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It was the 1960s – and throughout the United States, opposition to the War in Vietnam was growing. The Draft forced young men to make a choice abo...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jun 23, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A Japanese-American woman trapped in Japan in WWII
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 25:05
- Purchases: 6
In Chapel Hill, there’s a farm that’s much more than just a spot to grow food: it’s a gathering place for refugees, including a group of Karen teen...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 27:14
- Purchases: 1
Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Author William Doyle reads the first of two passages from his book, PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy.....
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 01:40
California lawyer and newspaper publisher Dat Huy Phan was a 27-year-old high school teacher in Saigon when the city fell to North Vietnam in April...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 03:47
Angela Nguyen is going away to college and leaving behind everything she loves. Her dad did the same when he left Vietnam. But unlike her, he left ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:49
Storyteller Graham Shelby is thinking about the WWII veterans in his family when he serves as guest of honor at an unusual Christmas party - one he...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 12:29
Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
A three-part Peace Talks Radio program this time features a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; also remarks from the woman who helped hide Anne...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 2
Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with author Shizue Seigel about her book In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internm...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
Everyday, it seems war is in the news. Headlines report on wars from around the globe. But what happens when a war ends? Today, the group called...
- Added: Mar 03, 2014
- Length: 04:45
A UK author who has lived in China for decades tells a true-crime tale of the unsolved murder of a young British girl in 1937 in colonial Peking, a...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 1
Indians don’t just happen to be good at math and science. The effects and fears of the Cold War, and the united leadership of India and the United ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 29:42
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 8
Japanese-American shows uncommon courage on and off the basketball court during WWII.
- Added: Jul 01, 2012
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 2
When he finally went home to Viet Nam, he began using a name from an I.D. card he had purchased: Ho Chi Minh ... which means "bringer of light." An...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:00
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Dec 06, 2010
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 1
On 7 November, Myanmar will hold its first elections in 20 years. This could tear the border regions between Myanmar and China in ethnic conflict. ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 02:57
Per capita, Laos is the most bombed country on earth. For nine years, every day, around the clock, the US rained bombs down on much of the country....
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 04:44
Two survivors of Japanese American internment describe how they went from being seen as model citizens to being seen as the enemy. In the story of ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Jun 04, 2010
- Length: 20:30
- Purchases: 9
A Dartmouth student travels to Vietnam to document in sculpture the legacy of Agent Orange.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 20, 2009
- Length: 07:13
- Purchases: 1
A Veteran's Day flashback to two tales of survival from one historic battle
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, KUT, and KUOW
- Added: Oct 19, 2009
- Length: 10:36
- Purchases: 5
