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Teaching Texas episodes

October 11, 2022 Chapter 3: The Pilgrimage to Longview
When the Gablers’ protégé, Neal Frey, gained control of Educational Research Analysts…he took a different approach. Grace journeys to Longview, Texas to meet the man himself and witness the last vestige of the Gablers’ enterprise.
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39 min
October 04, 2022 Chapter 2: The More Sex You Teach...
By the 80s, Norma and Mel had gained real traction in the textbook industry. And with their newfound power, they start dictating what goes into textbooks. They threaded their conservative Christian beliefs into textbooks across the nation, with little regard for separating fact from opinion.
Teaching Texas is a new audio documentary from Wonder Media Network that uncovers the surprising history behind America’s latest culture war.
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31 min
September 27, 2022 Chapter 1: Under God
On the outskirts of Hawkins, Texas, a couple found a problem in one of their kids’ school books. They didn’t have a background in education, but because they lived in Texas, their concern ignited a national movement and several decades of influence over what the rest of the country learned.

Teaching Texas is a new audio documentary from Wonder Media Network that uncovers the surprising history behind America’s latest culture war.
WMN on Twitter: @wmnmedia
Grace Lynch on Twitter: @gracelynch08
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36 min
September 15, 2022 Introducing: Teaching Texas
Introducing Teaching Texas, a new audio documentary from Wonder Media Network that uncovers the surprising history behind America’s latest culture war.
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3 min
June 09, 2022 Introducing: I Was Never There
Named a 2022 Tribeca Festival Official Selection for audio storytelling, Wonder Media Network is proud to introduce its first true crime podcast: I Was Never There. Thirty-four years ago, Marsha “Mudd” Ferber vanished without a trace from Morgantown, West Virginia. Mother-daughter duo Karen and Jamie Zelermyer are going back to the land to figure out what the hell happened. I Was Never There is as much true crime show as it is an ode to Appalachian countercultural movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Series premieres June 9, 2022.
4 min
April 15, 2022 Introducing Season Two of As She Rises
Introducing Season 2 of As She Rises, hosted by Grace Lynch.
Straddling the border between the US and Canada, the Skagit Watershed is a haven for sea creatures– the only river in the lower 48 states where all five species of Pacific salmon spawn year after year. The “Magic Skagit” is in peril: the ways of life it has sustained for the communities along its shores are faltering under years of settler disruption, and upstream, its headwaters originate in a pool of unprotected land threatened by extractive industries. Still, there’s hope in numbers: a cross-border coalition of federal, Tribal, and political leadership on all levels, dedicated to saving the Skagit River.
“You must have cleaned a lot of fish.” I say. // “I think we cleaned out all of Puget Sound…”
Won’t be long before all the fish are gone, then the cannery will go, and all we’ll have is hunger and sorrow.”
Welcome to season two of As She Rises. In this episode, we visit the land currently known as Washington. Poet laureate and Lummi Nation member Rena Priest reads her poem, “Remembering Ta’ta at T’am whiq sen,” and explains the relationship between salmon’s life cycles and the communities they fuel. Amy Trainer, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s Environmental Policy Director, leads us through the fight she and other members of the Washington Wild coalition waged to prevent extractive industries from staging a catastrophic mining operation in the headwaters of the Skagit Watershed.
31 min
September 28, 2021 Introducing: As She Rises
Grace is back with a new show tackling the greatest challenge of our time: climate change. Each week, As She Rises connects the power of poetry with the work of local activists to create an intimate portrait of climate change.
This episode of As She Rises visits the land currently known as Louisiana. Poet Jerika Marchan reads from her collection “SWOLE,” recounts living through Hurricane Katrina, and tells us why she'll stay in Louisiana as long as it will let her. Colette Pichon Battle, founder and executive director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, advocates for structural shifts towards ecological equity and climate justice in communities of color on the frontline of climate change. Follow and subscribe to As She Rises wherever you're listening right now.
30 min
June 03, 2021 Bonus: Introducing Gravity
Introducing WMN's newest original podcast, Gravity, a show about what becomes possible when we look at hardships differently, hosted by Dr. Lucy Kalanithi. Join us to explore transformations around loneliness, the myth of the ideal nuclear family, climate crisis, and more. Follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
4 min
December 03, 2020 Bonus: White Picket Fence
Introducing White Picket Fence, a new show from Wonder Media Network about the fractured politics of white women. Host Julie Kohler unpacks how white womanhood in America has been constructed, how it's evolved, and how it affects our politics.
32 min
November 10, 2020 Winning Wisconsin: Forward
In our series finale, Grace examines what happened on election night and where Wisconsin goes from here.
Read Dan Kaufman's article in The New Yorker, Will Trump's Broken Promises to Working-Class Voters Cost Him the Election?
An analysis of Wisconsin's election results from Craig Gilbert at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Winning Wisconsin is a Wonder Media Network production. It's created by Grace Lynch, and produced by Grace Lynch and Maddy Foley. Jenny Kaplan is our Executive Producer. Dana Munro contributed reporting to this episode.
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35 min

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In 1961, Norma and Mel Gabler were a quiet couple living in Hawkins, Texas. One day, they noticed some factual errors in their son's school book. What began as a small complaint morphed into a…