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Composer and lyricist Jerome Kern summed up the life and work of Israel Baline (Irving Berlin) when he said, “Irving Berlin has no place in America...
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- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 58:59
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A comparative generational discussion between the older, middle and younger generations on the issues of Social Security.
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Although he hailed from St. Louis, Charles Ellsworth “Pee Wee” Russell took his clarinet cues from New Orleans. Only now is he beginning to be reco...
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- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Host Phalana Tiller talks with Kevin Plank of Under Armour and we hear archival footage of the late Peter Drucker about what marketing means in the...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 58:58
They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:55
After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 03:11
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:50
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:18
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
What got Lewis all the recognition, accolades, awards, articles, honors, and even financial rewards, were the many times she climbed in a lifeboat ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:40
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
Scott -- called "The Tomboy of the Air" -- was part of Curtiss' exhibition team, flying upside down and plummeting to the earth in "death dives," ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:21
Middle School Students at Roots and Wings Community School interviewed, Quanah Parker, a relative of the Legendary Comanche War Chief Quanah Parker.
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 58:00
On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...
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- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 16:46
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In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:56
The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.
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- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 20:26
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Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
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- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
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The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:12
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
