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When the Spam hit the fan in Nam

From: Rich Halten

Caption: House in Hue where GI broadcasters made their stand

A Veteran's Day flashback to two tales of survival from one historic battle

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, KUT, and KUOW

Added: Oct 19, 2009
Length: 10:36
Purchases: 5

The Health Legacy of Nuclear Test Veterans

From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner

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

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

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

Rebel Yell

From: Peter Solomon

A historian in Richmond, VA believes he has solved the riddle behind the legendary Confederate War cry that was thought to be lost to the ages.

Bought by WEZU, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio

Added: Jul 08, 2009
Length: 03:48
Purchases: 4

Colonel Matthew Bogdanos to scholars: stay away from stolen antiquities

From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

The marine reserve colonel is angry that scholars are involved in authenticating stolen Iraqi antiquities that terrorists use to buy weapons that a...

Added: Jun 26, 2009
Length: 30:30

Nuremberg - from Nazi-Rallies to the city of Human Rights

From: Arndt Peltner

An interview with Arno Hamburger, city council member and president of the Jewish community in Nuremberg.

Added: Jun 11, 2009
Length: 26:26

Homefront Heroines: Voices of Navy WAVES

From: Joe Sampson

During World War II, more than a hundred thousand women made history serving on active duty in the Navy. Known as WAVES, these women did everything...

Added: Jun 08, 2009
Length: 05:00

Freedom: A Cross-Generational Examination of the Costs of War

From: Searsport Speeper

Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

Added: Jun 03, 2009
Length: 33:48

Kathleen's Machine: World War II At Home

From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us

Short documentary collage of voices recorded in St. Louis during World War II on a Wilcox-Gay Recordio. The Greatest Generation carries on, as reme...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: May 18, 2009
Length: 06:00
Purchases: 1

Jennie's Secret

From: Linda Paul

Take a look at this picture. Maybe you can figure out that the Civil War soldier on the right is a woman. But the guy sitting next to her sure coul...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Prairie Public, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WUTC and more

Added: May 13, 2009
Length: 18:05
Purchases: 15

Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM

Added: May 05, 2009
Length: 58:19
Purchases: 3

Independent Minds: Winston Churchill -- Into the Storm

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds

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

German Internment in the US

From: Arndt Peltner

During WWII about 11.000 German immigrants living in the US were interned. Still today, they are waiting for a recognition of this injustice.

Added: Apr 17, 2009
Length: 29:52

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

Colonial Militia

From: Steve Clark
Series: Virginia: Colony to Commonwealth

Caption: Farm militia drill, Credit: Jamestown Yorktown Foundation

The colonial militias played an important role in the struggle for independence, but then, as now, not without some misunderstanding.

Added: Apr 16, 2009
Length: 02:30

WNR: Sgt. Chuck's Tour of Iraq

From: War News Radio

From "Six Years In" (March 20, 2009): War News Radio features the story of an U.S. soldier who found himself in the Sunni Triangle in April of 2003.

Added: Mar 20, 2009
Length: 06:24

WNR: A Short History of the Taliban

From: War News Radio

From "Pen to Paper" (March 13, 2009): War News Radio cracks open the history books to see who today's Taliban are, and where they came from.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, and CKMO

Added: Mar 12, 2009
Length: 07:59
Purchases: 3

Impunity and Accountability in Colombia

From: A World of Possibilities

The state of Colombia's renewed Justice system.

Added: Mar 12, 2009
Length: 55:00

WNR: Boy Scouts in Iraq

From: War News Radio

From "On My Honor" (February 27, 2009): War News Radio reports on one American's efforts to help bring scouting back to post-Saddam Iraq.

Bought by WBEZ

Added: Mar 09, 2009
Length: 07:25
Purchases: 1

What if the South had won the Civil War?

From: With Good Reason

Noel Hendrickson considers questions about what might have been if the past had happened differently.

Added: Feb 11, 2009
Length: 29:39

Barrack 18

From: Jon Kalish

The trues story of the Jews who counterfeited for the Third Reich.

Added: Jan 22, 2009
Length: 27:39

Interview with Catholic Worker James Douglass on: JFK and the Unspeakable

From: Chris Goldstein

Chris Goldstein interviews Catholic Worker James Douglass on his book JFK and the Unspeakable. The book reveals a President at odds with the milita...

Added: Jan 17, 2009
Length: 33:27

Unquiet History 10

From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History