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An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 20:40
Caption: War Stories Logo, Credit: Adin Dobkin
In Northern France on July 14th, 1916, a cavalry unit from Hyderabad made what most consider to be the final cavalry charge of World War I before t...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 37:31
Caption: Gas mask exercise, Scott Field, Illinois.1942. , Credit: Library of Congress
Chemical weapons have played a chilling role in human history ever since World War I. As accounts of recent uses permeate the news, we decided to f...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 44:21
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Two haunting sounds that are powerful, and have an unusual quality when heard together.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:06
Caption: Wilfred Owen
Martin Blackwell reads Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
Caption: American Troops Surrendering
The final segment describes the fall of Bataan and those who were able to escape to Corregidor Island. Interviews are with: Art Campbell, Ralph Lev...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: U.S.S. Canopus
This segment is about the Naval Ground Battalion that was created using sailors from the U.S.S. Canopus. The Imperial Japanese had started to land ...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wounded Eating at Jungle Hospital on Bataan, Credit: National Archives
Segment Three Background Info: This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Cerny, Ruzovy Tank (Pink Tank), Credit: artlist.cz
Alena Hromadkova remembers the day that The Soviet Union invaded her country, Czechoslovakia.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2009
  • Length: 05:04
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Nez Perce elder Horace Axtell reflects on witnessing the devasation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMPG, WYSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2005
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 7