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Jane Goodwin Austin
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Dr. James Robertson: The Untold Civil War
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Dr. James Robertson, the author, professor, and famed historian, on his new book-The Untold Civil War: ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
Submarines
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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From a lumbering, oar-propelled apparatus to an advanced nuclear-powered machine, the submarine has evolved since the early 1600s.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 1
Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant
From: Mimi Geerges
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An author interview with Arthur Magida on "The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle"

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
America's Worst Maritime Disaster: The Sinking of the Steamboat Sultana
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique, we learn about an event in our country's history that is not widely known or talked about. Winona State University Profes...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 47:08
  • Purchases: 1
Peace on the Battlefield: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and Manassas Peace Jubilee (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Two instances when peace broke out – right on the field of battle. First, the impromptu but widespread unofficial Christmas Truce of 1914 in the ea...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WFIU, KUNM and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Echoes of Vietnam
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: This Just In!
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It is the 800 pound gorilla that sits in the Oval Office, the dark ghost that walks the halls of the White House; the haunting legacy of the Vietna...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Peace Message in Classical Music (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Karl Jenkins, Credit: www.karljenkins.com
A music historian tells stories about how classical composers have been influenced by the threat of war and the hope for peace in their works. Mus...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
Chris Hedges on the Myth of Human Progress
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Renowned author Chris Hedges paints a bleak picture of our world today, in rapid economic, environmental, and religious decline-but we still have a...

  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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
Pearl Harbor...Generational Perspectives
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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3 Generations compare their perspectives on this very important day in history

Bought by WMUU-LP, 'The Sea', WXDU, and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Last of Murrow's Boys: Richard C. Hottelet
From: GW Global Media Institute
Series: This Just In!
Caption: Broadcasting Legend Richard C. Hottelet
Step back in time with legendary reporter and "Murrow Boy" Richard C. Hottelet as he takes listeners from high above the beaches of Normandy down t...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 53:32
MN's 1st Volunteer Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Local historian, Barry Babcock, on the heroic stand by the First Minnesota Volunteers at the Battle of Gettysburg

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 15:33
  • Purchases: 1
Race, Slavery, and the Civil War: The Tough Stuff
From: With Good Reason
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To mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the nation’s finest historians gathered on September 24th at Norfolk State University to discuss th...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WUAL, and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Barry Babcock on the Dakota War of 1862
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Barry Babcock talks about the Dakota war of 1862, a tragic event for all sides.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 15:02
  • 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
Hidden Histories: Kent State- New evidence suggest massacre was ordered!
From: Jack Johnson
Series: Hidden Histories
Caption: Kent State
Forty years ago last Tuesday the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd of Kent State College Students, killing four students and wounding 9 ot...

  • Added: May 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:01
Fighting Identity
From: Woodrow Wilson Center
Series: dialogue Radio
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dialogue is an award-winning television and radio program that explores the world of ideas through weekly, half-hour conversations with renowned pu...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:40
The Chieftains: San Patricio
From: Joyride Media
Caption: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder, Credit: Judith Burrows
The Chieftains and Ry Cooder present the history behind their collaboration inspired by The St Patrick's Battalion of Irish-born soldiers in the Me...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 50
What Led To The Bloody Island Massacre?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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25 years before the battle of ‘The Little Bighorn,’ 40 years before the ‘Battle of Wounded Knee,’ there was ‘The Bloody Island Massacre’ in the spr...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 26:04
The Health Legacy of Nuclear Test Veterans
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Participants in Britain's nuclear weapons testing program argued recently that health was damaged by radiation. Who is responsible? Should compensa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Independent Minds: Winston Churchill -- Into the Storm
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Winston Churchill -- known for powerful prose, undaunted persistence, and uncompromising ideals -- led Britain against all odds, to overcome the Na...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNIN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 15
Medicine
From: Steve Clark
Series: Virginia: Colony to Commonwealth
Caption: At the surgeon's tent, Credit: Jamestown Yorktown Foundation
In the eighteenth century the state of medical care and medical theory was undergoing a transition. Historian Edward Ayers. Not understanding the c...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2009
  • Length: 02:44
Unquiet History 10
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
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Voices of the Armistice

  • Added: Nov 14, 2008
  • Length: 02:28

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