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The 1954 movie Salt of the Earth is based on an actual strike in 1951 against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico. The film deals with the prejudice...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
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Georgia Hunter in her debut historical novel, “We Were the Lucky Ones” tells the true story of her family’s Holocaust survival during World War II....

  • Added: Jun 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:57
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Georges Mourier describes Napoléon as “not just a masterpiece." The Cinémathèque Française restoration expert says the 1927 silent film "is also a ...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 43:30
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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
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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
Caption: The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794.
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
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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
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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
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Making America Patriotic Again with Jorge Bernardo National Monument tour guide extraordinaire. Mr. Bernardo helps thousands relive & believe in t...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2018
  • Length: 27:17
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phillips de Koninick, Portrait of a Boy, 1673, Eskenazi Museum of Art 2001.45.
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
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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
Caption: Mug shot taken in 1901 when Goldman was implicated in the assassination of President McKinley.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cynthia Swanson’s "The Glass Forest" is a psychological thriller that takes place in the 1960s. It features the intersecting lives of three women w...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 09:44
Caption: Meta Golding as Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement, Credit: Courtesy of TVOne
Actress Meta Golding takes on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNJR, and KVNF


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 27:18
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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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
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Dr. Daniel Monti choses Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" to release this amazing announcement first. Making History with Firsts as a Hospital...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Original Walton's Five and Dime, now the Wal-Mart Visitor's Center, Bentonville, Arkansas., Credit: Photo taken by Bobak Ha'Eri. (CC BY-SA 2.5)
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
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

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


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14