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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 2
For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 17:56
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and WFHB
- Added: Aug 22, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
This week on the show: The remnants of slavery -
June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...
Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 24:29
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show: Religious tolerance in danger -
Inspiring the struggle for freedom: new excavations solve a decades old mystery about US ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 30:00
What is historical trauma? Jennifer has been in the social work and education fields for over 25 years. Tune in to learn more.
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 46:05
David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 14:16
This week on the show: Europe demands answers after US-Danish spying claims. Frustration with the German government's handling of the vaccine prog...
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 58:59
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
This week on the show: Legacy of slavery -
We take a closer look at Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, the darkest chapter in t...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 30:00
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 24:23
In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer didn’t...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 34:28
“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered a time of massive flux for the newly reunited capi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 2
When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:50
- Purchases: 1
When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium rep...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 22:25
We speak to a man who has given thousands of people new names, told them where they would live, and warned them they could never go back home.
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 25:54
- Purchases: 1
Melanie & Rusty had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Imad Naji Rasheed recently. He was a professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq and is a s...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 04:14
Izzy Young ran The Folklore Center in New York's Greenwich Village for decades and produced Bob Dylan's first public concert in 1961. Young died M...
- Added: Feb 06, 2019
- Length: 04:44
We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
In this week's show : we hear from the first 'test tube baby' 40 years later, find hot and bothered Germans (who also sit too much), long live the...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Aug 08, 2018
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery is nestled in a beautiful stretch of public parks that mark the confluence of the Stillwater and Great Miami Rive...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 06:02
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, by Constance and Ned Sublet, is an extensive accounting of American slavery, do...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Jan 24, 2017
- Length: 58:11
- Purchases: 1
September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Sep 18, 2016
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Just a moment of watching the daily activities of our national public life reveals that ‘performance’ is consequential — far beyond the confines of...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 57:27
