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Caption: "Rez Life" by David Treuer
Leech Lake Indian writer, David Treuer, has a new book, “Rez Life”. The author of three novels and one collection of essays, “Rez Life” is his firs...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 33:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lonnie Johnson 1920s
Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
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The Black Panther Party and its health care work in black communities is the topic of Radio Curious this week, in an interview with Professor Alond...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:35
Caption: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
Women Warriors in antiquity set the bar high for future female role models.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
Big banks are rewriting the rules of our economy to the exclusive benefit of their own bottom line. But how did our political and financial class s...

Bought by WMNF, KBRP Community Radio, WGCU, KBYU, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day, Credit: Danielle DeMartini
Two undefeated heavyweight boxing champions capture the imagination of a polarized America on March 8, 1971.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: New York University Press, Credit: Trade card for Cottolene
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 19:53
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Most people know me (if they know me at all) as Dan Rather's writer on the CBS Evening News for 24 years. This is my untold story of being the New...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 56:09
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Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...

Bought by WAMU, WKMS, WCSU-FM, KBGA 89.9 FM, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
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Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Delivered in the Capitol of the Invaded Country

  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:25
Caption: The Big Bad Wolf dressing up as a Jewish peddler in The Three Little Pigs (1933)
Comedy shows like Family Guy and Saturday Night Live often portray Walt Disney was a paranoid anti-Semite. But what evidence is there that Walt hat...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 1
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An 1880 close encounter with a mysterious balloon over Lamy.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by KUOW and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A snapshot of Pong , Credit: Google Images
Pong introduced America to video games and now there seems to be no turning back. Is this why we don't leave our houses anymore?

Bought by KUNM, WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
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Officially the last American to be killed in World War I. In a cruel twist of fate, Henry Gunther "cheated life" by dying needlessly on a field in ...

Bought by WRVG - Georgetown College Student Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Explorer, naturalist, writer ... in his too-short life, Lewis helped to make this country ... literally ... what it is today. From sea to shining s...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Paul Vickery as Tate Brady performing in the Brady Theater, Tulsa, OK, Credit: Lee Roy Chapman and Field Guide Media
You might say that Dr. Paul Vickery channels spirits. Besides his long career as a history professor at Oral Roberts University, he also moonlight...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:46
Caption: Tate Brady, Credit: Beryl Ford Collection, Tulsa City-County Library
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had been so active in Tulsa, Oklahoma - doing everything from holding parades to organizing lynch mobs - that ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:34
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Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:16
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Part two of our conversation with Sean Wilentz, author of Bob Dylan in America.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:46
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Playwright, actor, and activist Anna Deveare Smith talks about her extraordinary career and her current one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 31:01
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Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:33