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This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 04:40
This week in history (March 23-March 29) takes a look back at Senator Ted Kennedy's landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in New York's primary on Ma...
- Added: Mar 23, 2014
- Length: 04:40
In January 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the War on Poverty. Much has changed, but much has stayed the same.
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 02:30
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 09:17
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian David Blight talks with host Ed Ayers about the continuing impact of the Civil War in shaping the context within which the march took pla...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 12:22
- Purchases: 2
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
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on what was wrong with the Declaration of Independence.
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 02:30
On June 23, 1963, labor and church leaders organized tens of thousands of people in Detroit for the Great March to Freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 22, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 3
On the second anniversary of the 2010 uprisings, this special documentary looks at police violence in Jamaica.
In May 2010 a government crackdown l...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Washington's labor, immigrant and faith communities are promising a large and vocal turnout on Tuesday (May 1) for annual May Day marches and ralli...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 04:48
It’s been 20 years since four white police officers were cleared of unlawfully beating Rodney King in Los Angeles. But we might never have heard of...
Bought by WCSU-FM and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Can you acknowledge dissenters as patriots? Can you dissent and still sing the national anthem wholeheartedly? Can you live in a middle ground?
Bought by WEZU and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 11, 2011
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Howard Zinn’s productive insights into history came to an end with his death in January 2010. This edition of Radio Curious shares a previously not...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 29:34
Recorded on January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama became President of the United States, Radio Curious visited again with Congressman Sam Farr, wh...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?
- Added: Mar 30, 2009
- Length: 09:39
- Added: Sep 19, 2008
- Length: 01:29
11 minute doc, produced in May 2008
- Added: Jul 05, 2008
- Length: 11:50
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Mongolia in the 21st century must choose which aspects of modernity and tradition will shape its identity in the 21st century.
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFUV
- Added: Jan 04, 2007
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
Few leaders have done more for ordinary Americans than Eugene V. Debs, born 150 years ago.
- Added: Dec 21, 2005
- Length: 04:06
A commentary on the 100th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the most influential and colorful organizations in U.S. history.
Bought by BSR Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2005
- Length: 09:36
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 16, 2004
- Length: 02:58
