PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 03:08
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
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Tsianina Lomawaima talks about the enduring legacy of Indian
boarding schools, which sought to forcibly integrate tribal children into wh...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
BackStory editor Robert Armangol explores the legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a plan to save Cuban children from communist indoctrination by leaving...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 12:09
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Brian Balogh speaks with former Senator Fred Harris about the commission convened by President Lyndon Johnson in the dark days of the 1967 Detroit ...
Bought by Radio Catskill, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC and more
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 10:24
- Purchases: 6
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Producer Jesse Dukes has the story of some five hundred families who were made to leave their homes in an area supposedly “pristine and free of hum...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 2
The Melungeons were a mixed-race group in southern Appalachia with an elusive history. Now some Melungeon descendants are looking to DNA testing fo...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WTJU
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 16:56
- Purchases: 2
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 06:07
Examining how unpopular wars are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 27, 2008
- Length: 08:00
Examining how social safety nets are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 24, 2008
- Length: 08:09
Examining how health care is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 15, 2008
- Length: 09:17
Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
Examining how science and technology are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:52
Examining how identiy politics is playing out in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 08:06
Examining the rhetoric of the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes.
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
The greatest hazard to navigation on Canada's west coast, then and now.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 16, 2007
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
A long forgotten hip-hop scene is unearthed in the unlikeliest of places.
Bought by 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Oct 29, 2005
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1