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BackStory producer Chioke I’Anson tells the story of Eugene Bullard, the first African-American fighter pilot in World War I – only he flew for Fra...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lt. Col. Ivan Ware, Credit: Courtesy Air Force Magazine
Lt. Col. Ivan Ware has known war. For thirty-two months, he served in Europe. He’s been bombed at, shot at, and fought back. But his battles did...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
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To mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the nation’s finest historians gathered on September 24th at Norfolk State University to discuss th...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Camp at Ft. Monroe, VA, Credit: Library of Congress
A conversation about the contingency of one state's role in the Civil War.

Bought by KRUA and WRPI


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WRPI and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 2
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Leon May tells his daughter, Angela, about serving during World War II.

Bought by WDET, Detroit Public Radio, KFOK-LP, and KGLT


  • Added: Nov 15, 2007
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 3
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America's first black fighter pilots claim they never lost a bomber, but a historian says newly uncovered records prove otherwise.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:18
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Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.

Bought by WRVO, KUOW, WNYC, WFCR, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9