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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
The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Gene Goodsky
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hea...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
Spotlight on "Jimmy Carter-Rock 'n' Roll President" Documentary
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 1
One heart. One mind. One prayer.
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Our house was always getting raided because it was a drop-off point for the supply route that was going into Wounded Knee.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 5
Program 2 ~ The Soundtrack in Vietnam
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The second hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Listen to the soundtrack of the Vietnam War as ...

Bought by KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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


  • Added: May 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 15
Shortcuts to War & Peace-The Red Line
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Better Living Through Chemistry
Barack Obama draws a red line in regards to Syria & chemical weapons and this program reflects the tension during the past few weeks mixed with pre...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:31
The Other 9/11: Part Two
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Third Party Bid to be President
From: Prairie Public
Caption: Fit as a Bull Moose
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


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 20:07
  • Purchases: 4
All Mixed Up:Election Shortcuts (part one)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: George McGovern
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama completely mixed up in a special "Election Shortcut". The first Shortcut was broadcast in November of 1972 in reaction...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 1
Never On Sunday: The Hidden World Of Elena Fonseca
From: Samuel Robinson
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The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
Caption: An American Terrorist
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


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Between Civil War and Civil Rights - 5: White Protestant Nation (1915-25)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
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An exploration of American racism as cultural and commercial mass-phenomenon, covering the "reincarnation" of the Klan as a fraternal movement whic...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -8: American As Apple Pie--How Terrorism Lost (1940-55)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Paul Robeson testifies
Equality under the law became viable for African Americans only after hard, dangerous work turned public opinion and federal policy against the whi...

Bought by WCPN and KSJD


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
First Peoples of the Duwamish
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 2

Bought by KLCC and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 2
Building Bridges Documentary
From: KGSM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Genocide: How Will History Judge Us?

  • Added: May 28, 2008
  • Length: 28:39
The Story of Lili Marleen
From: Arndt Peltner
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This features tells the story of the world renowned song Lili Marleen

Bought by Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Apr 28, 2008
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 1
Epicentro Latino: Spanish and English. Are We a Bilingual Nation? (2 of 4)
From: Rebeca Logan
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Hispanic issues, history, politics

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KTSW 89.9, 90.5 WSNC, KBRP Community Radio, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Peace, War, & Indifference
From: Andrew Reissiger
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One-hour, newscast compatible program that examines the possibilities of peace in our world today by looking at excerpts from important presidentia...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KQED, New Hampshire Public Radio, WHRV, WETA and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2006
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 6
Nuremberg – Law on Trial
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The legacy of the Nuremberg Trials – the first real experiment in International Criminal Law.

Bought by WBEZ, WOSU, KUOW, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2005
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 4
Uncommon Courage: The Viola Liuzzo story
From: David Person
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This is the story of the only white woman martyred in the Civil Rights movement.

Bought by WJAB, WJAB, WEKU, Audible, WFDD and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 8