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Welcome to Historic Voices: Global History and Culture. Learn from the past through voices that made history. The podcast brings voices from the past that make history alive through personal accounts, public speeches, and entertainment programs.  Their voices are political leaders, ordinary citizens who lived during extraordinary times, and entertainers who helped Americans through difficult times. 

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Jun 26, 2017

The Six Shooter was a weekly old­time radio program in the United States. It was created by Frank Burt, who also wrote many of the episodes, and lasted only one season of 39 episodes on NBC (Sept. 20, 1953­ through June 24, 1954). James Stewart starred as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of...


Jun 26, 2017

This PDF document provides a short history of the life of Mr. Jimmy Stewart. Mr. Stewart was a prominent movie and radio star. He also was a distinguished aviator flying bombers against Germany and continued his military service after the war as a reservist. He is one of my favorite actors both for what he did on the...


Jun 26, 2017

In this podcast episode, we take a change of pace and feature a famous American movie actor performing on a 1950s weekly radio show named “The Six Shooter”. The main character is Jimmy Stewart as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild American west.

In addition to this audio episode, I also...


Jun 19, 2017

One of the topics in President Eisenhower's farewell address was warning of the potential negative consequences of the U.S. "industrial military complex", the convergence of industrial companies manufacturing weapons of war, the U.S. military who wanted more sophisticated weapons, and the congressional members who...


Jun 19, 2017

This short history of Dwight D. Eisenhower traces his remarkable personal life and that while Supreme Commander of Allied Forces and President of the United States.