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Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 5
American West writer Mark Lee Gardner’s “THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Colorado-based Mark Lee Gardner’s ninth book, THE EARTH IS ALL THAT LASTS, is a dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legend...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 09:39
Kent State
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Deborah Wiles
On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen. The students were unarmed. The Guard w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
OutCasting 0063 - The Stonewall Uprising, 50 years Later - Part 3 of a 3 Part Series
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: The Stonewall Inn, NYC, Credit: Diana Davies via New York Public Library
A look back at LGBTQ activism, putting the Stonewall uprising into historical context on its 50th anniversary.

Bought by KZYX and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
OutCasting 0062 – The Stonewall Uprising, 50 years Later – Part 2 of a Series
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Journalist and activist Andy Humm
A look back at LGBTQ activism, putting the Stonewall uprising into historical context on its 50th anniversary.

Bought by KZYX, Radio Catskill, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
OutCasting 0061 - The Stonewall Uprising, 50 years Later - Part 1 of a Series
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: The Stonewall Inn, NYC, Credit: Diana Davies via New York Public Library
A look back at LGBTQ activism, putting the Stonewall uprising into historical context on its 50th anniversary.

Bought by KZYX, Radio Catskill, KPSQ-LP, WMPG, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?
From: Amy Roost
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
Veterans Day Soldier Story: Bob Buntin
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Bob Buntin, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:48
Half a Life Time Ago
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Dancers at the march for the disappeared, Credit: Beatrice Murch
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 09:39
"Those CCC Boys"
From: Vermont Public
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It's now 75 years since the first Civilian Conservation Corps camps opened. More than three million men served in the CCC, which changed the Americ...

Bought by WVTF, WRPI, KWMD, KUT-HD, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 23:59
  • Purchases: 5
Willing for Trouble: Profile of Tibetan Poet & Freedom Fighter Tenzin Tsundue
From: The Tibet Connection
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Interview with a poet-activist who is inspiring a new generation of Tibetan youth

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 10:10
  • Purchases: 1
A Young American Writer Joins the March to Tibet
From: The Tibet Connection
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An interview about courage, international friendship, and how to break INTO an Indian jail

  • Added: Mar 13, 2008
  • Length: 06:20
No Freedom of Speech at Constitution Day Parade
From: KVMR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Group Censored at "Freedom of Speech" Parade

  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 06:02
Commentary: Labor's Unhappy Anniversary
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2006
  • Length: 02:28
THE CITY WILL RISE
From: Jesse Boggs
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Lessons learned and lost from a century's catastrophes

Bought by WRIR, KUT-HD, WETA, WMFE, WKUF-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 14
Commentary: Gene Debs, American Hero
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Few leaders have done more for ordinary Americans than Eugene V. Debs, born 150 years ago.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2005
  • Length: 04:06
The IWW at 100: A Brief History
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A commentary on the 100th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the most influential and colorful organizations in U.S. history.

Bought by BSR Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2005
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1