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From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Can genes be patented? Are downloaders inhibiting musical creativity – or enhancing it? This week’s BackStory explores how Americans have viewed “i...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
We continue our coverage of Boats and Bluegrass 2012 with Corpse Reviver. This group is a collaborative of bluegrass performers paying tribute to t...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 36:45
Michael shares the empowering journey of claiming his own gender.
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 08:17
What do you call a guy with a bald pate? A chrome dome? Maybe the lucky fellow is sporting a solar panel for a sex machine. Also, which would you r...
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 54:00
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
Dakota people consider Minnesota their birthplace. But the U.S./Dakota War of 1862 and the exile of Dakota from their homeland and culture has put ...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 04:27
In this episode we look at the modern power grid, which is on the brink of important changes. First, why the smart grid matters. Then, the critical...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 17:06
After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Composer and lyricist Jerome Kern summed up the life and work of Israel Baline (Irving Berlin) when he said, “Irving Berlin has no place in America...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Too many titles to choose from, so let's just go with them all.
Bought by WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KEOS, KSJD, WXXI and more
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 19:55
First, Rick Atkinson gives the details of the epic story of D-Day and the 700 mile offensive that led to the triumphant liberation of Europe in, "T...
Bought by WCWP
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 59:32
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.
Bought by WOUB, KZYX, WCMU Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KMUN and more
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 16:32
Eli, a staff reporter for The Washington Post and author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” chronicles the personal stor...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 10:01
Step into the world of Alan Lomax, his archives, and his legacy - The Association of Cultural Equity. Featuring interviews with his daughter Anna ...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 05:38
We take a look at the recordings that Memphis Slim, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Otis Spann made in New York City for the Candid label in 1960 and 1961.....
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
It’s BackStory’s birthday! To celebrate one year as a weekly show, the American History Guys are going back to where it all begins: birth. From mid...
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 59:00
A dog lover and long-time journalist, Susan brings to life Rin Tin Tin, the orphaned German Shepherd found on a battlefield in Europe who became t...
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 09:57
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
Starting this year, Scripps National Spelling Bee contestants not only have to spell words correctly. A controversial new rule means they'll have t...
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
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
