• 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.

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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