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A Great Joy: A Tale From the Heart of America
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Tales From the Heart of America
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Steve Jobs said, "We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?” Running our fingers over those dents connects us to ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:54
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Behind Barbed Wire book Jacket, Credit: Michael Williams & Richard Cahan
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Gift of Peace
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book Jacket Cover, Credit: Hawkeye Publishers
Hindsight is not a good way to view history. Yet, we frequently see our past with an expression of “what if”. On the other hand, even the slightest...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katya Cengel
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
LIVING IN AN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
Say My Name
From: Susie Kahlich
Series: Artipoeus : art you can hear
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Artipoeus visits Francoise Shein and Barbara Reiter's project "Inscrire", an installation at the Berlin subway station U Bahnhof Westhafen, near Pl...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:56
Calling Out the Ancestors: My Family's Lingering Civil War Ghosts
From: Saro Lynch-Thomason
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An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 20:40
Oly Via Sherkole
From: Robert Smith
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A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 18:59
Love in 56KB
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
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He was in Beirut during the Lebanon-Israel war; she was in a small village outside of Rotterdam. They met on MSN Messenger.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 22:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Box: A Memoir
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward Schultz
This is a personal story of the Vietnam War with Lynne Lorine Ludwick author of The Box.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation & Human Rights in the Conflict
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Eve Spangler
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...

Bought by KPVL and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
How my dad escaped Vietnam at age 14, without telling his mom.
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Quang Adam Nguyen, Angela's dad, holding the South Vietnamese and American flags. , Credit: Credit Courtesy of Quang Adam Nguyen
Angela Nguyen is going away to college and leaving behind everything she loves. Her dad did the same when he left Vietnam. But unlike her, he left ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
The Vet's Block
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Anthony Mattia came home from Iraq as a highly decorated soldier, but the trauma he experienced in combat is putting his own freedom in jeopardy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
Resister
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bruce Dancis
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Author Paul French and "Midnight in Peking"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A UK author who has lived in China for decades tells a true-crime tale of the unsolved murder of a young British girl in 1937 in colonial Peking, a...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Once a Marine
From: Gretta Herzog
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bill recalls his time spent in the U.S. Marine Corps.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:51
A Soldier's Story on Film
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Sgt. Matthew Pennington was injured while serving on combat duty in Iraq. He showed signs of PTSD, but is working toward recovery by promoting self...

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This month's program is about human rights.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:03:38
WWII Army Musician Remembers
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Homer Parce playing the cornet at his home., Credit: Greg Latza, greglatza.com
Love of music prompted Homer Parce to sign up for an army band. Military service whisked the small town South Dakota boy across the Pacific just a...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 06:18
Ink and M16s
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In a war you have your typical players. They're the soldiers, the medics. Politicians and journalists. The translators and engineers too. And then ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 5
In Maine, Southern Sudanese Celebrate Independence
From: Alyce Ornella
Caption: Veterans of the Second Sudanese Civil War stand under the new flag of South Sudan., Credit: Alyce Ornella
Portland, Maine is home to one of the largest Southern Sudanese refugee communities in the United States, many of whom settled in the city after fl...

Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
G Wani
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
A Drum Is Always With Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In Portland, a small community exists around the public performance of Middle Eastern music and dance. Portland is also home to an Iraqi community ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 3
When Former Enemies Sit Down and Talk About World War II
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Japanese WWII Propaganda
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Long Way from Baghdad
From: Addie Goss
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A profile of the one Iraqi student at the University of Wyoming

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2009
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2