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This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that cent...
- Added: Aug 13, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The Virtues of Aging
Considering the alternatives, growing older is really not all that bad. The frame of mind that we develop and carry with us a...
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In this edition of Radio Curious, we visit Dennis del Castillo and Mercedes Lu, two environmental activists from Peru. I met with them in Lima, Per...
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today
- Added: Mar 05, 2020
- Length: 01:01
Few moments in American history have held the tension of the early 1970s. The nation was fundamentally divided between the jaded counter-culture an...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The Greening of America & Opposing the System
The market economy often seems to have many inherent problems. Indeed, a Marxist historical view pre...
- Added: Sep 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Democracy in America
In 1831, a 25 year-old Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, trained as a lawyer, and preoccupied with democracy, came to the US t...
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...
Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America, stands as one of the lead political theorists of American history. His ward...
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, was born in 1830. She lived a quiet, non-public life until she was approximately 47 years old and then, for almost...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...
- Added: May 14, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 11:59
- Purchases: 2
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 6
Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 4
In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...
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- Added: Apr 23, 2017
- Length: 26:14
- Purchases: 1
Memorable moments from Peace Talks Radio programs spotlighting Nobel Prize winners Mairead Maguire, Ralph Bunche, Muhammad Yunus, Jody Williams, Ma...
Bought by KCNP, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
From: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...
- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 04:38
This is the full audio from the 1969 Wellesley College commencement speech delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton, then Hillary Rodham, the first ever...
Bought by KZYX, WHQR, Wisconsin Public Radio, MPR News Stations, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 12:02
- Purchases: 5
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
Unspun takes a look at Black History and current Civil Rights and equality issues in America with Pamela Spoto, local educator, activist and host o...
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 59:56
How two neighbors do and don't get along. A history of U.S.-Cuba relations.
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 05:00
This recording surveys Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia’s legacy of advocating tirelessly for the poor and disenfranchised. He successfully created pub...
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 14:42
