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Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldi...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:00
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall"
(submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 01:03
- Purchases: 1
The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
In this episode, NPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley talks with Jeffrey Garten, former Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton Admi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 05:30
"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...
- Added: Aug 16, 2019
- Length: 04:00
Socialism is as close as your closest coop.
- Added: Sep 06, 2018
- Length: 03:30
This Live "LIstener Call-in" Discussion Program tells the story of the first contact in 1607 including the extermination of 20 tribes at the hands ...
Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: 43:06
- Purchases: 1
For Israelis, especially in recent years, Rabin can take on almost any shape or form. Shai Satran speaks to filmmakers, educators and politicians a...
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 09:29
In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 06:26
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: FBI 9/11 Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley: Post-Charlie Hebdo Massacre Rush to...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the M...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
This episode we honored the work and life of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. with music, quotes, and reflections on the meaning of his legacy.
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 59:27
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
Eric Chandler is a husband, father, F-16 Pilot, and cross-country skier who lives in Duluth. He's a member of Lake Superior Writers, and has been p...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 01:50
Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 03:00
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is a good time to recognize the importance of public employees.
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:43
A commentary on labor leader Harry Bridges, one of the 20th century's greatest leaders of any kind, on the anniversary of his death.
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 04:21
It's the 75th anniversary of "Bloody Thursday," the day in July of 1934 when open warfare between police and striking longshoremen raged on San Fra...
- Added: Jul 02, 2009
- Length: 04:45
Filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno talks with P.O.V. about the making of her film "Revolution '67"
- Added: Sep 20, 2007
- Length: 06:52
Wondering 'what if' on the day after the election--November 2004
- Added: Sep 02, 2005
- Length: 03:46
A commentary marking the anniversary of one of the most significant strikes in U.S. history -- the West Coast longshoremen's strike of 1934.
- Added: May 19, 2005
- Length: 03:10
An engineer looks at the Declaration of Independence and sees the science underlying the document.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KTRT RADIO INC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 14, 2004
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 16