PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

22 results


Constant Wonder - The Search for a Lost Jewish Community
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
Piece image
One hundred year old Stella Levi, wants you to know about her childhood home on the island of Rhodes, on Constant Wonder.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Who By Fire, Who By War
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
It’s a beautiful spring in the desert, which naturally makes one dream of heading off to war. Maybe a secret war, a guerrilla war, an unknown soldi...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Important Words
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
The Jewish people's busy autumn holiday season culminates next week with Simchas Torah, the day for Rejoicing with the Hebrew Bible.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - What Really Happened to Sodom, Ancient Mural of Jonah
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
Piece image
Topic 1: An archaeologist makes the case that a cosmic air burst destroyed a major city near the Dead Sea. Could it have been Sodom? Topic 2: The s...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Tiger in the Sea, Nine Lives Over the Atlantic
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
Piece image
Topic 1: A gripping tale of triumph, tragedy, unparalleled airmanship, and incredibly brave people in their finest hour; Topic 2: A ferry pilot's n...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 52:49
Ode to the Old Gods
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
A weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago—f...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Dear God
From: Israel Story
Piece image
The common tradition when visiting the holy Western Wall in Jerusalem is to write a small note to God and push it between the cracks of the sacred ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 18:17
The Canon
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Worf visits Rabbi Ben Newman's synagogue (not in canon), Credit: Eric Molinsky
Every sci-fi fantasy world comes with a canon of back stories and rules, which may have a lot in common with the original canon -- The Torah.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 5
Clyde Bellecourt
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Native Spirituality Circle
Piece image
Clyde Bellecourt talks about his experiences with AIM, native american culture and heritage.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:20
At Sea
From: Peter Bresnan
Caption: Sam Bellamy in front of his home in Long Island, NY., Credit: Peter Alexander Bresnan
From the moment you see Sam Bellamy, you know that there’s something different about him. He dresses differently from most people. He carries himse...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 12:23
  • Purchases: 1
President or Puppet?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, painted by Claude Chuchetiere c.1696., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Presidential scholar Barbara Perry discusses Protestant fears that JFK would answer to the Pope, not the American people if elected president — and...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WOUB, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 09:39
  • Purchases: 5
Nun But the Truth
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, painted by Claude Chuchetiere c.1696., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Host Brian Balogh heads to Our Lady of the Angels, a Trappist monastery in the Blue Ridge Mountains, to find out what life is really like behind th...

Bought by WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
Native Ascetic
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, painted by Claude Chuchetiere c.1696., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Producer Bruce Wallace heads to the birthplace of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first indigenous saint from North America, to see how she is remembered to...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WETS, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 3
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
Piece image
Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
So, A Man Breaks Into A Mosque...
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Caption: Classroom in the Islamic School in Seattle, Washington, 1982., Credit: Library of Congress
Anthropologist Nabeel Abraham tells host Brian Balogh about the fight between two Muslim communities over the future of a Dearborn, Michigan mosque...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 09:42
Wall of Separation: Church and State in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Pope Leo XIII depicted going “through the ballot box to the Constitution.” Puck, 11/18/1885, Credit: Library of Congress
The holidays are here, and along with the celebrations come questions over the appropriateness of religious displays on public property. And there’...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
PROMO - Wall of Separation: Church and State in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: “At it again,” Pope Leo XIII is depicted exerting influence “through the ballot box to the Constitution.” Puck, November 18th 1885., Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Wall of Separation: Church and State in America," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: :30
Action Speaks "Heaven For All" Azusa Street Revival and Birth of Pentecostalism in America, 1906
From: Action Speaks Radio
Piece image
This week's underappreciated date is the Azusa Street Revival started by William J. Seymour in 1906 and brought about the revival of Pentecostalism...

Bought by WGCU, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WCPN


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 4
Promo - American Spirit: A History of the Supernatural [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: "Houdini and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln," ca. 1920, Credit: Library of Congress
With Halloween coming up, and vampires or zombies regularly topping the box office, it seems Americans can't get enough of all things spooky. This ...

Bought by WUFT and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Cortez, Montezuma & Abraham: Discovering Jewish Roots
From: Rebecca Sheir
Piece image
At 72, a Spanish-descended Catholic discovers the real reason she's never liked eating pork.

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
CL 2006 Rabbi David Gordis "Judaism in America:retrospect and prospect."
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Rabbi David Gordis looks at Judaism in America and interfaith relaions today.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 1
OCCANEECHI POW WOW
From: Keith Weston
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sound rich piece from annual Native American Pow Wow

Bought by KLCC and KSUT


  • Added: Jul 23, 2004
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2