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Indigenous organizers mark 52 years since the Alcatraz occupation — with the interior secretary

From: KSFP

The first Native American Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, spoke to the activists who first occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay in 1969. T...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

From: Ian Ruskin

Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference

A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Moments of Betterment: The Example of Eugene V. Debs

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...

Walking the Talk: The Revolutionary Abolitionist Benjamin Lay

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: Benjamin Lay painted by William Williams in 1790

Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...

The Bluff of the Century: Nixon, Alger Hiss, and the Cold War

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: Congressman Nixon & Robert Stripling examine Pumpkin Papers microfilm

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

Replicas of Columbus ships stir protests

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Protest in Oswego, N.Y., Credit: Payne Horning

Two replica Christopher Columbus ships are sailing across the Great Lakes this summer, offering visitors a chance to learn about the famous explore...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, WFIU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXXI Rochester and more

Political Science

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Out of the lab and into the streets.

Bought by KRZA and WXDU

Pred Ed: For-Profit Colleges and Universities

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Today’s show is about for-profit colleges and universities–or the Predatory Education Business. If you’re surprised to hear predatory and for-profi...

The Wages of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Color Line

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

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

Allan Wolper talk with Martin Garbus

From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG

Martin Garbus is one of America's fiercest fighters for free speech. He has represented some of the most prominent names in culture media and polit...

Bought by KSKA

I Pledge

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Saying the Pledge of Allegiance is optional in Maine schools, but Lily SanGiovanni says not all of her classmates know that for sure.

Walk like a Radical: A tour through a century of progressive South Asians in the Bay Area

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: A recreation of protests by South Asian Berkeley students against emergency in India., Credit: Berkeley South Asian Radical Walking Tour

In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.

Sounds of Silents

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: Credit: Russian Public Library via Wikipedia Commons

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

Remembering St. Augustine Florida’s Civil Rights Struggle

From: Dina Weinstein

Caption: St. Augustine, FL Police jump into a wade in

In 1964, Congress had a noteworthy Civil Rights Bill before it. But Southern Democrats, supporters of Jim Crow laws, were pushing a filibuster to k...

Crime novelist Neely Tucker and "The Ways of the Dead"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Clay Risen reads from The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for The Civil Rights Act (5/8)

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014

One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...

Bought by WEZU

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans face an uncertain future after war

From: KALW

Since 2001, about 2.5 million people have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, at least a third of them more than once. When they return, many ve...

HN- Thomas Nast

From: Conor Bentley

In this episode, we take an in-depth look at political cartoonist, Thomas Nast.

Governing the Occupation

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix

Hidden Histories: William Moore's Letter

From: Jack Johnson
Series: Hidden Histories

One thing to bear in mind as we approach the end of ‘Confederate History month’ -- the slaughter of the civil war failed in many ways to solve the ...