08:41