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We talk with V, formerly known as Eve Ensler about her collection of essays and poems, Reckoning.
Then in honor of Black History Month, we listen ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 59:03
American Veteran: This Black World War II aviator first experienced racial integration in a POW camp
From: American Homefront ProjectSeries: 2022 American Veteran
When he was 11 years old, Harold Brown decided he wanted to be a pilot. He flew 30 missions during World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the ...
Bought by KTEP, WTIP, KUT, Texas Public Radio, WVTF and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 26:16
A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 18:59
Richard Mosse’s images of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, are shot on film which is no longer made. In the past, it ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 05:37
The first curator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection talks with his friend and fellow war veteran about the collection and his service.
Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMUU-LP, and WEZU
- Added: Nov 14, 2016
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
Command Sergeant Major Roy Wilkins and Retired Army 1st Sergeant Keith Melick, who first crossed paths at war in 2004, talk about reuniting in a VA...
Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 3
William and Yvonne Russell talk about life after his return from Vietnam; and how they dealt with PTSD before the term existed.
- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 04:45
Staff Sergeant Daniel Hodd and his mother, Evelyn, talk about Daniel's decision to put aside a promising career as a pianist in order to join the M...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
Portland, Maine is home to one of the largest Southern Sudanese refugee communities in the United States, many of whom settled in the city after fl...
Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 2
Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 2
Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.
Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUOW, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2006
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 9
An audio postcard of the memorial service and an interview with niece Rebecca de Mabior.
- Added: Aug 26, 2005
- Length: 11:20
