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How Ellis Island's Immigrant Artifacts Washed Up In Maryland
From: Emily Berman
Caption: Bob Sonderman unpacks boxes of Ellis Island artifacts
When Superstorm Sandy wrecked the mid-Atlantic coast last fall, national parks took a big hit. Ellis Island got knocked so hard, it landed in Mary...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
Womens History Month 2013 - 21-piece series
From: KUMD
Series: Women's History Month Daily Segment - MN
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KUMD brings you another year of daily segments for every weekday in March. Honoring Women of Minnesota who contribute to the advancement of women e...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM, KBEM, KVSC, KSRQ, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 6
SHOAH Holocaust Special
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Hearing Voices
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Special For Yom HaShoah- Holocaust Memorial Week

Bought by KQED, WILL, WNIJ, WFUV, WMNF and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:13:59
  • Purchases: 23
The All American Red White and Blue Mixtape
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: All American Red White and Blue Mixtape, Credit: Sarah Flanagan Silcott
A box of 4th of July fireworks, complete with surprises and rarities from Johnny Cash, Cat Power, John Prine, Spinal Tap, James Brown, and many mor...

Bought by KMXT, WSGE, and KISU


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 3
Lincoln through Poetry
From: WUIS
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Quiddity explores Lincoln through poetry with guest - professor & poet, Dan Guillory, whose works include Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Strike
From: With Good Reason
Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KVSC, 90.5 WSNC, KGNU, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Lost Mine of Padre Larue
From: New Mexico Centennial
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Truth or legend? New Mexico’s most persistent treasure tale: the lost mine of Padre Larue.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
Socorro UFO Encounter
From: New Mexico Centennial
Series: Centennial Journeys
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Socorro County Sheriff Lonnie Zamora finds himself in the Twilight Zone.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
Galisteo Station Balloon
From: New Mexico Centennial
Series: Centennial Journeys
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An 1880 close encounter with a mysterious balloon over Lamy.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:59
Kearny's Entrance to New Mexico
From: New Mexico Centennial
Series: Centennial Journeys
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General Kearny leads the Army of the West to Santa Fe and claims New Mexico for the United States of America.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1
Peace on the Battlefield: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and Manassas Peace Jubilee (Peace Talks Radio) [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Hour Long Specials
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Two instances when peace broke out – right on the field of battle. First, the impromptu but widespread unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 in the e...

Bought by KUNC, WTJU, WFIU, Red River Radio Network, WTIP and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:45
  • Purchases: 6
Jailed for Breaking the Lunch Counter Taboo
From: susan galleymore
Caption: Raising Sand Radio
Mary Edith Bentley and five others were sentenced to 30 days in jail with for refusing to vacate their seats at Patterson's Drugstore lunch counter...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 13:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum located in St. Cloud. This report happens o...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2010
  • Length: 27:41
Part 1 - The Prepared Mind
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin
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From Darwin's early years to his voyage of discovery on H.M.S. Beagle.

  • Added: May 07, 2010
  • Length: 53:51
Part 2 - From The Beagle to the Book
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Darwin
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Darwin thinks his way to 'The Origin of Species'.

  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 53:44
StoryCorps: Derek Connell, Richard and Claudia Coleman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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54-year-old Boy Scout Derek Connell talks with his Scoutmasters Richard and Claudia Coleman about Troop 409, a troop for scouts with special needs.

Bought by KFOK-LP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
NASA Boldly Goes...
From: BBC Americana
Caption: NASA, Credit: NASA
Matt Frei looks at how the space industry helped racial integration. 40 years on from those first steps on the moon, Morgan Watson was one of the f...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
Himmler's Angora
From: Brian Bull
Caption: Angora Rabbit and Heinrich Himmler
A look at a strange and curious relic of the Holocaust.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:15
Monacan Voices:True History of First Contact & Paper the Genocide of Virginia Indians
From: Kimberley Lyman
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Please join us for a rare journey through poetry and conversation with the Monacan Nation of Virginia regarding first contact, the birth of our nat...

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM, KWMR-FM, WRNC-LP, WTIP, WUFT and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2007
  • Length: 01:58:38
  • Purchases: 7
RN Documentary: "Copyists, Collectors and Curators" (Rembrandt's 21st century legacy)
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Interviews with people whose lives are in some way tied up with Rembrandt today.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
RN Documentary: Rembrandt: Portraits of the Artist
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Rembrandt , as he has been seen and portrayed through the ages by admirers and critics, from his contemporaries to the present-day, in various coun...

Bought by KREV-LP and WYSO


  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 2
Feb 27: English - Suvorova about Elizabeth Taylor
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 27, 2006
  • Length: 02:46
Feb 26: English -Suvorova about Levi Strauss
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 27, 2006
  • Length: 02:55
Feb 25: English - Suvorova about Pierre-Auguste Renoir
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 25, 2006
  • Length: 03:37
Feb 25: Russian - Suvorova about Pierre-Auguste Renoir
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 25, 2006
  • Length: 03:46