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Part 2 of our interview with "American Amnesia" author Jacob Hacker
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra continues his conversation with Jacob S. Hacker, author of "American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made ...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
They Don't Read Books: 100 Million U.S. Citizens
From: Teosson Wells
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Destroying Books Destroys Culture? This year, 100 million people in the U.S. did not read a book. The past is full of book burnings designed to cen...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 30:01
Mapping the KKK (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940. -Tracing the “e...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, KRDP, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Mapping the KKK (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940. -Tracing the “e...

Bought by WJCT, WRFA-LP, WFHB, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Attila the Hun
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Attila and the Huns clash with the gallic forces of Flavius Aetius, the last effective general of the Roman Empire...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:34:52
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Tye
More books have been written about Bobby Kennedy than most public figures in our history. Although he’s remembered as a fiery liberal, we easily ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Valiant Ambition
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nathaniel Philbrick
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Slaves Waiting For Sale (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How one particular painting of slaves waiting for sale changed things at the outbreak of the American Civil War; What was the real reason many Unio...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KRZA, WLPR , KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 12
Jane Mayer on the Hidden History of America’s Billionaires
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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How are the superrich’s priorities transforming American society? Journalist Jane Mayer’s new book is Dark Money, the Hidden History of the Billion...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
1986 Russian Banned Songs
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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These songs were banned on the airwaves in Russia back in the midst of the cold war. Find out why...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
"The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America" with Michael Eric Dyson. Recorded at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Schomburg tapes
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Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:14
The Politician and the Poet
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 16:04
Do You Believe Conspiracy Theories?
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO, DECEMBER 2015
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Well, you might believe some, of course. "Watergate" was a conspiracy, indeed.... Touching on a more recent national trauma, author Rob Brotherton ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Life of the Law #71: Space Law 2.0
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...

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


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 3
Lifting Scores Lowers Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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What we actually learn from school and why it might be at risk.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 11:15
  • Purchases: 1
Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation & Human Rights in the Conflict
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Eve Spangler
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...

Bought by KPVL and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Why We Owe: David Graeber on the Origins of Debt
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wiping out debt, Credit: TaxRebate.org.uk
Anthropologist David Graeber, author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” traces the history of debt to see what we can learn. His 2011 talk was recor...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Think you know what First Amendment says? Former ACLU legal director believes we've been getting it wrong
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Burt Neuborne, a civil liberties specialist who has argued many cases before the Supreme Court, believes the Court has misinterpreted the original ...

  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 22:35
Burn your bridges
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: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
1968 Bullock Museum
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
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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
Being "Post Protestant"
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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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
Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
Unspun Interviews Judyth Vary-Baker, Lee Harvey Oswalds Lover and Confidant
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Judyth Vary-Baker
Unspun talks with Lee Harvey Oswald's lover and confidant, Judyth Vary-Baker. Judyth is an author, artist, poet, teacher and social scientist. 35...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
America's War of Ideas
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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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
Hoosier: What's In a Name?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:01:02