Untrammeled: Americans and the Wilderness [rebroadcast]

52 Minuten

Podcast

Podcaster

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 t...

Gesellschaft , Geschichte , Gesellschaft & Kultur

Beschreibung

vor 9 Jahren

BackStory is quitting the city and heading into the wild. In this
episode, Brian, Ed, and Peter revisit America’s fascination with
wild places and learn how humans have impacted even the most remote
corners of our country. The Guys explore how the first European
settlers encountered a landscape long shaped by human intervention,
and later, how the city of San Francisco found a way to control the
remote Hetch Hetchy valley, hundreds of miles away. They also
consider how our ideas about wilderness have changed over
time.

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