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A Citizen's Guide to Entitled Derision
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When politicians talk about "working across the aisle", they talk about it as if they are endorsing a great ethic. But working across the aisle is...

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 07:04
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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BackStory producers Eric Mennel and Nell Boeschenstein visit Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia to tell the story of a monument in honor of Heyward Shep...

Bought by WABE and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 10:49
  • Purchases: 2
The Square Deal
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 4
The 1992 LA Rebellion: Twenty Years Later
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:13
The Mikie Show #39, Whit
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode thirty-nine! Just had to say it, hope you don’t mind. We speak with Whit Patten, a man who grew up on a farm in the country (he had to boar...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Coolidge And the Crash of 1929
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Thanks to Coolidge and his friends, subsequent presidents have learned the danger in giving banks a free rein.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: :55
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
He Will Be Vindicated By History
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
He started a war that killed many Americans

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Jan 22, 2009
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 1
Electronic Voting Machines and the Supreme Court
From: The humble Farmer
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What decides an election

  • Added: Oct 14, 2008
  • Length: :20
Eliot Spitzer and Witch Burning
From: The humble Farmer
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Is our generation just as irrational as the one that burned witches?

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
Random Access: A look at our Constitution
From: KRFC
Caption: PRX default Piece image
History and explanation of the US Constitution

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KISU


  • Added: Jan 03, 2007
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2