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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In recent years, the White House’s relationship with the Kremlin has dominated the headlines in America -- from Syria to Ukraine. According to CNN, Vladimir Putin denounced last night's U.S. airstrike against Syria (a response to a Syrian chemical w...
23 Stunden 27 Minuten
President Donald Trump recently announced his plans to crackdown on undocumented immigration. In his first address to Congress, the president claimed: “We are removing gang members, drug dealers and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on...
03.03.2017
The election of Donald Trump set off a seemingly continuous wave of protests across the country. This is just the latest surge of resistance. Past protests have included varied groups - from the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street. On this episode of Bac...
18 Stunden 20 Minuten
On Thursday, a federal appeals panel unanimously rejected President Trump’s move to reinstate the ban on travel from seven largely Muslim nations into the United States. The restriction, put into effect by executive order on Jan. 27, is commonly beli...
04.02.2017
According to the New York Times, the 2016 election “highlighted a growing rural-urban split.” So, on this episode of BackStory, Brian, Ed and Nathan look at what happens when urban and rural Americans collide.They’ll tell the story of one coastal cou...
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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 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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