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Stokely Carmichael and Black Power
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Stronghold
From: From Block2Block
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As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2014
  • Length: 14:07
Tongue-Tied America (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The fear of public speaking can be debilitating. For some, it’s the stuff of nightmares, and so many of us avoid doing it altogether.

Bought by WCNY and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Peter Yarrow Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
Reconstructing Republicanism
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Annette Gordon-Reed about the Republican Party’s own civil war in the late 1860s, over the nature of Reconstruct...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Radical Religion and Radical Politics
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Peter Onuf speaks with Harvard historian Anne Braude about the intersection of Spiritualism with 19th century social reform movements.

Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 2
Running the Rift (pledge drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Naomi Benaron
The novel, Running the Rift, follows the life of young Jean Patrick. He’s a gifted Rwandan boy. He knows that running will be his future. What he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
Thomas Jefferson: The Author of the Declaration of Independence
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the United States as portrayed by Chautauqua scholar Clay Jenkinson.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
A Negotiable End Date
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balough explores the meaning of "wartime" with Mary Dudziak, an historian at Emory University's School of Law. Well after V-J Day, Dudz...

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KBRP Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
Bounding Manifest Destiny
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Peter Onuf talks with Amy Greenberg, an historian at Pennsylvania State University, on the rogue diplomat that ended the Mexican-American War ...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 11:01
  • Purchases: 3
Fear Tactics: A History of Domestic Terrorism [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Woodcut of the 1886 Haymarket Square Bombing., Credit: Harper's Weekly, LOC.
With recent events in Boston highlighting the horrors of domestic terrorism, we're re-broadcasting this episode of BackStory, which originally aire...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, XRAY.fm, KBRP Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Irish Author Roddy Doyle and "The Last Republic"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Winner of the Booker Prize, former teacher and one of Ireland’s most famous authors, Roddy talks about his last book in a trilogy, "The Last Republ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Long Version - Colin Woodard Interview Parts 1 & 2
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:24
Cultural Regionalization - Colin Woodard Part One
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Colin Woodard discusses his recent book in generational terms on Yesterday Today & Tomorrow. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
WorldCanvass: The Rupture of Civil War
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Historical perspective on the Civil War and its effect on average Americans.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:51:07
From the Jaws of Victory
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cesar Chavez
Professor Matt Garcia has written the most comprehensive history ever of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
UnFictional: Self-Immolation Man
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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A young boy escapes to a foreign country by himself, on foot, with no money or passport. When he grows up, he sets himself on fire, and lives to te...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Enduring Connections - Belgium and the United States
From: Alison Turner
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Many American expats gathered in Brussels on 4th July this year to celebrate American Independence Day. Reporter, Alison Turner, joined the celebr...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 09:53
No Bills: The People's Firehouse
From: Nick Yulman
Series: No Bills: Stories of North Brooklyn
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Stories about the People's Firehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Paul Veneski talks about occupying the Engine Company 212 firehouse in 1975 with h...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 11:26
Gandhi and the Unspeakable
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mohandas Gandhi, Credit: Orbis Book cover Roberta Savage
The Father of India was dead. Killed by a man he’d known for years. The year was 1948, the dawn of India’s independence from Great Britain. In his...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A look at the religious lives of the twelve U.S. presidents who have served since the end of World War Two.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, and WMNR


  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Signing Off
From: Christopher Williams
Caption: Signing Off - Album Artwork
UB40 went on to become one of the world's biggest reggae acts - but their debut album "Signing Off" still stands as one of their most influential r...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 49:05
Seeing Things As They Are
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
David Brooks excels when his vast analytic abilities are brought to his fondness for Republicans. In the New York Times, he ventured into an are...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2011
  • Length: 04:53
May 19th, 2011 Shomburg Symposium on Malcolm X: A Life of Re-Invention.
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a symposium on Malcolm X, held at the Shomburg Center after the release of the late Manning Marable's book,...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:09

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