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Was America founded by divine intervention, or profit-seeking slaveholders, or noble men in pursuit of freedom? The angst over America's Founding s...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
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This week on Harmonia, we’re visiting The Museum of Renaissance Music, or at least, listening to it. Editors Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard cu...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The modern day workplace is the product of a centuries-long battle for fair wages, reasonable hours and safe conditions. Civics 101 tells the story...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 5
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Who should decide how stories and artifacts of a cultural heritage are shared? What's the difference between appropriation and appreciation?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 5
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: ILLUSTRATION, Credit: by Doug Dobey
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:23

  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:48
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Paul Pino of Carrizozo, New Mexico., Credit: Nate Hegyi
From NHPR's Outside/In comes two stories that shed light on unseen consequences of America's nuclear ambitions.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Vermont Public, and Valley Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 4
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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, the WFMT Radio Network and Jon Tolansky present an exclusive documentary memo...

Bought by KENW, Troy Public Radio, WDPR, WQXR, WILL and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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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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Learning phrases to talk about quarantining

  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 20:51
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Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:01

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
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Offbeat characters both imaginary and real in musical portrayals by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Slim Gaillard, Cab Calloway, and others.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Join our guest, Jennifer Lee, Northern Naragansett Grandmother, bark basket maker, and culture bearer, Board Member of the Nolumbeka Project, as sh...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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Revisit the days of Underground FM radio with music from the mid 60s to the mid 70s, all played from original vinyl LPs and singles! In this episod...

Bought by KRSC, KMXT, KMUN, KSTK, and KTEP


  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 5
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Revisit the days of Underground FM radio with music from the mid 60s to the mid 70s, all played from original vinyl LPs and singles! In this episod...

Bought by KMUN, KSTK, KRSC, and KTEP


  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 4
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Revisit the days of Underground FM radio with music from the mid 60s to the mid 70s, all played from original vinyl LPs and singles! In this episod...

Bought by KMUN, KSTK, and KRSC


  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 3
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Revisit the days of Underground FM radio with music from the mid 60s to the mid 70s, all played from original vinyl LPs and singles! In this episod...

Bought by KRSC, KMUN, and KSTK


  • Added: Nov 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 3
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As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Revisit the days of Underground FM radio with music from the mid 60s to the mid 70s, all played from original vinyl LPs and singles! In this episod...

Bought by KMUN, KMXT, KSTK, and KRSC


  • Added: Oct 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 4