PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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A tale about how Portland, Oregon abused and degraded the river that runs through it, and the current campaign to reclaim this stretch of river as ...
- Added: Jan 30, 2023
- Length: 54:05
All political roads lead to Georgia these days. The Peach State was so pivotal in the 2020 election of Joe Biden and the 2021 runoff election of tw...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 32:50
"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 04:00
We're marking Labor Day with a special episode about a group of women in Appalachia who defied stereotypes to get better living conditions for thei...
Bought by WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUHF, and KOWS
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 54:25
- Purchases: 4
It’s been 20 years since the Anoka State Hospital closed its doors. It was replaced by a newer facility for those dealing with mental illness in th...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Sep 26, 2019
- Length: 05:26
- Purchases: 1
Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to get him into...
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 20:21
- Purchases: 3
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Avis Jones-Deweever, Executive Director of the National Council of Negro Women, the nation's oldest coalitio...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 28:25
- Purchases: 3
In transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy, systems must decide who to exclude from public office. What do you do with those who, without ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 02:00
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
An exploration of American racism as cultural and commercial mass-phenomenon, covering the "reincarnation" of the Klan as a fraternal movement whic...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 57:56
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 06, 2008
- Length: 07:21
- Added: May 06, 2008
- Length: 07:41
Documentary on national security policy and civil liberties
- Added: Jun 27, 2006
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 2
A look a life for the elderly in the years before Social Security was created
Bought by WBEZ, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, KVMR, and WSHU
- Added: Mar 30, 2005
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 5
How does a public space fail? Can good intentions separated from reality border on negligence?
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPFA, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KALW, WZBC and more
- Added: Jan 18, 2005
- Length: 32:00
- Purchases: 9