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This program tells the untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King and his appearance on the most prestigious lecture series in Canada, shortly befor...
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 49:57
- Purchases: 1
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
With more than 300,000 words and over 800 amendments, Alabama’s Constitution is 40 times longer than the US Constitution, and holds the record for ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
In the all the years we've celebrated President's Day, we've never honored a female president, because we've never had one. It's not that women ha...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WLPR
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
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
Glenda Rike tells her son, Larry, how his father, Aubrey Rike, came to be one of the few present when President John F. Kennedy received his last r...
- Added: Nov 22, 2013
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 4
José Matta, a Chilean New Yorker tells his story during the Chilean coup in September 11 1973 and the effects it had in his life.
- Added: Sep 08, 2013
- Length: 06:46
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
30-second promo for "Civil War 150th: Why They Fought" with 5 second hole for station-specific time/date tag.
Bought by WUFT and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," and "Nigger:The...
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
The author of the new book, Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam, is interviewed at the 50th anniversary of the first military u...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 59:46
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
President Obama's State of the Union 2011. Raw audio available for air, editing and excerpting.
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 01:02:02
