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A powerful remembrance of the preparation, execution, and aftermath of Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944. For broadcast anytime from Memorial Day We...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KUOW
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 13:48
- Purchases: 2
"One O'Clock Jump", "Take the A Train" and "Perdido" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 18th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour, selected...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 57:27
150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln announced what would become one of the cornerstones to American Freedom: the Emancipation Proclamation. B...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:58
A panel discussion of contemporary corporate media culture and its' effects upon Black America.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 01:00:12
The original vinyl soundtrack from the famed "March on Washington" including Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in it's entirety, alo...
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 58:03
A special feature marking Australia Day, celebrated by Australia Society Belgium. Reporter, Alison Turner, met some fascinating Australians now li...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 22:30
For a lot of us the history of Minnesota begins at the time of statehood in 1858, and is a history of progress from then to the present. Historia...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 16:12
From: WTIP
WTIP North Shore Community Radio volunteer host Mark Abrahamson talks with producers Milt and Jamie Lee about their documentary "A Clash of Culture...
Bought by KFAI and Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
- Added: Aug 22, 2012
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 2
As the 100th Anniversary of the Lyric Center for the Arts passes the Lyric Center celebrates new life and a bright future. Maddi Frick recently tou...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 09:19
The places near water we treasure now were just as special to the people before us. Producers Brian Whittemore and John Sumption take us on a ten-...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 18, 2012
- Length: 01:13:13
- Purchases: 1
The places near water we treasure now were just as special to the people before us. Producers Brian Whittemore and John Sumption take us on a trip...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 18, 2012
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Dr. James Robertson, the author, professor, and famed historian, on his new book-The Untold Civil War: ...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 27:30
VoiceBox celebrates Woody Guthrie's centennial birthday with conversation and song when Peter Glazer, professor of Performance Studies at the Unive...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 59:01
Happy Independence Day! Today is the 236th birthday of the United States, and following long-established American tradition, lots of us are going t...
- Added: Jul 04, 2012
- Length: 05:01
What genre of music doesn't have a patriotic song? On this episode, you'll hear a host of them from Jazz & Broadway Show Tunes, to Country, and more!
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Radio Cafe host Mary-Charlotte Domandi interviews award-winning writer Nathaniel Philbrick about his book The Last Stand, and talks with him about ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 31:45
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:50:42
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 04:10
On the second anniversary of the 2010 uprisings, this special documentary looks at police violence in Jamaica.
In May 2010 a government crackdown l...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
On May 2, 1982, Exxon unexpectedly closed its oil-shale exploration and development project in Parachute, leaving 2,200 people out of work, causing...
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 01:49
Washington's labor, immigrant and faith communities are promising a large and vocal turnout on Tuesday (May 1) for annual May Day marches and ralli...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 04:48
It’s been 20 years since four white police officers were cleared of unlawfully beating Rodney King in Los Angeles. But we might never have heard of...
Bought by KFAI
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Quiddity explores Lincoln through poetry with guest - professor & poet, Dan Guillory, whose works include Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems.
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...
Bought by KUCB
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
Our unappreciated national treasure, Susan B. Anthony spent more than five decades in a struggle to transform life for American women by securing t...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 03:00
