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National Writers Series: John U. Bacon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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John U. Bacon talks about his latest book, "The Great Halifax Explosion."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Prisoners of War
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Inmates at LBJ
During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American military prison on the outskirts of Saigon called Long Binh Jail. But LBJ wasn’t for capt...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 18:19
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 93: Lavender Scare
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Helen James grew up in a military family – her great great grandfather fought in the Civil War, her father in WWI, and her uncles in WWII. So when ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 24:39
The Untold Story of Charles Lindbergh's Complex Political Legacy
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Art & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum for a com...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:51
POLICING THE NATION’S CAPITAL
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 15:30
  • Purchases: 2
Daze of Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
'Camp Algiers,' New Orleans' Forgotten WWII Internment Camp, Part II
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Immigration buildings at what was 'Camp Algiers' circa 1916., Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION, GIFT OF MR. AND MRS. PETER BERNARD, ACC. NO. 1984.112.228 / HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
Tripod New Orleans at 300 returns with Part II of its series on Camp Algiers, an internment camp that detained Latin Americans during World War II....

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 11:48
The WWII Internment Camp, 'Camp Algiers', Part I
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Quarantine Station in Algiers La., Credit: The Historic New Orleans Collection, acc. no. 1995.19 / Historic New Orleans Collection
TriPod New Orleans at 300 returns with Part I of a two-part series about a World War II era internment camp in Algiers that held those suspicious o...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 12:02
My Vietnam War - During, After, and Way After
From: WGCU
Caption: Michael Hirsh tells his story of being an Army Combat Correspondent in Vietnam.
Punta Gorda resident and WGCU reporter Michael Hirsh shares a first-hand account of his Vietnam War experiences, including audio recordings he made...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Follow the Moon
From: Greg Barron
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A story of the lives-- the torture, starvation, forced marriages...and fear of Cambodians (Khmer) forced into the labor camps and Killing Fields cr...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 56:40
Program 2 ~ The Soundtrack in Vietnam
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The second hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Listen to the soundtrack of the Vietnam War as ...

Bought by KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 16
Calling Out the Ancestors: My Family's Lingering Civil War Ghosts
From: Saro Lynch-Thomason
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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
TimeTravel: Life Aboard The Tall Ship - U.S. Brig Niagara
From: A. Emily Ralph
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In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 10:04
Private Price's War: The Long, Long Trail
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Walter Price, 314th Combat Engineers
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
Immigrants Gardens War Death
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Funeral service in front of Barrett's Market 1942
A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...

  • Added: May 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
Trapped on the Wrong Side of History
From: Richard Paul
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A Japanese-American woman trapped in Japan in WWII

Bought by KGOU, KUER, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WCPN and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 6
The Triangle Seagals
From: Mary Samouelian
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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
Peace Greats (Part 1) - Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chavez & Huerta, Mandela, and King
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This is a Peace Talks radio special… from the archive of the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. We’re calling it Peace Great...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 11: Dragonman - Behind the Guns
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:13

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