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Don't Mess with Texas History
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
Caption: The Alamo, San Antonio, TX USA
This episode could change how you remember the Alamo.

Bought by KFOI Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 2
Dodge M37
From: The Telling Room
Caption: Dodge M37, Credit: Andreas von Huene
If only an an old truck could talk. Telling Room student Balthasar von Huene gives voice to a military work-horse that found a new life in Maine.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:17
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans face an uncertain future after war
From: KALW
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Since 2001, about 2.5 million people have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, at least a third of them more than once. When they return, many ve...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:36
The Beat: Wendell Affield - "Streams"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Wendell Affield grew up on a farm near Nebish, Minnesota. He's a Vietnam Veteran, wounded during his tour of duty on a gunboat in the Mekong Delta,...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "I Try To Imagine Eva Braun"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Episode 6: The Journey Continues
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
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Veteran Matters continues with part 2 of this series. Host Peter Hilton introduces a new group of veterans, and we learn what roles animals may or ...

Bought by WFHB and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 2
A Child Hidden in East-Flanders in 1942
From: Charles Spira
Caption: Free At Last!
When the Germans started the deportation of Jews in Antwerp, Belgium in 1942, Charles Spira was 4 years old. This is the story how Charles, his mo...

Bought by KAAD-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KUT


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 21:09
  • Purchases: 3
First World War poetry, with Hugh Dow - Break of Day in the Trenches, by Isaac Rosenberg
From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium
Caption: Isaac Rosenberg
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
Matthew White: The Great Big Book of Horrible Things
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Matthew White about his book, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things, which documents, analyzes, and ran...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
Muddy Jungle Rivers: Wendell Affield talk about his Vietnam memoir
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Muddy Jungle Rivers - Wendell Affield
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
Pearl Harbor Veteran Jim Peacock Remembers
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Pearl Harbor veteran Jim Peacock., Credit: Greg Latza, greglatza.com
Jim Peacock is one of only a few dozen U.S. veterans who witnessed both the beginning of World War II at Pearl Harbor and the war's end on deck the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 13
Students and Soldiers: Captivating Stories from Montana Veterans
From: Beth Anne Austein
Caption: Willard Alternative High School student, Keifer Clark, interviews 93-year-old Bataan Death March survivor, Ben Steele. , Credit: Julie Jorgenson
"Students and Soldiers" weaves together wartime stories from twelve Montana veterans of various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Interviewed by t...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBRP Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Henry Nicholas Gunther, November 11, 1918
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Officially the last American to be killed in World War I. In a cruel twist of fate, Henry Gunther "cheated life" by dying needlessly on a field in ...

Bought by WRVG - Georgetown College Student Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fields of Remembrance
From: With Good Reason
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With Veteran's Day coming up, we take a moment to remember the veterans from the Second World War, when a general takes his students to France to h...

Bought by KCNP and 'The Sea'


  • Added: Oct 07, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Honoring Our Veterans
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The nation is losing 850 World War II veterans a day. One Virginia general is seeing that their sacrifice is remembered. Kelley Libby reports.

Bought by KENW, KHSU, KKWE Niijii Radio, Delta College Public Radio, and KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Oct 07, 2011
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 5
To The Fallen: Memorial Day - Part 1
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Memorial Day Poster, Credit: Beverly & Pack
Part one of a two-hour remembrance for Memorial Day... Since the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America has lost over 700,000 soldiers. For Memor...

Bought by KTXK


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 44:32
  • Purchases: 1
Dean Urdahl and the 1862 Dakota War
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Minnesota State Representative, retired teacher and author Dean Urdahl discusses the 1862 Dakota War and Its Aftermath. Urdahl not only has a fami...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 36:06
  • Purchases: 2
"Ingelore," Speaking Without Hearing
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with filmmaker Frank Stiefel, about his documentary “Ingelore,” which chronicles the life of his mother, Inge...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
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
Impunity and Accountability in Colombia
From: A World of Possibilities
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The state of Colombia's renewed Justice system.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
This I Believe - Veterans Day Feature
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Veterans from World War I through the Iraq War discuss how their combat experiences shaped their beliefs.

Bought by WUTC, KKWE Niijii Radio, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM, Vocalo.org and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 6
Alaskan WW II 10th Mtn.Veterans Remember
From: Katie Bausler
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Memories of three members of an elite WW II mountaineering force.

Bought by WTIP, KMXT, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2007
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 4
P.O.V. - The Camden 28 Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmaker Anthony Giacchino talks with P.O.V. about the making of his documentary film "The Camden 28"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 09:12
A WWII Vet Remembers His German Friend
From: Andrew Witmer
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WWII veteran Ed Goshorn talks about befriending a young German pilot who had earlier tried to kill him.

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
Bluma Shapiro: Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:25