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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
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A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:23
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 30:24
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
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A "nauseous project" becomes a bulwark of liberty.

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 23:40
  • Purchases: 4
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A conversation with UCLA historian Benjamin Madley about his groundbreaking and heartbreaking book, "An American Genocide: The United States and th...

Bought by KVMR and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Paul Rucker's art education came from working as a janitor at the Seattle Art Museum. Now a gifted cellist, visual artist, and video producer, Paul...

Bought by WCPN and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: War Stories Logo, Credit: Adin Dobkin
In Northern France on July 14th, 1916, a cavalry unit from Hyderabad made what most consider to be the final cavalry charge of World War I before t...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 37:31
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Life’s precarious journey—lessons today’s parents often avoid. Rediscover the frightening tales from our collective past.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 11:46
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Pamela Newkirk about her book about a young African man who was displayed in a cage in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
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Not only was John Frankford a famous horse thief, he was also a notoriously good escape artist. People thought no jail was strong enough to keep hi...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 'Bull and Bear Fight - New Orleans', Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
In this episode of TriPod, Laine Kaplan-Levenson brings us back to the days when Algiers was a stomping ground for bullfights and other forms of an...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 10:23
Caption: Dunning Memorial Gate, Credit: Shawn Allee
The forgotten history of an asylum and poor house on Chicago's northwest side.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
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In this installment, the topic is the notorious Wannsee Conference.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
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in 1790 the Yankees fully intended to turn this "New World" into their own nation. The Native Americans, on the other hand, indigenous to the conti...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
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Author T.J. English looks at NYC in the late 60's and 70's and the tense relationship created between the police and NYC's growing communities of c...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 52:09
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Rents have always been high in New York; but since 1994, so called ‘Quality of Life’ policing, and business friendly development strategies have de...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 17:01
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Revised edition. A report shows that the last 50 years of tax cuts benefited the very rich but left the middle class without improvement.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
How does one acclimate a populace to an inordinate amount of security?

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: :59
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This documentary tells the story of the 1951 West Frankfort Mine disaster in which 119 men were killed in an explosion on the last shift before the...

Bought by KRZA, KPIK-LP, NPR Illinois, WMMT, KUT and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2008
  • Length: 16:21
  • Purchases: 6
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The Princess Sophia shipwreck killed all 353 people on board and has been called the worst in the Pacific Northwest's history.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2008
  • Length: 05:16