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March 21: Pocahontas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Pocahontas
Pocahontas (March 21, 1617): Later known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial Jamestown, Virginia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 22: Mary Prince
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Mary Prince
Mary Prince (March 22, 1831): A Bermudian woman, born into slavery. Her autobiography, The History of Mary Prince (1831), was the first account of...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 23: Ann Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Ann Green
Ann Green (March 23, 1775) Known as “printer to the Province” of Maryland. She was employed in Philadelphia with Benjamin Franklin & Andrew Bradfor...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 24: Deborah Sampson
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Deborah Sampson
Deborah Sampson (March 24, 1802): An American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Re...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 25: Maria Esquivel and Micaela Bastidas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Micaela Bastidas
Maria Esquivel and Micaela Bastidas (March 25, 1781): These two women played an important part in the Inca revolt against the Spanish invaders. Al...

Bought by KMXT and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
March 26: Elleanor Eldridge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Elleanor Eldrige
Elleanor Eldridge (March 26, 1784): In her Memoirs (1838), Elleanor claims that it was her grandfather who was captured, along with his family, i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 27: Bridget Biddy Mason
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Bridget Biddy Mason
Bridget Biddy Mason (March 27, 1988): Biddy Mason was born a slave in 1818, She was given to Robert Smith and his bride as a wedding present. Brid...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 28: Grace Sherwood
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: Grace Sherwood
Grace Sherwood (March 28, 1705): She was tried and convicted of witchcraft in the Princess Anne County court of the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
March 29: Eunice Williams
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Eunice Williams
Eunice Williams (March 29, 1713): An English colonist taken captive by French and Mohawk warriors as a seven-year-old girl from in 1704. Taken to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 30: Georgiana Molloy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Georgiana Molloy
Georgiana Molloy (March 30, 1830): An early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 31: Rebecca Lukens
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Rebecca Lukens
Rebecca Lukens (March 31, 1825): An American businesswoman. She was the owner and manager of the iron and steel mill that became the Lukens Steel C...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
Forgotten Foods of NYC: "Me Nacieron Mi Diente Cocinando; I Was Born Cooking"
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950., Credit: Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America.
Nurys Ortiz, 58, of Washington Heights, left the Dominican Republic ("DR") to work in a NYC factory when she was 17 years old. Ortiz started cooki...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Missing Hong Kong Handmade Noodles & Winter Melon Soup in NYC
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Nancy Soong, 90, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, recalls the foods of her childhood in Hong Kong.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Cooking Puerto Rican Comida on the Lower East Side
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
Olga Colon, 86, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, arrived in New York City -- from Puerto Rico -- when she was 18 years old. Over the years Colon ma...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Learning to Cook and Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Photograph from The Rice Bowl, NYC, 1950. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Marcella Dear, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.
Christina Lam, 68, of Chinatown, Manhattan, grew up in Hong Kong and moved to New York to work in a garment factory on East Broadway. She recalls h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
THE IMPOSSIBLE -- Belen Atienza, Juan Antonio Bayona, & Sergio Sanchez Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sergio Sanchez, Belen Atienza, Juan Antionio Bayona, San Francisco CA, 10/31/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Co-producer Belen Atienza, director Juan Antonio Bayona, and screenwriter Sergio Sanchez, talk control, heart, and respect.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:55
Independent Book Stores Speak Up for the Written Word - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
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
United Germany
From: With Good Reason
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
A ROYAL AFFAIR -- Nikolaj Arcel Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Director/co-writer Nikolaj Arcel talks human nature, bending genders, and impressing his mother.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 16:35
HITCHCOCK -- Sacha Gervasi Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Sacha Gervasi talks legends, reality, and the magic of the number 27.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 16:32
Midwestern Poet Trish Reeves
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Trish Reeves
Poet Trish Reeves draws inspiration from family history, human resilience, and a series of glass negatives which are featured in NEW LETTERS magazi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise of Phoenix: For-Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A class at the University of Phoenix's Hohokam campus in Arizona. Phoenix is the nation's largest for-profit university and largely serves working adults. , Credit: Brian Pobuda/University of Phoenix
The rapid rise of career-oriented, for-profit colleges and universities has provoked heated debate about the costs, quality and purpose of higher e...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fields of Remembrance
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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To honor the young men who sacrificed their lives in the D-Day invasion, Brigadier General Casey Brower takes young cadets on tours of the American...

Bought by WJCT, Indie3 Radio, KVSC, Radio Catskill, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 17
Mary Casanova on her new book, "Frozen," set in 1920s border country in northern MN
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis chatted with author Mary Casanova recently about her newest book, "Frozen," from the U of MN Press. Set in the beautiful, wild ar...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 18:37
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: The Latino Midwest
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:54:13

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