PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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The entire 1951 movie is narrated -- and commented on -- in this sound-rich radio show...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 02:36:58
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
How did the sixth James get first in line? It happened when his job description changed from Scottish king to monarch of all Britain...
- Added: Sep 16, 2016
- Length: 02:25:25
A new virtual reality video game puts players into one of the Twin Towers during 9/11. Players try to escape the flaming towers. The developers d...
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 07:57
One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....
- Added: Aug 21, 2015
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 2
San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:01
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
A team of proofreaders in Virginia has just wrapped up the three-year job of digitizing the papers of the Founding Fathers. They say ending the pro...
Bought by KENW, WABE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 4
The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...
Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
A Facebook selfie or Instagrammed lunch is a far cry from what used to be required to take a picture. With expensive, slow technology, most photos ...
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 3
Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 02:27
A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:47
As the 100th Anniversary of the Lyric Center for the Arts passes the Lyric Center celebrates new life and a bright future. Maddi Frick recently tou...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 09:19
- Purchases: 1
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 04:10
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, more than 50,000 rescue and recovery workers converged at the World Trade Center. Among them were the 62 members o...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:55
Most Civil War scholarship focuses on generals and their armies. But historians at a recent conference explored how water, heat, and horses affecte...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
The Battleship Missouri is best known as the site where World War II officially ended on Sept. 2, 1945. Veterans share tales about the ship, nickn...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Delta College Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KVMR
- Added: Dec 06, 2006
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 4
