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'Sissy' as in Sister

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: A meeting at A Woman's Coffee House, Credit: Janet Dahlem

In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...

Women of the Fur Trade

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: Laura Powell-Marxen works in the basement of her Grand Marais home. Laura makes hats, mittens and other apparel from the fur from animals of the North Woods., Credit: Joe Friedrichs

The role of women, particularly Indigenous women, during the legendary fur trade in Minnesota is often overlooked. KFAI contributor Joe Friedrichs ...

Railroads & Fire

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio

The Modern West: Ghost Town(ing) Broadcast Special

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: The Modern West

Ghost towns are an icon of the American West. But they’re not just part of a sepia-toned past; ghost towns in the making today as rural communities...

Velma Maia Thomas

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.

Passover: People of the Cookbook: Jewish Cooking with Claudia Roden

From: Nahanni Rous
Series: Can We Talk?

A visit, a cooking lesson and lunch with the celebrated chef Claudia Roden. Claudia discussed lost Jewish communities through their cuisines. Inc...

Bought by KWMR and PRX Remix

The Name of God

From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation

With a small gesture of good will toward Syrian refugees, one woman incurred the wrath of evangelical Christians on social media. The resulting cha...

Life of the Law #79: Sterilized

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded

Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Rabin Is....

From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast

Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...

Allusionist 15: Step Away

From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist

'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...

Bought by PRX Remix

The Tune Under Willie Nelson's Skin

From: Michael May

Country music legend Willie Nelson says that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that's been under his skin ever since.

Bought by KCSM and PRX Remix

356 Years Later

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Earlier this year, Kateri Tekakwitha became the first Native American saint. The 356-year-old saint helps American Indians cope with the Catholic C...

Bought by KUER

Restoring Old New York

From: Avishay Artsy

Caption: A still from the 1920 film "Manhatta."

The early American experimental film "Manhatta" gets a much-needed facelift.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

The First Memorial Day

From: Charles McGuigan

Caption: Tiffany stained glass window inside Blanford Church.

Memorial Day, a national holiday of remembrance, was first celebrated south of the Mason/Dixon line in Petersburg, Virginia at Blandford Church Cem...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KQAL, RadioFreePalmer, KUCB and more

Basque Radio

From: Addie Goss

Caption: Jean Cinquambre feeding his cows, Credit: Addie Goss

Through much of the last century, French and Spanish Basques herded sheep, alone, in northern Wyoming's mountains. For company, they listened to a...

Bought by WMMT and KVNF

Amongst the Ruins

From: Avishay Artsy

Caption: The courtyard for the violently insane, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord, NH, Credit: Christopher Payne

A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...

Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan

Jay Ipson and his family escaped Nazi persecution often by the skin of their teeth. But after liberation they had to contend with the Soviets. And ...

Bought by Remix Radio

Making Room For Shenandoah National Park

From: Jesse Dukes

500 families were displaced from their homes to make space for the Shenandoah National Park

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU and more

Ballroom Redux

From: Jenna Hammerich

Social partner dancing is in for the first time since the '50s. A look at why more and more of us are trading in our weekends for ballroom, and a g...

Bought by KWIT