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Radio Cloak and Dagger
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
Caption: FBI Agent, Credit: Camp DeWolfe
On this episode, Devin and Lauren tell the recently declassified story of a covert radio station built by the FBI on Long Island to deceive the Naz...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:30
Middle East Expert Steven Simon's GRAND DELUSION: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Steven Simon, author of seven books, is currently a Fellow at MIT (Mass. Inst. Tech.) after spending nearly 40 years specializing in the Middle Eas...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 10:27
Pushing Lincoln Left: Thaddeus Stevens as Revolutionary
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the radical and revolutionary Republican Thaddeus Stevens. While Lincoln continually capitulated to white interests in the North ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
WAR - Gen. Wesley Clark
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Recorded 10/1/01 Gen. Clark guest on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 23:59
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Rightlessness
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week we speak with Naomi Paik about her 2016 book, Rightlessness. Her work addresses the most pressing contemporary issues, drawing together t...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Behind Barbed Wire book Jacket, Credit: Michael Williams & Richard Cahan
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #36: Luftbrücke – 70 Years of Memories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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On June 24, 1948, the Soviet military administration officially cut off roads and rails into West Berlin in the Berlin Blockade, isolating it from ...

Bought by KWMR, KICI Iowa City, and Morton College Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 3
Booktalk: Retired Naval Aviator Dan Pedersen’s “TOPGUN. An American Story”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School. Also known as the...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
Hampton Sides, author of "On Desperate Ground"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Hampton Sides about his book "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle"

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Booktalk: Historian Hampton Sides discusses his sixth book, “On Desperate Ground”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
Undoing the Falsifications of History: A Crash Course with H. Bruce Franklin
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: April, 1967, Redwood City. Students picket at a napalm bomb factory. "The Harvey Richards Media Archive." © Paul Richards.
H. Bruce Franklin, was once a tugboat mate and then an Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. He is now and has been for more than half a ce...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katya Cengel
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of Charles Lindbergh's Complex Political Legacy
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Art & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum for a com...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:51
The Terror and The Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794.
What comes to the fore in this conversation with Rebecca Spang is that the French Revolution is likely best thought of as a civil war and in that ...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:37
POLICING THE NATION’S CAPITAL
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 15:30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Getting into Vietnam (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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-In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians and veterans of the war explore the story of the ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WDSE, WNMU-FM, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Morehead State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 16
Mercenary Morality Feature
From: With Good Reason
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Mercenaries have been with us for a long time, but they haven't gotten any less controversial. One professor thinks its time we learn from the 12th...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
Cook County's "Operation Skywatch" during the Cold War era
From: WTIP
Series: The Lake Superior Project
Caption: The Lake Superior Project, Credit: Logo by Lauryl Loberg
During the 1950s Cook County participated in "Operation Skywatch" -- a nation-wide organization utilizing local citizens to watch the skies for pos...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 06:25
Pulitzer 100: Embers of War (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of W...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:02