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Professor Emeritus R. David Edmunds is the author of 12 books about Native Americans. His newest title is “Voices in the Drum,” a book that feature...
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 09:12
Jake Tapper regularly interviews world leaders and other newsmakers, but he also brings his knowledge of politics and the past to his political thr...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 10:25
The always fun Lisa Scottoline is back with her 37th novel, LOYALTY, a historical novel about the beginnings of the Mafia on the island of Sici...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 09:51
Steven Simon, author of seven books, is currently a Fellow at MIT (Mass. Inst. Tech.) after spending nearly 40 years specializing in the Middle Eas...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 10:27
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 19, 2022
- Length: 10:53
- Purchases: 1
RIVER OF THE GODS by bestselling historian Candice Millard is her fourth book. Known for her meticulously researched work, her newest book is an ad...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 10:08
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
“I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.”
Bill McKibben is an educator, en...
- Added: Jun 03, 2022
- Length: 09:53
In WAYS & MEANS. Lincoln and his Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, author Roger Lowenstein not only spells out how each side in very diff...
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 10:26
"THE STEAL. The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It," co-authored by Mark Bowden, concentrates in week-by-week, sta...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
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The first Native American Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, spoke to the activists who first occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay in 1969. T...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Bestselling, award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick's "Travels with George" is a blended account of two road trips separated by about 230 year...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 08:47
Flynn Berry’s third thriller, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, is “Northern Spy.” It's a thriller about the contemporary IRA, and two sisters who find the...
- Added: May 20, 2021
- Length: 09:56
Inaccurate polling… Split-ticket results… Denial of election results by large numbers of Republican voters and members of Congress...
There have...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 01:19:42
The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.
The latest:
"It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Apr 10, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 59:11
- Purchases: 1
Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School.
Also known as the...
- Added: Jul 05, 2019
- Length: 09:56
Elaine Weiss’s "The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote" is the true story of the suffragettes. These are the female leaders who—in the f...
- Added: May 27, 2019
- Length: 09:55
New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...
- Added: Nov 17, 2018
- Length: 09:55
Pulitzer Prize-winning Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times, is one of America’s best known and most award-winning biogra...
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 09:20
Wages and the living wage is our topic this program. Recently, there has been quite a bit of attention given to what we earn, the disparity of wage...
- Added: Apr 01, 2018
- Length: 51:26
Nate Blakeslee is an investigative reporter who usually writes about politics in Texas. In “American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession i...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 09:52
Once the white man came to India to lift the natives out of their heathen darkness (and take their jute, iron and Kohinoor diamond). But in the fil...
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
If nothing else, the Russian Revolution reveals the uses of history for ideological purposes. For Russia’s Communism is the counterclaim to Capital...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Oct 25, 2017
- Length: 55:51
- Purchases: 1
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 58:10