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Jazz may be an American-grown art form, but there are few places on the globe where the music hasn't found some sort of a home. This week, we go in...
Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, Troy Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRGY, KPVL and more
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 16
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:01
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
Just in time for Tax Day, BackStory delves into the long and turbulent history of taxation in America.
Bought by KFOK-LP, WOUB, WTJU, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 10
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 12:42
George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:28
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:22
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 58:24
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17
During the summer of 1947, Richard works for the Dress Joint Board in New York City’s Garment District. From his co-workers Richard learns more abo...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 16:11
After his mother's death, Richard throws himself into his academic work, four jobs, and campus political and social activities. He earns a reputati...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 29:10
Somali-Dutch feminist, activist, writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali thrilled a packed audience at her National Writers Series. Speaking with dip...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 59:00
A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 3
In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all execu...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 26:32
Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?
Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 3
Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times talks with series host Martha Burk on what it's like to cover the presidential campai...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 28:30
Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews nationally acclaimed journalist Maria Hinojosa on the HIspanic vote in the 2012 election, including w...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 28:18
