237: “Dear Mr President…”: Letters to FDR, #twitterstorians, and one man's experience of slavery's legacy

Joanne talks about the letters that flooded into FDR’s Whitehouse and how historians reach the public using social media. Also, Justin Reid, director of African American programs at Virginia Humanities, reflects on his family’s experience of slavery. Lear

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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 t...

Gesellschaft , Geschichte , Gesellschaft & Kultur

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Joanne talks about the letters that flooded into FDR’s Whitehouse
and how historians reach the public using social media. Also,
Justin Reid, director of African American programs at Virginia
Humanities, reflects on his family’s experience of slavery.

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