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Herland is Our Land
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 4
Miss Anne in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Carla Kaplan
White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Norse Mythology and the Feminine
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we take a look at The Power of the Feminine in Norse Mythology as presented at The Commonweal Theatre Company's ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 34:46
  • Purchases: 1
Reflections on a Life
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Lynn Freed, author of the fictional journal chronicling a woman's life in South Africa titled “The Mirror.”

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Beach Bodies: A History of the American Physique [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Strongman Eugene Sandow, 1893, Credit: Library of Congress
It’s summer, the beach is calling, and so is the dreaded swimsuit! Americans are constantly bombarded by images of physical perfection, especially ...

Bought by WUFT, KSRQ, KBRP Community Radio, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Promo - "Beach Bodies: A History of the American Physique"[rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Strongman Eugene Sandow, 1893
30-second promo for "Beach Bodies: A History of the American Physique" 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
The Girls of Atomic City
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Denise Kiernan
In her new book, journalist Denise Kiernan shares the never before told story of the young women who played a crucial role in one of the most signi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Papa and Me
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Catherine Mich
Fifty years ago, on September 29, 1963, Pope John XXIII opened the second working section of The Second Vatican Council and asserted its agenda to ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Born in the USA: A History of Birth [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Migrant cotton picker and her baby, Buckeye, AZ, 1940, Credit: (National Archives).
It’s BackStory’s birthday! To celebrate one year as a weekly show, the American History Guys are going back to where it all begins: birth. From mid...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio, WOUB, and WTJU


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Distillations Episode 172: On Beauty
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Want strong, shiny hair? Pick up a package of Superstrength Henna 'N' Placenta Conditioning Treatment at your local beauty store. It's just one of many beauty products containing decidedly icky ingredients., Credit: Jennifer Dionisio
In this episode we look at questionable appearance enhancers. First the Beauty Historian shares some shocking beauty rituals of yore. Then a look a...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 15:25
The Saturday Night Widows
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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The Saturday Night Widows are a group of six friends that decided to remake their lives after suffering the loss of their husbands. Aikmans memoir ...

Bought by WCNY and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
Do We Really Know the People Around Us?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Mary Catherine Bateson, author of "“Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition."

  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
The History of Feminism
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about the history and future of feminism with History Professor, Estelle B. Freedman, author of ""No Turning ...

Bought by KETR-FM, WHFR, WMMT, KRZA, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
The Power of Women Leading Change
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
Caption: Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change
Many extraordinary women around the world are using their diverse talents to improve human rights. Alyse Nelson is the CEO of Vital Voices, an orga...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 4
Suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Almost Jailed for Voting
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Sally Roesch Wagner, a historian and chautauqua scholar who portrays suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage lived from 182...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
A Visit with Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Culturology: "Long-Shining Waters" - Author Danielle Sosin talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Long-Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Caroline Fraser, editor of "Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books" talks to Heidi Holtan
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Caroline Fraser
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. Now T...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 2
Sex and Punishment
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious brings you part one of a two-part conversation about the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior-sexuality. W...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Wild About Harry
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: "42nd Street" by Warren
Composer Harry Warren is best remembered for the music he wrote for Judy Garland, and the musicals, 42nd Street and The Gold Diggers, however, long...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "The Shoemaker's Wife" - Author Adriana Trigiani talks to Heidi Holtan in a Real Good Words interview.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani
Beloved bestselling author Adriana Trigiani talks with Heidi Holtan about her latest "The Shoemaker's Wife" a novel based on the love affair of her...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 2
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Culturology: "Frozen" by Mary Casanova
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Frozen" by Mary Casanova
Mary Casanova has written and published 30 books. Her most recent effort "Frozen" is the story of 16 year old Sadie Rose in the Rainy Lake area on ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Party is Over
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, author Mike Lofgren humorously and pointedly discusses everything that is wrong with Washington, politics in his book, “The Party Is Over”. ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 1
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Harriet Reisen, the author of the Louisa May Alcott biography The Woman Behind Little Women, about the ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:03

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