PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical Anniversaries
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
21 results
Humans were polluting the air with lead as far back as 3,900 years ago.
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Each carnivorous pitcher plant contains a unique food web, depending on what falls in.
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 01:00
The original vinyl soundtrack from the famed "March on Washington" including Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in it's entirety, alo...
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 58:03
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 02:27
A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:47
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Marshall Expedition, an important event in the history of early American commerce. Recently, a group o...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 03:27
As the 100th Anniversary of the Lyric Center for the Arts passes the Lyric Center celebrates new life and a bright future. Maddi Frick recently tou...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 09:19
Producer Amy Clark presents a musical train trip up Highway 61 in honor of Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 1
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 04:10
Washington's labor, immigrant and faith communities are promising a large and vocal turnout on Tuesday (May 1) for annual May Day marches and ralli...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 04:48
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, more than 50,000 rescue and recovery workers converged at the World Trade Center. Among them were the 62 members o...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:55
In 2002, Congress designated the Smithsonian the official repository of 9/11 materials. Since then, the museum has collected more than 300 objects ...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:41
Most Civil War scholarship focuses on generals and their armies. But historians at a recent conference explored how water, heat, and horses affecte...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 02:31
A recent poll shows forty percent of Americans still think Gulf seafood isn’t safe to eat. Commercial fishermen in Bayou La Batre are fighting to w...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 05:34
One concern raised by the Exxon Valdez experience is the long term mental health impact, which didn’t hit residents near Prince William Sound until...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
As the newest country in the world celebrates, Becky Palmstrom travels to Kenya to hear the prayers and songs of the refugees waiting to return to ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 05:18
Tibetan refugees have been living in Nepal for over fifty years, and refugee camps are well-established collections of concrete homes. But Tibetan...
- Added: Aug 23, 2009
- Length: 03:29
A visit to a Rwandan memorial raises questions about when and how we remember genocide.
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Apr 14, 2009
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 20, 2009
- Length: 29:00
On the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Making contact looks at how Cuba brought about equality for symphony musicians, and we’ll look at ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KVNF, and KUNM
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The Battleship Missouri is best known as the site where World War II officially ended on Sept. 2, 1945. Veterans share tales about the ship, nickn...
- Added: Dec 06, 2006
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 2
