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Sandcastles

From: Adriana Cargill

Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it.

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and Boise State Public Radio

Harlem Keeps Jazz Traditions Alive As Pandemic Restrictions Ease

From: Catharine Smith

Caption: Josh Morris, 15, onstage in Harlem.

While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.

Special: Housing is A Human Right

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR

Episode 1: America's Urban-Rural Fault Line

From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement

A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work

From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here

The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Progress for Who?

From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise

Caption: Phillips Committee resident Richard Habersham, Credit: Paige Polk

In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.

The End of the American Frontier Myth, Greg Grandin

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border W...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Monacan Voices:True History of First Contact & Paper the Genocide of Virginia Indians

From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage

Please join us for a rare journey through poetry and conversation with the Monacan Nation of Virginia regarding first contact, the birth of our nat...

Bought by WCPN, KWIS 88.3 FM, KWMR, WRNC-LP, WTIP and more

THE DRIPPING Lamps

From: Kate Madara

Dandelion seeds blowback on to their stem making a few lights in the way lines look like they were pulsing morse code, letters replaced. A single ...

Sonia Purnell, author of "A Woman Of No Importance"

From: Boise State Public Radio

Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"

Ben Macintyre, author of "The Spy and the Traitor"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Bob Kustra interviews Ben Macintyre about his book "The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War"

Hampton Sides, author of "On Desperate Ground"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Bob Kustra interviews Hampton Sides about his book "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle"

Bought by KRZA

Randall Fuller, author of "The Book That Changed America"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Bob Kustra interviews Randall Fuller who's written an historical take on how Darwin's Theory of Evolution ignited leaders and thinkers in the US in...

Bought by KRZA

Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues

Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress

Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more

The Fix: Chapter 1 – The History You Never Heard

From: The GroundTruth Project
Series: The Fix: Treating New York's Opioid Crisis

The South Bronx, New York's poorest neighborhood, has been dealing with a deadly heroin epidemic for generations. We look at the origins of the epi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Radio Catskill

The Wishes of the Dead

From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation

Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...

One Nation Under Commerce: Marketing God and Country. The Middle Edges #104

From: Teosson Wells

The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...

Episode 43: 39 Shots

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson J...

Puerto Rican Americana: Nuyorican Bicycle Clubs in Brooklyn

From: Jack D'Isidoro

Caption: Roberto proudly shows off his bike in front of the original headquarters of the Puerto Rican Schwinn Club near Knickerbocker Ave. in Bushwick., Credit: Jack D'Isidoro

The Schwinn bicycle has a rich history in New York’s Nuyorican communities. In many of these enclaves, you’ll find members of riding clubs showing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio

Life of the Law #79: Sterilized

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded

Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Politician and the Poet

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard

Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.

From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test

From: Mother

Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.

Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Guns: An American Tradition

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Love em or hate em, they’re an ever present part of American culture. And they’re not going away anytime soon. On this edition, we talk guns…from...

Bought by WRIR

The Lower 9th Ward Lives On

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Robert Green, Lower 9th ward resident, Credit: Andrew Stelzer

We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

Life of The Law Episode #58: Oswald Is Still Dead

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to get him into...

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

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