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My Hometown Concentration Camp
Bernard Offen, age 72, survived five Nazi concentration camps in Poland during World War Two, when he was a young t...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Sounds Jewish commemorates the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 04, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Religious tolerance in danger -
Inspiring the struggle for freedom: new excavations solve a decades old mystery about US ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 30:00
The story of Kaldi the goat herder discovering coffee by accident is a common tale. Religious studies scholar Jamel Velji explores a few more origi...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 54:00
In June, 2002 I overheard an American woman now living in Israel passionately describe her belief that teaching children to be suicide bombers is t...
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
There are over 70 examples of knights fighting snails in illuminated manuscripts from the 1300s. But why? First meme? A silly inside joke? A weird ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 04:47
A two-part edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO this time. First, host Megan Kamerick visits with Glenn Aparicio Parry, author of "Original Politics: Makin...
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- Added: Nov 24, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Notre Dame history professor discusses the secular effects of the Reformation.
- Added: Dec 27, 2018
- Length: 53:59
Recently discovered texts show the peaceful relationship Islam and Christianity enjoyed for centuries.
Bought by WETS
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Historical Jesus scholar makes the case for Christians to retire the argument that Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy.
- Added: Aug 25, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
On this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popular...
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 59:02
Radio Curious tours the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the underground rai...
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- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Peru is a county about which I’ve been curious for over 60 years, beginning when I first learned of the Inca Empire. Ten years later the Peace Cor...
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Presidential scholar Barbara Perry discusses Protestant fears that JFK would answer to the Pope, not the American people if elected president — and...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WOUB, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 09:39
- Purchases: 5
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Host Brian Balogh heads to Our Lady of the Angels, a Trappist monastery in the Blue Ridge Mountains, to find out what life is really like behind th...
Bought by WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Producer Bruce Wallace heads to the birthplace of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first indigenous saint from North America, to see how she is remembered to...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WETS, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 08:22
- Purchases: 3
Historian David Hollinger discusses the long-lasting influence of liberal Protestantism. Though conservative Evangelicals get more media attention,...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 10:12
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Anthropologist Nabeel Abraham tells host Brian Balogh about the fight between two Muslim communities over the future of a Dearborn, Michigan mosque...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 09:42
Spiritual but not religious? Professor Leigh Schmidt uses the story of Sarah Farmer, a 19th-century visionary, to illustrate the ever-present strug...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 13:10
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Reporter Nate DiMeo tells the story of the Kate and Margaret Fox, the small-town girls who triggered the 19th century movement known as Spiritualism.
Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 5
The Winona Works Project provides insight into Winona’s workforce through the voices of those working in the community today. Through a series of i...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 06, 2013
- Length: 24:57
- Purchases: 1
Host Bill Bulbeck relives the history and times behind the music of the legendary "Dixie Hummingbirds". The one hour show includes all twelve track...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 47:39
- Purchases: 2
The Magna Carta is one of most important legal documents in history and it is now being digitized, translated, and uploaded online.
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
