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On August 28th, 1963, more than 250,000 people from across the United States gathered in Washington DC to join in peaceful protest against racial segregation and demand equal rights legislation from... more

From Saigon: The sounds of sonar, tank caterpillars and machine-gun fire overshadow a schoolchildren's math lesson and a prayer for peace prayed by a monk; we observe American soldiers blunting their... more

This 1965 radio documentary written by renowned author, historian, actor, and broadcaster Studs Terkel begins with a young victim of the Hiroshima bombing and weaves together excerpts of interviews... more

An opera produced in 1963 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, The East Is Red depicts the history of the Chinese Revolution, beginning with the 1926 Northern... more

Songs played a large role in the movement to close the racial divide in America during the 1960s, and prayers, chants, sermons, and shouts were also fundamental to this task. This album features... more

On February 13, 1960 approximately 124 students from American Baptist Theological Seminary, Fisk University, and Tennessee a & I State University staged their first sit-in demonstrations at three... more

Jean Racine was one of France's greatest playwrights, and his play Phedre, written in 1677, is often considered his best work. Phedre (Phaedra) is a fascinating character whose intensity can only be... more

This collection of 15 tracks comprises the second volume of a two-volume set of recordings made in the first decade of the 20th century on Edison recording cylinders. The recordings are from the... more

In 1960, the play The Wall hit Broadway stages. Little remembered now, this piece by Millard Lampell (based on a novel by John Hersey) was about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis. Here is... more

As good as ER, only real. This recording first takes US into the operating room, where a young surgeon is removing a cyst from the neck of a small child. Then we listen through the stethoscope to the... more

In Africa, musicians compose and sing thousands of songs about contemporary topics. This collection represents a musical protest against apartheid. Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, and Garrett Morris... more

The Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee (SNCC) was an organization based in Greenwood, Mississippi that fought for voter registration rights for African-American citizens. Powered by the... more

Recorded in 1973, this Folkways release offers a snapshot of one of the darkest moments in American political history, the Watergate scandal. This release includes Nixon's April 30th speech, as well... more

The fourth Volume of the Folkways Watergate series is the testimony of former Attorney General, John Mitchell. On this recording Mitchell is cross examined about his nefarious connection with the... more

Volume two of the five part Watergate series is the captivating and terrifying testimony of former White House aide Jeb Stuart Marauder. What is so frightening about Marauder's testimony is his... more

Recorded in 1974, this is the cross examination of former presidential counselor John Dean IIl following his devastating 245 page long testimony about the Watergate coverup. This recording... more

Starting with 3200 people in Selma, Alabama and ending in Montgomery, Alabama with 25,000, the Selma-to-Montgomery March is considered to have "... represented the political and emotional peak of the... more

Before curing a patient, a healer of the Ghanaian Ga people might require the music and dance of the akroma to be performed, which invokes the spirits of certain animals known to have powerful... more

Saucy comedy sketches and bawdy music meant to accompany chorus line routines and stripteases to put you in the mood are what's to be found here. This hilarious recording bills itself as "a... more