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...
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On this final episode of BackStory, Nathan, Brian, Joanne and Ed explore different kinds of finales throughout American history. They also consider what it’s like being a part of their own finale and how finales can sometimes lead to new beginnings.
Coach Tony Bennett knows a thing or two about big finales. He’s the head coach of the men’s basketball team at the University of Virginia. This is a clip from Brian's conversation with Coach Bennett about the power of sports and how you have to be ab...
As BackStory nears the end of its production, we’ve asked our listeners to call in with moments from the show’s history and compile their very own “Best of BackStory.”
We got some great responses covering a range of topics, each of them meaningful t...
24.06.2020
12 Stunden 9 Minuten
Coming Fall 2020. In most history classes, you learn that the Emancipation Proclamation and Union victories “freed the slaves.” But ending slavery in America required so much more than battlefield victories or even official declarations.
Black peopl...
Charles Dickens died 150 years ago this month. A famous chronicler and critic of English industrial capitalism, Dickens was also immensely popular in the United States. But in an age of widespread debate about slave versus wage labor, his writings me...
Über diesen Podcast
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 Virginia Humanities. There’s the
history you had to learn, and the history you want to learn -
that’s where BackStory comes in. Each week BackStory takes a topic
that people are talking about and explores it through the lens of
American history. Through stories, interviews, and conversations
with our listeners, BackStory makes history engaging and fun.
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