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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
Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear challenges to two major laws on marriage -- California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Ma...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Today's most popular dog names are Max and Bella. In the Middle Ages, though, dogs would answer to names like Amiable. Or Nosewise. Or even . . . ...
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
COINTELPRO stands for the Counter Intelligence program, a secret FBI operation that ran from 1956 until 1971. Their job: disrupt change, oppress di...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 27:41
Released in 1988,"The Power of Myth" was one of the most popular TV series in the history of public television, and continues to inspire new audien...
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 2
WTIP's Ann Possis spoke with Prof. Elaine Tyler May of the U of Minn. on International Women's Day, in honor of Women's History Month. Prof. May is...
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 15:42
First appearances, second chances and a whole lot of vinyl.
Bought by KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WOUB, KEOS and more
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Many extraordinary women around the world are using their diverse talents to improve human rights. Alyse Nelson is the CEO of Vital Voices, an orga...
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 59:54
Tito Puente is the undisputed king of Latin music in the hearts of most Americans. But beyond that public persona, he was also a prolific composer,...
Bought by WRGY, KCSM, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio, WVAS and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
This is a commercial for a fake product I created to air in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes radio play. It's for a product that acts as an umbrella...
- Added: Mar 10, 2013
- Length: :30
Winner of the Booker Prize, former teacher and one of Ireland’s most famous authors, Roddy talks about his last book in a trilogy, "The Last Republ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2013
- Length: 10:05
In her first critically-acclaimed book, “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” British-born Alexandra introduced us to her fam...
- Added: Mar 09, 2013
- Length: 10:02
Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 01:58:59
Ron Boshey offers the prayers and performs the pipe ceremony to start the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon every year ... and he's also honoring h...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 1
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Kevin Plank of Under Armour and we hear archival footage of the late Peter Drucker about what marketing means in the...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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
In this episode, we’ll look at the changing ways Americans have experienced the 24-hour day — from pre-industrial times right on up through today’s...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WEZU, WRPI, WTJU, and WOUB
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 5
"The Regular Life of Wild Things" , prose/ poem story by G.T. on Wild Turkeys in North East of Turtle Island and commentary on extinction of wild t...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 05:00
Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 01:14
It's the Up Goer Five Challenge! Try to describe something complex using only the thousand most common words in English. It's a useful mental exerc...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUOW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Linda’s debut novel, "The Sixth Station," is an irreverent religious thriller with lots of controversy that touches on the Vatican, history books ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 10:02
Mitch Skinner looks at a new food-art exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and finds out about banqueting in Shakespeare's day.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 1
