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From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
The US has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world -- twice as high as the second-place finisher, Yemen. In this episode of BackSt...
Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WPSU-FM, WCQS, WCAI / WNAN and more
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 7
Inspiring and engaging highlights from episodes of Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. Young women fr...
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 4
On this edition we go beyond the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder some of our veterans face and explore the moral and spritual injuries due to witnes...
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 28:00
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has produced a new film series on the dustbowl. It features survivors, experts on climate and farming, as well as s...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 28:30
Hear how grass roots groups can empower citizens to get involved in creating the kind of world they want.
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 05:00
Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews nationally acclaimed journalist Maria Hinojosa on the HIspanic vote in the 2012 election, including w...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 28:18
The more our societies are in conversation, the more likely it is, when it comes to having to make the hard decisions that are involved in discussi...
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 03:54
Hurricane Sandy highlighted the devastating effects of a changing climate and rising sea levels like perhaps no other event we have seen in this co...
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
In the last five years the world has seen two devastating spikes in the price of food, and according to journalist and professor Frederick Kaufman,...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
"I hope that world leaders will really sit down and think about the circumstances of those people who have been suffering for many years. Why can't...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 03:34
In her new book, Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how US election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a ne...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Fifty years ago this week, a U.S. military jet photographed strategic nuclear missiles that had been installed by the Soviets in Cuba. Over the nex...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
"I would advise my dear intellectuals of this age and time and place to give us some good imagination, especially to the young people."
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 04:26
"There are things we can't do, even with all the power of the United States. But then we shouldn't hide from it. We shouldn't turn away and pretend...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 03:51
"It is amazing that more than 2 billion people do not have access to electricity. All people equally have a right to have a very healthy and comfor...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 04:40
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
La importancia de votar y el papel decisivo del voto hispano.
The importance of voting and the decisive role of the Hispanic vote.
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 57:04
At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 4
The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...
Bought by Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 3
"Moral leadership to me is about selflessness. But in a world of personal aggrandizement and short-term-ism, I do fear that we'll see less moral le...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 03:07
"We may have globalization, we have more interconnectedness, lots of things are happening, more trade. But what's the moral compass? You have the f...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:58
Do you cringe when you hear the term “clean coal?” Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio feels that this term is not only an oxymoron it’s offens...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 30:01
Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...
- Added: Oct 15, 2012
- Length: 29:02
Series host Martha Burk interviews Sister Simone Campbell, captain of the "Nuns on the Bus" tour protesting the Romney/Ryan budget, and Executive D...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 28:37
Magical thinking. According to the McGraw Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine, this is a condition, “similar to a normal stage of childhood ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 28:16
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
The History Guys explore why the national debt has continued to be so controversial in a country that was founded on borrowing.
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
