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International Day of the Girl Child: We're NOT number one
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
A Day To Remember Radio Modules - April 3-7, 2023
From: KUCO
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Date-based history modules for broadcast April 3-7, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
2023-02-12 The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809) fundamentally changed our understanding of human life—for better or for worse?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Amistad
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Oil painting of La Amistad off the coast of Long Island , Credit: Courtesy of the New Haven Museum
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
Fighting for the Future of Hong Kong
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary as months of pro-democracy demonstrations continue in Hong Kong. Demonstra...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
F-Word: Woodstock Urges Roaming
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
Rethinking PTSD with journalist Sebastian Junger
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sebastian Junger, Credit: Tim Hetherington
With his book Tribe, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger upends our ideas about PTSD.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 1
Woomera: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part One
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s Woomera immigration prison coordinated with 2500 outside supporters who had pitched camp outside th...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:10
Jamestown: The Native American Connection
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage
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This Live "LIstener Call-in" Discussion Program tells the story of the first contact in 1607 including the extermination of 20 tribes at the hands ...

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 43:06
  • Purchases: 1
Minnesota State Parks Celebrate 125 Years
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Minnesota’s state park system turns 125 this year. Nationwide, park attendance has declined for the last twenty years or so. But in Minnesota, a ri...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 12:37
Losing the Peace
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Telling American Stories (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Bro Adams says the humanities can help us solve problems brought on by advances in technology. And: The hustler who inspired the "Beats." Plus: Wha...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, WTJU, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4
Telling American Stories (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Bro Adams says the humanities can help us solve problems brought on by advances in technology. And: The hustler who inspired the "Beats." Plus: Wha...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KVSC, WLIW, and KENW


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
50 Years From the War on Poverty - Win or Lose?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
In January 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the War on Poverty. Much has changed, but much has stayed the same.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: President John F. Kennedy greets the crowd in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, shortly before his assassination., Credit: Library of Congress.
On November 22nd, 1963, 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas – a tragedy that inspired conspira...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, XRAY.fm, WRPI, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
PROMO - Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: President John F. Kennedy greets the crowd in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, shortly before his assassination., Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specifi...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: :30
PROMO: Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, November 19th, 1863. , Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lawrence and Simeon Cumberbatch
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...

Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 4
Promo - "The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington"
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington, 8/28/1963, Credit: (National Archives)
30-second promo for "The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington" with 5 second hole for station-specific time/date tag

Bought by WUFT and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Other Half Had a Dream Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...

Bought by KRZA and WSLR


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Feminine Mystique: Changing U.S. Women's History
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Series host Martha Burk interviews New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan's The Fe...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
MAKERS: The Women Who Make America
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Series host Martha Burk interviews Betsy West, Executive Producer of the PBS Special MAKERS:Women Who Make America, premiering on PBS February 26, ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRZA, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Before Roe v. Wade -- The Price Women Paid
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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On the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the U.S., series host Martha Burk interviews ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
Racing to Save D.C.'s Oldest Federal Monuments
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The boundary stones are the oldest federal monuments in D.C. (and Virginia)., Credit: Stephen Powers
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 04:10