PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

192 results


Dawn Powell
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
Piece image
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
Growing Up Here
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This is the last episode of our fourth season, which we have dubbed Susitna Valley origin stories. Over the course of the season, we have explored ...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Up The Tracks
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Today, we’ll hear stories from people for whom even Talkeetna was too crowded. Instead of the hustle and bustle of the booming metropolis of Talke...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Homesteaders
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This is The Blue Tarp, stories from Alaska’s Northern Susitna Valley as told by those who lived them. Today, we’ll hear about people who came to th...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Oldtimers
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
So far in this season about arrivals in the Susitna Valley, we have covered the first people to arrive here, whose ancestors are still here, all th...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Just Visiting Part 2
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This is The Blue Tarp, stories from Alaska’s Northern Susitna Valley as told by those who lived them. In this episode, we’re continuing our explora...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Just Visiting Part 1
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
As we focus in Season Four about how local residents found their way here, a common trend emerges fairly quickly. Many who call this area home did...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Newcomers
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Our fourth season is focusing on Northern Valley origin stories, how people found themselves here at various points in history. In episode one, we...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Susitna Valley Origins
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Our fourth season focuses on Susitna Valley origin stories. Everyone who lives here today got here, somehow. To begin this season, we hear about t...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
El día que se apareció El Diablo (The Day the Devil Appeared)
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: The Folklorist Next Door
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 12:18
Space Oddities: Episode 10-Odds 'n Ends
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: Coke's zero-g soda can., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 13:11
Space Oddities: Episode 3-The First Moon Flights Club
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: A sample of the Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership card., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Long before Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson began sending civilians into space, in the 1960s there was an American airline that had the same dream. ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1
Space Oddities: Episode 2-What a Spectacle!
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: The Qantas Airlines Koala getting special treatment., Credit: Qantas Airlines
Episode 2 of the Space Oddities podcast takes a look at some interesting, manned spaceflight splashdowns and recoveries, in particular, those where...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 2
Space Oddities: Episode 1-Moon Dust In Your Lungs, Stars In Your Eyes
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 1
Flashback to Provincetown, 2013 - 'gayer than San Francisco'
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Sunset over Provincetown Harbor, Credit: Provincetown Tourism Office
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Present and the Future
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This will be our last episode for season three, which has focused on women in aviation. As we wind down this season, we want to take a look at the...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Best Moments
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In our last episode, we heard stories about some of the scariest moments our interviewees experienced in their time within the aviation community. ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Scary Moments
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This season has focused on women in aviation. Thus far, we’ve heard stories of triumph, adversity, and everything in between. Today, we’re going ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Denali Base Camp
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
In this season, we’ve been focusing on women in aviation. For this episode, we’re going to focus on a job unique to the area, effectively running ...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women Aviators
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This is The Blue Tarp, stories of Alaska’s Northern Susitna Valley as told by those who lived them. On this episode, we’re going to hear what it m...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Air Taxis
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
This is The Blue Tarp, stories of Alaska’s Northern Susitna Valley as told by those who lived them. On this episode, we’re going to begin our look...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Flying in the Susitna Valley
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
For this season, we’re focusing on aviation in the area, particularly the stories told by and about women in the field. For this episode, we’re g...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women in Alaska Aviation History
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Caption: The Blue Tarp, Credit: KTNA Talkeetna
Thank you for listening to this episode, which marks the beginning of our third season, which will focus on women in aviation.

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Broad Stripes, Bright Stars, and White Lies: America's First Flag
From: Smithsonian
Piece image
In honor of Flag Day and the Fourth of July, the Smithsonian unveils the often misunderstood stories behind two of our nation's most famous flags: ...

Bought by WVTF, KALW, KVMR, KVNF, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 59
Green Light Circus and Complexities of Love
From: KTNA
Series: The Blue Tarp
Piece image
As we wrap up our second season focused on events in the Northern Susitna Valley, we are coming back to Talkeetna. Specifically to the Sheldon Com...

Bought by KSKA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones