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The birth of obscenity laws in the 1870s provides a cautionary tale for the present moment, when far-right conservatives incorrectly label books “s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 26:15
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2024 is an interesting election year, but still not as raucous as 1948.. All the columnists and commentators who were polled agreed Thomas Dewey w...

Bought by WABE, Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 6
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Yes, more little known originals from the 1950s and 1960s!

  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:54:43
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Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03:24
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The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 40:50
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
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By now it is clear, the Red Wave election-denying candidates had hoped to ride left most still waiting on the beach. Those who questioned the outco...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:09
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Top 30 R&B Hits from 1961

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:55:13
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The Top 30 pop records - March 15, 1958

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:31
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Top 30 pop records from 1969

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:55:11
Caption: Arthur Flagg and family markers, Credit: Photo: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Tonya and Ian Fitzpatrick walk through the grounds of God's Little Acre--the oldest and largest colonial African burial ground, and they share unde...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:36
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Top 20 R&B Artists of the 1950s

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:57:21
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:55:43
  • Purchases: 1
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The Winter Dance Party -- Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:55:28
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Topic 1: A new book details the financial, emotional, and social strain of incarceration on prisoners and the family members trying to care for the...

Bought by KSTK, KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX, KTNA and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 51:45
  • Purchases: 6
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Covers of other artists songs by Elvis

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:37
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Records featuring black in the title!

  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 01:55:01
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All 14 #1 R&B hits and so much more from 1960!

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:55:51
  • Purchases: 2
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All the pop #1s and more from 1964!

  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:55:40
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We head out to Iowa and Indiana to highlight two of the midwest's many agricultural and culinary tourism trails.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's episode showcases the culinary traditions of Scandinavian, Germanic and Eastern European immigrants into the American Midwest. Capri's ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:05
  • Purchases: 2