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How did the party that supported slavery become the party that nominated our first African-American president?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 19:25
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How the document at the heart of the women's suffrage movement turned the framer's message on its head.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 17:12
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How did the divides in the suffrage movement define the fight for women’s enfranchisement? And how did that amendment finally get passed?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:02
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
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In today’s FULL and EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:13:08
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s Breakfast Club pr...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This discussion is never over.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 13:08
  • Purchases: 1
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How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump?

  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 23:12
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It's about people, money and power.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVNF, WNYO, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 19:28
  • Purchases: 4
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Choosing who we're gonna choose.

Bought by WNYO and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 27:34
  • Purchases: 2
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From President to Postal Worker.

Bought by WFHB, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 21:22
  • Purchases: 3
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The glue that slows us down and holds us together.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 3
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Aaron David Miller, author of "The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President."

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 30:31
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In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
Caption: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin at the Yalta conference, February 1945.
In the past few years, the White House and the Kremlin have sparred over Syria, the Winter Olympics, and now, the crisis in Ukraine. It can be temp...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
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Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Legal scholar Bruce Ackerman talks about how presidents from Lincoln to Obama have used their military powers. This segment is from the BackStory e...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:22
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Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: A woman in a "state of hysteria.", Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Recent estimates suggest that more than 50% of Americans will suffer from a “mental disorder” at some point in their lifetime, making the once “abn...

Bought by WEZU, WXDU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Political historian Ron Formisano explains the concerns over the power of Freemasons in the early Republic, and the political backlash it inspired.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:50
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Host Brian Balogh sits down with historian Joseph Crespino, who explains the Democratic conflict that led to the Dixiecrat Bolt of 1948.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Walter Johnson about the rise of steamboats in the 19th Century, and how the cotton economy fueled an ever more ...

Bought by Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 3