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It is estimated that 30,000 Hessian soldiers fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Where did they come from and...
- Added: Mar 25, 2019
- Length: 23:47
On the next all-NEW Snap..."Override." You think you have your plan all laid out, until someone or something comes along and messes everything up.
- Added: Oct 10, 2018
- Length: 53:57
A healing home for war vets.
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 02:30
Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 4
Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 27:48
From the Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, a musical tribute to the Maine Legislature's recent corporate welfare givin...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 02:56
As Bath Iron Works ships become more sophisticated in their use of sonar devices, we recall the 40 million dollar Maine Legislature approved tax br...
- Added: Feb 11, 2018
- Length: 09:56
Elected representatives have taken a new approach to legislating. Only their own district or cell or voting area can receive information from there...
- Added: Feb 03, 2018
- Length: 01:25
Freud never quite cornered the market on Conscience. After two weeks spent with the Burns/Novick film ‘The Vietnam War”, the complexity of conscie...
- Added: Oct 01, 2017
- Length: 05:56
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're going back in time! I visit with Betty Metts the current president of The Oregon-Jerusalem Historical So...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 20:40
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 08:19
A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 18:59
'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...
- Added: Apr 01, 2017
- Length: 07:35
A Japanese-American woman trapped in Japan in WWII
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 25:05
- Purchases: 6
With 65 million living as refugees and migrants, the world has never had more forcibly displaced people than it does now. In this 45-minute documen...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 48:05
An army whistle-blower returns to combat during the height of the surge in Iraq, now surrounded me hostile comrades. We then look at the morality o...
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 46:14
As a new U.S. administration takes hold, with talk of new military action against ISIS in the Middle East, and the reinstatement of Bush-era tortur...
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 45:50
I worked in a refugee camp in Thessaloniki, Greece this summer and put together an hour long piece meant to humanize the refugee crisis.
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Bought by KVSC, KPIP-LP, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2017
- Length: 55:26
- Purchases: 3
Herb Pownall wanted to see the world. So he boarded a ship bound for Europe…along with 800 cows.
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 19:18
- Purchases: 2
Nick Ut is one of the Associated Press’ most renowned photographers. As he celebrates 50 years with AP, there is one image from his days in Vietnam...
- Added: Aug 20, 2016
- Length: 05:00
The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...
- Added: Jul 17, 2016
- Length: 36:27
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2016
- Length: 07:16
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
