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Secession Showdown
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Camp at Ft. Monroe, VA, Credit: Library of Congress
A conversation about the contingency of one state's role in the Civil War.

Bought by KRUA and WRPI


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
Military Draft 29 min.
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Shorter version of the Military Draft

  • Added: May 31, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Miep Gies: Protector of Anne Frank Dies at 100 (19:00 Lecture Excerpt)
From: Paul Ingles
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Miep Gies, the Austrian woman whose family protected the family of Anne Frank during World War II and who found Anne's diary scattered on the floor...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 19:01
Independent Minds: At War in the Pacific
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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A new perspective on the often-overlooked story of the Marines who fought in the brutal Pacific Campaign of World War II.

Bought by KGOU, WVTF, WLPR , KUHF, WVTF and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2009
  • Length: 55:54
  • Purchases: 61
When the Spam hit the fan in Nam
From: Rich Halten
Caption: House in Hue where GI broadcasters made their stand
A Veteran's Day flashback to two tales of survival from one historic battle

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, KUT, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 19, 2009
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 5
Women at War
From: With Good Reason
Caption: On Their Own, Credit: Joyce Hoffman
Covering a beat, or a family: two different perspectives on women at war

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Independent Minds: Winston Churchill -- Into the Storm
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Winston Churchill -- known for powerful prose, undaunted persistence, and uncompromising ideals -- led Britain against all odds, to overcome the Na...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNIN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 15
WNR: A Short History of the Taliban
From: War News Radio
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From "Pen to Paper" (March 13, 2009): War News Radio cracks open the history books to see who today's Taliban are, and where they came from.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 3
What if the South had won the Civil War?
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Noel Hendrickson considers questions about what might have been if the past had happened differently.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:39
TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR - Episode 1
From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series
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A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR - Episode 2
From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series
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A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR - Episode 3
From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series
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A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR - Episode 4
From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series
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A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR - Episode 5
From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series
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A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR
From: Rachel Jeffreys
Series: TALES FROM THE GREAT WAR -- Series
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A Welsh-American remembers World War One with uncommon candor, poignancy, and even humor. Visit a very different era and a very different war.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
An Immigrants' History of South Park
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Life on the Duwamish: Rediscovering Seattle's Dirty South
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Life on the Duwamish, Segment 1

  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 09:01
Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill
From: Vose Productions
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"Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill" is a story in which a Vietnam veteran confronts his past through a dialogue with the ghost of the My Lai massacre.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: May 11, 2008
  • Length: 19:31
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with DIANE ACKERMAN, author of bestseller "The Zoo Keeper's Wife."
From: Out of Bounds
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Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
Remembering...The D-Day Spirit
From: Ted Magnuson
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Patriotic recollections

  • Added: Nov 22, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
Patriots
From: Laura Spero
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In May 2002, seniors compare the post 9/11 world to Pearl Harbor and World War II.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 28, 2007
  • Length: 26:44
  • Purchases: 1
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. - 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
Ken Burns: The War
From: Joyride Media
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This new one-hour radio documentary goes behind the making of Ken Burns' latest film for PBS - THE WAR.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KLCC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
"Virtual" Internment for Japanese Americans
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Portraits of Japanese-Americans Who "Stayed Behind" during World War II

  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 06:27
Memorial Day: "Good Muslims, Great Americans"
From: Kyle Gassiott
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A story about Muslims in the American military-including a WWII vet who lobbied the government to designate Islam on military dogtags.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1