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Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part Two
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia Brackett
From: New Letters on the Air
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Virginia Brackett, the author of 15 books, discusses her 2019 family memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF PATRIOTS. She reveals how she used family stories, s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Parallels in Autocracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Wolfgang Mac
Imagine spending your youth witnessing to the rise of Nazi Germany under Hitler’s dictatorship. You’re watching your country fall into the hands of...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Of Viking and Veterans!
From: KSRQ
Series: Artist Spotlight
Caption: Veterans Memorial in Viking, MN
Viking, MN resident Cheryl Peters led the charge in creating a Veteran's Memorial in the small Northwest Minnesota town. The response from regiona...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:40
Imagine: Reflections on Peace and the travel community’s role
From: World Footprints LLC
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Editor and VIIF co-founder, GARY KNIGHT, shares the remarkable collection of first-person testimonials and searing photographs from some of the wor...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 14:38
Frontline East LA: The Chicano Moratorium 50 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Chicano Moratorium march, Aug. 29, 1970., Credit: Courtesy of Joe Razo and the publication La Raza.
Fifty years ago, 30,000 people peacefully protested the disproportionate number of Latinos dying on the frontlines in Vietnam. The August 29th Chic...

Bought by WFHB, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, KVNF, KDNK and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
If the military renames southern bases, whose names should replace the Confederate generals?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Soldiers gather for a 2019 awards ceremony at Fort Bragg, N.C. The base is one of 10 that Pentagon leaders say they are open to renaming., Credit: Joshua Cowden / U.S Army
With the call for changing the names of 10 Southern military bases gaining momentum in Washington, the question is starting to arise in Washington ...

Bought by KRZA, WUSF, KPBS, Colorado Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 6
After initially saying it wouldn't, the VA now will remove Nazi symbols from two veterans cemeteries
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A gravestone for a German POW in the San Antonio VA cemetery. The stone is engraved with a swastika and an inscription that references Adolf Hitler., Credit: Military Religious Freedom Foundation
The stones, engraved with swastikas, mark the graves of German POWs who died in the United States during World War II.

Bought by WUSF, Colorado Public Radio, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
War N Peace 2020
From: Doug Hillyard
Series: Doug the Jitterbug's Audio Collage
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Aircheck from radio show on 5/28/20 broadcast on KZCT 89.5 FM Vallejo, CA (Ozcatradio.com) featuring music on War and Peace as a Memorial to those...

  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:00:45
Memorial Day Memories
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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This special Memorial Day episode brings you stories from the Civil War and both World Wars. These stories help us remember and appreciate the sacr...

Bought by WVIA, KUHF, KALW, Morehead State Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 17
Sony Soundtracks — Keeping Score podcast features 1917’s Jos Slovick in ‘I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger’
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Sony Soundtracks — Keeping Score
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Jos Slovick is the featured guest on Sony Soundtracks Keeping Score podcast, produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Jos gives us a ...

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 09:25
“Hear The Drumming: The music of the Kent State and Jackson State tragedies”
From: Robin Washington
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Fifty years ago on May 21, 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young headed into a studio to record "Ohio" - the ultimate protest song, capturing the ho...

  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 50:05
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCPN, WCPN, WCNY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 13
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people...

Bought by WKSU, WCPN, WNED Buffalo, KXCV, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 6
A Teenager's Story of Holocaust Reckoning
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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A teen talked her way into a front-row seat during the trial of an accused Nazi war criminal. Her experience is shared in a book for young readers.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 49:46
Veterans say it's not too soon to build a national memorial for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Michael Rodriguez, left foreground, president of a group that wants to build a 'Global War on Terrorism' memorial, shows the proposed site to several supporters after a Nov. 2019 sunrise run on the National Mall., Credit: Caitlin Kim / Colorado Public Radio
Normally, Congress waits at least ten years after a war ends to authorize a monument. But supporters say a proposed "Global War on Terrorism" memor...

Bought by Texas Public Radio, WUSF, and KPCC


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 3
Jeannette Rankin Pacifist and voting rights advocate
From: WHYY
Series: Women100
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jeannette Rankin, was born in 1880 in her parent’s ranch in Montana and became the first woman elected to Congress in 1917. She was a key organi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 4
Operation Hulda
From: Israel Story
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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
Rightlessness
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week we speak with Naomi Paik about her 2016 book, Rightlessness. Her work addresses the most pressing contemporary issues, drawing together t...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Salem Bewitched
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Local women perform witch trials in costume for the tourists., Credit: Eric Molinsky
To understand Salem in 1692, we need to delve into the imaginary world the Puritans believed in, where witches and Indians were both agents of the ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:34
  • Purchases: 3
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Behind Barbed Wire book Jacket, Credit: Michael Williams & Richard Cahan
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sonia Purnell, author of "A Woman Of No Importance"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Bob Kustra interviews Sonia Purnell about her book "A Woman of No Importance"

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the Secret Language School During WWII, THE FULL PRESENTATION at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:01:12
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the US Army's Secret Language School During WWII at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:20

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