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Does Religion Always Cause Political Intolerance?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Political scientist James Gibson investigates the connections between political intolerance and religion.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Peacemaking Chapters of The Roosevelts
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, what you might call an independent spin-off from Ken Burns 2014 documentary on The Roosevelts. We consider Te...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUOW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:49
  • Purchases: 6
The Roosevelts Through a Peace Studies Lens
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, what you might call an independent spin-off from Ken Burns 2014 documentary on The Roosevelts. We consider Te...

Bought by KMXT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Aspen Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
America's War of Ideas
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In the run up to another war in the Middle East, after stalemate in Afghanistan and Iraq, what is it in the American DNA that makes us think it it ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
Two Visits with Benjamin Franklin Parts One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, as portrayed by Ralph Archbold in this two part, arc...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 58:02
This Week in History: Jack Kemp Announces Bid for President in 1988
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
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This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:40
This Week in History: Kennedy v. Carter in the New York Presidential Primary, 1980
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
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This week in history (March 23-March 29) takes a look back at Senator Ted Kennedy's landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in New York's primary on Ma...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:40
Creating a Federal Government
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
Caption: Gilbert Stuart, Lansdowne Portrait, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Prof. Peter Kastor sheds light on how debates over the size and role of government have evolved over time, from the country's earliest days to the ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 13:24
The Dixiecrats Depart
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh sits down with historian Joseph Crespino, who explains the Democratic conflict that led to the Dixiecrat Bolt of 1948.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
Maryland Town Celebrates Its 15 Hours Of Fame
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
The Worst Steamboat Money Can Buy…
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Walter Johnson about the rise of steamboats in the 19th Century, and how the cotton economy fueled an ever more ...

Bought by Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 3
Priests of Our Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marjorie Heins, Credit: photo by Catherine Boalch
In her new book, civil liberties lawyer Majorie Heins tells the stories of teachers and professors who resisted the communist witch hunt of the 195...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: The Rupture of Civil War
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Historical perspective on the Civil War and its effect on average Americans.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:51:07
1944 FDR's Second Bill of Rights Speech
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Can and should the government guarantee economic security?

Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 6
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6
Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh on Jihad, Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of "Culture Clique" we present the second part of our conversation with Sheik Odeh Muhawesh. Last week we heard Mr. Muhawesh's lect...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
An Interview With Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh on Jihad
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of "Culture Clique", Sheikh Odeh Muhawesh lectures about the word "Jihad" in his talk, "Everything You Wanted To Know About Jihad, ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Censorship of "Dorian Gray"
From: With Good Reason
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When it was first published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" appeared as a much changed version of the original text. Now, for ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
Giving the House of Representatives a Human Face
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Nicholas Longworth's gavel is among the treasures curated and conserved by the House of Representatives' very first curator., Credit: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Meet the very first curator of the U.S. House of Representatives collection... 4,000 artifacts strong.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 3
Charles Gates Dawes, April 23, 1951
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Anton Treuer and "The Assassination of Hole In The Day:"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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“The Assassination of Hole In The Day”: Author and Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State, Anton Treuer, talks about his new book about the dynamic a...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 4
MN Journalist Jay Weiner and "This Is NOT Florida"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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An interview with Minnesota Journalist Jay Weiner, of MinnPost, about his new book, "This Is NOT Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate R...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 19:46
  • Purchases: 1
Ku Klux Klan in Itasca County in the 1920s
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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We talk with Brian Vroman, Philosophy Instructor at Itasca Community College, about the history Ku Klux Klan in Itasca County in the 1920s.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 08:46
THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith on their documentary.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith talk to Andrea Chase about their Oscar(R)-nominated documentary, THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBE...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2010
  • Length: 18:33