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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
In 1864, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo making the American Southwest a United States territory where the land would soon be crisscrossed with tra...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 04, 2023
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
Within two decades, the Spanish settlers returned to the Rio Grande Valley, laying claim to the fertile valleys to build haciendas, churches and to...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 04, 2023
- Length: 19:43
- Purchases: 1
The new neighbors had so many demands and harsh punishments, the pueblo peoples had enough and organized a revolt, sending the priests and other Eu...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 04, 2023
- Length: 19:47
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In July of 1540, the Ashiwi people watched as a group of armed strangers – who turned out to be Europeans – came into the desert Southwest, on hors...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 04, 2023
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
For over 10,000 years, communities grew in the desert, with elaborate roads and structures that remain today. The complexity of Chaco Canyon’s arch...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 04, 2023
- Length: 19:11
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We begin 23,000 years ago at what is today called White Sands National Park with footprints discovered in the sands that tell a story of a mom, her...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 04, 2023
- Length: 20:24
- Purchases: 2
When it comes to racism, many white Americans can intellectualize it and some can personalize it through the experience of others but the real chan...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:59:05
His lynching was said to have propelled the Civil Rights Movement but what really happened to the 14 year old boy from Chicago and what can we lear...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 01:47:41
Her book is back on the NYT Best Seller list and for a very good reason. “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” as been called both ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 02:17:15
Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 53:24
Is there a subconscious belief amongst whites that only they can "save" people of color? Have they been conditioned by society to see themselves as...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:34:42
When white people are called out on their racism a response one often hears is, "Well, Black people are just as racist again me." Is racism the exc...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:08:24
Whites too often see themselves as the real victims of racism and they might have point but it’s not the one they thought they were making. Are whi...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:00:32
Many of us want to help change the narrative and be anti-racist partners in the good fight. This was true of civil rights activists coming to Missi...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:14:23
Education is the gateway to the future in America. Our system is built around it but major colleges and universities continue to be predominantly w...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:16:43
Don Carter is a former police officer who spent nearly 10 years on the beat. He knows how the system works. He's also African American.
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:29:21
Being black in America is exhausting and even deadly. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) is real and impacts the health and well-being of millions. What i...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:06:39
His work helped close four of the most infamous cold cases of the Civil Right Movement. Jerry Mitchell is one of the most celebrated investigative ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 48:16
When we say the words, “the talk”, it probably conjures up the awkward conversation one has with their children about the birds and the bees. Howev...
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 58:43
In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 22:35
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 1
The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:36
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- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 01:30
General Kearny leads the Army of the West to Santa Fe and claims New Mexico for the United States of America.
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 1
