• Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.
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American History Thru Eyes of Radio

American History Thru Eyes of Radio

Dramatized historical events, Sound bites and news stories

1808 Election Song - Huzzah for Madison
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1810 Cavalcade of America - Defiance of Nature
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1814 Cavalcade of America - Jean Lafitte
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1816 Election Song - Monroe Is the Man
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1816 Mr President - James Monroe
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1817 Cavalcade of America - Mary Lyon
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1820 Cavalcade of America - Heroes of Texas
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1820 Cavalcade of America - James Fenimore Cooper
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1821 Frontier Fighters - Steven Austin
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1824 Cavalcade of America - National Parks Pioneers
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1825 Adventures in Research - Electronics in Communication
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1827 Cavalcade of America - Man Who Couldn't Grow Old
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1829 Mr President - Andrew Jackson Deceitful Rumor
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1830 American Trail, The - Golden Ocean
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1830 Cavalcade of America - Woman's Emancipation
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1830 You Are There - Tom Thumb Steam Locomotive
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1831 Cavalcade of America - American Journalism
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1835 Cavalcade of America - Charlotte Cushman
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1835 Cavalcade of America - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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1836 Radio Adventure Theater - Remember the Alamo
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1840 Cavalcade of America - Mariah Mitchell
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1840 Election Song - Harrison Yankee Doodle
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1840 Election Song - Rockabye, Baby [ Van Buren]
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1840 Election Song - Tippecanoe & Tyler Too
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1840 Mr President - John Tyler
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1841 Cavalcade of America - Bridge of Builders
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1841 Cavalcade of America - Down to the Sea
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1841 Cavalcade of America - Preservation
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1842 Cavalcade of America - Hardness
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1842 Cavalcade of America - Heroism in Medical Science
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