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The Women's School of Planning and Architecture: Not Only Survive but Flourish
The Women’s School of Planning and Architecture, popularly known as WSPA, ran for four summers from 1974 to 1979.
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10 months ago
Kibbe at the Crossroads - Lebanese Immigrants and Cooking in the Mississippi Delta
Episode 269
We travel to the Mississippi Delta and the world of Lebanese immigrants, where barbecue and the blues meet kibbe, a kind of traditional Lebanese raw …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Honesty Boxes of Scotland
Episode 268
“Some people might think that honesty boxes are from the past, from a different age, a simpler age, a more honest age, but I would say they're a futu…
11 months ago
Hidden Kitchens Texas — Hosted by Willie Nelson
Episode 267
Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright, along with some wild and extraordinary tellers, take us across Texas and share some of their Hidd…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
America Eats - 1930s WPA Chronicle of Food, Ritual and Celebration at The Library of Congress
Episode 266
Fish Fries, political BBQs, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating customs and recipe…
1 year ago
The National Archives – The What and the Why
Episode 264
“From the very beginning the intent was that the American people needed to be able to access the records so that we would be able to hold the governm…
1 year ago
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial - The Worst Video Game Ever?
Episode 263
Deep within the National Museum of American History’s vaults is a battered Atari case containing what’s known as “the worst video game of all time.” …
1 year, 1 month ago
Radio Pacific - A New Show From KALW San Francisco
Episode 262
The Kitchen Sisters are excited to share the first episode of Radio Pacific, a new monthly show from KALW in San Francisco that takes a deep and crea…
1 year, 1 month ago
Plessy AND Ferguson—Activism and the Fight for Justice and Equal Rights
Episode 261
In 1892, Homer Plessy, a mixed race shoemaker in New Orleans, was arrested, convicted and fined $25 for taking a seat in a whites-only train car. Thi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Pie Down Here: Listening Back—Alabama Sharecroppers and Communist Organizers,1930s
Episode 260
Pie Down Here — Produced by Signal Hill
In the 1980s, when Robin D.G. Kelley was 24 years old, he took a bus trip to the Deep South. He was researchin…
1 year, 2 months ago