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String Is The Thing

From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show

Rock'n'roll era records featuring strings!

Negro Baseball Leagues

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

This time on The Children's Hour we learn from author and historian Byron Motley about the Negro Baseball Leagues, the only way Black baseball play...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK and more

Without This Brave Woman, We May Never Have Heard of MLK Jr.

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

It started with one thin dime, and a bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. City busses were segregated back then – whites in the front, Blacks i...

60th Anniversary - The Beatles - February 9, 1964

From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show

60th anniversary of The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show!

Southwest American History

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

This week on The Children’s Hour, it’s the three hundred eighty third anniversary of the Pueblo Revolt on August 10th, 2023 and we cover the origin...

Bought by WSMC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMXT and more

Southwest American History, 8/7/2023

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

This week on The Children’s Hour, it’s the three hundred eighty third anniversary of the Pueblo Revolt on August 10th, 2023 and we cover the origin...

Songs of Earth

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...

Episode 6: Nationalization

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids

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

Episode 5: Colonization

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids

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

Episode 4: Pueblo Revolt

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids

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

Episode 3: Strangers Arrive

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids

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

Episode 2: Settling Down

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids

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

Episode 1: Footprints

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids

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

Two Hits, One Song, Number 1, Volume 2

From: Mike Ficher
Series: The Ultimate Oldies Show

Top 40 hits twice with one version peaking at #1!

Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

All political roads lead to Georgia these days. The Peach State was so pivotal in the 2020 election of Joe Biden and the 2021 runoff election of tw...

Four Choices Trivia - U.S. History - Interstitial - Set 2

From: Mike Ficher
Series: Four Choices Trivia - U.S. History

One question. Four choices. One answer. You now know in 90 seconds! Set of 4

Civics 101: The Politics of the Olympics

From: New Hampshire Public Radio

The Olympics are about more than feats of athletic glory - they are the multi-billion dollar stage on which politics and sport collide.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Oregon Public Broadcasting, RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KCPW Salt Lake City and more

Constitution Day Special: The Constitution & The Bill of Rights

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

In honor of Constitution Day, Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on how our democracy works, shares the story of the two most important docum...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WITF, and WYAP

Loving v Virginia & Obergefell v Hodges

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights

The story of marriage equality in the United States, told through two Supreme Court cases.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WCMU Michigan, KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WFAE and more

B.B.'s Blues: A B.B. King Appreciation (HOUR 2) - Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase #73

From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase

Music host Paul Ingles guides listeners through HOUR 2 of a two-hour musical tour of both famous and more obscure King masterworks that span his ne...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, RadioFreePalmer, and KSJE

Hour 35: Big Bands of the 1950s

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

Tenorist Paul Gonzalvez electrified the crowd with 27 blues choruses on "Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue" with Duke Ellington at Newport 1...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida and more

Hour 28: The Genius of Modern Music - Thelonious Monk on Blue Note

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

In 1940, Minton's Playhouse on West 118th Street hired drummer Kenny Clarke as a bandleader. For the house band, Clarke hired trumpeter Joe Guy, ba...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more

The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt

From: Paul Ingles

The remarkable and varied performing career of Linda Ronstadt is explored by a panel of her friends, music writers, musicians and fans. Plus archi...

Bought by KNCT FM, KSJE, Prairie Public, KSUT, WYSO and more

Hour 27: Un Poco Loco - The Intensity of Bud Powell

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

Mentored by Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell became the first great piano innovator of bebop. “It would be hard to overstate Powell’s impact. His ingeni...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, KRPS and more

Hour 26: That Dizzy Cat - Dizzy Gillespie

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

Dizzy Gillespie grew up professionally playing in the big bands of Teddy Hill, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine and writing for Woody He...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY, KMUN and more

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