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Featured story: Ballad for Americans
How a ten minute operatic folk cantata managed to unite Democrats, Republicans and Communists.
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Featured story: Campaigning While Female
Stories of three women who launched bids to be President of the United States: Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Chase Smith, and Shirley Chisholm.
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Featured story: Serving 9 to 5: Diaries of Prison Guards
Diaries from officers who work behind bars at Polk Youth Institution.
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Diaries We give people tape recorders and help them document their own lives in their own words
Going Home: Cristel’s Diary
At 15, Cristel attacked a classmate with a razor blade. After 3 years of incarceration, she’s being released.
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Josh’s Diaries: Tourette’s / First Kiss
Josh has Tourette’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outbursts.
ListenPortraits Extraordinary stories from ordinary places
Walter Backerman, Seltzer Man
Once there were thousands of seltzer men in New York City. Today, Walter Backerman is one of the last.
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Selma Koch, Bra Saleswoman
94-year old Selma Koch runs the Town Shop, one of New York’s last old-style bra fitting shops.
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The Pygmy in the Zoo
On September 8th, 1906, New York’s Bronx Zoo unveiled a new exhibit that would attract thousands of visitors. Inside a cage, in the monkey house, was a man.
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