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Host Bob Kustra continues his conversation with Jacob S. Hacker, author of "American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made ...
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: 30:30
A new era began on September 11, 2001 - one marked by an unending War on Terror, dragnet surveillance, and attacks on people perceived to be Muslim...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 29:00
-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940.
-Tracing the “e...
Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, KRDP, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Aug 19, 2016
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 8
Newly updated (2016), produced in association with WGBH/Boston, ideal for broadcast this election year: A documentary about the much-contested righ...
Bought by WVBI-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WUMB, WESM 91.3 FM, Wisconsin Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 16, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 18
Many see similarities between the presidential election campaign of 2016 and one almost half a century earlier.
The 1968 presidential campaign was...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KERA, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 26
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
How are the superrich’s priorities transforming American society? Journalist Jane Mayer’s new book is Dark Money, the Hidden History of the Billion...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Jun 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Before Minnesota became the third state to abolish the death penalty in 1911, legislators instituted the nation’s first law to make executions secr...
- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 29:16
If there was ever a political strategist who could be consider a transformer of government, it would be David Axelrod. David has accomplished more ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 24:30
My guest in this hour is James Scott whose writing is a trek through the history of state-making and resistance to being shackled to governance. Hi...
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 59:02
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 1
As 2015 draws to a close, Political Junkie Ken Rudin remembers the lawmakers and newsmakers from the world of politics who passed away this year. K...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 14
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- Length: :29
- Purchases: 2
In the 1920s, the United States enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, and many people assumed that poverty would be eliminated entirely. However, Mayor...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 28:41
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was committed to excising corruption from New York City. He battled Tammany Hall (New York’s Democratic machine) with fie...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 28:23
Tuberculosis claimed both Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia’s wife and daughter in 1921. His devastation over this loss coupled with the grim conditions...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 28:11
Money and politics have never been like oil and water. We explain why on this edition of "History Talk."
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 05:00
What does the ACA do and what is Obamacare about? Historians consider the contentious history of healthcare policy leading up to the ACA.
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 05:00
From the time he took office on January 1, 1934, until American entry into World War II, Fiorello H. La Guardia's public works brought about in New...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 28:45
Mayor John Lindsay faced an uphill climb in his campaign for reelection in 1969 after losing the Republican primary to John Marchi, forcing him to ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 03:59
Anthropologist David Graeber, author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” traces the history of debt to see what we can learn. His 2011 talk was recor...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dr Robert Jensen on his latest book “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,”
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 28:07
Burt Neuborne, a civil liberties specialist who has argued many cases before the Supreme Court, believes the Court has misinterpreted the original ...
- Added: May 19, 2015
- Length: 22:35
In the 1970s, a series of laws ushered in a new “sunshine era” of unprecedented government transparency. A new book investigates how, despite these...
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
