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A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...
- Added: Sep 10, 2023
- Length: 56:42
Date-based history modules for broadcast April 3-7, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 13:45
Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 38:58
"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
Minneapolis and St. Paul are known as the Twin Cities, but relationships weren’t always so sisterly. During the summer of the 1890 census, both cit...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:38
The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...
Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, KMUN and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2019
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 9
On the third episode of A New York Minute In History we explore the Empire State’s most ambitious engineering feat…the Erie Canal. Completed in 182...
- Added: Oct 24, 2018
- Length: 59:30
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Segment 1: Deanie Bishop Parish/WASPs Segment 2: Melvin Morris/ Medal of Honor Segment 3: Tanya Biank/Women in military Segment 4: Larry Kelle...
Bought by WUFT
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...
- Added: Apr 11, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
Bro Adams says the humanities can help us solve problems brought on by
advances in technology. And: The hustler who inspired the "Beats." Plus: Wha...
- Added: Jan 16, 2015
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 4
Bro Adams says the humanities can help us solve problems brought on by
advances in technology. And: The hustler who inspired the "Beats." Plus: Wha...
- Added: Jan 16, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
On November 22nd, 1963, 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas – a tragedy that inspired conspira...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, XRAY.fm, WRPI, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 22, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specifi...
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: :30
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag.
Bought by WUFT
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
30-second promo for "The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington" with 5 second hole for station-specific time/date tag
Bought by WUFT and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: :30
- 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 sevente...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Excerpts of KUOW-FM's live coverage of the WTO demonstrations.
- Added: Sep 28, 2009
- Length: 16:08
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3