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I Didn't Know That (A Short People's History of the United States)
From: Stephanie Coleman
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A young rendering of an old story. All contributors between the ages of five and eight.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KSRQ, KHNS, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 8
MICMACS director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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MICMACS director Jean-Pierre Jeunet talks fate, inspiration, and the impersonal nature of modern warfare.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2010
  • Length: 08:13
National Debt
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Women at the Tulle Lake War Relocation Camp, circa 1942. , Credit: Bob Bobster.
Two survivors of Japanese American internment describe how they went from being seen as model citizens to being seen as the enemy. In the story of ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 9
C4 Explosion
From: Robin Amer
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Chris, a veteran of the first Iraq War, tells the story of the time he saw 2500 lbs of C4 explode.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Theater of War
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Jason Robards, Jr. in THE DISENCHANTED on Broadway
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
Citizen Synforose
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Maine has one of the most diverse immigrant populations of any state in the country. Synforose Rugema came to America as a refugee from the Congo i...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 3
Biggest Conflict in the World?
From: Tiger Radio
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Tiger Radio producers Ariana Tabaku and Paola Encarcion hit the streets of DC to find out what people think is the biggest conflict in the world.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:35
Women at War
From: With Good Reason
Caption: On Their Own, Credit: Joyce Hoffman
Covering a beat, or a family: two different perspectives on women at war

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Civil War Reconciliation
From: With Good Reason
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For better or worse, this show is not about an end to all those re-enactments. It is a tale of post-war reconciliation between Union and Confederates.

Bought by KWIT, KRUA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
A Long Way from Baghdad
From: Addie Goss
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A profile of the one Iraqi student at the University of Wyoming

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2009
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2
Our American "Empire" with controversal Harvard historian Niall Ferguson -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:21
The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America’s Veterans
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans, Credit: Brett Stirton
As we mark the 6th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, reporter Aaron Glantz takes us inside the war as it comes home to our communities. We f...

Bought by KVNF, WXDU, KVSC, KVSC, KUER and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Writing, War and Fictitious Creatures
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
With tenacious willpower, 24 year-old Brad Watts writes short stories to help him cope with stress.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 06:27
What if the South had won the Civil War?
From: With Good Reason
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Noel Hendrickson considers questions about what might have been if the past had happened differently.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:39
Something To Fight For
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A father and his military son reflect on their anti-war activities.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Pearl Harbor Patriots
From: Laura Spero
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As Barack Obama accepted the nomination for President of the United States, he said that "Change...cannot happen without a new spirit of service, a...

Bought by Prairie Public, KLCC, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 3
Our Time: Teens and Politics. From KUOW and Generation PRX.
From: KUOW
Series: Curated Youth Radio Programs from KUOW and Generation PRX
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We grew up in America after 9/11. Our world is full of disasters. Now it's our time to step up or sit out.

Bought by KSFR, KSJD, KCUR, KQED, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2008
  • Length: 55:58
  • Purchases: 23
Warfare by Corbin Bugni
From: Youth Speaks Seattle
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Spoken word piece on war and conflict both personal and global.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 23, 2008
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Bridging the Shores: The Hmong-American Experience
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Sound-rich documentary about Hmong-Americans living in the U.S.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WESM 91.3 FM, KWIT, KHEN-LP, KUNM and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Portrait artist on a mission to paint the fallen
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Vietnam Vet has a new mission: to draw portraits of fallen soliders in the Iraq War, for free

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 1
Whether you like it or not, it affects you too.
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The 150th anniversary of the Civil War is fast approaching. Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," discovered that many of our cur...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
Steve Reich's Different Trains meets the Borromeo String Quartet -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirr...

Bought by WBHM, WDAV Classical Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 3
on the Borderline: Surviving Genocide in Burma
From: Gael MacLean
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Narrated by Sonja Smits, this documentary is a rare look at life inside the refugee camps and a compassionate story of transforming despair into hope

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 41:51
The Cost of War, in Sound
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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A sonic exploration of lives and dollars spent in the Iraq War.

  • Added: May 08, 2008
  • Length: 02:43
No Peace, No Work
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Longshoremen plan to close West Coast ports on May 1 to lead widespread labor protests against the Iraq war.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2008
  • Length: 02:58

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