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Caption: The Ears Have It, Credit: Seth Shostak
What’s the difference between a bird call and the sound of a pile driver? Not much, when you’re close to the loudest bird ever. Also, how everyda...

Bought by KIYU-FM, CHSR-FM 97.9, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 14
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Date-based history modules for broadcast June 12-16, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes

  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
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Date-based history modules for broadcast June 5-9, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.

  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
Caption: Martha Lillard in an iron lung in the 1950s., Credit: Courtesy of Martha Lillard
Martha Lillard is one of the last two people in the United States who depend on an iron lung to breathe.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 2
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Sliced bread had never been automated before Otto Rohwedder unveiled his “power-driven, multi-bladed bread slicer” at Chillicothe Baking Company on...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 09:34
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Who invented the hamburger? It’s almost impossible to know, given that mincemeat has been consumed all around the world, and for centuries – but Os...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 2
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Swimwear never made more of a splash than when designer Louis Réard unveiled his daring new two-piece at the Piscine Molitor in Paris on July 5th, ...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 09:47
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Date-based history modules for broadcast May 29-June 2, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.

  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
Caption: The Kerner Commission, Credit: Fred Harris
Former Senator Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the 1968 Kerner Commission, which was tasked to solve the problem of riots spreading thr...

  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 07:52
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 ...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 21:58
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Date-based history modules for broadcast May 22-26, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes

  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
Caption: Palestinians fleeing from their villages as Israeli troops approach on October 30, 1948., Credit: David Eldan, National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office, under the digital ID D275-120
This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the "catastrophe" in Arabic. It refers both to the events starting in late 1947 when Zionist ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Is it possible to study human remains ethically?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 44:44
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Date-based history modules for broadcast May 15-19, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03:24
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The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 40:50
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
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Date-based history modules for broadcast May 8-12, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Ellen Carol Dubois discussed her new book, Suffrage.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Date-based history modules for broadcast May 1-5, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
Caption: A parade of old streetcars in Kolkata led by a wooden watering car from 1924., Credit: Sandip Roy
Kolkata was the first city in India to have streetcars and the only city to still have them. And they carry within them a rich history of the city ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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Date-based history modules for broadcast April 17-21, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 13:46
  • Purchases: 1
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What does an illegal 19th century boxing match have to do with state borders? On the latest episode of A New York Minute in History, Devin and Laur...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
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HOUR ONE: "Out Of The Anxiety Box" - It's 7 a.m. You're not even out of bed and you're already worrying. So let's talk about it: How anxious we are...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
On this episode, we turn our focus to how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Race Massacre. KalaLea, producer and host of the ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1