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.
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Best Of BackStory Pt. 1
We’ll spend our last regularly scheduled broadcas…
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Four More Years: Presidential Inaugurations [re...
As Washington prepares for the next four years, B…
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Health Nuts: A History of Nutritional Advice [r...
Health Nuts: A History of Nutritional Advice [reb…
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Judaism In America [rebroadcast]
On Dec. 24th, Jewish communities across the count…
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Counter Culture: A History of Shopping [rebroad...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Or is i…
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Separation Anxiety: Church & State In America
From the persecution of Quakers in colonial Massa…
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Short Take: Native Americans, the U.S. Governme...
On Sunday, the Army Corps of Engineers refused to…
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New & Improved: Advertising in America [rebroad...
Nieman-Marcus’ 2016 Christmas Book, which was fir…
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Short Take: A History Of Rigged Elections
President-elect Donald Trump said the election wa…
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American As Pumpkin Pie: A History Of Thanksgiv...
If a Pilgrim were to attend a contemporary Thanks…
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A Whole New World: A History of Utopias
In his recent book “Utopia for Realists,” Rutger …
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American Exodus: A History of Emigration [rebro...
With Donald Trump vowing to keep undocumented Mex…
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Short Take: The 2016 Election
Early this morning, Donald J. Trump was declared …
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Pulling the Curtain: Voting in America [rebroad...
If the record TV viewership of the Clinton-Trump …
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Short Take: FBI and U.S. Elections
Last Friday, FBI Directory James Comey informed C…
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Bridge For Sale: Deception In America [rebroadc...
America has a long and colorful history of confid…
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A History of Manufacturing in 5 Objects
Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have talked…
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Fighting Words: A History of Debate in America
With the presidential debates between Donald Trum…
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Keeping Tabs: Data & Surveillance in America [r...
Calls to pardon Edward Snowden, the former CIA co…
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Banned: A History of Censorship [rebroadcast]
Americans have sought to censor all kinds of expr…
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Believer-In-Chief: Faith & The Presidency
American presidential candidates are expected to …
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Body Politics: Disability in America [rebroadcast]
In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act made…
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Nose to the Grindstone: A History of American W...
The Labor Day holiday offers some of us a much-ne…
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Untrammeled: Americans and the Wilderness [rebr...
BackStory is quitting the city and heading into t…
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Serve & Protect? A History of the Police [rebro...
For many Americans, police shootings in Louisiana…
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