Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens

Why do we want to travel to the moon, to Mars, or beyond? We’re saluting this week’s total solar eclipse by looking at how Americans in the past have made sense of meteors, eclipses, and the stars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc

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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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Why do we want to travel to the moon, to Mars, or beyond? We’re
saluting this week’s total solar eclipse by looking at how
Americans in the past have made sense of meteors, eclipses, and the
stars.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices