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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
The Return of Conquest? Why the Future of Global Order Hinges on Ukraine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Tanisha Fazal
The ongoing war Russia initiated against Ukraine in February has NATO allies in an awkward position. Whether it’s assisting Ukraine with weapons fo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KCBX


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Modern Warrior LIVE: A Veteran's Story
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Modern Warrior LIVE
In today’s podcast, I speak with US Army Veteran Jaymes Poling and Jazz Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci about creating and presenting Modern Warrior L...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:26:36
Is Putin a Tyrant?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Fiala
The question, “Is Putin a Tyrant” is a loaded one. After all, over the centuries leaders of all strips have been called tyrants. Realistically, the...

Bought by KFCF FM and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Zunes
Russia invades Crimea in 2014. Eight years later they attack Ukraine. In the meantime, President Biden emphatically states “any use of force to cha...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Perilous Medicine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Leonard Rubenstein
It’s a horrific common occurrence in war. Especially modern warfare. Hospitals and health care facilities are relentlessly under attack, and health...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Parallels in Autocracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Wolfgang Mac
Imagine spending your youth witnessing to the rise of Nazi Germany under Hitler’s dictatorship. You’re watching your country fall into the hands of...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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 ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
America First
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bradley W. Hart
In September 1941, a hero-celebrity stood before a crowd in Iowa and emphatically stated the words, “America First.” Charles Lindbergh was the spea...

Bought by KFCF FM and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Oh! What A Poetical War!
From: Sue Zizza
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Featuring the popular poetry of the time before and during the Great War: the Music Hall songs; the songs the soldiers sang; the poems that served ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, Prairie Public, and KAAD-LP


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Then They Came for Me
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Matthew Hockenos
Most of us are familiar with the Nazi concentration camp confession, “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts talks to the Army's Artist in Residence, Sgt. Juan Munoz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: "A Quick Call Home", Credit: SFC Juan C. Munoz, 2018
The Army's Artist in Residence, SFC Juan Munoz explains his process of documenting the lives of soldiers through art.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Veterans Day Soldier Story: Bob Buntin
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bob Buntin, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:48
The Field of Blood
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Nicholas Morton
he year 1099 marked the Crusade’s final act … the conquest of Jerusalem. This deed has long been taken as proof of the crusaders’ anti-Islamic hatr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power & the Necessity of Military Force
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eliot A. Cohen
“Speak softly and carry a big stick” are the words of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. When President Garfield was assassinated two weeks later, ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GPV17 Book Review - The Arsenal of Democracy
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A. J. Baime

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:31
Salt to the Sea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ruta Sepetys
It’s known as the single greatest maritime disaster in history. Yet, it is a little known story. This casualty of World War II was far deadlier tha...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Over Here, Over There: Veterans and early Americans in their own words
From: Kettle Falls Media
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This presentation is a collaboration between radio dramatists in three states, and students in New York and Texas. "Over Here, Over There" adapts o...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 01:40:04
  • Purchases: 1
Kao Kalia Yang -- What is home? A refugee's challenge.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Valiant Ambition
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nathaniel Philbrick
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
The German War
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Nicholas Stargardt
The Holocaust during World War II -- Horrifying images and stories that have come to symbolize an international conflict. What the story doesn’t t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist James Lee Burke and “The House of the Rising Sun”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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JLB has published 36 books over 50 years. He’s best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series and the Holland family storie...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz
From: Sue Zizza
Caption: Poster Art, Credit: Käthe Kollwitz
(The entire 1 hour (52:19) show is available starting on October 13, 2015) In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, Midsummer Sound Comp...

Bought by KUNM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KICI Iowa City, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 52:19
  • Purchases: 9