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SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Taking Us Higher (An Appreciation)

From: Paul Ingles

A celebration of some of the most irresistible music of the late 1960's and early '70's from group leader Sly Stone and the FAMILY STONE band - tha...

Bought by WUTC, KTNA, KSJE, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KUHF and more

Echoes of a Coup

From: Scene on Radio

One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more

Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

Civics 101: The History of Labor Policy

From: New Hampshire Public Radio

The modern day workplace is the product of a centuries-long battle for fair wages, reasonable hours and safe conditions. Civics 101 tells the story...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and WVTF

The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg

From: The GroundTruth Project

Caption: The Whistleblower, Credit: The Ground Truth Project

To mark the passing of Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers, the GroundTruth Project presents a special one hour program that traces the path o...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, WORT, KOSU and more

Space Oddities: Episode 6-The Sue Me, Sue You Blues (With Apologies to George Harrison)

From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space

Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA

Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

Bought by WYAP

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

New Jersey v T.L.O.

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Do you have a right to privacy while in school?

Right to Privacy: Griswold v Connecticut

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

The case that kicked the government out of our bedrooms.

John Lewis: Profile in Peace (29:00)

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

The late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Bought by KUNM, Wyoming Public Radio, WVPE, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

John Lewis: Profile in Peace

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

The late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, KUHF, KETR-FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WUFT and more

The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today

From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History

This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City

KICK OUT THE JAMS episode two with Tiffany WD

From: Bridget Hodder
Series: KOTJ podcast

In this episode I talk to Tiff who started Fanny Adams Vintage as well as Project Awesome, a project bent on advertising local artists & creating a...

Getting Into Vietnam (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

In the first episode of a new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the self-image of Ameri...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis and WLPR

Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, Troy Public Radio, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPCA-LP and more

Getting Into Vietnam (half hour version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We go back to the night in June 1969 at the New York City Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today’s show we’ll hear about the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WRIR, KQED and more

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...

100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Third Party Bid to be President

From: Prairie Public

2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose bid to be president. This program looks back at Roosevelt's career and how...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUAF Public Radio, WRPI, and KFAI Minneapolis

Pakistan Aslant (1) - "The country that could kill the world"

From: Open Source

Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]

Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by WCPN, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Amnesty At 50

From: Neil Gardner

Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists. John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...

COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU

Humankind: An Informed Republic

From: Humankind

Ideal for broadcast around July 4th: America's founders knew their democracy required informed citizens, but is quality journalism now threatened b...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KVSC, WBEZ, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WFHB and more

Rediscovering Barbara Jordan

From: KUT

One-hour documentary about the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan, the first black woman from the South to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio

The History of This I Believe

From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe

Jay Allison hosts a documentary exploring the history of Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series of the early 1950s.

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, KZYX, Marfa Public Radio and more

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