PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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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
Growing up as the daughter of a Marine, C.J. Scarlet dreamed of following in her father’s footsteps. When she enlisted in 1981, she was part of the...
Bought by KTEP, KWMU St. Louis, Texas Public Radio, WVTF, RadioStPete Florida and more
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
When Edward Field was in a plane crash during World War II, an act of altruism saved his life. Field – who grew up gay and Jewish in New York – fou...
Bought by WTIP, Texas Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
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
This presentation is a collaboration between radio dramatists in three states, and students in New York and Texas. "Over Here, Over There" adapts o...
Bought by KALH
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 01:40:04
- Purchases: 1
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
On top of the highest hill in San Francisco is the Mount Davidson Cross -- a monument to the Armenian Genocide. Friday, April 24th marks 100 years ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 14:15
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Culture Clique, we meet Charley Goddard. He is the newest character brought to life by the Minnesota Historical Society's Histor...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:00:40
- Purchases: 1
This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 26:31
A Generation Putin *extra*: Audio postcard from a military jeep ride in the former Soviet stronghold of Balaklava, Ukraine.
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 3
It’s the year 1942. The United States has just joined the war in the Pacific. On the home front, the FBI is investigating and interning Japanese-Am...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
What happens when an anti capitalist protestor and a right wing christian performer meet on the streets of New York City during the 2004 Republican...
- Added: Mar 24, 2005
- Length: 03:39