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Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...
- Added: Nov 20, 2020
- Length: 27:15
Interview by Gary Kanter: Hillary revisits the 20-year anniversary of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, sometimes referred to as ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 14:55
Part 3 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. Richard Nixon stages a political comeback. Segregationist Gov...
Bought by KJZZ, Interlochen Public Radio, KGOU, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 10
Part 2 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. The Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago, ...
Bought by KJZZ, WAMU, Interlochen Public Radio, KGOU, WITF and more
- Added: Apr 26, 2018
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 14
Part 1 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. After a disappointing result in the New Hampshire Primary, Pr...
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- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 15
Join Ken Rudin for 1968: 50 Years Later, a special three-part series looking back on the dramatic political events of 1968. Ken speaks with journal...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 3
March 31, 2017 marks the centennial of the transfer of three Caribbean islands from Denmark to the United States. But are Virgin Islanders US Citi...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 04:59
Fourth of July broadcast featuring the film "Where the Buffalo Roam"
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:36:57
Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 20:08
I speak to Kat Norris Indigenous activist and founder of the Indigenous Action Movement about her experiences in residential school, how she has tu...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 27:42
In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 06:26
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: FBI 9/11 Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley: Post-Charlie Hebdo Massacre Rush to...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Presidents Obama and Johnson at UCI
- Added: Jun 12, 2014
- Length: 07:56
In most cases, we know the difference between a good president and a bad one. But how do historians see them? Robert Merry, a longtime journalist w...
Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WRKF
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 5
With the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, comparisons between LBJ and Barack Obama are being made. Johnson, who left office in 1969 ...
Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRKF and more
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 6
This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 04:40
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
A commentary on labor leader Harry Bridges, one of the 20th century's greatest leaders of any kind, on the anniversary of his death.
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 04:21
It's the 75th anniversary of "Bloody Thursday," the day in July of 1934 when open warfare between police and striking longshoremen raged on San Fra...
- Added: Jul 02, 2009
- Length: 04:45
David suggests that we should pay more attention to Presidents' Day.
- Added: Feb 13, 2009
- Length: 03:43
- Added: Sep 19, 2008
- Length: 01:29
Few leaders have done more for ordinary Americans than Eugene V. Debs, born 150 years ago.
- Added: Dec 21, 2005
- Length: 04:06
A commentary noting that at age 70, the National Labor Relations Act is badly in need of reform.
- Added: Aug 14, 2005
- Length: 05:00
