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On this episode, Andy serenades you with Jewish love songs and even a couple lustful songs leading up to Valentine's Day.
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum to talk with their staff about a new exhibit...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 00:23:30
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...
- Added: Jan 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:55
In October, President Obama declared that a major chapter in American military history was about to come to a close...
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I c...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 00:05:19
In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its schools rather than integrate. The closures lasted for five years, and the people who were denie...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
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From With Good Reason
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...
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 00:29:00
- Purchases: 2
The UNM Lobos make aviation history in 1929, flying to the Rose Bowl.
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 00:01:56
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes
- Added: Dec 14, 2011
- Length: 01:50:42
The telegraph comes to Santa Fe in 1868 and changes everything.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:59
Truth or legend? New Mexico’s most persistent treasure tale: the lost mine of Padre Larue.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:58
An attempt by a New Mexican US Senator to legitimize squatters on Pueblo Indian land is foiled by public outcry.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:58
Lovington and Hobbs vie for the honor of becoming the Lea County Seat.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:59
A Hillsboro blacksmith stumbles into the richest silver mine ever found.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:57
The story of a Buffalo Soldier who won the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Warm Springs Apache uprising of 1880-1881.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:58
Philadelphia heiress Catherine Drexel builds a Catholic school for Indian students in Santa Fe.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:02:00
A US Army cavalry troop astride camels in the Southwest desert? Well it seemed worth a try a the time.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:58
The story of the little bear cub from Capitan who became a national icon.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:59
A simple chimpanzee from Cameroon makes space history and becomes a national hero.
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 00:01:59
Truth or legend? New Mexico’s most persistent treasure tale: the lost mine of Padre Larue.
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 00:01:58
Socorro County Sheriff Lonnie Zamora finds himself in the Twilight Zone.
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 00:01:55
General Kearny leads the Army of the West to Santa Fe and claims New Mexico for the United States of America.
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- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 00:01:58
- Purchases: 1
Jim Peacock is one of only a few dozen U.S. veterans who witnessed both the beginning of World War II at Pearl Harbor and the war's end on deck the...
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- Added: Dec 05, 2011
- Length: 00:09:02
- Purchases: 4
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...
- Added: Dec 03, 2011
- Length: 00:58:45
- Purchases: 2
This is part two of a special two part series dedicated to exploring the life and music of George Harrison in commemoration of the ten year anniver...
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- Added: Dec 02, 2011
- Length: 01:00:00
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The reality of living with HIV and what the Hispanic community is doing in terms of prevention.
La realidad de vivir con VHI y lo que la comun...
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 00:28:02
