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In the long ago and far away of mid-to-late twentieth-century America, the clothesline was a common feature of the landscape. Sheets, towels, cloth...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 05:51
Although the term civility seems to connote a type of outmoded, formal etiquette not practiced since the turn of the previous century, the use of c...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 07:13
American turn-of-the-20th century author Jack London was one of the founders of serious American sport fiction. Stemming from his own love of spor...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 1
Penny Marshall's film brings awareness and respect for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943-1954.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Feb 04, 2012
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
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
The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 03:00
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
The ultimate value of secure attachment is apparent when your child leaves the nest.
- Added: Jun 26, 2010
- Length: 03:02
Equality under the law became viable for African Americans only after hard, dangerous work turned public opinion and federal policy against the whi...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:51
- Purchases: 2
April Fool’s Day piece. New Hampshire hunters ‘discover’ 15,000 year old human remains. The finding leads to political discussion about replacing O...
- Added: Apr 01, 2009
- Length: 06:48
Family and friends who knew Barack Obama when he was growing up in the Aloha State share their insight about how Hawaii helped shape his character ...
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- Added: Dec 22, 2008
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 21, 2008
- Length: 02:55
Five Module pieces focusing on America's Second President
- Added: May 02, 2008
- Length: 44:10
- Added: Nov 15, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking?
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:29
Not long ago, a kindergartener snapped a photo of a rare bird...
- Added: Jun 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The bald eagle is back! Back on California's Channel Islands, that is, after facing near extinction forty years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
In its manufacturing heyday, England was infamous for its skies dark with coal smoke belching from mills and factories.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
They sighted him wandering through the Bavarian Alps, and the German media named him "Petzi" -- the first brown bear known to roam through super-po...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who's the longest-lived human on record? Jeanne Calment of France -- 122 years!
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
The place is America?s Wetland -- millions of acres along Louisiana?s Gulf Coast that teem with life
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
You might say carbofuran is an equal-opportunity killer. It takes out Eagles, Red-tailed Hawks, and migratory song-birds of all types.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
