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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
On this episode of BackStory, Brian, Ed, and Peter take an in-depth look at stalemate in American history. Are there other times when the system ha...
- Added: Apr 05, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!
Interviews with Authors, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Or Maybe Just The Guy Down The Street !!!
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 01:00:01
Linda’s debut novel, "The Sixth Station," is an irreverent religious thriller with lots of controversy that touches on the Vatican, history books ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 10:02
Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 14:15
- Purchases: 1
A look at the odd trend of "doomsday" music that took over the pop charts leading up to the Mayan end date.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:19
- Purchases: 1
"A Sunbonnet Blue", "Jumpin' On The Blacks And Whites", and "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 13th edition of Joe Bev...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 57:56
In this episode, we take an in-depth look at political cartoonist, Thomas Nast.
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 09:42
Herbert Huncke's line "I'm beat, man" gave Jack Kerouac the label for a generation seeking spiritual sustenance and "kicks" in post-war America.
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?
Bought by WRPI, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 3
When Minneapolis officials shut down a scandal sheet publisher for printing malicious and defamatory material it sparked our country's first debate...
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 27:37
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century. Plus, a satire of college football. And, a conversation with the son of a scienc...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 28:59
In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 02:32
A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
When Minneapolis politicians censored small time scandal sheet publisher, Jay Near, it sparked the country’s first debate on whether the government...
- Added: Jun 11, 2012
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 2
This week's episode of " What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
is a personal journey thru 4 decades of radio...as both a listener...and as a practitio...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 55:45
Studs Terkel would be 100 today! We mark the occasion with an excerpt from the radio doc "Working with Studs."
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 23:39
- Purchases: 1
Contemporary news icon Dan Rather shares the ups and downs of his career in his memoir, “Rather Outspoken”; and author, Christopher Bram gives the ...
Bought by KWMR-FM
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
Karen Slade, Eric "Rico" Reed, and Arthur "Sonny" Williams of radio station KJLH remember the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 02:28
What do you get when you take a former Cold War bunker and fill it with the world’s largest collection of films, TV shows, radio broadcasts and sou...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, Public Radio Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 06:38
- Purchases: 5
It kind of destroys the point of radio plays if you have to show up in costume. But two quirky guys built one quirky radio troupe anyway. This is r...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 01, 2012
- Length: 14:45
- Purchases: 1
Rare Earth is know for their hits; Get Ready, I Just Want To celebrate, I Know I'm Losing You, Big John Is My Name, Hey Big Brother, What'd I Say, ...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 01:02:30
Author Glenn Greenwald talks about his book, ‘With Liberty and Justice for Some.’ Americans claim to live under the rule of law; that no one is abo...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
The Civil Rights Movement was the United States’ first major domestic news story to be televised. The author of a new book exploring television’s r...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 02:25
How the evening news shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement.
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
They came to Hollywood to escape the Nazi regime.
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
