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Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 19:47
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 01:01:12
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:20
82-year-old retired trauma surgeon Bill Meffert, who cared for wounded soldiers in Vietnam, reflects on that bloody experience and the words of a p...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 35:44
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
This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...
Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 5
In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
A post- post-9/11 podcast. This episode examines New Jersey's Empty Sky Memorial & Bruce Springsteen's song “Empty Sky”
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 13:53
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
An examination of President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and the strength of his leadership during the U.S. Civil War.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Miep Gies, the Austrian woman whose family protected the family of Anne Frank during World War II and who found Anne's diary scattered on the floor...
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: 19:01
