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March 16: Mercy Short
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Mary Short
Mercy Short (March 16, 1693): This 15-year-old, orphaned servant girl, is one of the most puzzling and intriguing figures to emerge from the witch...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Catskill, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 5
March 17: Sally Hemings
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings (March 17, 1826): Born in Virginia around 1773, Sally Hemings was a slave owned by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. After his wife's...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 28: Grace Sherwood
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Grace Sherwood
Grace Sherwood (March 28, 1705): She was tried and convicted of witchcraft in the Princess Anne County court of the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 18: Catalina de Erauso
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Catalina de Erauso
Catalina de Erauso (March 18, 1600): After leaving nun’s convent, Catalina dressed as a man, and left on a long journey from San Sebastian to Vall...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 19: Anne Drysdale And Caroline Newcombe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Anne Drysdale
Anne Drysdale And Caroline Newcombe (March 19, 1840) The two women were squatters. They established a successful sheep farm at a time when women ra...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 20: Mary Anne Talbot
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Mary Anne Talbot
Mary Anne Talbot (March 20, 1792): An Englishwoman who wore male dress and became a sailor during the Napoleonic Wars. While a cabin boy aboard a...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 5
March 21: Pocahontas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Pocahontas
Pocahontas (March 21, 1617): Later known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial Jamestown, Virginia...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 22: Mary Prince
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Mary Prince
Mary Prince (March 22, 1831): A Bermudian woman, born into slavery. Her autobiography, The History of Mary Prince (1831), was the first account of...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 23: Ann Green
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Ann Green
Ann Green (March 23, 1775) Known as “printer to the Province” of Maryland. She was employed in Philadelphia with Benjamin Franklin & Andrew Bradfor...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 24: Deborah Sampson
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Deborah Sampson
Deborah Sampson (March 24, 1802): An American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Re...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 25: Maria Esquivel and Micaela Bastidas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Micaela Bastidas
Maria Esquivel and Micaela Bastidas (March 25, 1781): These two women played an important part in the Inca revolt against the Spanish invaders. Al...

Bought by KMXT and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
March 26: Elleanor Eldridge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Elleanor Eldrige
Elleanor Eldridge (March 26, 1784): In her Memoirs (1838), Elleanor claims that it was her grandfather who was captured, along with his family, i...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 27: Bridget Biddy Mason
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Bridget Biddy Mason
Bridget Biddy Mason (March 27, 1988): Biddy Mason was born a slave in 1818, She was given to Robert Smith and his bride as a wedding present. Brid...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 28: Grace Sherwood
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: Grace Sherwood
Grace Sherwood (March 28, 1705): She was tried and convicted of witchcraft in the Princess Anne County court of the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
March 29: Eunice Williams
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Eunice Williams
Eunice Williams (March 29, 1713): An English colonist taken captive by French and Mohawk warriors as a seven-year-old girl from in 1704. Taken to ...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 30: Georgiana Molloy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Georgiana Molloy
Georgiana Molloy (March 30, 1830): An early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
Grand Bayou, Self-Sufficient and Shrinking, Prepares for a Fisheries Collapse
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Rosina Philippe wonders whether Grand Bayou can survive as a subsistence community., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Members of the Atakapa-Ishak tribe have found a creative use for a high-tech fencing material that has protected soldiers in Iraq and strengthened ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
Author Elizabeth Gilbert on being "Committed."
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Author Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert reads from her latest memoir, "Committed." In an interview with Virginia Prescott, she reveals what it i...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
Swimming on Blind Faith/Deep Sea Sisters
From: ken girardey
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A love story between a fisherman and a mermaid. Can it be?

  • Added: Aug 07, 2008
  • Length: 25:48
What's the Word? Women Public Intellectuals
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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While men of letters have traditionally achieved the influential position of public intellectual, in the twentieth century a number of important wo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 17
What's the Word? Medieval Women
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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A literary view of the lifestyles of medieval women.

Bought by KETR-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WKMS, KZYX, WLIW and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 27
What's the Word? Women Warriors
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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From Joan of Arc to GI Jane--a look at women warriors.

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 29
What's the Word? Elizabeth I and Victoria
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Literary portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
What's the Word? Pride and Prejudice
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 14
Shattering the Stigma: Women Confront HIV/AIDS in Africa
From: A World of Possibilities
Series: Women's History Month Special
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Women Confront HIV/AIDS in Africa

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, 90.5 WSNC, KMUD, KREV-LP, WVAS and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2007
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 12