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Negro Baseball Leagues
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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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


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Falling Into Autumn
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children’s Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn the science about equinox, and hear from 5th grade...

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


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20230911: Falling Into Autumn, 9/11/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children’s Hour we are falling into autumn in the northern hemisphere. We learn the science about equinox, and hear from 5th grade...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Southwest American History
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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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


  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Southwest American History, 8/7/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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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...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Unlocking Family History & Frida Kahlo
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: Mrs. Antillon's 2nd Grade Historians, Credit: Katie Stone
We learn about using music to pull out family stories from our elders, and 2nd graders teach us about the legendary painter, Frida Kahlo

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Dispossessed, Chapter 10; Wolftown, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jones Mountain cabin
It started with the red wolves at Alligator River, took me out to the Blue Ridge Mountains, then down to a tribal gathering of the Chickahominy in ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 26:43
The Dispossessed, Chapter 9; Wolftown, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jones Mountain cabin.
I’ve been on the road eight days now, living out of the trunk of my car, and though I pass straight through Richmond, which is my home, I skirt the...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 27:54
An Orphan Train Survivor
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses the orphan trains of 1854-1930 with Victoria Golden, who helped author the autobiography of William Delos Vansteenburgh, ti...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
The Pledge of Allegiance
From: John Messmer
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A reading of the original and current version of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:12
  • Purchases: 1
Digging Up the Dirt Behind Cemetery Statue of A Boy and His Dog
From: renee wilde
Series: WYSO CURIOUS
Caption: Johnny Morehouse Memorial, Credit: Renee Wilde
Johnny was the son of a local cobbler who fell into an old canal that cut through the center of Dayton where Patterson Boulevard now runs. His belo...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
Tell Us a Tale Episode 68
From: WTJU
Series: Tell Us A Tale
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"Burgoo" and "Horton Hatches the Egg"

  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Young Americans: A History of Childhood [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Harlem Newsboy, 1943, by Gordon Parks , Credit: Library of Congress
BackStory takes on the history of childhood in America. Have children shared a common core experience across American history? Or has the nature o...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Young Americans: A History of Childhood
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Harlem newsboy, 1943. Photograph by Gordon Parks, Credit: Library of Congress
With summer in full swing — and kids all over the country enjoying a blissful respite from school — BackStory is taking on the history of childhood...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBRP Community Radio, KREV-LP, WMMT, and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Promo: Young Americans - A History of Childhood
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: Seminole children on a reservation in Florida, c1948., Credit: Florida Photographic Collection
30-second promo for "Young Americans: A History of Childhood," with a 5 second hole for station-specific time/date tag.

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Sisters of Mercy
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In a little known chapter of American history, hundreds of thousands of Irish Catholic children were taken from their families in New York City and...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KVSC, KRZA, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 13
Encore Presentation: Tales from the South 002 with Grif Stockley
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Not a Foamer
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Griffin Bourassa possesses many traits of a typical 15 year old boy, but there is one facet of his life that is not normal.

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 2
MN Author Will Weaver and "The Last Hunter"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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"The Last Hunter - An American Family Album" by MN Author Will Weaver.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 1
Author Adrianna Trigiani and "Don't Sing at the Table"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani is back on Realgoodwords this week talking about her grandmothers, including Lucy from Chisholm.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 30:14
Commentator Guido on Grandmothers
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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As a kid, Guido envied his friends who had two, hands-on Grandmothers.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 05:35
Commentator Aaron Brown on Grandmothers
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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In Judeo-Christian tradition we track families through the fathers side. Unless of course you are not a landed male heir. It's not that you don't m...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:23
The Last Word on Grandmothers
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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"...These Grandmothers, man, they don't play by anyone's rule book. Truly, they never have... They weren't always Grandmothers, that's something it...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 05:15
Commentator Guido on Thanksgiving
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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When Guido thinks of Thanksgiving, he thinks of a time decades ago...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 04:26