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The Man in the President's Limo
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
248: Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, 2/7/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks
From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
247: Democracy vs. Plutocracy Part One: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime, 1/31/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Bridging Political Divisions (Part 1 of 2)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bridging Political Divisions
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Alyson Spery
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Echoes of a Coup
From: Scene on Radio
Caption: Echoes of a Coup art, Credit: Zaire McPhearson
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, Baltimore Public Media, WFDD and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
Native American Historian R. David Edmunds, author of “Voices In The Drum, Narratives from the Native American Past”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Professor Emeritus R. David Edmunds is the author of 12 books about Native Americans. His newest title is “Voices in the Drum,” a book that feature...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 09:12
The Lost Cause — the Civil War, then and now
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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Are we still living with the racial divide left over from the Civil War? This provocative audio documentary explores the history of a conflict that...

Bought by WHYY, KUNM, Maine Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 52:57
  • Purchases: 54
Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
Too Much of Nothing
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Shane MacGowan, Credit: The Pogues
A Mockery Of Indo-China Eggplant Mix featuring Henry Kissinger, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, George Santos, Liz Cheney, JFK, Spencer Tracy, Monty ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:43
Anthony Arthur– "Changing America: Upton Sinclair Style"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: September 6, 2006 Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair Since I was young, I have been intrigued by the work of Upton Sinclair. I...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
African Legends: Remembering Fela
From: Afropop Worldwide
Series: African Legends
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In this program, we hear from current day Nigerians from multiple generations and genres—fuji, juju, hip-hop, Afrobeats, and highlife - on how they...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Top of Mind - We Don't Agree on America's Founding Story. Do We Need To?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Was America founded by divine intervention, or profit-seeking slaveholders, or noble men in pursuit of freedom? The angst over America's Founding s...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Inauguration Day
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Pomp, circumstance and 35 words can transform a person into a president.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:31
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: Victoria, TX - A Town Like Yours
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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Join host Eddie Robinson for a special edition of I SEE U, featuring award-winning director, Li Lu with her latest PBS docu-series, “A Town Called ...

Bought by KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW, KUNM, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 5
The Democratic Party
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the party that supported slavery become the party that nominated our first African-American president?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 19:25
The Declaration Revisited: The Declaration of Sentiments
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How the document at the heart of the women's suffrage movement turned the framer's message on its head.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 17:12
The Declaration Revisited: Native Americans
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The anti-Native American sentiments within the Declaration of Independence, and where those same sentiments can be found today.

Bought by WRFA-LP and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 17:43
  • Purchases: 2
19th Amendment: Part 1
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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We explore the myths and unveil the realities of the story of the Nineteenth Amendment in part one of two episodes.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:22
19th Amendment: Part 2
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the divides in the suffrage movement define the fight for women’s enfranchisement? And how did that amendment finally get passed?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:02
Civics 101: The History of Labor Policy
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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The modern day workplace is the product of a centuries-long battle for fair wages, reasonable hours and safe conditions. Civics 101 tells the story...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 5
843: Against Capitalism / 844: Books We Can't Forget, 11/4/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Paul Goldstein – "The Artist’s Right of Ownership"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: August 9, 2006 Errors and Omissions Who owns the rights to a play, a song, or a work of art? How important and fragile is t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Good Faith -The Power of Pilgrimage
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Four guests discuss their experiences with pilgrimage. Topics range from embarking on physical journeys to less intensive, historical landmarks.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:57
  • Purchases: 2

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