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219: Wife Selling
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn't afford divorce. It was shaming, mysoginistic,...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
Authority and U: On the Anti-Democratic Campus
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: IU student Gregory Hess was arrested during a 1970 anti-war protest for shouting a statement urging a crowd of demonstrators to retake a street that police had just cleared. , Credit: Maurer School of Law
Our show is "Authority and U" with guest Steve Volan, a student of human geography at Indiana University and a city council member in Bloomington, ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Japanese American Internment
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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In 1942, FDR authorized the removal and relocation of anyone in certain military areas. The result? The incarceration of over 120,000 people of Jap...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 30:15
168: The 442nd Infantry
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Once again we dive into a piece of history that should be explored in schools. Thousands of American born Japanese defied prejudice and hate to fig...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 2
Votes for Women
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...

Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 2
Conventions
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Spring break for political elites with a sprinkling of nomination on top.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 33:01
  • Purchases: 1
Starter Kit: Legislative Branch
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Rules, roles and representation in the People's branch.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 23:59
  • Purchases: 1
CESAR CHAVEZ STORY 1
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: CESAR CHAVEZ ANECDOTES
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:00
The Martyrdom of Francisco Ferrer: A Conversation with Mark Bray
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Engraving on marble reproduction of the painting of the execution of Francisco Ferrer, made by Flavio Costantini. Behind the soldiers, two monks, a bourgeois and a civil guard attend the execution.
Ferrer's Modern School was not new pedagogy. We have known its truths for as long as authorities have forced children into rows and rote learning, ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:15
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible - Encore Edition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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“Mirrors of Privilege” is a film and conversation guide designed to help bridge the gap between good intentions and meaningful change. From Shakti ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Pred Ed: For-Profit Colleges and Universities
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today’s show is about for-profit colleges and universities–or the Predatory Education Business. If you’re surprised to hear predatory and for-profi...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 58:13
Spies of Mississippi
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Little Falls Students Practice for the Regional History Day Competition
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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From the discovery of a Chicken Pox vaccine to Louis Armstrong’s influence on music to the numerous ways that women have fought for equal rights ov...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
“Learn Yourself” and Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Bloody Sunday, Everett Massacre
“Learn Yourself” and Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington Interview: Mike starts a special segment of We Do The Work c...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Interchange - The Significant Insignificance of Juneteenth
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Last Friday, June 19th, was Juneteenth--do you know what that is?

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:56
I Pledge
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Saying the Pledge of Allegiance is optional in Maine schools, but Lily SanGiovanni says not all of her classmates know that for sure.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:40
A Conversation with Author, Taylor Branch
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years. [24:25]

Bought by KSFR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
President Kennedy and Immigration Reform
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's Death
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was in office form January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
Remembering President John F. Kennedy
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's Death
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was in office form January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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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
NASA Boldly Goes...
From: BBC Americana
Caption: NASA, Credit: NASA
Matt Frei looks at how the space industry helped racial integration. 40 years on from those first steps on the moon, Morgan Watson was one of the f...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A look at the developement of Sports in the United States

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:19:32
The Electoral College: Democracy Gained or Lost?
From: Paul Ingles
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A roundtable explores The Electoral College system for electing the U.S. President - its history, its pros and its cons.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KDUR, and KTNA


  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 4
Palestine: Past, Present, and Future
From: Voices of Our World
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We discuss the nature of U.S. involvement in the Middle East and this country's support for Israel

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 05, 2007
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 1