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Famed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explores the political genius of “Honest Abe”.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KMXT, KMUZ, WRFA-LP and more
- Added: Nov 22, 2005
- Length: 01:00:13
- Purchases: 10
Best selling author James Loewen discusses his new book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
- Added: Nov 11, 2005
- Length: 05:22
- Added: Oct 07, 2005
- Length: 07:30
Interview with Ron Chernow author of "Alexander Hamilton," and we continue our series of special readings from the unpublished recollections of the...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
Interview features Stephen Schlesinger Director of the World Policy Institute, regular segments History in the News and series of special readings ...
- Added: Oct 03, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Program features an interview with David Reynolds author of "John Brown: Abolitionist," and excerpt adapted from the unpublished recollections of T...
- Added: Oct 03, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Jonathan Groubert speaks with Dutchwoman Petje Schroeder a Jewish genealogist in the Polish city of Lodz.
- Added: Sep 20, 2005
- Length: 29:29
How the experience of driving VegOil parallels the experience of the first automobile drivers.
- Added: Sep 13, 2005
- Length: 06:06
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
A profile of the legendary newspaper columnist.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KALW
- Added: Sep 07, 2005
- Length: 28:48
- Purchases: 4
Richard Wightman Fox and Fred Nielsen discuss the changing perceptions of Jesus in America.
- 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
- Added: Aug 17, 2005
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
An innovative story about the rediscovery of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Brinkley, Arkansas that blends interviews and an original song by Sufja...
Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUT, Remix Radio and more
- Added: Jul 14, 2005
- Length: 11:57
- Purchases: 10
Our interview features Mark Kurlansky who joins host Bryan Le Beau to discuss just what made 1968 "the year that rocked the world," and Robert Bren...
- Added: Jul 10, 2005
- Length: 29:00
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
An interview with KCUR's Chuck Haddix on his recent book chronicling the history of Kansas City Jazz in the 1920s and 30s.
- Added: Jul 07, 2005
- Length: 09:13
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
- Added: Jun 07, 2005
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
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
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
