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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
The declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq was famously premature. But have America's other wars had neat or definitive endings? In this ep...
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Helaine Olen talks about her exposé of the personal finance industry, POUND FOOLISH: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry and Le...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 59:20
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 09:52
WTIP's Ann Possis spoke Mar. 29 with Prof. Dale Carpenter of the U of MN Law School, an expert in the areas of constitutional law and sexual orient...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 16:16
- Purchases: 1
Series host Martha Burk interviews New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan's The Fe...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Myiesha Taylor, prominent emergency room physician and advocate working with the Disney corporation to inte...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 28:23
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Avis Jones-Deweever, Executive Director of the National Council of Negro Women, the nation's oldest coalitio...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 28:25
Radio Curious discusses the current state of affairs in the Nuba Mountains in Northeast Africa, with Professor Sam Totten, author of “Genocide by ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 29:01
On the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion throughout the U.S., series host Martha Burk interviews ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 28:23
Energy policy expert Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation talks about what state and local governments, as well as Congress and the Pr...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 28:18
WTIP's Ann Possis chatted Dec. 7 with John Watkins, professor of English at the U of MN, who specializes in sovereignty, queenship, and British his...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 16:03
Interview with professor Zoe Georganta, a former board member of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), who has come out as a whistleblower, ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2012
- Length: 40:02
There's been a lot of talk about a Pit Bull ban in Santa Fe since two Pit Bull-type dogs attacked and killed a Chihuahua and injured it's owner. I ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 27:22
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Heidi Hartmann, President of the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington on the fiscal cliff an...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:17
A weekly look at humanitarian issues affecting the people of our planet
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 27:30
The WORLD features news reports from around the world, centered on humanitarian issues or stories that have an individual or mass impact on communi...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 27:30
It would be hard to read the report and not come away with the clear picture that -- although many good people are working hard every day -- the di...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 28:48
Dive into water policy with Buzz Thompson, leading expert in environmental and natural resources law. From his grandfather’s farm to the US Suprem...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 41:29
Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the electoral college discourages voting, lessens the power of the states, a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Canadian prison law specialist John Hill interviews American best-selling author and journalist Doug Fine and Canadian former prisoner Robert 'Rosi...
- Added: Oct 04, 2012
- Length: 22:08
Will the new Supreme Court Term be part of the Republican War on Women? Series host Martha Burk interviews Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court writer...
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 28:31
In spite of the current state of the economy, the next 25 years will see an unprecedented rise in human wellbeing.
- Added: Sep 28, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Series host Martha Burk interviews United States Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. Solis addresses the state of the recovery and what to expect for...
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 28:37
Every president, regardless of party, designates August 26 as Women's Equality Day, to commemorate women getting the vote in 1920. But do we reall...
- Added: Aug 25, 2012
- Length: 28:17
A photographic study of American consumerism, from the blank stares of shoppers to the mountains of stuff in front of them.
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
