March 14, 1980 - MPR’s Mary Stucky talks with archivist Andrea Hinding, the editor of a new two-volume historical reference book, Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, put out by the University of Minnesota Press.
April 2, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, retired airline pilot Bob Rockwell reviews Kill Devil Hill: Epic of the Wright Brothers, 1899-1909 by Harry B. Combs.
July 16, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Karen Nelson Hoyle, assistant professor and curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections, reviews A Companion to World Mythology by Richard W. Barber.
July 23, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Edward Berryman, organist and director of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis, reviews A New History of the Organ from the Greeks to the Present Day by Peter F. Williams.
August 8, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Majorie Dorne, associate professor of English at Winona State, reviews Deliberate Regression by Robert Harbison.
March 10, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 2 (Coming to New York). Program includes a collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, recounting the experiences of immigrants to New York City.
March 11, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 3 (The Union Spirit). Program features workers stories of their union activities: Morse code operators, radiomen on merchant ships…and one tale relates an organized hair bobbing that was sparked by the firing of a junior nurse for showing up at work with bobbed hair.
May 21, 1981 - Virginia Kunz, a local author and historian, comments on the history of prostitution in St. Paul, Minnesota.
May 28, 1981 - Local historian and author Virginia Kunz comments on the energy crisis’s in Minnesota’s past and how 20th century problems are taking us back to 19th century solutions.
May 29, 1981 - MPR’s Bob Aronson talks with Fred Friendly about his book Near vs. Minnesota - Minnesota Rag: The Dramatic Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Case That Gave New Meaning to Freedom of the Press. Friendly summarizes the history and impact of case.