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Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 02:22
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
In June of 1880, a series of extraordinary events began to unfold that sent a man most of the country agreed was completely unqualified to be presi...
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 15:33
30-second promo for "Small Island, Big Shadow: Cuba" 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: :30
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
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
Two hundred years ago this week, the United States declared war on Great Britain, beginning the conflict known as the War of 1812. Today, that wa...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WRPI, and KREV-LP
- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
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
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
Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," and "Nigger:The...
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 29:00
The author of the new book, Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam, is interviewed at the 50th anniversary of the first military u...
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 59:46
Can you acknowledge dissenters as patriots? Can you dissent and still sing the national anthem wholeheartedly? Can you live in a middle ground?
- Added: Jul 11, 2011
- Length: 02:00
From great grandson of William Dawes, midnight rider with Paul Revere, to U.S. Vice President under Calvin Coolidge ... to co-writer of a number on...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:00
The first President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, died today. Wait, I know what you're thinking: "What happened to George Washington?" W...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:01
President Obama's State of the Union 2011. Raw audio available for air, editing and excerpting.
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 01:02:02
A fictional account of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 46:57
Howard Zinn’s productive insights into history came to an end with his death in January 2010. This edition of Radio Curious shares a previously not...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 29:34
This segment offers a rare look at the sculpture in San Francisco's City Hall of civil rights leader and local hero, Harvey Milk; its sculptor; an...
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 07:03
Most people think of George Washington’s election as the first time Americans voted on the national level. But it wasn’t until the election of 192...
Bought by KCUR, KWIT, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KAZU, KHNS and more
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 26
2010 was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave American women the right to vote. Women got the vote, in part, because of a promise ...
Bought by WSGE, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRUA, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and WAMC
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 5
Recorded on January 20, 2009, the day Barack Obama became President of the United States, Radio Curious visited again with Congressman Sam Farr, wh...
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 28:54
Kevin Kallaugher, better known as KAL, has been the cartoonist at The Economist for 30 years. He explains how the donkey and elephant came to repre...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2009
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
Tibetan refugees have been living in Nepal for over fifty years, and refugee camps are well-established collections of concrete homes. But Tibetan...
- Added: Aug 23, 2009
- Length: 03:29
In 1969, musician John Lennon and his wife, performance artist Yoko Ono, were among the most high profile peace advocates on the planet. We'll spot...
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 28:58
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?
- Added: Mar 30, 2009
- Length: 09:39
