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A retrospective of the entire year in sixty minutes, "A Shortcut through 1994" feature no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtapos...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 01:00:28
Rockefeller, Astor, Carnegie, Stanford. Rich guys from the late 1900s for sure, but what else? Robber barons. Big boys at the top of U.S. business,...
- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 03:00
To mark the passing of Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers, the GroundTruth Project presents a special one hour program that traces the path o...
Bought by Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, WORT, KOSU and more
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 37
Is it possible to study human remains ethically?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 44:44
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...
- Added: Nov 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...
- Added: Nov 18, 2022
- Length: 29:00
This week, we bring you a story from our partner Kerning Cultures about Patrice Lumumba’s children, and their escape to Cairo.
Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The Art of Anonymous Activism: Serving the Public While Surviving Public Service
“The Art of Anonymous Activism: Serving the Public While Survivin...
- Added: Nov 03, 2021
- Length: 29:00
On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 11:44
- Purchases: 2
“The rise of the conservative movement on the right and the decline of liberalism on the left have been a preoccupation of mine for 40 years or mo...
Bought by KOWS
- Added: Aug 24, 2021
- Length: 39:54
- Purchases: 1
Does history create vulnerabilities that any number of populist politicians could seize upon? Or do exceptional populists create those opportunitie...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 34:19
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
It’s the government on your doorstep — the only Executive Branch agency that visits every home in the country on a regular basis. So how does the U...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 23:52
Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin for a review of many great moments from the history of televised presidential debates, with commentary from several...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUWM, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 13
Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin on a journey through political history as we revisit memorable and historic moments from national party conventions...
Bought by WVPE, Vermont Public, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KBBI Alaska
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 4
This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that cent...
- Added: Aug 13, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This is Lost Lives, a series of podcasts presented by the Connecticut Health I-Team's The Workup. Lost Lives examines the starkest health disparity...
- Added: Mar 16, 2020
- Length: 10:53
"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 17, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The life of Clarina Nichols and her work in the early womens rights movement in the United States has been greatly overlooked. As one of the countr...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
An in depth discussion of the historical social implications of misogony
Bought by High Plains Public Radio
- Added: Jan 28, 2018
- Length: 51:26
- Purchases: 1
In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 25:43
- Purchases: 1
In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, pleading with the public to help her do what law...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 19:39
- Purchases: 1
Collector's music from the 1950 to 70s with the type of quirky presentation you might expect at midnight from the French Quarter of New Orleans. Y...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 03:03:32
The topic of this month's episode is Poland. Let's Travel Radio discusses, with special guests, the key differences between Western and Eastern Eur...
- Added: Nov 06, 2016
- Length: 59:47
