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Monumental - A Tale from The Heart of America
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Tales From the Heart of America
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Uncover the layers of sacrifice, courage, and unity at the heart of America's story through the historic battlefield of Gettysburg and the inspirin...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 10:28
Ulysses and Julia Grant - A More Perfect Union
From: Journeys to Love
Series: Love Is History
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Love triumphs, even through the Civil War, and the story of a union within the Union - the profound love of Ulysses and Julia Grant

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 15:10
Christmas Traditions Around the World: Is Santa in a pickle?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Reflecting on three years of war in Tigray, Ethiopia: The 21st century's deadliest conflict
From: Jules Feeney
Caption: Salem Tewelde (left) and her cousin Jerusaliem Gebreziabher (right) during a trip to Sudan to document stories of refugees fleeing violence in Tigray., Credit: Courtesey of Salem Tewelde
On this three-year anniversary of war in Tigray, members of the diaspora spoke about their loss, grief and commitment to solidarity.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2023
  • Length: 04:50
Too Soon? The First Family 60 Years On
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
25 years since Matthew Shepard: Where are we now?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, KUOW, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 8
Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
Mr. Yuk
From: Elaine Vitone
Series: Pitt Medcast
Caption: Mr. Yuk, the poster child for poisoning prevention, debuted in 1971., Credit: The Mr. Yuk logo is a registered trademark of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. Used with permission
He's mean. He's green. He's the poster child for poisoning prevention. And he's turning 50!

  • Added: Mar 22, 2021
  • Length: 16:40
Peaceful Village (A Pandemic Anniversary Episode)
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
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What story will we tell when we look back on this pandemic year? On the one-year anniversary of the pandemic (and Shelter in Place, a pandemic-bor...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 2
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
Oh! What A Poetical War!
From: Sue Zizza
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Featuring the popular poetry of the time before and during the Great War: the Music Hall songs; the songs the soldiers sang; the poems that served ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, Prairie Public, and KAAD-LP


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Just in time for Halloween---Kiersten White's The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:36
Celebrating Leonard Bernstein on Broadway
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Leonard Bernstein, Credit: Al Ravenna, 1955, courtesy of the Library of Congress
After Leonard Bernstein, Broadway was not the same…. Composer and commentator Rob Kapilow shows us why.

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 43:29
  • Purchases: 1
My Bruce-Like Life
From: Larry Tazuma
Caption: LarryT
At 32, Larry Tazuma embarked on a journey to live a life as somebody much more special than himself — as Bruce Lee, the legendary martial artist an...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2018
  • Length: 05:30
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
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates author Pam Munoz Ryan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Pam Munoz Ryan
For award-winning author for young readers Pam Munoz Ryan multiculturalism comes naturally.

Bought by KWMR, KRZA, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 3
Calling Out the Ancestors: My Family's Lingering Civil War Ghosts
From: Saro Lynch-Thomason
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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
A Nation of Immigrants, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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A Nation of Immigrants is what we are, always have been, and always will be, as long as we remain the United States of America. Bans on immigrants ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
Centennial Celebration: ODJB
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
February 26, 1917 marks the date of the first recording of jazz. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band had the honor to be the first, but even that was ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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