You can now listen to a radio play of the classic story of George Bailey co-sponsored by American Heritage.
Historic microphone used by Edward Murrow for London broadcasts to be loaned to the National Press Club
Edward R. Murrow’s radio broadcasts from London, aired live while Nazi bombs fell around him, are classics of journalism – and literature.
When former President Hoover was secretary of commerce under Harding and Coolidge, he was called upon to cope with a new and perplexing activity.
An unpublished story from the files of the Oral History Project
Reginald Fessenden made the first radio broadcast in 1906 employing principles still in use today.
The dour radio comedian regarded his work as totally ephemeral, but a new generation of comics has built upon his foundations
In 1938 the European correspondent for CBS was in Austria when the Nazis marched in. He wanted to tell the world about it—but first he had to help invent a whole new kind of broadcasting.
How the novelty item of 1920 became the world-straddling colossus of 1940
American Heritage interviews Lowell Thomas, the journalist whom Damon Runyon described as “the beau ideal of the radio fraternity, first for his complete artistry and second for his personality.
The story of the world’s longest-running radio program and the extraordinary American music it helped make popular
The Sunday afternoon broadcasts of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, once described as the "voice of God," were avidly followed by a radio audience of thirty to fifty million Americans during the Thirties.
The tremendous response to his radio shows led to standing-room-only theatre performances and cross-country tours, but Rudy Vallée claimed it was just good luck and timing.
The author recalls the early years of radio in the 1920s. He was one of the first people to sing on radio and later became an editor at KDKA, the first commercial radio station in the U.S.