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The Origins of Zionism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Front cover of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.", Credit: Credit: Macmillan Publishers
In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' W...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Plymouth Freeman and The Unfinished Revolution
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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On this episode, we explore the story of Plymouth Freeman, a black Patriot who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and d...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Women's History Month: Changing the Narrative, Women War and Peace II
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Making the future while surviving a war. In humanity’s never ending war stories, combat makes the news, but the macho gaze misses the complex reali...

Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Standing With Ukraine
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Standing With Ukraine!, Credit: Shepard Fairey
As Russian President Vladimir Putin conducts an unjustified invasion and starts his own war, We Stand with Ukraine- mixing reactions from around th...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Gene Goodsky
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hea...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
Spreading Global Freedom, or the Divine Right to Traffic Drugs, Guns, and People
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show today is with author Mark Driscoll, professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, whose new book is The Whites Are ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
168: The 442nd Infantry
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Once again we dive into a piece of history that should be explored in schools. Thousands of American born Japanese defied prejudice and hate to fig...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 2
Pushing Lincoln Left: Thaddeus Stevens as Revolutionary
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the radical and revolutionary Republican Thaddeus Stevens. While Lincoln continually capitulated to white interests in the North ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Big Oil, Mickey Mouse, and Fascism in Latin America: The Tango War
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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US oil barons chose Nazism over Mexican sovereignty; anti-Semite Henry Ford fails in the Amazon; the US State Dept formalizes political kidnapping;...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Undoing the Falsifications of History: A Crash Course with H. Bruce Franklin
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: April, 1967, Redwood City. Students picket at a napalm bomb factory. "The Harvey Richards Media Archive." © Paul Richards.
H. Bruce Franklin, was once a tugboat mate and then an Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. He is now and has been for more than half a ce...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Then They Came for Me
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Matthew Hockenos
Most of us are familiar with the Nazi concentration camp confession, “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Terror and The Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794.
What comes to the fore in this conversation with Rebecca Spang is that the French Revolution is likely best thought of as a civil war and in that ...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:37
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Program 2 ~ The Soundtrack in Vietnam
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The second hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Listen to the soundtrack of the Vietnam War as ...

Bought by KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 16
Remembering Vietnam: Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of "Culture Clique" we hear from civilians and veterans recounting their memories of the Vietnam War. A widow gives her perspective...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 27:40
Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Cahan
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
Constitutional Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt, author of “Allegiance”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...

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


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
Parsing Granfalloons: Douglas Wissing on Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Question, What do Afghanistan, Castration, and Karst have in common? They’re topics Journalist Douglas Wissing has investigated and written about. ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:06
Truth About America No. 3 - David Talbot on Democracy Now!
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Doug Bennett
Since we couldn't get David Talbot, founder of Salon.com and author of Devil's Chessboard, I borrowed portions of Amy Goodman's interview with him ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
Joseph Kanon and "Leaving Berlin"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

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


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Tet Offensive
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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William Ingalls new book tells the story of what one year in Viet Nam as a combat engineer was like. Based on 500 color slides taken by the author,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Inside the Islamic State
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re looking inside the Islamic State: as a phenomenon and as America’s latest enemy in the endless war on terror. Do we know who they are, or how...

Bought by KZYX and WCQS


  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2