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Presidential Shortcuts-2016
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Young Hillary
"Presidential Shortcuts 2016" takes a historical look at elections from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama while comparing Donald Trump and Hillary Cl...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 1
Can A Song Sway A Vote? Presidential Campaign Songs Since Washington
From: KUNM
Caption: The official Flag of the President of the United States, Credit: Wiki, Creative Commons
Can a song sway a vote? Learn about the use of campaign music throughout the history of American Presidential campaigns since George Washington thr...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 19:19
The Moon and the Great Fire of Rome
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Everything you wanted to know about earth's companion. And the catastrophic fire that burned much of Rome in 64 AD...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:30:58
Trumbo: Offstage with Academy Award Nominated Best Actor Bryan Cranston & Director Jay Roach
From: Donna Granata
Caption: Bryan Cranston and Jay Roach, Credit: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:38
Campaign '68
From: American Public Media
Caption: Robert F. Kennedy
Many see similarities between the presidential election campaign of 2016 and one almost half a century earlier. The 1968 presidential campaign was...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KERA, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 26
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
Out of the Blocks: Penn-North (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Week in Iowa: The Rise and Fall of Rand Paul
From: Alexander Aldea
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I was granted an exclusive look inside Rand Paul's presidential campaign in Iowa from January 26th to February 3rd (the day he dropped out of the r...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 22:48
Honest Abe departs Illinois and tales of three Valentinos
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Abraham lincoln debates Stephen Douglas... and which Valentino is the real Valentine?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:38:59
TRUMBO -- Jay Roach Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jay Roach, San Francisco, CA 11/12/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jay Roach talks fear-based manipulation, Trumbo’s complex personality, and Louis C.K.’s rumpled collar,

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 15:35
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
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION -- Stanley Nelson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Stanley Nelson, San Francisco, CA 10/1/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Stanley Nelson talks history, irony, and delivering the unexpected.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:03
Out of the Blocks: Penn-North (mini version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
Caption: The intersection on Pennsylvania & North Avenues in Baltimore, Credit: Wendel Patrick
Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cannabis Radio News #51
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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In this special edition of the Cannabis Radio News host Brian Bahouth visits an end of prohibition celebration on the Burnside Bridge in Portland O...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Abroad (Ep. 23)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Anat Cohen is one of a growing number of Israeli jazz stars
Jazz may be an American-grown art form, but there are few places on the globe where the music hasn't found a home. This week, we go in search of th...

Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KMUN, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 24
The Ghosts of Fire Island
From: Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Forrest Carter
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
Precious Bodily Fluids
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with historian Andrew Case about the supposed Communist conspiracy that lay behind the fluoridation of water in the mid-20t...

Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 10:21
  • Purchases: 4
Sandy in Gowanus
From: Jamie Courville
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Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:22
Remembering the Rising Tide
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Jennifer Abraham-Cramer helps us understand the great Mississippi flood of 1927, using stories from survivors preserved by oral historians.

Bought by WOUB, KRZA, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 4
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
The Two Lives of Asa Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:13:55
All Mixed Up: Election Shortcuts (part two)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Karl Rove, Brian Williams, Richard Nixon's Head and others wrap the 2012 Electi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 59:44
Politics 101 BC: Voter fraud in the ancient world
From: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • 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