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The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.

THE PASSAGE takes you on a ride into the land of the dead, traveling with the Ferryman as he collects America’s most illustrious spirits and delivers them to the hereafter. The price of their passage? Their story. Built on a foundation of historical relevance and structured by a kind of dream logic, THE PASSAGE is an immersive audio experience that invites listeners to explore the collective American psyche from the perspective of its most legendary figures. Here we are guided by the Ferryman of souls– with a voice that sounds like it’s been siphoned from a lake of bourbon and fire, ...

On se retrouve avec des bénéficiaires et accompagnant.e.s de l'association Sauvegarde 56. On visite des lieux du patrimoine, on enregistre, on écrit, on se rencontre. Le projet Passages est orchestré par Garrance Diaconu, Isèle Vincent, Guillaume Chartin aka OJÛN et Nicolas Lespagnol-Rizzi aka LEZZI. Produit par Hydrophone, Radio Balises, Sauvegarde 56 et le Théâtre de Lorient. {{creation participative}} {{lorient}} {{chroniqmusic}} {{documentary}}

Comment en arrive-t-on à rompre avec un vieil ami d’enfance ? Peut-on vraiment aimer quelqu’un qui vote à l’opposé de vous ? Quelqu’un que vous croyez à tort connaître ? Passer votre vie à regretter une histoire d’amour qui ne s’est pas déroulée comme dans vos souvenirs ? Passages, c’est le podcast d’histoires vraies de Louie Media. Toutes les deux semaines, une histoire vraie qui vous raconte le monde tel qu’on le vit. À chaque épisode, un ou plusieurs points de vue sur cette même histoire.Présenté par Louise Hemmerlé, chargée de production chez Louie Media...

The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration. After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying...

Featuring primary sources from figures of the period, Van Young discusses the political instability of the period—internal warfare, military uprisings, intermittent dictatorships, sharp conflicts among political groupings—and attributes them to a belief by political actors in the fundamental lack of legitimacy in central government institutions after the sweeping away of the Bourbon imperial structure and its replacement first with a very short-lived Mexican empire followed by a series of increasingly authoritarian aspirational republican constitutions.

This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture - its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists - but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, 16-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another.

As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana, the first African country to gain independence from the British Empire. A Passage to Africa is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight and outrage. In vivid and evocative prose and with a fine eye for detail, Alagiah's viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of the young George on his arrival in Ghana, the wonder with which he recounts his first impressions of Africa and the affection with which he dresses his stories of his early life.

“The Drake passage: A collection of stories” is a documentary podcast about the host's four closest friends in their mid-twenties, who share their experiences, most important lessons and advice on transitioning into adulthood - one of the most turbulent periods in a person’s lifetime. Each episode is dedicated to one of five major elements of personal growth: healing, professions, determination, relationships and history. The content and characters of the podcast are inspired by real-life events. Photography, videos, imagery, music, logo and production by Todor Iliev.

In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival.

When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage - learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man's Family on the radio - and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska.

A raw, powerful account of an infantryman’s life during wartime– complete with all the horrors and the heroism . . . Robert Peterson arrived in Vietnam in the fall of 1966, a young American ready to serve his country and seize his destiny. What happened in that jungle war would change his...

The Drake's Fury: A Captain's Tale" is a first-person narrative exploring the treacherous waters between Cape Horn and Antarctica through the eyes of experienced Captain James McPherson. This 5,000-word piece weaves together maritime history, underwater geography, survival stories, and sailors' folklore while depicting the raw power of one of Earth's most dangerous sea passages. The narrative combines technical sailing knowledge with personal experiences to create an immersive account of life in the notorious Southern Ocean.

Gail Sheehy traveled to Middletown shortly after the disaster and began in-depth interviews with many of the bereaved.

Middletown, America was written as the year progressed, following parallel and intertwining stories of selected individuals and their families. A mother who was doubly bereft when she lost her only son as he tried to fill the shoes of her absentee husband; the sole survivor in an office of 67 people who escaped the 88th floor of Tower 2 seconds before the floor was decimated.

In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling...

As Christians, the challenges we face today demand that we have a deeper understanding of the Bible in its original context. When we do, it will change the way we live, think, and act every day. Passages is a ministry that brings Christian college students on life-changing trips to Israel. We’re on a mission to strengthen the faith foundations of the next generation of Christians, to connect them to the land of the Bible and the people living there today, and to launch them into a lifetime of impactful, Christ-centered leadership. To learn more, visit passagesisrael.org.

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas, and then they were erased from history. Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always said that enslaved women were not involved, but Rebecca decides to look deeper.