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Professor Emeritus R. David Edmunds is the author of 12 books about Native Americans. His newest title is “Voices in the Drum,” a book that feature...
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 09:12
Jake Tapper regularly interviews world leaders and other newsmakers, but he also brings his knowledge of politics and the past to his political thr...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 10:25
The always fun Lisa Scottoline is back with her 37th novel, LOYALTY, a historical novel about the beginnings of the Mafia on the island of Sici...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 09:51
Steven Simon, author of seven books, is currently a Fellow at MIT (Mass. Inst. Tech.) after spending nearly 40 years specializing in the Middle Eas...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 10:27
RIVER OF THE GODS by bestselling historian Candice Millard is her fourth book. Known for her meticulously researched work, her newest book is an ad...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 10:08
“I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.”
Bill McKibben is an educator, en...
- Added: Jun 03, 2022
- Length: 09:53
In WAYS & MEANS. Lincoln and his Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, author Roger Lowenstein not only spells out how each side in very diff...
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 10:26
"THE STEAL. The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It," co-authored by Mark Bowden, concentrates in week-by-week, sta...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
Bestselling, award-winning historian Nathaniel Philbrick's "Travels with George" is a blended account of two road trips separated by about 230 year...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 08:47
Flynn Berry’s third thriller, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, is “Northern Spy.” It's a thriller about the contemporary IRA, and two sisters who find the...
- Added: May 20, 2021
- Length: 09:56
Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School.
Also known as the...
- Added: Jul 05, 2019
- Length: 09:56
Elaine Weiss’s "The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote" is the true story of the suffragettes. These are the female leaders who—in the f...
- Added: May 27, 2019
- Length: 09:55
New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...
- Added: Nov 17, 2018
- Length: 09:55
Pulitzer Prize-winning Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times, is one of America’s best known and most award-winning biogra...
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 09:20
Nate Blakeslee is an investigative reporter who usually writes about politics in Texas. In “American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession i...
- Added: Jan 29, 2018
- Length: 09:52
If nothing else, the Russian Revolution reveals the uses of history for ideological purposes. For Russia’s Communism is the counterclaim to Capital...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Oct 25, 2017
- Length: 55:51
- Purchases: 1
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
Assuming the next president has no ability, vision, or desire to combat the staggering inequality of our new “gilded age,” we’re left with the ques...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 58:01
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
- Purchases: 2
“An increasing number of people under the age of 25 get all their news, not just some of it, from Facebook.” The author points out that we are bomb...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 09:54
- Purchases: 2
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
Silent film may be a thing of the past, but scoring music to flickering screen classics isn't. This documentary focuses on three Minneapolis bands ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 26:46
- Purchases: 2
When politicians talk about "working across the aisle", they talk about it as if they are endorsing a great ethic. But working across the aisle is...
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 07:04
Week of April 12 to April 18 in History - FDR dies - HST becomes President
- Added: Apr 15, 2009
- Length: 06:40
