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2024 is an interesting election year, but still not as raucous as 1948.. All the columnists and commentators who were polled agreed Thomas Dewey w...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU
- Added: Jul 30, 2023
- Length: 55:31
- Purchases: 5
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (June 17th, 1972), writer, historian, and Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 host Kurt A...
Bought by WCMU Michigan, Spokane Public Radio, KRCU Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KUOW and more
- Added: Apr 18, 2022
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 40
In honor of Constitution Day, Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on how our democracy works, shares the story of the two most important docum...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WITF, and WYAP
- Added: Sep 13, 2021
- Length: 51:32
- Purchases: 5
Thomas Buergenthal saw the Nazi concentration camps through a child’s eyes. Luckily, he survived and later became a lawyer and eventually a judge o...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 22:54
- Purchases: 3
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...
- Added: Jan 24, 2015
- Length: 11:32
Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 15:33
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The first President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, died today. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "What happened to George Washington?" W...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:01