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Getting Into Vietnam (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Memorial Day shows
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In this episode of With Good Reason’s NEH-funded documentary series on the Vietnam War, the story of the draft -- who it ensnared, who escaped, an...

Bought by KMUN and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
"Building a Wall": Church and State in America (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFAE, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Invisible Founders (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. Justin Reid tell...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Invisible Founders (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. Justin Reid tell...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, WVAS, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Trial of Liz Borden
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Lizzy Borden had an axe...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:42:35
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible - Encore Edition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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“Mirrors of Privilege” is a film and conversation guide designed to help bridge the gap between good intentions and meaningful change. From Shakti ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Japanese Internment Camp, Credit: Densho Archives
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...

Bought by WCPN, KVNF, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
My Life, My Love, My Legacy - Coretta Scott King
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Interview with Barbara Reynolds,founding editor of USA Today on her 2017 book My Life, My Love, My Legacy biography of Coretta King, condensed from...

Bought by WMMT and WVAS


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 2
Occupy: 5 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Campaign '68
From: American Public Media
Caption: Robert F. Kennedy
Many see similarities between the presidential election campaign of 2016 and one almost half a century earlier. The 1968 presidential campaign was...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KERA, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 26
How to Spoil a Historic Town
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors discuss whether they should approve a Dollar General box store in the heart of Georgetown's historic dist...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:44:41
Refusenik Love
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Like many Soviet defectors, Olga left a life behind when she emigrated to the U.S. in the early 80's. This episode of ARRVLS tells the story of lov...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 1
Gunther Schuller, RIP: A Life Inside Music
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Schuller, who died last week at 89, was a prodigious, captivated, sometimes cantankerous prisoner of every kind of modern music: between Beethoven ...

Bought by KMUW and WFMT Station Account


  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Along Saint Claude
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: Eppy Livaccari, Credit: Jonathan Traviesa
Gentrification is just the newest name for the changes happening in New Orleans' neighborhoods downriver from the French Quarter. Along Saint Claud...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teachings From Turtle Island - Hour Four
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island
This is the fourth installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten prog...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 3
The Mikie Show #65, Paul
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s the sixty-fifth time we’ve gotten together for a half-hour of top-notch entertainment! Need we say more? Okay, if you insist. This episode we ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Are there tunnels under the loop?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
Caption: A snippet of Chicago’s Deep Tunnel, Credit: Erik Nelson Rodriguez/The Illustrated Press
A Curious Citizen had a hunch there might be tunnels lurking beneath Chicago’s downtown. She had no idea how right she was.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Red Lake, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend during summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 10:12
  • Purchases: 2
Peace Corps Voices
From: Amy Mayer
Caption: A multimedia documentary project--www.peacecorpsvoices.org
A one-hour documentary special in honor of the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary, Peace Corps Voices uses historic recordings and contemporary intervie...

Bought by KALW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRPI, KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 12
The 100 Year Legacy of the Big Burn
From: Amanda Loder
Caption: The Aftermath of the 1910 Big Burn, Credit: US Forest Service
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
The Myths And Mysteries Of Curious George(town)
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The Newcomer's Guide to Washington
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Georgetown is one of Washington, D.C.'s most storied neighborhoods - but not all of those stories are true...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
Documentary - Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future
From: The Environment Report
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Brew the coffee, turn on the radio, and check your electronic mail – you’re on your way to burning 20 pounds of coal for the day. That’s how much ...

Bought by KUER, WYSO, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 16
King's Last March
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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Although it was one of the most challenging and controversial chapters of his career, the final year of King's life has not been the focus of signi...

Bought by KANW, KUAT, WABE, WWNO, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 249
World Trade Organization Demonstrations Seattle 1999
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Excerpts of KUOW-FM's live coverage of the WTO demonstrations.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 16:08