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Npr: Ole Miss, 40 Years Later
Listen to NPR's series on the story of James Meredith's efforts to enter Ole Miss and what the campus is like forty years later.
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Npr: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 40 Years Later
National Public Radio reviews the events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, "The world's closest brush with nuclear war." Hear Kennedy's speech to the nation, see pictures of Kruschev and Castro, and learn about the Havana...
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Npr: Climate Connections: Videos From the "Wild Chronicles'
NPR provides access to a menu of videos, produced by the PBS series "Wild Chronicles," about scientific inquiry into the evidence of climate change around the world. Series episodes include "Counting Penguins," which illustrates how...
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Npr: Soldier Against Soldier: The Story of the Bonus Army
Listen to an NPR interview with author Paul Dickson, whose book, The Bonus Army: An American Epic, recounts the demands of World War I veterans and the violence against them at their encampment in Washington, D.C. There is also a short...
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Npr: Wfiu: Congressional Moments
Thought-provoking podcasts explains how different legislative acts affect our daily lives.
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Npr: Meltdown, Global Financial Crisis
"Greece is on the Eruo" and that is why the market has confidence in the country. Greece is in financial difficulty and people are questioning whether the Euro was a good thing. If Greece was on its own currency it's goods might...
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Npr: Climate Connections: Global Warming: It's All About Carbon Episode 1
Robert Krulwich, host of NPR's climate connections videos, is a master of explaining carbon and its role in nature, especially in global warming. His discussions in the five videos, that range from three to four minutes, are interesting,...
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Npr: The Challenger Disaster 25th Anniversary: Space Still Dangerous
Find three National Public Radio reports from 2006 on the 20th anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster. The audio reports include recordings from the launch site as the Challenger was in its last moments.
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Npr: Around the Nation: Colorful Hua Mei Birds Put Pigeons to Shame
In this audio clip (includes written transcript), the narrator discusses the Hua Mei bird garden in New York's Chinatown. Uses popups.
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Npr: Listening to Elephants
National Public Radio tells the story of Katy Payne and her attempts to study the Bai elephants of central Africa by listening to them. Great pictures and audio clips, plus documentation of Ms. Payne's fear that her research will be used...
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Npr: A Raisin in the Sun
Audio story on the writing and production of 'the play that "changed American theater forever."'
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Npr: Morning Edition: Present at the Creation: Home on the Range
From a series of radio broadcasts called "Present at the Creation," this website details the history of the famous song, "Home on the Range" that became very popular in American culture. It includes information on the dispute regarding...
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Npr: The Raven
NPR offers a thorough look at the writing of, and history of, "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Here you can listen to a classic recording of "The Raven," as well as listen to the report as it aired on NPR.
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Npr: Totem Poles
National Public Radio explores the history of the great totem pole carvings created only by Native Americans of the northwestern coasts of North America.
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Npr: World Story of the Day
This short daily podcast covers important topics in current events. Download and listen through iTunes.
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Npr: Poetry Reading: 'Blackberry Picking'
Tom Cole, an editor on NPR's Arts Desk, shares the words of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney from the poem entitled "Blackberry Picking" [02:21]. This poem is part of Seamus Heaney's book of collected poetry called Opened Ground: Selected...
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Npr: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
This is a Morning News radio broadcast from March 11, 2002 in which Cheryl Corley discussses the 1959 Broadway play The Raisin in the Sun based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry. It includes quotes by Hansberry and others and a clip from...
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Npr: Krulwich Wonders: A Canadian Bohemian Rhapsodizes About String Theory
Watch and listen to Tim Blais, a physicist, explain string theory through the lyrics of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Don't miss this amazing performance.
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Npr: Story Corps
A podcast of everyday people and their lives. A link to this podcast's Web site is also available.
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Npr: Clinton to Have President Obama's Endorsement
Two days after Hillary Clinton secured enough delegates to be the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, President Obama endorsed Clinton on Thursday in a video. The two will campaign together next week in Wisconsin."I want to...
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Npr: Week of August 1st 2016: A Student Propelled Clinton Into the Spotlight
Hillary Rodham's 1969 commencement address at Wellesley College did not stand out because of what she said.It stood out because of how she said it, and because she said it at all. This is a story not about words, but about context.Before...
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Npr: Week of 8 8 16: One Year After a Toxic River Spill, No Clear Plan
One year ago - on Aug. 5, 2015 - an EPA crew at the Gold King Mine in southwest Colorado accidentally unleashed 3 million gallons of orange water filled with mercury and arsenic.The toxic spill flowed into the Animas River, eventually...
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Npr: Science, Intelligent Design and a 'Flock of Dodos'
A recent evolution trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, spurred the intelligent design-evolution debate. Author Edward Humes, former evolutionary biologist and filmmaker Randy Olsen, and Nicholas Matzke, from the National Center for Science...
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Npr: Televangelist, Christian Leader Jerry Falwell Dies
NPR article describing the May 2007 death of televangelist and controversial fundamentalist preacher, Jerry Falwell who founded the Moral Majority and brought "politics to the pulpit". Included is a timeline and video and audio clips of...