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Fifty years ago, on September 29, 1963, Pope John XXIII opened the second working section of The Second Vatican Council and asserted its agenda to ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 28:58
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Walter Johnson about the rise of steamboats in the 19th Century, and how the cotton economy fueled an ever more ...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 1
On Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 at Winona State University, Charles McDew, former chairman of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (from 19...
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- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 50:57
- Purchases: 1
“I think of a lot of things when I’m playing the piano and one of the
last things I think about is the piano…you try to somehow think and feel
li...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 11:02
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 58:40
Some of the earliest records of human occupation in North America are in northwest Alaska. Archeologists in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve te...
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 06:15
Inside the making of Preservation Hall Jazz Band's new album, featuring interviews with the band and co-producer Jim James (My Morning Jacket)
Bought by KGLT
- Added: Jun 07, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Even though we are broadcasting from Louisiana, today we are all "Bostonians"! We got "Boston Bill" (Bill Robison) to add to the big Boston show, a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
As New Orleans musicians began to migrate north following the closure of Storyville (the red light district near the navy base), it was only natura...
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- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Are most airline stewards gay? How did their legal battles with airlines advance gay rights and gender workplace equity? History professor Phil Tie...
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 28:54
Original stride pianist James P. Johnson began his professional recording career in 1916 with the Aeolian Company by recording several piano rolls....
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Scientists have identified the genetic variant of the fungus-like organism responsible for setting off the Irish Potato Famine.
- Added: May 25, 2013
- Length: 01:00
An entire generation of Americans grew up knowing no other president than Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served four terms and led them through the Dep...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 1
Andy features the best Jewish American music ever recorded! See if your favorites made the cut.
Bought by KPVL
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A montage of the memorable keyboard contributions of the late Ray Manzarek to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band he founded, The Doors. Manzarek ...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 17:02
Music from before David Bowie, Lou Reed, Harry Nillson, Vanilla Fudge and others found their commercial sound. Guess what? It sounded like what w...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 03:02:27
First half of the show focuses on the rarely heard New Orleans R&B songs and artists of the early 1950s. Rick Coleman who authored the definitive ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 05:48:17
Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 03:58
A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 1
Curator Roberta Olson talks about her book and the New York Historical Society exhibition, AUDUBON’S AVIARY. It’s about the original watercolors fo...
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 59:04
Word of Mouth is New Hampshire Public Radio's show about new ideas, emerging trends, and unexplored history.
In this hour, "A New View" of Jane Au...
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 51:30
Farewell to George Jones-- and hell-o again to Natalie Maines! This week's hour long musical mystery tour includes Jim James, Patty Smith and more.
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 54:41
Marfa Public Radio's Joe Nick Patoski, Willie Nelson biographer and host of the Texas Music Hour of Power, looks back on the life and career of the...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 56:36
