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Title: Defending the Future

Author: Steve Roberts, Sesh Kannan, Carol Beach

Narrator: Barbara Bogaev, Steve Roberts

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Following the terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001, the U.S. and Great Britain launched an invasion of Afghanistan, what President George W. Bush called a first-strike initiative. For Marine recruits and new graduates the following year, the war gave them a fresh focus.

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Title: When the Rainforest Burns: Part 1

Author: Cecilia Vaisman

Narrator: Larry Massett, Cecilia Vaisman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The 1960s saw the Brazilian Amazon rainforest go from wretched jungle to the future of the country. Government policy encouraged widespread de-forestation, gold mining using industrial methods. The government proposed the first hydro-electrical plant based at the Tucurui Dam in the North Eastern State of Pará, Brazil.

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Title: Remembering Kent State 1970

Author: Mark Urycki

Narrator: Barbara Bogaev, Mark Urycki

Format: Original Recording

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

When 13 students were shot by Ohio National Guard Troops during a war demonstration on the Kent State University Campus on the first week of May 1970, four young lives were ended and a nation was stunned. More than 30 years later, the world at war is a different place. However, those 13 seconds in May 1970 still remain scorched into an Ohio hillside.

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Title: Nationalism

Author: Mike Schuster

Narrator: Larry Massett, Mike Schuster

Format: Original Recording

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

1992 was a year of astounding change for those states that used to make up the Soviet Union. Where once there was a state of superpower proportions, now there were 15 states, most of them small and powerless. The force that drove the Soviet Union apart was nationalism, and nationalism threatened to engulf the whole region in armed conflict.

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Title: Kitchen Table Talk

Author: Jude Thilman, Julie Drizen

Narrator: Larry Massett, Julie Drizen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

In a frank series of interviews, Soviet women, from Russia, Ukraine and Georgia talk to producers Julie Drizen and Jude Thilman about managing their birth control. It was October of 1990, a time when the government policy of openness, glasnost, was fraying.

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Title: IGY: Weather Report

Author: Barbara Bogaev

Narrator: Lisa Simeone, Barbara Bogaev, Hank Rosenfeld

Format: Original Recording

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Until satellites came along, weather forecasting was either very local (it's raining) or very general (it's going to be warmer tomorrow). When satellites started sending pictures of the Earth and its atmosphere, a remarkable meteorologist named Harry Wexler, saw the opportunity for long range, global forecasting. In the late 1950's, as head of the U.S.

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Title: The First Astronauts

Author: Judith Kampfner

Narrator: Lisa Simeone, Judith Kampfner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

In 1958, the United States made its initial steps towards the goal of manned space flight with Project Mercury. Seven men were selected to be the first American astronauts to test the limits of human endurance in space. Behind the scenes, there was a steep learning curve in the new science of astronautics. In fact, the project was a biomedical challenge.

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Title: Death at the Door

Author: Chris Brookes

Narrator: Larry Massett, Chris Brookes

Format: Original Recording

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Lasting 13 years from 1979-1992, the war saw extreme violence from both sides and according to the United Nations over 75,000 people were killed during this time.

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Title: Washington Goes to the Moon

Subtitle: Part 2: The Day That Changed Everything and Climbing the Hill

Author: Richard Paul

Narrator: Lisa Simeone, Richard Paul

Format: Original Recording

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

In 1967, a fire on-board Apollo One, the first mission of the U.S. lunar landing program, killed three astronauts before the mission ever got off the ground. The loss and the impact of that fire were as profound as the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster almost 20 years later.

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Title: Gamma Ray Skies

Author: David Barrett Wilson

Narrator: Barbara Bogaev, David Barrett Wilson

Format: Original Recording

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

Gamma rays are the most intense form of radiation. As the Cold War focused on the spread of nuclear war, a U.S. spy satellite searching for clandestine nuclear weapons tests detected frequent, but brief, bursts of powerful gamma-rays, a possible signal of a hydrogen bomb explosion.

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