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An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
When word that California had gold in its creeks and streams reached the United States of America in 1848, fortune seekers from all over the world ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us to the movies with a very unlikely journey. ...
- Added: Jun 27, 2020
- Length: 30:00
It’s time to release your inner geek! Today on Culture Clique we take you to Nerd Nite at Ed’s No Name Bar in Winona, MN. The topic? “Jesus and the...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 35:15
This week on Culture Clique, we hear from Professor Beth Zold on Mary Toft, the 18th century woman who convinced doctors that she had given birth t...
- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 24:05
Jeremy Garrett visits Unreal Bluegrass to discuss his new solo CD Circles and and the latest from The Infamous Stringdusters, Rise Sun.Jeremy is a ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2020
- Length: 01:02:54
It’s time to get your geek on. On this episode of Culture Clique we go once again to Nerd Nite Winona at Ed’s No Name Bar. This time around we hear...
- Added: Nov 22, 2019
- Length: 23:48
Humorist and author Roy Blount Jr. talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 2
Newspapers were the primary means of mass communication in 19th Century America. They not only told the news, but they pervaded social and politica...
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 2
As we travel through Iceland you will hear about America’s historic Route 66 with Route Magazine editor, Brennan Matthews and Kat Bird of the Wande...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 29:55
Carter Family legacy Dale Jett & "Hello Stranger" recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews w...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 58:59
Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. A “songcatcher,” capturing and recording the traditional, regional, down-home music of the US, his adopted hom...
Bought by WDCB, KICI Iowa City, WNYO, and KWMR
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 4
Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 13:32
- Purchases: 2
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack hangs out with St. Cloud State Un...
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 27:57
Physician Maureen Miller describes how perusing a dusty box of autopsy reports from 1987 helped her embrace her new professional future as a pathol...
- Added: Jun 08, 2019
- Length: 33:35
With Walt Whitman's 200th birthday on May 31st, we're revisiting the time just before the Civil War with Justin Martin's book, REBEL SOULS: WALT WH...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 31, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 29, 2019
- Length: 17:28
- Purchases: 2
The pretzel, known as a “Brezel” or “Brezn” in German, is not an ordinary pastry. It has a century-old history full of myths and stories. Where did...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 33:17
- Purchases: 2
In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 2
It is estimated that 30,000 Hessian soldiers fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Where did they come from and...
- Added: Mar 25, 2019
- Length: 23:47
Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 19:17
- Purchases: 1
Coffee is more than just a beverage – it can be a jumpstart to a day at work or a relaxing afternoon with friends. This episode explores the meanin...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 2
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 14:54
- Purchases: 1
