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Voices of Vietnam: Fighting on Two Fronts (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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African Americans who fought for their country in Vietnam often experienced the same kinds of racism they had endured back home. While white and ...

Bought by KOSU, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WPCA-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCQS and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Voices of Vietnam: Fighting on Two Fronts (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-African Americans who fought for their country in Vietnam often experienced in the ranks the racism their families endured back home. While white...

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WMUU-LP, WTJU, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
Voices of Vietnam: Fighting on Two Fronts (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-African Americans who fought for their country in Vietnam often experienced in the ranks the racism their families endured back home. While white...

Bought by WVAS, KMUN, KRDP, WJCU, and WFHB


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Get Rhythm (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-A musical Indiana Jones is pursuing the Holy Grail of American symphonic music: long-lost works by master composers that are housed in the Library...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, KRDP and more


  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 8
Get Rhythm (half)
From: With Good Reason
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-A musical Indiana Jones is pursuing the Holy Grail of American symphonic music: long-lost works by master composers that are housed in the Library...

Bought by KRZA and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Getting into Vietnam (52 minutes)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Memorial Day shows
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In this episode of With Good Reason’s NEH-funded documentary series on the Vietnam War, the story of the draft -- who it ensnared, who escaped, an...

Bought by WGZS, KMUN, WVTF, WDSE, and WGZS


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 5
Getting Into Vietnam (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Memorial Day shows
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In this episode of With Good Reason’s NEH-funded documentary series on the Vietnam War, the story of the draft -- who it ensnared, who escaped, an...

Bought by KMUN and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Through an Indian's Looking Glass (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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William Apess, a Pequot man who came of age during the Jacksonian era, has been called the Native American Frederick Douglas. Plus: The visiona...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
"Building a Wall": Church and State in America (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WFAE, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Golden Age of Flattery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Invisible Founders (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. Justin Reid tell...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 11
Invisible Founders (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. Justin Reid tell...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, WVAS, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Rock and Roll in Black and White (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Rock and Roll started out as an interracial forum, but Slate’s pop critic Jack Hamilton says rock turned into a predominantly white music genre, a...

Bought by WCNY, WXDU, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMUD and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
Rock and Roll in Black and White (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Rock and roll tarted out as an interracial forum, but Slate’s pop critic Jack Hamilton says rock turned into a predominantly white music genre. -I...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, KRZA, KVSC, WLIW and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Innovation & Obsolescence: The Life, Death, and Occasional Rebirth of Technologies
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: Ben Gross' personal video discs and player. , Credit: Photograph by Mariel Carr.
Some technologies flash in the pan so quickly they hardly leave a trace (Google Glass anyone?); while others seem to stick around long past their u...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 38:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Business of Slavery (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Enslaved people in sugarcane field
This is the newest version of a captivating account of how slavery fueled the unique American form of Capitalism.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Let There Be Night (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?

Bought by WCNY and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
Roger McGuinn
From: Brian Bahouth
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Roger McGuinn tells Brian Bahouth about his early days learning instruments and songs at the Old Town School of Music in Chicago, the formation of ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:51
Red Ink
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A common historical myth is that Native Americans were an “oral people” who didn't engage in literacy. But one scholar argues that Native Americans...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, and WFHB


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Marc Myers - 'Why Jazz Happened'
From: Mark Hayes
Series: Passing Notes
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Noted music and arts journalist Marc Myers examines some of the forces that help explain the development of the sounds and styles of jazz in his ne...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:20
Joey DeFrancesco - 'Wonderful! Wonderful!'
From: Mark Hayes
Series: Passing Notes
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The organ legend "Joey D" talks about working with Larry Coryell and Jimmy Cobb, as well as the influence of Miles Davis on his trumpet playing.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:19
The Mikie Show #50, Joe
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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We return with episode fifty! Yes, your fiftieth show cocktail celebration can start right now! Let’s hope it also includes listening to the show! ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:01
Jazz and Civil Rights
From: With Good Reason
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Musicians' impact on the Movement.

Bought by WVAS, WVAS, WABE, WVAS, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
"I do solemnly swear..."
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Presidential Historian plays clips from Inauguration speeches and tells us what to listen for in Obama's address. And Political Scientists reflec...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00