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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited pay discrimination against women and minorities was passed August 1964. Some thought it was a joke -- looks...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 03:00
June is Pride Month, and June 28th is Pride Day, marking the unofficial beginning of "Gay Liberation" in 1969 with the Stonewall riots in New York...
- Added: Jun 20, 2023
- Length: 03:00
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
We continue our thematic overview of the ocean edge this week with a conversation centered around coastal and offshore zones and the politics that ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2019
- Length: 05:26
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...
Bought by KJZZ, Interlochen Public Radio, WITF, KGOU, WHFR and more
- 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
How the heck do you get a silent film star on the radio?
- Added: Sep 24, 2016
- Length: 02:16:54
The so-called “War on Christmas” is in full swing. Militant Christians say the well-known evergreen is a Christian symbol for a Christian holiday, ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2015
- Length: 02:30
For Israelis, especially in recent years, Rabin can take on almost any shape or form. Shai Satran speaks to filmmakers, educators and politicians a...
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 09:29
The honor of a Confederate hero shrinks in the twilight of 21st century political correctness, as does the rebel flag...
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 03:05:07
In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 06:26
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...
- Added: Jan 24, 2015
- Length: 11:32
Presidents Obama and Johnson at UCI
- Added: Jun 12, 2014
- Length: 07:56
At a jazz performance, the lady next to me and I struck up a conversation. During World War II, she, a Czechoslovakian, and her family were exiled ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 1
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
This week in history (March 23-March 29) takes a look back at Senator Ted Kennedy's landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in New York's primary on Ma...
- Added: Mar 23, 2014
- Length: 04:40
In the all the years we've celebrated President's Day, we've never honored a female president, because we've never had one. It's not that women ha...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WLPR
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
In January 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the War on Poverty. Much has changed, but much has stayed the same.
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on what was wrong with the Declaration of Independence.
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 02:30
