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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 16:46
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 05:37
Depending upon your point of view, Genesis refers either to a book of the bible, a popular rock group, or a plot device from Star Trek. If you’re a...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 01:54
- Purchases: 1
A look at the odd trend of "doomsday" music that took over the pop charts leading up to the Mayan end date.
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- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:19
- Purchases: 1
Time zones reflect a history of our changing politics, commerce, and technology.
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- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 1
Today's privacy concerns with cell phones seem trivial when we look back at the world of open telephone wires.
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- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 1
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
Thelonious Monk was an original voice in the shaping the sound of American music. Both his compositions and his inimitable piano playing continue t...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:30
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You've probably noticed how work always seems to expand to fill the time given to complete it. But did you know there's a term for that? Also this ...
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 54:00
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This piece explores the unintended consequences that occurred to a once rural New York community after the building of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 08:13
July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 09:47
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In her new book, civil liberties lawyer Majorie Heins tells the stories of teachers and professors who resisted the communist witch hunt of the 195...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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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...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:28
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
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 06:11
During decades of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union over the course of the Cold War, both sides wielded science as a weapon. F...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 15:04
A dramatic retelling of the challenging American expedition to climb the world's highest mountain, May 1, 1963.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 21:29
- Purchases: 1
It's almost taken for granted today that jazz grew out of African music. But when you get down to it, the connections that make up jazz's African h...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN, WNCU and more
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 59:00
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Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 58:24
Part Two - Generational discussion with author Colin Woodard
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Author Colin Woodard discusses his recent book in generational terms on Yesterday Today & Tomorrow. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Artistic Director Anita Monga talks the context of German Expressionism, the birth of celebrity culture, and why Buster Keaton will always be cont...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 18:40
