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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 74
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Part 3 of Mending the Hoop.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 38
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about reflecting on our past.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Gauthier's "Rifles and Rosary Beads" - Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase #89
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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On her 2018 album project, "Rifles & Rosary Beads", singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier shares the stories of American veterans by writing the songs wi...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, North State Public Radio, KUHF and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
National Writers Series: John U. Bacon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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John U. Bacon talks about his latest book, "The Great Halifax Explosion."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Nathan Hale and the 4th Blood Moon
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Nathan Hale regrets he has only one life to lose for his country, and the fourth blood moon is about to appear...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:48
Christopher Columbus and the US Navy
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Columbus tricks the Arawaks. History of the US Navy, the Barbary Wars and more...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 02:44:56
Bombs drop at Brookings, Oregon
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: Nobuo Fujita, who piloted the plane that bombed Brookings, donating his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city of Brookings
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
Tyler Dean Revolutionary War 3 Battle Documentary
From: Dean B
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A short documentary about the battle of Saratoga, Yorktown, and Trenton in the American Revolution.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 03:26
Building 98
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: There's Something Out There
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Jenny Lynn heard strange sounds when she first spent the night at Building 98. She thought it was the wind until she told a friend and discovered t...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Apr 27, 2014
  • Length: 11:36
  • Purchases: 1
9-11
From: Patrick Fosso
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Let's remember 9-11.More than 3000 children lost their parents in the tragedy.The destruction has caused damages to the economy at the global marke...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Things They Carried - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WKMS, KMUN, KUER, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Amazing True Story of Paul Revere
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Caption: Paul Revere by Copley
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

Bought by KUT and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 2
I am Become Death
From: andy boyd
Series: Stories that Take Place in Space and End in Death
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ruminations on legacy, death, and imperial policy.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:54
Afghanistan + Troops = Catastrophe (Part 1 of Rethink Afghanistan)
From: Brave New Films
Series: Rethink Afghanistan
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Troops (Part 1)
President Obama has committed 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. This decision raises serious questions about troops, costs, overall mission, and e...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 11:46
Crossing Queens Boulevard
From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Caption: Malika Kalontarova, Credit: Warren Lehrer, photo ©2003
A family of Bukharan Jewish dancers and musicians escape war-torn Tajikistan. They move to an apartment near Queens BLVD, and go from dodging bulle...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2009
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering...The D-Day Spirit
From: Ted Magnuson
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Patriotic recollections

  • Added: Nov 22, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
P.O.V. - Eve Ensler Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Activist Eve Ensler talks about violence against women in the Congo

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 15:02
P.O.V. - Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmakers Zach Niles and Banker White talk with P.O.V. about making their film "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars"

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 06:29
P.O.V. - The Camden 28 Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmaker Anthony Giacchino talks with P.O.V. about the making of his documentary film "The Camden 28"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 09:12
C'est la Guerre
From: David Grimes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Musical setting of quotes from Lyndon Johnson, William Fulbright and Wayne Morse regarding the War in Vietnam.

Bought by KZSC


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
Japanese "War Brides"
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Japanese American "War Brides" living in Fayetteville, North Carolina discuss their experiences with war, marriage, immigration, and cultural identity

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WETA, and WYSO


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 3
Paul Tillich
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Theologian Paul Tillich talks about the ultimate danger of nuclear weapons. (1961)

Bought by XRAY.fm and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 2