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Making the future while surviving a war. In humanity’s never ending war stories, combat makes the news, but the macho gaze misses the complex reali...
Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
In 1942, FDR authorized the removal and relocation of anyone in certain military areas. The result? The incarceration of over 120,000 people of Jap...
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 30:15
Today’s guest is Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. St. Louis turns out...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural identities. Producer Jocelyn Robinson, who lives t...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Oct 16, 2019
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 2
The first woman "U.S. President" happened 100 years ago.
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 27:40
Which Roosevelt, you might ask? Find out as author Michael Wolraich reads from his bracing new book. Good cocktail hour fodder. Just a sample readi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 01:40
The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
What many people outside Massachusetts don't know is that the brother of reputed Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, Billy Bulger, was similarly powerfu...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 02:24
The Father of India was dead. Killed by a man he’d known for years. The year was 1948, the dawn of India’s independence from Great Britain. In his...
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 28:52
The TV personality and former journalist talks about his new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero."
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 49:30
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 06:07
Chile experimented with social reforms and suffered its own 9/11
- Added: Aug 28, 2008
- Length: 36:28
Life on the Duwamish, Segment 2
Bought by KLCC and The Nature Podcast
- Added: Jul 04, 2008
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 2
From: Chris Goldstein
Terry Aladjem of Harvard University discusses his new book that explores the psychology and philosophy of Vengence in America
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Jun 24, 2008
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Dave Brubeck on the importance of Cultural Exchange
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 19
Steve Hendricks dicusses his new book- The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Stuggle for the Soul of indian Country
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Jan 04, 2007
- Length: 29:31
- Purchases: 1