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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 Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 1
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 Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 11:01
  • Purchases: 1
Fear Tactics: A History of Domestic Terrorism [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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 WCAI / WNAN, WTJU, WOUB, WXDU, KFOK-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
The History of Feminism
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about the history and future of feminism with History Professor, Estelle B. Freedman, author of ""No Turning ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
The Two Lives of Asa Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:42
The Square Deal
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:28
March of the Bonus Army
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:56
The Artichoke King
From: Emily Gadek
Series: Footnote Podcast
Caption: Busting the Artichoke King's racket in the Bronx
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 2
William Jennings Bryan: The Speech That Changed Politics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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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
Shirley Chisholm: The Politics of Principle
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1972, Shirley Chisholm launched a spirited campaign for the Democratic nomination. She was the first woman and first African American to run. De...

Bought by WAMC, Public Radio Remix, KUT, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 5
The “Veep”
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 3
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was many things: a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate for women’s rights and sexual freedom, and a ma...

Bought by Prairie Public, Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 4
Margaret Chase Smith: Cold Warrior in Pearls
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 3
Gracie Allen: The Joke That Became a Campaign
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1940 the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Grac...

Bought by The Story, Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 5
The Great Moonshine Conspiracy: The true story behind the movie Lawless
From: Big Shed Audio
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Franklin County Virginia was once called "The Moonshine Capital of the World”, where corruption and exploitation put working families up against th...

Bought by KUOW, WMMT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 16:00
  • Purchases: 3
Matthew White: The Great Big Book of Horrible Things
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Matthew White about his book, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things, which documents, analyzes, and ran...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
Pro-Slavery Constitution
From: Zach Miller
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter
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The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 20:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Creation of Standard Time
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses time, as we know it, with Clark Blaise, author of "Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time."

  • Added: Dec 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
OPEN SOURCE: Pakistan Aslant (1) - "The country that could kill the world"
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Series: Pakistan Aslant
Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by KUOW and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Censorship of "Dorian Gray"
From: With Good Reason
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When it was first published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" appeared as a much changed version of the original text. Now, for ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
How war kept California united
From: KALW
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Libya, London, Egypt – the map of unrest and revolution around the world right now is vast. In Sudan, it led to the country separating in two. Now ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 2
Hannibal Hamlin (First Lincoln V.P.) July 4, 1891
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
How the White House Got Its Name
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Dr. Clarence Lusane is author of The Black History of the White House., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
Hint: It doesn't have a whole lot to do with paint swatches...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 2
JFK and the Arts
From: ARTSEDGE
Series: Art In Camelot
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A look at changes in art policy during the Kennedy Administration, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.

Bought by KUCB, WAMC, KUOW, WFPL News, WGUC and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 6