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From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Jess Engebretson shares how soap first became so ubiquitous, while Jenn Marshall tells the story of a 1920s soap carving competition.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 1
For the first week of April (4/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a late bloomer who went on to become one of the stat...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 02:32
An artist decided to spruce up the space underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by painting a mural depicting Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in a ...
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 06:01
Recorded by fellow retired steelworker Joe Gutierrez, and produced by Ayana Contreras, this piece was created for Vocalo.org in conjunction with Th...
- Added: Feb 12, 2009
- Length: 10:00
Yvonne Logan Jones (L) and her sister Ola Mae Logan Allen remember their parents, who migrated north in the 1940s.
Bought by WDET, Detroit Public Radio, The Story, KFOK-LP, and WMNF
- Added: Aug 08, 2007
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jun 25, 2007
- Length: 09:23
As a maintenance man at The Waynflete School and a working writer, Michael Macklin?s world is filled with sawdust, kids, and poetry.
Bought by HowSound
- Added: May 23, 2007
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 1
Chef Mary Jo offers a simple recipe for mashed potatoes
- Added: Feb 25, 2007
- Length: 01:28
Chef Mary Jo offers a recipe for raspberry ice cream
- Added: Feb 25, 2007
- Length: 01:24
- Added: Dec 19, 2006
- Length: 03:04
One Northampton, Massachusetts resident chooses, for reasons both practical and philosophic, to remove her asphalt driveway and restore green space.
- Added: Aug 31, 2006
- Length: 05:40
Michael, a fishing scout from the west of Ireland, tried to preserve the memory of his fighting dog, but with surprising consequences.
- Added: Jul 06, 2006
- Length: 02:20
- Added: Mar 27, 2006
- Length: 11:19
Hear the Silver Leaf Gospel Singers perform "It's in My Mind, Lord I'll Overcome Someday" at NAACP Portland's 2006 MLK Jr. Gospel Concert. The perf...
Bought by KFAI and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Jan 28, 2006
- Length: 09:21
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 12, 2006
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 1
Julia Tecada was looking forward to her sophmore year at Tulane, then came Katrina. Now she's studying at Boston University, but it's proving hard ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2005
- Length: 02:22
The Reverend AJ Walker and his wife, Linda, minister to truck drivers along the highways of Maine.
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Jan 10, 2005
- Length: 06:35
- Purchases: 1
