BackStory
BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.Each week we take a topic that people are talking about and explore it through the lens of American history. Through stories, interviews, and conversation with our listeners, we make history engaging and fun.
- Website
- http://www.BackStoryRadio.org
- Description
- BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Each week we take a topic that people are talking about and explore it through the lens of American history. Through stories, interviews, and conversation with our listeners, we make history engaging and fun.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-07 22:09
- last episode published
- 2023-10-05 16:17
- publication frequency
- 10.33 days
- Contributors
- BackStory / Panoply
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 287
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2023-10-05 | test episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices |
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| 2023-10-04 | Test Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices |
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| 2020-07-03 |
The End of the Road: BackStory and the History of Finales in America On this final episode of BackStory, Nathan, Brian, Joanne and Ed explore different kinds of finales throughout American history. They also consider what it’s like being a part of their own finale and how finales can sometimes lead to new beginnings. |
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| 2020-06-30 | Coach Tony Bennett knows a thing or two about big finales. He’s the head coach of the men’s basketball team at the University of Virginia. This is a clip from Brian's conversation with Coach Bennett about the power of sports and how you have to be able... |
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| 2020-06-26 | As BackStory nears the end of its production, we’ve asked our listeners to call in with moments from the show’s history and compile their very own “Best of BackStory.” We got some great responses covering a range of topics, each of them meaningful to ... |
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| 2020-06-24 | Coming Fall 2020. In most history classes, you learn that the Emancipation Proclamation and Union victories “freed the slaves.” But ending slavery in America required so much more than battlefield victories or even official declarations. Black people ... |
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| 2020-06-19 |
Great, Small and Other Expectations: Charles Dickens and His History with America Charles Dickens died 150 years ago this month. A famous chronicler and critic of English industrial capitalism, Dickens was also immensely popular in the United States. But in an age of widespread debate about slave versus wage labor, his writings mean... |
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| 2020-06-12 | The Last Archive is a show from Pushkin Industries about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment. It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days, as if we don’t know anythi... |
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| 2020-06-05 |
Another Burden to Bear: A History of Racial Health Disparities in America The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted communities of color. According to the CDC, 33% of people who’ve been hospitalized due to the virus have been African-American, despite making up only 18% of the population. The ongoing crisis is a... |
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| 2020-05-29 |
Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem: A History of True Crime in America For the last decade or so, true crime has been everywhere -- Netflix shows like Making a Murderer and podcast series like Serial. All of them are a testament to the fact that for some strange reason, so many of us love stories about murder. But this m... |
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