American Archive of Public Broadcasting

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Wisconsin Public Radio’s “to the Best of Our Knowledge” Special Collection Featured in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/w… @WPR

Every episode (35 years) of “To the Best of Our Knowledge” archived for free, for everyone, forever. The “To the Best of Our Knowledge” Special Collection from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collab between the Library of Congress and GBH. americanarchive.org/special_collec…

Bertrand Goldschmidt was one of only three Frenchmen who worked on the Manhattan Project. He was a chemist who helped devise ways to purify plutonium. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting has a video interview with him. It's a fascinating look at the earliest days of fission. The interview itself is raw and a little irritating to watch because the interviewer frequently prompts responses and repeats his questions. Here is a quote worth sharing: "You can't understand the Bikini test in considering what today's attitude of the public toward the bomb. The best proof is that I was invited because there was two marshals for each country of the Security Council invited. And when I came back to France, I was famous for three months because I had seen an atomic explosion. I was invited to lunch and dinner by people I'd never heard or seen before simply because I had been at Bikini. And it was a tremendous happening. There wasn't at all the revulsion there is against the bomb today. And I gave a lecture on Bikini, the only time in my life, where people had to stay out, at the Sorbonne, because there were so many people attending. And one can't imagine that today where there is — the fact that the American's test in Nevada is considered a little bit as a crime against humanity." You can see the whole video here: americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aa…

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The American Archive of Public Broadcasting has so much cool stuff! It seems that they have really accelerated their digitization projects over the last year or two. americanarchive.org

There's so much great content on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Here's a 1980 Bill Moyers Journal segment on Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda's Campaign for Economic Democracy tour in 1979/80. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aa…

@MikeKoncewicz Thank you for sharing and we're glad you're enjoying the archive!

🎶 Rock and roll history, straight from Southeastern! 📻 The American Archive of Public Broadcasting just launched the Rock School Special Collection — featuring 900+ episodes produced by Southeastern’s 90.9 The Lion! From Woodstock to Taylor Swift, dive into the stories behind the songs, artists, and cultural moments that shaped music history. 🎸✨ southeastern.edu/2025/07/librar… #OurSoutheastern #MusicHistory

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is a collaboration between the Library and Boston public media producer GBH. The AAPB Bill Moyers collection preserves more than 50 years of his work, an invaluable look at American history as it was happening. blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/06/bi…

Always respected Bill Moyers, who has died at age 91. A former spokesman for President Lyndon Johnson, he became a towering journalist at CBS and on public TV. Much of the work he produced for public TV is at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: loom.ly/_O5X028

(1/3) Para conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Mujer Trabajadora (#8M), conseguimos pietaje del @amarchivepub : el programa Women, conducido por Sandra Elkin, quien en 1975 se dio a la tarea de entrevistar a las fundadoras de la Federación de Mujeres Puertorriqueñas (FMP).

Honoring the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress, this year's recipient of AMIA's 2024 Ray Edmondson Advocacy Award. loom.ly/5nNXCVw

On this day in 1981, President Jimmy Carter delivered his final address to the American people from the Oval Office. Watch the address from @IowaPBS via @amarchivepub 👇 bit.ly/40xbPmH

P.S. You can stream full episodes of @GBH's original ZOOM series courtesy of @amarchivepub. americanarchive.org/special_collec…

Join us in remembering President Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived U.S. President, with his 1981 farewell address. Beyond his presidency, Carter was a humanitarian, author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. 🔗 americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aa…

@vikbutserious You can watch '80s debates in the archive too! americanarchive.org

i fucking love public broadcasting, cause i can watch 1991 presidential debates

@jimcobbprepper A classic! We have 40 episodes in the archive if you're in a nostalgic mood! americanarchive.org/special_collec…

Random -- anyone else remember a kids show from the 1970s called Vegetable Soup?

We’re thrilled to share that the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (a collaboration between @GBH and @librarycongress) has been awarded the Ray Edmondson Advocacy Award by the Association of Moving Image Archivists (@AMIAnet)!

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Scuse us while we toot our own horn a little... 📯 The Association of Moving Image Archivists has honored the Library of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center with two awards! Read more about it in our blog: blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2…

Thank you, AMIA, for recognizing the AAPB and our mission to preserve and share the rich history of public radio and television!

"I was just a woman looking at the world trying to find a way to be happy and to be safe and to make a contribution." Nikki Giovanni, the renowned priestess of Black poetry, passed away this week at the age of 81. [🎞️: @PBS's "Bill Moyers Journal" courtesy of @amarchivepub]