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The series on evangelical Christianity at the United States Air Force Academy, continues with Kristen Leslie, a professor of Pastoral Care and Coun...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Few moments in American history have held the tension of the early 1970s. The nation was fundamentally divided between the jaded counter-culture an...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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In Millennial History, we relive recent history through the eyes of millennials who were there when it happened. The murder of anti-mafia judge Fal...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:39:06
Caption: The Whistleblower, Credit: The Ground Truth Project
To mark the passing of Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers, the GroundTruth Project presents a special one hour program that traces the path o...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, WORT, KOSU and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 37
Caption: FBI Agent, Credit: Camp DeWolfe
On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the recently declassified story of a covert radio station built by the FBI on Long Island to deceive the Naz...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:30
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Genocide is the intent to exterminate in whole or in part a specific group of people often based on nationality, ethnicity, race or religion. For t...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Palestinians fleeing from their villages as Israeli troops approach on October 30, 1948., Credit: David Eldan, National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office, under the digital ID D275-120
This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the "catastrophe" in Arabic. It refers both to the events starting in late 1947 when Zionist ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 1
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The war that the United States has invoked in what is often called the “War On Terror” is unusual in many ways. One of those ways is that this war ...

  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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
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My Hometown Concentration Camp Bernard Offen, age 72, survived five Nazi concentration camps in Poland during World War Two, when he was a young t...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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By now it is clear, the Red Wave election-denying candidates had hoped to ride left most still waiting on the beach. Those who questioned the outco...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with members of the Civil War Roundtable group t...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:55
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HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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When recruiters from the Armed Forces of the United States seek out volunteers, they often portray military life to be a great adventure. They talk...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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
Caption: State Senator Jennifer McClellan, Credit: Charles McGuigan
This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 26:48
Caption: Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Whipple, Credit: https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fap033
Archives tell an important story. The people in them—and the people left out—say a lot about our politics, culture, and consciousness. Today, resea...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 17:12
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For Women’s History Month, Devin and Lauren tell the story of Dr. Mary Walker: physician, heroine of the Civil War, and the only woman in history e...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Albert Alonzo Ames, 1897, Credit: Progressive Men of Minnesota
Mayor Albert Alonzo Ames turned the Minneapolis Police Department into the most powerful crime ring the city had ever seen.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 35:20
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:59

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Walk With Me" - Walking prolongs our life and makes us human. So why are we doing less and less of it? HOUR TWO: "Whose Land Is It?" -...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00