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Good Seed Bad Seed Quanah Parker
From: sarah parker
Series: Good Seed Bad Seed
Caption: Quanah Parker, Credit: Texas State University
Middle School Students at Roots and Wings Community School interviewed, Quanah Parker, a relative of the Legendary Comanche War Chief Quanah Parker.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
March of the Bonus Army
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, WRPI, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:56
  • Purchases: 5
Chapter 7 - Getting Religion on the East Side
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 21:38
HN- Thomas Nast
From: Conor Bentley
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this episode, we take an in-depth look at political cartoonist, Thomas Nast.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:42
1944 FDR's Second Bill of Rights Speech
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Can and should the government guarantee economic security?

Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 6
The Electoral College's Dirty History
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Akhil Reed Amar
Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the electoral college discourages voting, lessens the power of the states, a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Third Party Bid to be President
From: Prairie Public
Caption: Fit as a Bull Moose
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose bid to be president. This program looks back at Roosevelt's career and how...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUAF Public Radio, WRPI, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 20:07
  • Purchases: 4
The “Veep”
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 4
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was many things: a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate for women’s rights and sexual freedom, and a ma...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 8
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6
The United Auto Workers Union: Its Effect on America
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Governing the Occupation
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City Mayor
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
Caption: Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the National Press Club, Sep. 6, 2011, Credit: Al Teich
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, assessed the state of U.S. security in the 10 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks at a National Pre...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
Hannibal Hamlin (First Lincoln V.P.) July 4, 1891
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
From the National Press Club
From: National Press Club
Caption: General James Jones, Credit: NPC
Former National Security Advisor James Jones speaks to the Press Club about challenges facing the United States and the recent military mission tha...

  • Added: May 21, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Go Vote, Sister Suffragette
From: Lauren Peterson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Less than one hundred years ago, women voted for the first time in a national election. Two months ago, Lauren Peterson headed to the polls for a s...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Clean Water Action & Labor Heritage Foundation
From: Charles Showalter
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Tom Hoffman and Nathan Sooy of Clean Water Action (cleanwateraction.org) discuss how Marcellus Shale drilling affects water sources. Then Darryl M...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
The First Woman by Lynn Miller
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
Series: Theatre from the Land of Enchantment
Caption: Victoria Woodhull
As a contribution to Women’s History Month, we travel with Lynn C. Miller on an excursion into the Archive of Forgotten Women where we encounter Vi...

Bought by KUNM, KUNM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 38:52
  • Purchases: 4
Funding For The Arts in Minnesota
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Today on Don't Cha Know we discuss a topic that is very much at the forefront these days. Funding for the arts in Minnesota. It's a panel discussio...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 01:07:25
Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

Bought by WDDE, WAMU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 81
Ivory Coast: One Village Votes
From: WILL
Caption: The streets of Abidjan, Credit: Carol Spindel
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
Retired Representative Larry Haws
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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State Representative Larry Haws from St. Cloud has worked in public service for over 40 years. His list of accomplishments and awards include an A...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2010
  • Length: 29:58
The Rich Are Getting Richer
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While the middle class in the US is struggling to survive, the rich keep getting richer.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:01