207: Charlottesville: Our Town, Our Country

207: Charlottesville: Our Town, Our Country

Brian, Ed, Joanne, and Nathan share their personal reactions to last week’s violence in Charlottesville, when white supremacists and Neo-Nazis showed up in town, some of them heavily armed.  Violent clashes left one counter protester dead, and 34 injured.
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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...

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Brian, Ed, Joanne, and Nathan share their personal reactions to
last week’s violence in Charlottesville, when white supremacists
and Neo-Nazis showed up in town, some of them heavily
armed.  Violent clashes left one counter protester dead, and
34 injured.  The BackStory hosts also discuss the meaning of
Confederate statutes, and why they’re suddenly so polarizing.
They conclude the conversation with why we’re seeing this
resurgence in white nationalist activism in 2017. 
 

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