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PROMO - 1492: Columbus in American Memory
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: Title page of "History of the United States," Vol. 1, showing Columbus with sword and banner., Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for "1492: Columbus in American Memory," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Seeing Red
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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The Guys share a little-known story about that time Stalin coined the term “American Exceptionalism"

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 3
City Upon a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: "The great Bartholdi statue, Liberty enlightening the world," Currier & Ives, 1885., Credit: Library of Congress
President Obama recently invoked "American exceptionalism” in making the case for a military strike in Syria – a claim to special status for the U....

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KSRQ, KFOK-LPFM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Responsibility to Protect? A History of Humanitarian Intervention
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: “Save me from my friends!” Uncle Sam shelters Cuba, illustration from Puck, 1898.
With President Obama making the case for military action against Syria, BackStory takes on the history of humanitarian intervention. What are the o...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, NPR Illinois, WRPI, WMMT and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Amid drone strikes, empty stomachs and silence in Yemen
From: War News Radio
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When President Obama promised to scale back U.S. drone strikes targeting militants in Yemen, they stopped for a full seven weeks - only to start ag...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:31
Space Crafty
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Cameron Smith testing out his homemade, hand-sewn space suit, Credit: Julie Sabatier
The maker movement is taking off and the private space industry is booming right now. So, naturally, some fearless do-it-yourselfers are crafting t...

Bought by WDBM, Marfa Public Radio, Hark!, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 7
Spying on Americans: Not a New Activity Part One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a two-part 1999 conversation with Mike Frost, a retired Canadian spy and author of “Spy World:  Inside the Canadian and Amer...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
Dr van Dijck and Amazonia
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Many roads will be asphaled in the near future, Credit: Anton Foek
Dr van Dijck is a scientist from the University of Amsterdam researching the impact on the Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Ama...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 30:17
Caesarian Sunday - a storm in a Pimms cup?
From: Ben Weisz
Caption: Jesus Green, Credit: Ben Weisz
Every year, in a decades-old tradition, student drinking societies descend on Jesus Green in the heart of the English University city of Cambridge ...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 14:56
Bounding Manifest Destiny
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Peter Onuf talks with Amy Greenberg, an historian at Pennsylvania State University, on the rogue diplomat that ended the Mexican-American War ...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 11:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "I Try To Imagine Eva Braun"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Mapping the War
From: War News Radio
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The four Iraqis you’re about to hear tell a story of a remembered landscape. It’s a story about how war blackened the city of Baghdad, split its ne...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1
Nose as Destiny
From: Bending Borders
Series: Love is Complicated
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Plastic surgery is growing in Afghanistan and more and more women see it as the key to their fate.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Outer Voices, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 7
Searching for Sasha Krizhanovsky
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Sasha & Jessica, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
Melanie Burnett or How to Make Changes in Life that Matter
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Melanie, Credit: MB
Melanie is a young woman of Suriname in South America who now lives in Holland and is becoming an icon and inspiration for those who want to change...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
StoryCorps MVI: Justin and Deanne Cliburn
From: StoryCorps
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Army National Guard Specialist Justin Cliburn tells his wife, Deanne, about Ali, the young Iraqi he befriended during his service in Iraq.

Bought by KOSU and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
Slavic Wonders: Christmas with The Rose Ensemble
From: The Rose Ensemble
Caption: The Rose Ensemble, Credit: Michael Haug Photography
The Rose Ensemble is back with a free one-hour holiday special. Slavic Wonders is a stunning celebration of the season featuring some truly brillia...

Bought by KUAT, WVTF, WFMT Station Account, North Country Public Radio, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 46
On the Move
From: WAMU
Series: Latitudes
Caption: Commuting to Syria., Credit: Courtesy of Tom A. Peter
Moving up, moving home, and moving your body. In Latitudes’ On the Move special we’ll sample many varieties of mobility. From self-deportation to ...

Bought by KUOW and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:28
  • Purchases: 2
Baby chimpanzee rescue from South Sudan
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Annie Olivecrona in recording studio with Elleni Stephanou, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
It takes great courage to rescue orphaned baby chimpanzees from a country in the middle of a deadly war. But Annie Olivecrona flew from Kenya into ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
Latitude News Podcast #2 - Two Nations, Under Cod
From: Latitude News
Caption: You bet this story is about fish.
American cod fishermen are broke. Norwegian cod fishermen make $100,000/year. What's up with that?

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Andy Statman, Part Two
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In part 2 of our conversation with Andy Statman, we follow his musical path as he blends klezmer, jazz, blues, and bluegrass into a distinctive mu...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 37:49
  • Purchases: 4
The Forgotten Circassians
From: Julia Barton
Caption: Youth dance troupe at the Circassian Benevolent Association in Wayne, NJ., Credit: Julia Barton
As far as he knows, Zack Barsik is the first Circassian born in the US. He grew up in Passaic County, New Jersey, where Barsik’s father emigrated f...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
Earthquakes don't kill people — bad buildings do
From: Housing Revolution
Caption: Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, Credit: Dowser.org
Engineer and brickmason Dr. Elizabeth Hausler saves lives by making houses more earthquake resistant for little or no extra money. It just requires...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 18:40
  • Purchases: 1
Iraqi Kurdistan: On Oil and Agriculture
From: War News Radio
Caption: A farmer in Merikegia, a village in Iraqi Kurdistan., Credit: Rachel Stacy
Iraqi Kurdistan, once known for its rich soil, is rapidly becoming identified with its rich oil. War News Radio’s Amy DiPierro explains how these t...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 3

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