White Paper for Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection

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dc.contributor.advisorFraimow, Rebecca
dc.contributor.advisorMcShea, Megan
dc.contributor.advisorPerlman, Allison
dc.contributor.advisorSchnitker, Laura
dc.contributor.advisorShepperd, Josh
dc.contributor.authorSapienza, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorHoyt, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-02T12:52:09Z
dc.date.available2022-03-02T12:52:09Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-31
dc.description.abstractThe forerunner of CPB and its arms, NPR and PBS, the NAEB developed and distributed educational radio programs and accompanying print materials to schools and communities across the United States. What’s more, the NAEB lobbied extensively to unlock the airwaves—to access precious frequency space—in order to bring the voices of poet Robert Frost, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and conservationist “Ranger Mac,” among many other individuals, into American homes and classrooms. The NAEB’s history is the dramatic story of idealists who believed in the utopian possibilities of technology for education and social uplift and who faced considerable challenges in pursuit of those goals, including economic depression, world war, and the scarcity of the electromagnetic spectrum. It’s a story that has much to tell us about 20th century American culture, as well as the 21st century’s environment of online educational technology and podcasting that we live in today. Despite its historic importance and contemporary relevance, most of the NAEB members’ programs were never heard again after their initial brief moments on the air. The archives for the radio programs and their related paper documentation have been split for over 25 years between two institutions: the University of Maryland and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Unlocking the Airwaves reunites the split collections, finally realizing the potential of the collections of the NAEB for exploration and and the broader public.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Endowment for the Humanities Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) Grant # PW-259067-18en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/xkbo-oonc
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/28522
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtMaryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subjectarchivesen_US
dc.subjectradioen_US
dc.subjectlinked dataen_US
dc.subjectdigital humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectdata visualizationen_US
dc.subjectdigital curationen_US
dc.subjectdigital stewardshipen_US
dc.subjectpublic radioen_US
dc.titleWhite Paper for Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collectionen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US

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