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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
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By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
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For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 30:34
Caption: Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the National Writers Series
Somali-Dutch feminist, activist, writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali thrilled a packed audience at her National Writers Series. Speaking with dip...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 08:40
Caption: Gold from a days work by an artisanal miner in Kaniola in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Credit: By Sasha Lezhnev - Enough Project
This is the first episode in a mini-series covering the impacts corporate supply chains have on labor standards and human rights. We explore how re...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 16:00
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Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: Journalist, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger, Credit: John Russell
Journalist, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger, who’s traveled to some of the most dangerous places on earth, reflects on the art of storytellin...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
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During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:22
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When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:04
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Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
Caption: An abandoned IDP camp in Iraqi Kurdistan near the border with Iran., Credit: Rachel Stacy
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a common adage says the Kurdish people have “no friends but the mountains.” Today, the mountains along the northern border of ...

Bought by WAMC and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 2
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This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song. The program includes three individual sets, and includ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and WVAS


  • Added: Feb 05, 2012
  • Length: 50:18
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Uncle Sam's choice of Liberty Bonds or shackles inscribed 'Prussia.' NY Evening Post, 1917, Credit: Library of Congress
On this episode, the History Guys explore why debt has continued to be so controversial in a nation that was founded on borrowing. Have there been ...

Bought by KREV-LP, WNJR, KUOW, WBEZ, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: City Point, VA (1865), Credit: Library of Congress
In this third part of BackStory's "Civil War 150th" series, the History Guys host a special listener Q&A. Over the course of the hour, they answer ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, WRNC-LP, KMXT, WAMU, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: "The Hercules of Union Slaying the Great Dragon of Secession," 1861 , Credit: Library of Congress
To mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War's beginnings, the History Guys take an in-depth look at the pivotal six months between Abraham Lincol...

Bought by WRNC-LP, WAMU, WCPN, Wisconsin Public Radio, KFOK-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
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A look at the ways Americans have remembered their dead, from the Revolutionary War up through the present.

Bought by WAMC, KUMD, KISU, Iowa Public Radio, WMRA and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 21
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The History Guys explore the experiences of war veterans returning home through three centuries of American life.

Bought by KALW, Marfa Public Radio, WNJR, KHNS, WCPN and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 28
Caption: Farm militia drill, Credit: Jamestown Yorktown Foundation
The colonial militias played an important role in the struggle for independence, but then, as now, not without some misunderstanding.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2009
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Arundhati Roy
Kashmir is one of the least understood, but most important conflicts in the world. This week, we bring you a conversation with renowned author and ...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
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An Iraq vet and a policy expert pull apart the promises on war.

Bought by KDNK, Remix Radio, WAMC, and KFAI


  • Added: Aug 27, 2008
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 4
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"Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill" is a story in which a Vietnam veteran confronts his past through a dialogue with the ghost of the My Lai massacre.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: May 11, 2008
  • Length: 19:31
  • Purchases: 1