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Ulysses and Julia Grant - A More Perfect Union
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Love Is History
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Love triumphs, even through the Civil War, and the story of a union within the Union - the profound love of Ulysses and Julia Grant

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 15:10
From Italy to Bosnia Herzegovina
From: Katz Laszlo
Caption: The Sutjeska memorial in Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Credit: Veronica Tosetti
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:13
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
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
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
Prelude to Summer
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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In this Prelude to Summer we end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and looking up at the ...

  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 25:20
Why did a 13-year-old become a soldier? Ishmael Beah explains...
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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He used to be one of the many thousands of child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in dozens of conflicts around the world. Ishmael...

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


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 2
Joseph Kanon and "Leaving Berlin"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

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


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Carrots help you see in the dark
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Peace: From Ethiopian Refugee to United States Citizen
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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Nigisti Hailemariam has been in the United States for over 20 years; she has two kids, a stable job, and a red Honda outside her three bedroom apar...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:26
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
Francis Scott Key: Lawyer, Layman, Tone-Deaf Lyricist?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Francis Scott Key (shown here in a portrait by Theodor Horydczak) was far more than just the author of what would become our national anthem., Credit: Library of Congress
Turns out the author of our national anthem could very well have been nicknamed "Francis Scott Off-Key."

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
Maryland Town Celebrates Its 15 Hours Of Fame
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
Author Michael Korda and "Ike: An American Hero"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An author many times over and former editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, a major publishing company, Michael wrote this biography, “Ike: An Americ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Veteran Repays Near-Half-Century Debt
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Cliff Brody looks at an old photo of his deceased friend/sergeant, Joe Blakely, who changed Cliff’s life during the Vietnam War., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 3
Author Anthony Swofford and Getting Past Fame and Fortune
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony’s latest book, “Hotels, Hospitals and Jails” describes his life after the pluses and minuses of the fame of "Jarhead." In that book he chro...

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


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 2
Fatima Learns to Drive
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: Fatima and Her Daughter, Rana
Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 2
Tinnitus
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Some tinnitus sufferers experience their phantom frequencies as buzzing or chirping sounds, like the song of a cicada (here, converted mathematically into graph form)., Credit: Photo Researchers
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
Indie on Demand Reviews GARBO THE SPY
From: Daniel Persons
Series: The Indie on Demand Movie Review
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A review of the intriguing WWII documentary.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
Pioneers of Flight: Tuskegee Airmen in Transition
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Lt. Col. Ivan Ware, Credit: Courtesy Air Force Magazine
Lt. Col. Ivan Ware has known war. For thirty-two months, he served in Europe. He’s been bombed at, shot at, and fought back. But his battles did...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)
From: Stephanie Coleman
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A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KSRQ, KHNS, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 8