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In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 46:02
We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 59:01
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...
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- Added: Feb 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.
- Added: Nov 13, 2022
- Length: 21:04
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...
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- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Anthropological bio-archeologist Keitlyn Alcantara studies pre colonial burial sites to understand indigenous foodways.
- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Meridel LeSueur was a herald for a populist vision of America in the first half of the 20th century, especially in the Twin Cities. Despite being s...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 17:01
Former President Donald Trump attacked the press relentlessly before and after his term in office. A master at manipulation, he even admitted that ...
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- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
It’s just possible that our understanding of history is seen through a distorted lens. We think we know how the modern world was made. But, keep in...
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...
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- Added: Dec 14, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the ...
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- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The adage: If one does not learn from the past, one is doomed to repeat it. Although that doesn’t mean people or their governments are going to rep...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
This episode focuses on the social impact of Ernest Green’s life journey—a different type of travel experience--and his role in the civil rights mo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 37:07
Editor and VIIF co-founder, GARY KNIGHT, shares the remarkable collection of first-person testimonials and searing photographs from some of the wor...
- Added: Oct 23, 2020
- Length: 14:38
On the evening of February 9, 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy dramatically announced that he had a list of over 200 members of the Communis...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The British and Americans have always had their similarities. More so now over the past four years. In 2016 The Brits voted to leave the European U...
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- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Long before COVID-19, America emerged as the most armed, fortified, imprisoned and bunkered nation on the planet. Add to that, we’ve become tribal ...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s a free, feature length documentary available online. Its purpose is to expose what the Founders of the American Constitution actually sai...
- Added: Apr 08, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
For a growing number of Americans, our current political realities are of increasing concern. Many are deeply puzzled about what we do in the near ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There are fakes all around us. No, this isn’t about “fake news.” In fact, the overuse of that term as given real fakes a bad name. That’s right. We...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
