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Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 02:22
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...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 53:54
It's a time of military memorials in our world, and that's the hallowed path we walk on this week's edition, with musical reflections on battles--a...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 55:00
Everyone knows you don't start a sentence with "But." But why? We sort out the confusion over this little word. Also, how voice recognition technol...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- 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
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 03:36
Many see the role President as the best job in the world. But it can also be lonesome, and overwhelming and quite frankly, can lack the human inte...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 29:31
Traveling with old and new friends
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KEOS, WOUB, WXXI, KSJD and more
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:22
Think of a jazz big band and it's probably the brassy sound of a '30s swing orchestra that comes to mind first. But throughout their more than 80-y...
Bought by KPVL, KZYX, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN, WCMU Public Radio and more
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:47
A speck of land in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:49
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" presented in esoteric themes and highlighted with interstitial sound clips from the t...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:53:25
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
Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
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
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 03:54
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 29:42
Winona LaDuke shares Native American stories, traditions, and culture.
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 06:04
Host Robrt Shimek Continues his discussion of Spring-time Harvest of Maple Sugar
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 07:06
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balough chats with Law professor Chris Sprigman about the intellectual property debates surrounding standup comedy – no joke!
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 10:32
Host Robert Shimek talks about the Spring-time Maple Sugar Harvest
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 11:32
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
BackStory hears from Kembrew McLeod – journalist, professor, and intellectual property “prankster” – on how a system meant to encourage innovation ...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 02:39
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: :00
"Dibaajimowin" is the Ojibwe word for "stories"
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 07:32
