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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
