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A School for All
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Louise Fraser, Credit: Fraser School
Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 07:02
Seen and Obscene
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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The birth of obscenity laws in the 1870s provides a cautionary tale for the present moment, when far-right conservatives incorrectly label books “s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 26:15
  • Purchases: 1
Submerged history in the land of 10,000 lakes
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A volunteer with the non-profit Maritime Heritage explores a boat wreck at the bottom of Christmas Lake, Credit: Josh Knutson / Maritime Heritage
Have you ever accidentally dropped something in a lake? Plenty of Minnesotans have. That's why lake and river bottoms are full of artifacts and boa...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 06:38
Constant Wonder - Thanksgiving Special 2021
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Time for Cranberries; Topic 2: Tony Sarg; Topic 3: Turkey Talk

Bought by KTNA, RadioStPete Florida, KUHF, KRBD, and KTXK


  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
The Lisa Show Presidents Day Special - Washington's Legacy, Lessons from the Founding Fathers, Talking to Kids about Politics
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Lisa Show
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Topic 1 - Washington's Legacy; Topic 2 - Morning Buzz - Lessons from the Founding Fathers; Topic 3 - Talking to Kids about Politics

Bought by KTXK


  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 52:48
  • Purchases: 1
On Passing
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Belle da Costa Greene and Nella Larsen are two librarians of color, one who is white passing, and the other of mixed heritage who wrote famously ab...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 32:46
  • Purchases: 1
Votes for Women
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...

Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 2
Marching Onward
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 22:24
  • Purchases: 2
136: Sneaky Potato
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In 1532 the Spanish found out what everyone in South America already knew--potatoes are amazing. But when they brought them back to Europe the rece...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgiving Special 2020-Constant Wonder
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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2020 marks 400 long years since the Pilgrims first put ashore from the Mayflower in Plymouth, MA. In this episode, Constant Wonder speaks with two ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRBD, Allegheny Mountain Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 4
Will and Big Business
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers had friends in big business, but that did not make them immune from his criticism.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
WRM09 - Will Rogers and Elections
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers had a lot to say about elections

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
WRM07 - Will Finds His Niche
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers begins to incorporate humor and commentary to stand out over other trick ropers.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
Carnegie's Legacy
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Andrew Carnegie has a classic rags-to-riches story: an immigrant turned steel magnate who financed the construction of over 2,500 public library bu...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 31:06
  • Purchases: 1
WRM04 - Will's Big Break
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will's unsuccessful experience as a gaucho leads to his career in media

  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
Museums, Life After Manzanar
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Museums are returning artifacts to their countries of origin, but maybe they shouldn't. Topic 2: California apologizes for helping with th...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 48:24
Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
Work in Progress
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
From “the most expensive pigeon roost in the world” to one of the world’s most unique libraries, Brooklyn’s Central Library has many stories to tel...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 23:01
  • Purchases: 1
Our Garbage, Ourselves
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 20:50
  • Purchases: 1
Free Brooklyn
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
Oil Spills and Moldy Paper
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Preserving history is about more than battling mold and disintegration. We took a trip to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to learn about how an environmental ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 24:49
Norwegian Silver
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Laurann Gilbertson, Chief Curator at Vesterheim, The National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center
On this episode of Culture Clique we’re talking about the power of silver, especially when it comes to traditional Norwegian brooches and jewelry. ...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 21:41
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Conversation with Brian Keating
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr. Brian Keating
Astrophysicist Brian Keating discusses his book, "Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor."

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
How Sputnik Sent Women to College
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn't always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppres...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 3
California Innocence Project: Seeking Clemency - episode 8
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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The director of the California Innocence Project discusses the power of clemency and pardons - from historical roots to current expressions of this...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:00