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Radio Cloak and Dagger
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
Caption: FBI Agent, Credit: Camp DeWolfe
On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the recently declassified story of a covert radio station built by the FBI on Long Island to deceive the Naz...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:30
Ithaca’s Tuskegee Airman
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the story of Verdelle Louis Payne from Ithaca in Tompkins County, who joined the Army Air Forces during WWII...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
The Big Ponder #35: Hidden History
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Thank you message from Veterans
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
Bois Forte Veteran Series - George Brown
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Gene Goodsky
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hea...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Memorial Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: General Patton; Topic 2: Race of Aces; Topic 3: Pacific Wrecks

Bought by KTXK, KTNA, WYPL, RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 8
Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
Getting into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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-In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians and veterans of the war explore the story of the ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WDSE, WNMU-FM, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Morehead State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Candice Millard, author of "Hero of The Empire"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with bestselling author Candice MIllard about Winston Churchill's early exploits.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:55
Museum seeks WWII Navy pilots
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A plane recovered from Lake Michigan, Credit: John Davies
To accompany a documentary screening, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is searching for Navy pilots who trained on Lake Michigan during World...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 4
World Histories of Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Two history books are profiled that both provide a timeline of history for peace periods, peace leaders, key philosophers, important turning points...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 3
Stephan Talty, author of "Agent Garbo"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Stephan Talty about "Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day."

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:35
Voices of The Past: Winona During Wartime - Part Eight
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you our conclusion of Voices of the Past Cemetery Discovery Walk 2014, sponsored by the Winona County H...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 13:42
Voices of The Past: Winona During Wartime - Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique, we continue our coverage of the Voices of The Past Woodlawn Cemetery Discovery Walk 2014 sponsored by The Winona County Hi...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 19:00
Voices of The Past: Winona During Wartime - Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you part one Voices of the Past Cemetery Discovery Walk 2014, sponsored by the Winona County Historical...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 16:35
"Boys in the Boat," Part 2
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
Caption: Daniel James Brown
We continue our conversation with Daniel James Brown, author of "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Ber...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:50
1968 Bullock Museum
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
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Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:08
Tyler Dean Revolutionary War 3 Battle Documentary
From: Dean B
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A short documentary about the battle of Saratoga, Yorktown, and Trenton in the American Revolution.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 03:26
Centenary Edition: WWI Living History Project
From: will everett
Caption: Frank Buckles in 1918, last living U.S. veteran of WWI.
Interviews with the last surviving veterans of World War One. Hosted by Walter Cronkite and Will Everett.

Bought by KFCF FM, WYAP, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WVTF, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:53:27
  • Purchases: 27
America's War of Ideas
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In the run up to another war in the Middle East, after stalemate in Afghanistan and Iraq, what is it in the American DNA that makes us think it it ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
Meet Charley Goddard
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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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
Women on the Homefront
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh interviews historian Rebecca Plant about war veterans and “mom-ism.”

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
The Jane Fonda
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Reporter Jake Ryan follows the rabbit hole to uncover the truth behind a sandwich and a controversy that's been around since the Vietnam War.

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 2
"Ingelore," Speaking Without Hearing
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with filmmaker Frank Stiefel, about his documentary “Ingelore,” which chronicles the life of his mother, Inge...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:01