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1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
From: Arndt Peltner
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30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 21:05
The Triangle Seagals
From: Mary Samouelian
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The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 36:27
Life of the Law #86: Winter of Love
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: John and Stuart celebrate after legally marrying in 2008., Credit: Bella Pictures
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 31:17
  • Purchases: 1
National Parks Centennial: The Dispossessed of the Shenandoah
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Shenandoah National Park, Credit: Charles McGuigan
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:41
Of Numbers and Names
From: Israel Story
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For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.

  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 48:42
Life of the Law #79: Sterilized
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Ghosts of Fire Island
From: Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 3
Emmett and Trayvon
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
Caption: Mike Wiley performing Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
Documentary Theater artist Mike Wiley performs and discusses Dar He, his one-man play about the murdered teenager Emmett Till.

Bought by KUER and WUNC


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
The Conscience of Chester A. Arthur
From: Emily Gadek
Series: Footnote Podcast
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In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 15:33
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John MacLellan
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:14
54 Years
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 07:46
Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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This Minnesota Historical Society site is a focal point of Ojibwe culture in Minnesota and has been in existence for nearly 100 years. The museum ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 10, 2010
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Bomb That Healed
From: Philip Graitcer
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The Bombing of The Temple in Atlanta

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Oct 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Sad Demise of the Passenger Pigeon
From: Long Haul Productions
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The passenger pigeon was once the most common species in North America - now it's extinct. A look at how the bird disappeared.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 4
Human Rights in Argentina: Missing witness Julio Lopez
From: Marie Trigona
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Human Rights in Argentina: Witness still missing

  • Added: Sep 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:31
Talk About It: The Jewish Mourning Process
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Grieving for the deceased... and comforting the living.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:03
  • Purchases: 2
Back to Iwo Jima: Navajo code talkers return
From: Ashley Gross
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Four Navajo veterans return to the site of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Fairbridge Farm School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Four elderly Dutch people remember how as children recently liberated from the POW camps in Indonesia, they regained their childhood when they wer...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Valdivia: Stories of Survival
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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MIT Freshmen travel to Valdivia, Chile, and report on three stories of survival they have found there: ecological survival, cultural survival, and ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 23:26
Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
A Meeting of the Ways: Part 1
From: Pauline Bartolone
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What happens when an anti capitalist protestor and a right wing christian performer meet on the streets of New York City during the 2004 Republican...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 03:39
The WTC Construction Guides: The Building Stewardesses
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Sonic Memorial Project: 5 Stories
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They were called "Construction Guides" : friendly co-eds in mini-skirted uniforms posted at corner kiosks on the WTC site to inform an inquiring pu...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WHYY, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2004
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 3