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A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...
- Added: Sep 10, 2023
- Length: 56:42
2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU
- Added: Jul 30, 2023
- Length: 55:31
- Purchases: 5
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we celebrate the 100th birthday of the League of Women Voters, the LWV. The League is a nonpartisan political ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 06:02
30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 21:05
Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 58:56
March 31, 2017 marks the centennial of the transfer of three Caribbean islands from Denmark to the United States. But are Virgin Islanders US Citi...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 04:59
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In 1942, the government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese living in the U.S. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 26, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The first woman "U.S. President" happened 100 years ago.
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 27:40
This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 04:40
An exploration of what we remember and why.
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 24:24
Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
Until September 11, 2001, The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest workplace disaster in the history of New York City. Davi...
- Added: Sep 03, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
One thing to bear in mind as we approach the end of ‘Confederate History month’ -- the slaughter of the civil war failed in many ways to solve the ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Matt Frei looks at how the space industry helped racial integration. 40 years on from those first steps on the moon, Morgan Watson was one of the f...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
BEYOND THE SCARS: A perspective from the survivors of America?s race wars; author Roger Gottlieb, Liberating Faith & the memories of a survivo...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WYSO, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Jan 19, 2006
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 3
