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The World's First Constitution
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORS supporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly look at the world's...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 09:20
Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 5
The Declaration Does Not Apply
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The founders left three groups out of the Declaration of Independence: Black Americans, Indigenous peoples, and women. This is how they responded.

Bought by WYAP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WVTF, WXDU, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 14
Symbols of Freedom
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Enamelled Figures from British India, Credit: Sandip Roy
India celebrates 75 years of Independence from Britain in a new exhibit called March to Freedom.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nixon at War: How Vietnam Led to Watergate
From: Nixon at War
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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (June 17th, 1972), writer, historian, and Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 host Kurt A...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Spokane Public Radio, KRCU Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 40
Constitution Day Special: The Constitution & The Bill of Rights
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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In honor of Constitution Day, Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on how our democracy works, shares the story of the two most important docum...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WITF, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 51:32
  • Purchases: 5
The Big Pond #05: Thomas Buergenthal – A Lucky Child
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Thomas Buergenthal saw the Nazi concentration camps through a child’s eyes. Luckily, he survived and later became a lawyer and eventually a judge o...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 22:54
  • Purchases: 3
The Whole World Is Watching: The Legacy of 1968
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
The Untold Story of The White Rose Resistance Movement with Jud Newborn Part 1
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, January 27, with the first half of a two-part...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 30:12
Day Four 22:00 (September 14, 2001)
From: Erika McGinty
Caption: Ludlow Street, NYC
Three days after 9/11, I run into a cop who is just up from Ground Zero to get cigarettes and something warm. Something real.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 09:20
Why Does Baltimore Have So Many Confederate Monuments?
From: Stefanie Mavronis
Caption: Baltimore's Lee-Jackson Monument, Credit: Stefanie Mavronis
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2015
  • Length: 11:32
This Week in History: Jack Kemp Announces Bid for President in 1988
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
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This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:40
This Week in History: Kennedy v. Carter in the New York Presidential Primary, 1980
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
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This week in history (March 23-March 29) takes a look back at Senator Ted Kennedy's landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in New York's primary on Ma...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:40
The Other 9/11: Part Two
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
The Temperament of FDR
From: With Good Reason
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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
The Conscience of Chester A. Arthur
From: Emily Gadek
Series: Footnote Podcast
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In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 15:33
Charles Gates Dawes, April 23, 1951
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Samuel Huntington, January 5, 1796
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The first President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, died today. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "What happened to George Washington?" W...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
Howard Zinn - A Memorial
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Howard Zinn’s productive insights into history came to an end with his death in January 2010. This edition of Radio Curious shares a previously not...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:34
Peace Talks Radio: JFK's Turn Towards Peace (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with James Douglass, author of "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters". Douglass makes the case for his theory th...

Bought by KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMXT and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 20
Dec. 28 - English: Alona on Woodrow Wilson
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Birthday piece

  • Added: Dec 28, 2005
  • Length: 02:09
English: Alona on Francisco Franco
From: Alona Suvórova
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Alona on this famous politician and statesman

  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 02:45