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Settling The Great Plains, Yesterday and Today
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: 'Mikhail', 'Andrius' and 'Hans' who are played by Matt Walley, Jason Lambert and Jonathan Fielding., Credit: Steve Wilda
A new play examines pioneer life and immigration and technology a century ago.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2010
  • Length: 05:14
Calexico Episode V: The Star Spanglished Barrier
From: James McKee
Series: Calexico: The True Story of Life in the California Borderlands
Caption: at the border, Credit: Peter Laufer
Washington Monthly's Peter Laufer and Markos Kounalakis report on the Mexican-American Borderlands in this five-part series.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:07
  • Purchases: 1
50 Years of Newport Folk
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, Credit: Avishay Artsy
This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 06:18
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial a...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WRPI, KWIT, WRNC-LP, WPTC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Jay Ipson: The Original Survivor, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan
Jay Ipson and his family escaped Nazi persecution often by the skin of their teeth. But after liberation they had to contend with the Soviets. And ...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East - First Contact - Program One
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Asian sailors and adventurers helped to form the new country of America.

Bought by WCPN, KQED, WGBH Radio Boston, and KQED


  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Tale of the Missing RCAF Cap and it's Return
From: Glenn McKnight
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A touching story of a dutch girl during the war saving a RCAF Cap for 50 years and returning it the pilot

  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 06:39
Jazz Ambassadors
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Jazz Master Dave Brubeck on US Jazz Ambassadors of the 1950s

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 19
KERA Commentary: Public Sense of Identity
From: KERA
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How much our place of origin determines our sense of identity

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
Good Friday, 1865: LINCOLN'S LAST DAY
From: Craig Wichman
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The character of a country, and its President, are revealed -- as a traumatic war winds down, and eerie events presage Abraham Lincoln's own end...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KPVL, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2008
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 17
Park Stories: Tour Yosemite with a Buffalo Soldier
From: Jim Williams
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A Buffalo Soldier comes alive through a Yosemite park ranger

  • Added: Dec 11, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
Walking the Dog
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Walking the dog in Rome can bring friendship

  • Added: Dec 07, 2007
  • Length: 11:58
Our American Generations - Community - This I Believe essays
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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5 generations share essays on Community from This I Believe archive

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 59:59
Alaskan WW II 10th Mtn.Veterans Remember
From: Katie Bausler
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Memories of three members of an elite WW II mountaineering force.

Bought by WTIP, KMXT, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2007
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 4
P.O.V. - Libby, Montana Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmakers Dru Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis talk about the making of their film "Libby, Montana"

  • Added: Sep 14, 2007
  • Length: 10:22
P.O.V. - The Camden 28 Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmaker Anthony Giacchino talks with P.O.V. about the making of his documentary film "The Camden 28"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 09:12
P.O.V.- Following Sean Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck talks with P.O.V. about the making of his film "Following Sean"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 10:20
A WWII Vet Remembers His German Friend
From: Andrew Witmer
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WWII veteran Ed Goshorn talks about befriending a young German pilot who had earlier tried to kill him.

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 12-Japanese-American Community in the Valley
From: KRZA
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This program looks at the Japanese-American Community in the San Luis Valley and how they arrived.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Taming the Salt Monster
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The great swathes of the Western Australian wheatbelt were created a century ago when 1000 acres of bush were burned a day and the land became the ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WYSO and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 6
Crossing East: Shasta Taiko
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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A 1st Person profile of Russel Baba and Jeannie Aiko Mercer of Shasta Taiko

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 3
From: KRZA
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A program looking at the cultural history of the San Luis Valley program three focuses on the Arts in the Valley.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM


  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 1 in Series
From: KRZA
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Part 1 in series about the cultural histroy of the San Luis Valley.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM, KSUT, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jul 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Fairbridge Farm School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Four elderly Dutch people remember how as children recently liberated from the POW camps in Indonesia, they regained their childhood when they wer...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: For Every Atom Belonging to Me?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his latest book ?Specimen Days? ? part of a wave of post 9/1...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1