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There are historians within us all. The first-hand accounts in "Untold: Stories of a World War II Liberator" - written by Deborah Levine and direc...
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 58:50
In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 41:32
- Purchases: 1
When Walter Dixon fought in the Korean War, he was captured and kept a prisoner of war for more than two years. The whole time, he was believed to ...
Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WHRV
- Added: Aug 08, 2019
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 2
Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 4
Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
The first curator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection talks with his friend and fellow war veteran about the collection and his service.
Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMUU-LP, and WEZU
- Added: Nov 14, 2016
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
Question, What do Afghanistan, Castration, and Karst have in common? They’re topics Journalist Douglas Wissing has investigated and written about.
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- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 59:06
DeLeon Springs was the site of a Civil War skirmish. It has a strange and troubled history.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 05:01
Out of the mire and death of World War One, even before the shooting stops, comes the strangest thing: the novel of the century.
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 58:27
- Purchases: 2
On December 20, 1943, a severely damaged American bomber struggles in its flight over war-torn Germany. The 21-year-old pilot had his hands full wi...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
World War Two B-24 bomber pilot veteran Sherman Beard, of Hillsboro, West Virginia remembers flying missions over Europe during the war.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
If only an an old truck could talk. Telling Room student Balthasar von Huene gives voice to a military work-horse that found a new life in Maine.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 04:17
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Ed Ayers talks with psychotherapist Edward Tick about the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.
Bought by KVNF and Radio Newark
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 11:00
- Purchases: 2
History repeats, 650 years later. An entire village held hostage for eleven months by a madman and his weapon-toting mercenaries. During that time,...
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 17:01
Wendell Affield grew up on a farm near Nebish, Minnesota. He's a Vietnam Veteran, wounded during his tour of duty on a gunboat in the Mekong Delta,...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:00
When the Germans started the deportation of Jews in Antwerp, Belgium in 1942, Charles Spira was 4 years old. This is the story how Charles, his mo...
Bought by KAAD-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KUT
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 21:09
- Purchases: 3
This month on War News Radio, "Back to Work ". First, we examine the problem of youth unemployment in Morocco. Then, we look into the persecution ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 14:07
- Purchases: 1
The Ten Boom family hides Jews and members of Dutch resistance from the Nazis in a secret room. Raided by the Gestapo, Corrie, her sister and their...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KSRQ, KHNS, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW and more
- Added: Sep 27, 2010
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 8
The state of Colombia's renewed Justice system.
- Added: Mar 12, 2009
- Length: 55:00
Chris Goldstein interviews Catholic Worker James Douglass on his book JFK and the Unspeakable. The book reveals a President at odds with the milita...
- Added: Jan 17, 2009
- Length: 33:27
- Added: May 28, 2008
- Length: 28:39
Portraits of Japanese-Americans Who "Stayed Behind" during World War II
- Added: Jul 17, 2007
- Length: 06:27
