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Interview features Bryan Burrough, discussing the gangster era of the 1930s, along with our regular features, History in the News and Site of the W...
- Added: Dec 09, 2005
- Length: 29:02
Author John Barry discusses the influenza pandemic of 1918, Chris Crenner comments on the forerunner of today's medical advice columnist- Dr. Logan...
- Added: Dec 09, 2005
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Dec 05, 2005
- Length: 02:32
Interview with Ron Chernow author of "Alexander Hamilton," and we continue our series of special readings from the unpublished recollections of the...
- Added: Oct 03, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Interview features a discussion on the history of freethinking in America; program includes our regular segment History in the News and a reading f...
- Added: Oct 03, 2005
- Length: 29:02
- Added: Sep 17, 2005
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 1
Interview focuses on the teaching of history in today's classrooms, commentary examines what we learn from history,
- Added: Sep 07, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Jacquelyn Hall, Professor of History at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill discusses teaching history in schools with host Bryan Le Beau and...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 07, 2005
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Jules Leotard is the eponym of the costume worn by dancers, gymnasts and acrobats.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 19, 2005
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 1
The Full Monty means "the entire amount, the whole enchilada." Why?
- Added: Jul 19, 2005
- Length: 02:03
"Dressed to the nines," like so many English idioms, is a mysterious expression.
- Added: Jul 19, 2005
- Length: 02:02
According to John Herron's guest, Edward Larson, the Scopes Trial took on a life and meaning of its own, and William Ashworth comments on the defin...
- Added: Jul 10, 2005
- Length: 29:02
Interview with Bruce Craig on the Harry Dexter White spy case and commentary from Jon Wiener on secrecy in the archives.
- Added: Jul 10, 2005
- Length: 29:02
Fred Nielsen and guest David Herlihy retrace the history of the bicycle and Sam Wineburg comments on why history teachers need history degrees.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMPG, Marfa Public Radio, and BSR Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2005
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Eva Schloss is the “posthumous step sister of Anne Frank”. She tells her own story of how she survived 2 years in hiding, 9 months in Auschwitz an...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Jul 05, 2005
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
First in series of three programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2005
- Length: 29:30
A tour through the audio visual exhibits of the Jersey War Tunnels Museum tells the story of the 5 year German occupation of The Channel Islands d...
- Added: Jun 07, 2005
- Length: 29:30
A Reading of letters from the James Beard Collection
- Added: May 31, 2005
- Length: 29:36
Dr. S. Boyd Eaton explains why preagricultural man may have had a healthier diet than we do today.
Bought by Maine Public Radio
- Added: May 31, 2005
- Length: 59:46
- Purchases: 1
Interview with James Morone: how “America became a nation with the soul of a church.” Anna Rubin comments on the new exhibit at The Smithsonian "W...
- Added: May 27, 2005
- Length: 29:02
Interview with Thomas Doherty author of Cold War: Cool Medium, topical commentary and regular features on History in the News, and our Site of the ...
- Added: May 27, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Interview with Landon Jones on the life of William Clark, plus topical history news and commentary.
- Added: May 27, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Interview on the death penalty, regular features on history in the news and site of the week along with commentary on the centennial celebrations i...
- Added: May 16, 2005
- Length: 29:02
Elizabeth Stoddard explains Einstein's theories and historian William Ashworth comments on Einstein's personality.
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: May 16, 2005
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
An 80- year-old Dutchman opens up the diary he kept as a teenager during the German occupation of Holland and the liberation by Canadian troops fo...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Apr 28, 2005
- Length: 30:26
- Purchases: 1
