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On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you part one Voices of the Past Cemetery Discovery Walk 2014, sponsored by the Winona County Historical...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 16:35
We continue our conversation with Daniel James Brown, author of "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Ber...
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 29:50
Brown discusses his bestseller about an underdog American rowing team and their quest for gold at at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 29:47
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
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: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
As early as the 1940s, Admiral Hyman Rickover saw the need for radical change in America’s submarine serice. Without his perseverance the Cold War ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 21:31
- Purchases: 1
Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 58:08
A short documentary about the battle of Saratoga, Yorktown, and Trenton in the American Revolution.
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 03:26
Interviews with the last surviving veterans of World War One. Hosted by Walter Cronkite and Will Everett.
Bought by KFCF FM, WYAP, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WVTF, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 01:53:27
- Purchases: 27
In the run up to another war in the Middle East, after stalemate in Afghanistan and Iraq, what is it in the American DNA that makes us think it it ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 58:37
On December 20, 1943, a severely damaged American bomber struggles in its flight over war-torn Germany. The 21-year-old pilot had his hands full wi...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
On this episode of Culture Clique, we meet Charley Goddard. He is the newest character brought to life by the Minnesota Historical Society's Histor...
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- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:00:40
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh interviews historian Rebecca Plant about war veterans and “mom-ism.”
Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 2
Reporter Jake Ryan follows the rabbit hole to uncover the truth behind a sandwich and a controversy that's been around since the Vietnam War.
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 07:37
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Aaron Sheehan-Dean explains to host Brian Balogh how the idea of “home” motivated Confederate soldiers, and strengthened their resolve to...
Bought by Radio Newark, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balough explores the meaning of "wartime" with Mary Dudziak, an historian at Emory University's School of Law. Well after V-J Day, Dudz...
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KBRP Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 4
Indians don’t just happen to be good at math and science. The effects and fears of the Cold War, and the united leadership of India and the United ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 29:42
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Matthew White about his book, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things, which documents, analyzes, and ran...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Ancient Greek and post-modern verse.
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
A review of the intriguing WWII documentary.
- Added: Apr 25, 2012
- Length: 01:59
Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 04:00
My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 13, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Officially the last American to be killed in World War I. In a cruel twist of fate, Henry Gunther "cheated life" by dying needlessly on a field in ...
Bought by WRVG - Georgetown College Student Radio and KTRL
- Added: Oct 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
When the American Civil War ended, Southern veterans faced the same shattered family lives and economic hardships that U.S. war veterans face today.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
