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Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 25:00
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 20:15
This is the fifth and concluding episode of The Writ Writer by Michael Murphy based on the true story of black attorney Scipio Africanus Jones. Onc...
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 28:57
At the end of episode three, attorney Col. Murphy collapsed during the trial for the Elaine defendants, and died a few days later. Scipio Jones is...
- Added: Jan 13, 2013
- Length: 28:54
At the end of episode two, attorney’s Jones and Murphy meet with the Elaine Defendants, and begin working on appealing the murder convictions.
- Added: Jan 12, 2013
- Length: 28:50
The Writ Writer” by Michael Murphy is a five-part docudrama of the events surrounding the Elaine, Arkansas massacre in 1919.
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 28:48
The second of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:05
The final piece in a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:00
The first of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s ...
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 01:45
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
Director of the Minnesota History Center Museum Dan Spock details the 1862 war between the U.S. government and the Dakota Indians.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 1
A little over 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Dri...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 53:21
Mark Munger joins Heidi Holtan on Real Good Words to talk about his new mystery novel titled "Laman's River."
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- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 22:32
- Purchases: 1
This account of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Lincoln in Baltimore comes from Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln-The War Years"
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 39:25
In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum to talk with their staff about a new exhibit...
Bought by KFAI
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 23:30
- Purchases: 1
Today on Culture Clique, we learn about an event in our country's history that is not widely known or talked about. Winona State University Profes...
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- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 47:08
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Shigeko Sasamori. Dr. Sasamori visited Winona State University this fal...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 55:07
- Purchases: 1
Immaculée Ilibagiza was one of sixteen women that survived the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Listen to her story of survival and how it's changed her li...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 30:34
- Purchases: 1
"Students and Soldiers" weaves together wartime stories from twelve Montana veterans of various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Interviewed by t...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio
- Added: Nov 09, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:14
Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:55
Odds and ends from all over.
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 5
From: KALW
San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier has lived quite an eventful life. But arguably the most remarkable event happened during her time spent as a ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 07:43
The Ten Boom family hides Jews and members of Dutch resistance from the Nazis in a secret room. Raided by the Gestapo, Corrie, her sister and their...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...
Bought by KOSU, Interlochen Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM, and WRPI
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
