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March 23: Ann Green

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1971 Powell Memo

From: Action Speaks Radio

A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.

Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI

Added: Dec 04, 2012
Length: 53:29
Purchases: 4

Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Ely, Minnesota

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

Caption: Susan Shurke, Credit: Britt Aamodt

Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio

Added: Dec 03, 2012
Length: 09:56
Purchases: 1

1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor

From: Action Speaks Radio

The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?

Bought by WRIR, WRPI, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston

Added: Nov 19, 2012
Length: 53:29
Purchases: 4

1992 Invasion of the Body Scanner

From: Action Speaks Radio

Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston

Added: Nov 15, 2012
Length: 53:29
Purchases: 3

1965 Griswold v. Connecticut

From: Action Speaks Radio

Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston

Added: Nov 06, 2012
Length: 53:29
Purchases: 3

William Jennings Bryan: The Speech That Changed Politics

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders

At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, The Story, PRX Remix, KUT and more

Added: Oct 16, 2012
Length: 07:11
Purchases: 7

Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders

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
Purchases: 6

Hog Island part 1

From: WHRV

Ever wonder how Hog Island got its name?…

Added: Apr 23, 2012
Length: 01:30

Radio Theater Project Episode 2

From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: A Castle in Brittany; Grampa Ed’s Twisted Fairy Tales: The Princess and the Pea

Added: Feb 17, 2012
Length: 28:35

Black Women Make History/ Coretta Scott King & Carol Moseley Braun

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

Caption: Coretta Scott King, Credit: NNDB

Equal Time Series Host Martha Burk explores the life of Coretta Scott King with biographer Barbara Reynolds, a founding editor of USA Today. Burk...

Bought by Talking Information Center, KRPS, 90.5 WSNC, WAMU, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.

Added: Jan 26, 2012
Length: 56:48
Purchases: 5

Smokey Bear

From: New Mexico Centennial
Series: Centennial Journeys

The story of the little bear cub from Capitan who became a national icon.

Added: Dec 09, 2011
Length: 01:59

Kearny's Entrance to New Mexico

From: New Mexico Centennial
Series: Centennial Journeys

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

Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California's Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto

From: California Legacy Project

Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...

Bought by KZYX and KALW

Added: Sep 02, 2011
Length: 01:50:16
Purchases: 2

Ivan Doig's "Work Song"

From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio

Dmae Roberts features an in-depth and lively interview with Northwest Writer Ivan Doig.

Added: Dec 02, 2010
Length: 28:02

Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time

From: With Good Reason

Caption: Bible Babel Cover, Credit: Harper Collins

A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...

Bought by WFIU