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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

Nixon at War: How Vietnam Led to Watergate

From: Nixon at War

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (June 17th, 1972), writer, historian, and Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 host Kurt A...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Spokane Public Radio, KRCU Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KUOW and more

Constitution Day Special: The Constitution & The Bill of Rights

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

In honor of Constitution Day, Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on how our democracy works, shares the story of the two most important docum...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WITF, and WYAP

Assignment: Memphis

From: Drew Darling

The plot that killed the dream. The Who, What, Where, How and Why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated.

Bought by WLPR and RadioStPete Florida

Out of the Blue: 50 Years After the UT Tower Shooting

From: KUT

Caption: UT Tower, Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr. /KUT News

It’s been 50 years since the University of Texas Tower shooting – long considered the first modern mass shooting of its kind. On Aug. 1, 1966, a sn...

Bought by WVTF, KUER, Prairie Public, WBEZ, KUOW and more

Right on Target, So Direct: Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" (2 hour and 1 hour NEWCAST FRIENDLY versions)

From: Paul Ingles

A celebration and exploration of "Blood on the Tracks," the Bob Dylan album voted his best in a Rolling Stone magazine fan survey. Music writers, ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WYSO, NPR Illinois, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more

Teajay and the (Berlin) Wall

From: Olivia Oyama

For the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Teajay details his world, before and after the event through his lens as a youth.

Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more

Prisoners of War, The Battle of the Bulge

From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont

This hour features four Vermont soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. The program weaves together their stories of capture,...

Bought by WXDU and KREV-LP

The Other 9/11: Part Two

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...

Part Three-New Protein Sources

From: Jan Thompson
Series: The Tragedy of Bataan

Caption: Wounded Eating at Jungle Hospital on Bataan, Credit: National Archives

Segment Three Background Info: This segment goes into detail about how the food situation became so bad in the Philippines that the troops had to b...

Bought by KUER

The Rwandan Genocide

From: Arndt Peltner

In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people

One Giant Leap: How We Saw It

From: Camille Dixon
Series: How We Saw It

On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing (July 20, 2009) this one-hour documentary will celebrate the event through the eyes of those ...

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