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Disclose! Divest!: Behind the Fight Over College Endowments
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A child running through the Stanford Divestment Encampment., Credit: Photo by RJ Lozada.
What does it mean to disclose and divest? We take a look at the demands behind the student encampments for Palestine and talk to Kelly Grotke about...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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
Top of Mind - Who Owns Our Cultural Heritage? — Museums, Repatriation, and Appropriation
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Who should decide how stories and artifacts of a cultural heritage are shared? What's the difference between appropriation and appreciation?

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


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 5
Barn Raising For a Better America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the aftermath of the January 6th siege of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, Laura convenes a panel of pro-democracy activists to discuss...

Bought by KDNK and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 56:00
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind New Years Special - 2020 Almanac, Suffragists, Fat Man’s Quest
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - 2020 Was Something, Eh?; Topic 2 - Lessons from Suffragists on How to Change the World; Topic 3 - One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a...

Bought by KSTK, WCPN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
Legal Forgiveness, Women in History, Aspergers Dark Origins
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - How the Legal System Relies on Justice and Forgiveness, Topic 2 - Bringing Stories of Women to Life, Topic 3 - Dr. Asperger and the Nazi ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 51:35
  • Purchases: 3
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership In Turbulent Times
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doris Kearns Goodwin
What makes a great leader? This week on Sea Change Radio, we are honored to have Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Mortal Republic
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward J. Watts
Citizens of ancient Rome willingly sacrificed their freedom for autocracy. When people are convince they have a lot to fear, it’s easier for a powe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 90: The Past and Future of the Constitution
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Is the U.S. Constitution about to change? Professor David Marcus lays out why some states are calling for a constitutional convention to introduce ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:06
Episode 89: Charismatic Campaigning
From: Shira Rascoe
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The Sanders and Trump presidential campaigns both capitalized on emotional speeches and rallies. But politics weren’t always this way. Professor Je...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 25:58
Episode 83: 21st Century Safety Net
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Social security, health insurance, and unemployment insurance help Americans through life’s ups and downs. Benjamin Veghte explains the benefits an...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 24:39
Episode 81: On Tyranny
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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In the 1900s, dictators rose to power across Europe as democracies fell to fascists and communists. History Professor Timothy Snyder argues that de...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:53
Episode 76: American Job Guarantee
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 77: Urban Renewal 2.0
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 21:27
Larry Nielsen: Environmental Trailblazers
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Larry Nielsen
There’s no denying that the current moment is grim, for the environment, civil rights, and plain old human decency. But I once heard a wise man say...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gandhi the human
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But his status as an icon of humanitarianism may be at risk.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
John Fleck: Colorado River Riddles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Fleck
As the temperature and population continue to rise in the southwestern United States, water becomes scarcer than ever. How did we get here? Will th...

Bought by KVNF, KFCF FM, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 3
After Attica
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Naomi Oreskes on “Merchants of Doubt”
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
A recent Pew survey found that 48% of Americans are still unconvinced that global warming is happening and that human activity is causing it. How c...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bob Marshall: Louisiana Encroachment, Pt. I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
With so much focus on the BP oil spill and the havoc it has wrought on the Gulf Coast, it's easy to overlook the broader, more long-term environmen...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant Two-Party System
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Historian David Hollinger discusses the split between the Evangelical and Ecumenical branches of the Protestant church.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 12:13
Reconstructing Republicanism
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Annette Gordon-Reed about the Republican Party’s own civil war in the late 1860s, over the nature of Reconstruct...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
America's Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1927 - Father Coughlin "On the Air" and the Birth of Right-Wing Radio
From: Action Speaks Radio
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With the popularity of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and now Glenn Beck, we felt it was time to look at the ‘original’ nationally known conservative ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WSKG, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Kennedy and the Peace Corps: Idealism on the Ground
From: Lester Graham
Caption: Kennedy challenging university students to serve the Third World., Credit: University of Michigan
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