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Caption: Inez Mulholland on Horse poster
In this episode, WV features two women who were important to the fight for women’s suffrage but whose names are less known than those of Elizabeth ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:33
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Susan Quinn talks about her acclaimed book, Eleanor and Hick. It’s about the romance between Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Leonora Hick.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 1
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In this sound-rich show, the authors of “We Gotta Get Out of this Place” play songs Vietnam soldiers listened and explore how that music became th...

Bought by WCNY, WGZS, WMPG, WCMU Michigan, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 11
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From women who reported from the front lines of the Vietnam War, to the Red Cross volunteers who boosted morale and the nurses who treated injuri...

Bought by WSGE, Kansas Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Harford Community Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Patience Gray in her flat in London, circa 1960. Photo by Stefan Buzás. Courtesy of Nicholas Gray.
A weed might be said to represent valuelessness, and worse perhaps, a thing which actively devalues what many consider to be the proper and true wa...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 05, 2017
  • Length: 57:53
  • Purchases: 1
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During the Gilded Age, to be painted by John Singer Sargent was the thing to do. He captured high society in all its glitz and glam. But the storie...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age

Bought by WJCT, WNSB, WCQS, WJCU, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
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- Women shut out of tenure-track positions at the nation's universities - How you dress affects your perceived competence - A history of female pre...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
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- Women shut out of tenure-track positions - How you dress affects your perceived competence - A history of female candidates for president - The u...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
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-American men and women have maintained close friendships since our country’s founding. -When it comes to racism or sexism, why aren’t good intenti...

Bought by WJCT, KSFR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
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-American men and women have maintained close friendships since our country’s founding. -When it comes to racism or sexism, why aren’t good intenti...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
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-There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until ...

Bought by KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 3
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-How local breweries foster communities. -The story of an unrecognized founding father -The challenges of being a nurse in northern Alaska. And mor...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
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Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:20
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Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:57
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Kathryn's debut novel, "The Help," is a black-white history lesson that's never been told quite like this before. Through the lives of several wome...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Wayne Wang talks high heels, bound feet, and radical Quakers

  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 16:21
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Intriguing story of an India-American woman spy from World War-II

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 04, 2008
  • Length: 18:36
  • Purchases: 1