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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

Added: Aug 18, 2011
Length: 29:16
Purchases: 6

A Conversation with Sean Wilentz about Bob Dylan, Part Two

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Part two of our conversation with Sean Wilentz, author of Bob Dylan in America.

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, and KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 08, 2011
Length: 29:46
Purchases: 3

A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more

Added: Aug 05, 2011
Length: 25:33
Purchases: 16

A Conversation with Julia Alvarez

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Writer Julia Alvarez discusses how her life as a reader led to her life as a writer and the rich source material she finds in her family's immigran...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Added: Aug 05, 2011
Length: 22:05
Purchases: 1

Paul VanDevelder, Savages & Scoundrels

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

With his latest book - Savages & Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire Through Indian Territory - Paul VanDevelder re-writes muc...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Nov 09, 2010
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

A Historian's Take on the Tea Party - Jill Lepore & V.S. Naipaul

From: Open Source

Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...

Added: Oct 28, 2010
Length: 58:59

Visions of the Big Sky - Part I

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

In VISIONS OF THE BIG SKY, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about t...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WRPI, and Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Sep 27, 2010
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 5

Novelist and Book club favorite Sarah Dunant

From: New Letters on the Air

Historical novel writer Sarah Dunant talks about she applies her background writing thrillers to write more literary books. The author of the best...

Added: Unknown
Length: 29:00

Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup

In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM