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Our guest is documentary filmmaker Robin Lung, who made the film Finding Kukan. Finding Kukan tells the story of Li Ling-Ai, a Chinese-American wom...
- Added: May 31, 2017
- Length: 29:00
The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...
- Added: Jul 17, 2016
- Length: 36:27
As combat roles open to women, we present conversations from those who served when their roles and expectations were defined by gender.
Bought by WVBI-LP, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 4
On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you part six of Voices of the Past Cemetery Discovery Walk 2014, sponsored by the Winona County Histori...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 16:06
On this episode of Culture Clique, we continue our coverage of Voices of the Past Cemetery Discovery Walk 2014 presented by The Winona County Histo...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 12:48
On this episode of Culture Clique, we continue our coverage of Voices of the Past Cemetery Discovery Walk 2014 presented by The Winona County Histo...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 11:10
Afghanistan is a place where peace just won’t stick. Radical Islamist Taliban insurgents have intensified their attacks on the capital with brazen ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 02:30
WWII widow Peggy S. Harris lost her husband of 6 weeks and never remarried. Pauline Laurent's husband died in Vietnam in 1968 and Erin Dructor's hu...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balogh interviews historian Rebecca Plant about war veterans and “mom-ism.”
Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Catherine Clinton discusses gender dynamics on the home front, and the American History Guys consider ways in which the Civil War is dist...
Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 06:38
- Purchases: 3
Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 16, 2013
- Length: 10:05
- Purchases: 1
We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
On January 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles in the military. War News Radio reporter Amy DiPie...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 03:47
Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 2
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
From "Uploading the War" (7/16/10): War News Radio reports on efforts to provide Afghan women with education.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 08:15
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
