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In the early 1940s, the need for Japanese translators in the Pacific was growing. With few soldiers proficient in Japanese, a language school to in...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 1
Cane's new documentary, The Dull Knifes, tells the coming-of-age story of 16-year-old George Dull Knife. He is the newest generation of a family th...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 16:11
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
Fifty years ago this week, a U.S. military jet photographed strategic nuclear missiles that had been installed by the Soviets in Cuba. Over the nex...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 09:40
Jews sang & wrote some of the best protest songs ever- ranging from war to discrimination. You'll hear from Bob Dylan, Graucho Marx, & more.
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 59:01
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
Under rules codified at the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomatic missions are generally considered inviolable. But with the murder of Libya Ambassado...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:37
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, the History Guys ask what drives Americans to the suit up in the clothes of the past and reenact their history. Is it purely educa...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Moving up, moving home, and moving your body.
In Latitudes’ On the Move special we’ll sample many varieties of mobility. From self-deportation to ...
Bought by KUOW and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 51:28
- Purchases: 2
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
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 History Guys explore why the national debt has continued to be so controversial in a country that was founded on borrowing.
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
From: Marc Cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Commentary- The Economy, the markets and our fiscal policy.
Series: Money Matters Economic Commentary- The Economy, the markets and our fiscal policy.
Military Industrial Complex, the M-1 tank and a scam of immense proportions. Evergreen Piece and a doosey.
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 03:00
During this program, David Abrams talks about and reads from FOBBIT, his novel that has been compared to M*A*S*H and Catch-22.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Timothy Lineberry, Mayo Clinic psychiatrist & suicide expert for the Army, spoke recently with WTIP's Bob Carter about the alarming increase in...
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 17:07
Indians don’t just happen to be good at math and science. The effects and fears of the Cold War, and the united leadership of India and the United ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 29:42
Sgt. Matthew Pennington was injured while serving on combat duty in Iraq. He showed signs of PTSD, but is working toward recovery by promoting self...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
A dramatic fast-moving presentation of the music, history, and voices, of World Wars I & II, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghan...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:18
- Purchases: 16
Oklahoma City native Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack earlier this year while on assignment for The New York Times. Shadid worked as a forei...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KOSU
- Added: Sep 18, 2012
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 2
In his newest book, bestseller author Kurt Eichenwald chronicles the fast paced decisions, deceptions and delusions following the 9/11 attacks.
- Added: Sep 18, 2012
- Length: 28:58
Today on Peace Talks Radio, we revisit the Creativity for Peace Program, whose camp for adolescent girls from all sides of the middle east conflict...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Sep 17, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
