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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
Host Brian Balough chats with Law professor Chris Sprigman about the intellectual property debates surrounding standup comedy – no joke!
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 10:32
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
This, the fourth edition of the Great Northern Radio Show takes us to the Boardman Auditorium at the Eveleth-Gilbert High School on Minnesota's Iro...
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 01:56:31
- Purchases: 3
Rand was even arrested once wearing long underwear and a "censored by the SFPD" sign -- despite the judge's immunity ruling
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:28
Phoebe Ann Moses so fascinated a sharpshooting Irish immigrant named Frank Butler by beating him out of a hundred dollar bet that he married her an...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:28
Annie Edson Taylor was the first to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:57
Everybody knows who played at Woodstock, but this week's show features artists who declined the invite to play.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 59:01
And at twenty-eight years of age, having beaten every challenge life threw her, O'Neil climbed into the seat of a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:16
For the second week of September (9/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a “messiah” who played with some of the biggest...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of December (12/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the state’s most versatile and prolific j...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of August (8/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musical icon who once sold soda bottles in orde...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:57
For the third week of June (6/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped blend Texas and Louisiana music int...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:42
For the second week of March (3/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who left home at an early age to become a...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of August (8/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a jazz legend who got his start because of an out o...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
The pop queen explores her Blues roots
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
John Waters & The Hellfire Club: an audio stop on a tour of Creative Time's 33 Years of Public Art series
- Added: Mar 04, 2008
- Length: 02:19
- Added: Jun 06, 2007
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 06, 2007
- Length: 16:32
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 06, 2007
- Length: 15:54
- Purchases: 2
Wagner's classic love story "Tristan und Isolde" revealed.
Bought by KFAI, Remix Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Jun 06, 2007
- Length: 15:35
- Purchases: 3
In the 80's Marc Smith invented the Poetry Slam, which has swept the country and created a spoken word revolution.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KUT-HD, KUHB, WEKU, WBEZ and more
- Added: Aug 29, 2005
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 6
