PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

34 results


Piece image
The second special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio in December 2023, this speci...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Shall Furnish Medicine Finale and a story from above the Arctic Circle.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
Episodes from two of Wyoming Public Media’s Award-winning podcasts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...

Bought by KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis, WRKF, WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:32
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: United States Army veteran Maceo Snipes. He served in World War II, and was murdered shortly after returning home from service., Credit: Courtest of Raynita Snipes Johnson.
Raynita Snipes Johnson remembers her great-uncle, US Army veteran Maceo Snipes, a Black man lynched for voting in 1946.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:10:53
Caption: Image is an actual photo taken by a ghost tour guest inside the asylum cemetery. Could this be the infamous "Gassy Ghost"?
"America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, reveals actual, untouched recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced by guests of her ha...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
150 years ago, two girls crossed the Missouri River trying to escape a life of slavery. In the summer of 2016, Barry Jurgensen set out on a 500-mil...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Barbed Wire and Flowers: A daughter’s story of her perception and relationship with her father. He, a survivor of the holocaust, and she, his adul...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Lake Superior Project, Credit: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
The Maple Hill Cemetery is a small cemetery outside of Grand Marais, Minnesota. It's a lovely place, located high on a hill overlooking Lake Superi...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ludlow Street, NYC
Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 09:20
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
On July 17th, 1981 The Kansas City Hyatt Hotel Skywalk fell onto the unsuspecting attendants at one of the hotel’s popular Tea Dances. 114 people w...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 10:26
Piece image
In the 70s and 80s, gay men from Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Baltimore would vacation on Delaware’s beaches. Rehoboth, with gay-accented bars ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 09:48
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Piece image
This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 24:58
Piece image
When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, WFHB, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Piece image
When faced with a court order to integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed its entire school system in 1959 rather than integrate. Now, fo...

Bought by WNYC, WRIR, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WJAB and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 10
Piece image
Memorial Day can be tough for veterans - especially those who've served in combat. For some, the tributes and ceremonies exacerbate their struggle ...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John Haynes, a Protestant, from Sydney, Australia, was cut out of three wills for marrying Helen, a Catholic, in 1962, Credit: John and Helen Haynes
Mixed marriages - family fatwas and ruptured romance due to religious bigotry in Australia, told through compelling personal stories. Winner, GOLD ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 53:20
Piece image
Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 19
Piece image
Edward R. Murrow called them “ The Lost Class of 1959”. The kids who had nowhere to go when some Virginia public schools closed their doors rather...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Breves cápsulas testimoniadas de los hechos macabros sucedidos en el Calabozo, San Vicente. El Salvador.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 20:39