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Michael Honey, a Professor of Labor and Ethnic Studies and American History at the University of Washington at Tacoma, will be discussing his work ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 09:07
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 13
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Patrick Coleman, senior curator & acquisitions librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society, stopped by the WTIP studios recently. He was in Gran...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 15:02
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Nov. 10 is the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's also the only time each year that the Split Rock Lighthouse beacon i...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 12:50
Caption: Chairwoman Karen Diver
Karen Diver has been the Tribal Chair of the Fond du Lac Reservation since 2007. She was recently named Special Assistant to the President for Nati...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WGZS


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sonny Meyers
Article 11 of the Treaty of 1854 provides for the retained rights to hunting, fishing and gathering of resources in lands ceded by Anishinaabe trib...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Rachel Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin’s little sister, isn’t so little anymore. Rachel, 91, reminisces about her childhood with her older brother who she rem...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:16
Caption: Joe Hill, IWW, Linda Allen
Interview: Members of the Whatcom-Skagit IWW and Linda Allen talk about the legendary organizer and Labor song writer Joe Hill, sing his songs, an...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 27:49
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Alfred Bundy and Kevin Jenkins in conversation about this book.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 18:57
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Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousan...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
Caption: Chief Gene
In Virginia, there are eight Indian tribes, some several thousand people in all. Yet the United States doesn’t believe they exist. The seeds of thi...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 27:39
Caption: Bill Branson (L) and Barry Romo (R)
Veteran Barry Romo and his nephew Bobby Romo were born a month apart and grew up together. They both went to Vietnam, only one came home.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 5
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In this episode we’ll be discussing John Dos Passos, a brilliant 20th century American writer who you may have never heard of.

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Professor Matthew Cobb
Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Yeats for a Day: The Dublin Musical Saunter 2015 (an all-day event in the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival on June 15 2015) brought together a...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:28
Caption: A 1936 photo of one of the first events reconnecting Cajuns and Acadians. It was taken at the Grand-Pre, the national historic site where the largest settlement of Acadians was before the expulsion of the mid 1700’s.  That's Simon Thibault's great uncle, , Credit: Photo courtesy of Simon Thibault.
How is a region of the far north—Canada—intimately connected to a region 2,000 miles away in the Deep South? In this episode of Gravy, the story of...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 25:55
  • Purchases: 2
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In this episode we break down the factors that will influence the fate of football in the United States. Is football doomed or is it immune to the ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 34:39
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
On this episode, Jimena Canales discussed the debate of Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein.

Bought by KRZA and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 31:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:56
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Many happy returns (plus half a dozen new turns)

Bought by KWMR, WLPR , KSRQ, KKRN, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, and Yul Brynner in 1965., Credit: John Dominis
Nancy Sinatra had two big records in the mid-1960s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin” and “Something Stupid” the first instance of a father-daughter...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: American actor and singer Frank Sinatra clowning around with spaghetti for an EKCO products commercial on the set of CBS-TV's, 'The Frank Sinatra Show.' , Credit: CBS Photo Archive/Getty
Author Tom Santopietro explains how Frank Sinatra changed the status of all ethnic minorities in America.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 03:03
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Caption: Singer and actor Frank Sinatra, Hollywood, California, c. 1963, Credit: Underwood Archives/Getty
In 1963, Frank Sinatra was interviewed for Playboy Magazine author James Kaplan tells the story.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 03:11
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Caption: A telop title card for the The Frank Sinatra Show television show. Image dated January 1, 1952. , Credit: CBS Photo Archive/Getty
Author Will Friedwald discusses Frank Sinatra’s evolution into the world of television.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1