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From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Karen O’Neill about the federal government’s move into flood control in 1917 – as landowners along the Mis...
Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 4
An author many times over and former editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, a major publishing company, Michael wrote this biography, “Ike: An Americ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2013
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 1
Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
An entire generation of Americans grew up knowing no other president than Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served four terms and led them through the Dep...
Bought by WCNY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCWP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, and WTJU
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 5
Radio Curious revisits a conversation about the history and future of feminism with History Professor, Estelle B. Freedman, author of ""No Turning ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 5
Madeleine Albright is a former US Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position. In an interview shortly before the 2012 election, s...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 1
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the electoral college discourages voting, lessens the power of the states, a...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 59:02
Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists. John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 36:34
The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 04:55
Program I: Origins
How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...
Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 52:40
- Purchases: 27
In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 06:02
This compelling documentary explains how a John F. Kennedy challenge to college students ultimately became the Peace Corps.
It explores Kennedy's...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Interlochen Public Radio, Michigan Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WYSO and more
- Added: Oct 12, 2010
- Length: 53:25
- Purchases: 14
The only generational discussion on Racial Profiling on radio.
- Added: Aug 02, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 16, 2008
- Length: 43:53
Examining how social safety nets are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 24, 2008
- Length: 08:09
- Added: Oct 17, 2008
- Length: 59:59
Examining how health care is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 15, 2008
- Length: 09:17
Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
Examining how science and technology are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:52
Examining how identiy politics is playing out in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 08:06
Examining how immigration is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes.
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 01:20
Examining the rhetoric of the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes.
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 07:56
