PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 17, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School.
Also known as the...
- Added: Jul 05, 2019
- Length: 09:56
New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...
- Added: Nov 17, 2018
- Length: 09:55
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This is a personal story of the Vietnam War with Lynne Lorine Ludwick author of The Box.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 1
The Holocaust during World War II -- Horrifying images and stories that have come to symbolize an international conflict.
What the story doesn’t t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
The novel, Running the Rift, follows the life of young Jean Patrick. He’s a gifted Rwandan boy. He knows that running will be his future. What he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 19:35
- Purchases: 1
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 06:26
An author many times over and former editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, a major publishing company, Michael wrote this biography, “Ike: An Americ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2013
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...
Bought by KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Portraits of Japanese-Americans Who "Stayed Behind" during World War II
- Added: Jul 17, 2007
- Length: 06:27