Listen to the Radio on Your Smartphone With These Apps

You can do just about anything right from your smartphone nowadays, from booking a hotel to paying your bills. There are even handy apps that make it possible to turn your phone into a portable radio, with a variety of music stations, podcasts, talk shows, and just about anything you would expect from a traditional radio. Check out these great radio apps to learn more.

Stitcher
Stitcher is a free app that offers the latest sports, talk, news, and entertainment radio stations anywhere you are, right from your mobile device. It includes over 20,000 different radio shows, live radio stations, and podcasts, and they’re all completely on demand, so you can listen whenever you want to. Stitcher is also available for just about any type of smartphone or device, including the iPhone, iPad, Android, and Kindle Fire.

TuneIn Radio
The TuneIn app offers an attractive interface and boundless browsing capabilities, giving you access to 100,000 live radio stations and two million podcasts, concerts, and shows. You can listen to the local radio in your town even when you’re away from your car or home, and it also features trending radio stations that enable you to check out what other users are listening to. 

 

Explore the Library of Congress’s ‘Today in History’ Site

If you’re a history buff, you'll probably enjoy this fun and exciting webpage from the Library of Congress. Today in History is an online tool updated each day to recount one important historical event that happened that day. You’ll get a mini history lesson every day, and it also make for a great conversation starter.

For example, November 16, 2013 may have just been an average Tuesday for all of us, but on that date in 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered The Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous speeches in American history.

Today in History allows you to go back and read what you didn’t see, and it also lets you skip forward to future events, too. You can browse events by key words like “battle” or “speech," jump to a specific day in the archive, or just browse the archive by month to see every post. If you're interested in history, the Library of Congress's Today in History site is worth bookmarking!

Today in History [The Library of Congress]

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