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Community Forum: Confederate Flag Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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The Winona Human Rights Commission and Winona State University sponsored a community forum in response to the recent displays of the Confederate Fl...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 47:38
RDD: Old Number 18
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's not surprising that our last episode on The Rough Draft Diaries, an interview with a local Lt. firefighter, has led The RDD to a firefighters ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 06:13
Founding Fathers' Letters Online (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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For three years, a team of proofreaders in Virginia painstakingly read and digitized the papers of our country’s Founding Fathers. All these writin...

Bought by KENW and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and ...

Bought by WCNY, KPIP-LP, WTJU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KEDT and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and ...

Bought by WJCT, WRPI, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Community Archaeology
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
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On this edition of God Matters, host Peter Kreten welcomes Dr. Iman Saca, Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at S...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
Water for Gold
From: Tom & Debra Weistar
Caption: Miner 49er, Credit: Tom Weistar
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada lies the San Juan Ridge. On the Ridge, tucked away amongst towering pines, flanked by two forks of the Yuba R...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:25
Degrees of Freedom: Higher Education in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Detail from “Academic Gowns, American Usage,” chromolithographic print by Julius Bien & Co., 1903
President Obama recently proposed sweeping changes to the way government helps to finance students’ higher education, and an unprecedented system o...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRPI and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Down and Dirty Justice
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Gary T. Lowenthal, Emeritus Law Professor at the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law at Arizona State University and autho...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
Germany After World War II
From: With Good Reason
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New research examines how postwar German history textbooks addressed the traumatic events of the Second World War.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, and WRPI


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Total Education Hour
From: Neil Haley
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The Total Tutor Neil Haley and Darci Hyman will interview Vicki Cobb, Roz Schanzer and Larry Pratt. Larry Pratt will discuss Gun Control on School ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 58:38
Grand Old Central Is Back
From: Gideon Thompson
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Oklahoma's oldest higher education building is back in use after a two-year, $8.6 million renovation.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:56
Sundown Towns
From: Talking History
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Our interview features James Loewen who discusses the historical practice of banning minorities after sundown in American communities, plus our reg...

Bought by KDUR


  • Added: Feb 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teaching History
From: Talking History
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Interview focuses on the teaching of history in today's classrooms, commentary examines what we learn from history,

  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
Teaching History
From: Talking History
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Jacquelyn Hall, Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill discusses teaching history in schools with host Bryan Le Beau and...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Death Penalty interview with Stuart Banner
From: Talking History
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Interview on the death penalty, regular features on history in the news and site of the week along with commentary on the centennial celebrations i...

  • Added: May 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:02
RN Documentary: Sick at Heart
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The Netherlands has a unique disability pension system. For years its been both the golden goose and the sacred cow, but things are going to have ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 28:57