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Love triumphs, even through the Civil War, and the story of a union within the Union - the profound love of Ulysses and Julia Grant
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 15:10
From: Ronald Duffy
For 2023-24
"Surviving The Bataan Death March"
Narrated by the late Senator John McCain (former POW)
Special Encore Presentation
Offered as ...
Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM, KWMU St. Louis, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVTF, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 57:22
- Purchases: 17
Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...
Bought by WWNO, WITF, WABE, KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 57:32
- Purchases: 20
KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 04:23
KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Nov 05, 2021
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 1
“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 26:16
A story of the lives-- the torture, starvation, forced marriages...and fear of Cambodians (Khmer) forced into the labor camps and Killing Fields cr...
- Added: Sep 21, 2017
- Length: 56:40
In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 10:04
A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...
- Added: May 28, 2017
- Length: 03:23
This is a Peace Talks radio special… from the archive of the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. We’re calling it Peace Great...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
World War Two B-24 bomber pilot veteran Sherman Beard, of Hillsboro, West Virginia remembers flying missions over Europe during the war.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 08:06
- Purchases: 1
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 58:03
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUHF, High Plains Public Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW and more
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
Also available...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 04:00
One night, entering a clearing, he and a companion came face to face with a well-armed Nazi patrol. Desperately outnumbered, he took an amazing cha...
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 03:00
