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Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2024 is an interesting election year, but still not as raucous as 1948.. All the columnists and commentators who were polled agreed Thomas Dewey w...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
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
Caption: Richard Cahan
In 1942, the government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese living in the U.S. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
Caption: Dancers at the march for the disappeared, Credit: Beatrice Murch
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 09:39
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Group Censored at "Freedom of Speech" Parade

  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 06:02
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Few leaders have done more for ordinary Americans than Eugene V. Debs, born 150 years ago.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2005
  • Length: 04:06
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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