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Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 36:31
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Here’s a seemingly inexplicable historical event: How did the anti-slavery Republican party take the White House in 1861, only six years after its ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 32:00
This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
On this program we talk with Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, who reads poems from his book Me Today, You Tomorrow, and recounts how out of the...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 58:29
Francesca talks with Glenn Silber about the acclaimed documentary he co-directed, The War At Home. It’s about the anti-war movement in Madison, Wis...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Using their own words to condemn them, Rob Larson exposes these intellectual opportunists for what they are: defenders of cruel power systems. Men ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2018
- Length: 59:01
What comes to the fore in this conversation with Rebecca Spang is that the French Revolution is likely best thought of as a civil war and in that ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 58:37
From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 58:37
Our show today is Anarchy is Intersectional: Learning from Emma Goldman. Goldman, a feminist anarchist, was disdainful of what is now called “Lean ...
Bought by KBBI Alaska and KZYX
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 58:46
- Purchases: 2
Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 58:56
Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). In many workp...
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 58:00
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 59:28
From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 58:02
Hitler called him “half beast, half giant” and clearly saw a kind of reflection there. Kuromiya asserts that Stalin was a deeply singular personali...
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 01:00:34
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 58:10
The conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1950, continues to define the terms of what it means to American. But the definition seems always profe...
Bought by Radio Catskill, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WRGY
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
For this 90-minute special, our guest is Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains...
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- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 01:28:04
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Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 57:43
We talk with historian Timothy Snyder about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. The book is a kind of vaccine to inocul...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 01:58:02
Today’s show is about for-profit colleges and universities–or the Predatory Education Business. If you’re surprised to hear predatory and for-profi...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 58:13
He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WCPN
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 58:03
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Just a moment of watching the daily activities of our national public life reveals that ‘performance’ is consequential — far beyond the confines of...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 57:27
For “Unfounded America” we’re joined by Nancy Isenberg of the popular and provocative new book, White Trash: The 400-year Untold Story of Class in ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM
- Added: Aug 09, 2016
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 09:56
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Tom Breiding on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 59:13
