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As tensions escalate between North Korea and the United States, Hawaii finds itself on the frontlines in preparing for a nuclear attack. Whether or...
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 03:26
From: Out of Bounds
Civil liberties attorney, educator, author of "Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment"
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 28:00
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about how an angry Ike came off the golf course to kic...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:46
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:18
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 03:14
When Gerald Moore decided to try his had at journalism, his reasoning was very good. He needed a job. But what began, as a way to pay the rent beca...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 2
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 04:10
A well-meaning illustration in a children's book sparks controversy over segregation in the nation's capital in the 1930s.
Bought by Listenwise, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 07:41
- Purchases: 3
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:53
Georgetown is one of Washington, D.C.'s most storied neighborhoods - but not all of those stories are true...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
It's the 50th anniversary of one of the most dramatic and influential death penalty cases ever, the Caryl Chessman case that drew worldwide attent...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: 05:01
Paris has its Parisians, Boston its Bostonians. What does it take to be/become a Washingtonian?
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 07:04
With all the talk about Big Government, two scholars reflect on how the Federal Government and taxes have evolved since the founding era.
- Added: Jan 28, 2010
- Length: 28:59
Noel Hendrickson considers questions about what might have been if the past had happened differently.
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 29:39
It's the 90th anniversary this month of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 27, 2008
- Length: 02:51
- Added: Oct 22, 2008
- Length: 02:52
- Added: Oct 21, 2008
- Length: 02:55
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 57:41
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 56:07
- Added: Feb 11, 2008
- Length: 29:36
A provocative essay contemplating rebuilding after the Calif. wildfires
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jan 02, 2008
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Few leaders have left a greater legacy than labor leader Jack Hall, a major figure in the transformation of feudalistic Hawaii into a democratic st...
- Added: Dec 20, 2007
- Length: 04:43
