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What is Owed? from GBH News

From: WGBH Radio Boston

In What Is Owed? from GBH News, reporter Saraya Wintersmith seeks to understand what reparations might look like in one of the oldest cities in Ame...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Oregon Public Broadcasting, KSQD Santa Cruz, and WCVE

Mortal Republic

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Citizens of ancient Rome willingly sacrificed their freedom for autocracy. When people are convince they have a lot to fear, it’s easier for a powe...

Bought by KCBX

The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today

From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History

This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City

Assassin of Youth

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

In 1930, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics appointed Harry J. Anslinger as the commissioner. He became the first drug czar with a flair for demonizin...

Bought by KCBX

On Behalf of the President

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

First ladies have been a vital part of American policy and politics since the election of George Washington.

Bought by KCBX

March on Momument

From: Nicki Stein

Caption: Robert E. Lee Statue on Moument Avenue, Credit: Kelley Libby/Radio IQ

This past Saturday, over 1,000 Richmonders streamed down Monument Avenue in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, planned for this weeke...

The Highest Glass Ceiling

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Since the late 1800s four women have run for the office of US president.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX

Panics, depressions, recessions

From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

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 and New Hampshire Public Radio

Meet the New Essex County Democratic Committee Chairmen

From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: Alfred Bundy Presents........

Caption: Leroy Jones, Essex County Democratic Committee Chairmen

Coverage of the Politics that govern the County of Essex, New Jersey.

Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

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

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...

Author David McCullough and "1776"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Priests of Our Democracy

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: Marjorie Heins, Credit: photo by Catherine Boalch

In her new book, civil liberties lawyer Majorie Heins tells the stories of teachers and professors who resisted the communist witch hunt of the 195...

Bought by KCBX

Governing the Occupation

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix

Pakistan Aslant (1) - "The country that could kill the world"

From: Open Source

Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]

Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by WCPN, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Giving the House of Representatives a Human Face

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Nicholas Longworth's gavel is among the treasures curated and conserved by the House of Representatives' very first curator., Credit: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Meet the very first curator of the U.S. House of Representatives collection... 4,000 artifacts strong.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix

How the White House Got Its Name

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Dr. Clarence Lusane is author of The Black History of the White House., Credit: Rebecca Sheir

Hint: It doesn't have a whole lot to do with paint swatches...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio

An Outrageous Frameup

From: Dick Meister

Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.

Shedding Light On Height: The Truth About D.C.'s Skyline (short version)

From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington

Getting to the bottom of why Washington, D.C.'s building tops... are so low.

Shedding Light On Height: The Truth About D.C.'s Skyline

From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington

Getting to the bottom of why Washington, D.C.'s building tops... are so low.

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Remix Radio

A Warm Day In Berlin

From: Dick Meister

It was 20 years ago this month the Berlin Wall finally fell. But I still recall the incredibly intense atmosphere I witnessed in the days just afte...