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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302: The End of an Era: History That Was Made - and Unmade - in the 2010s 2019-11-15
301: The Chinese in American History: How Afong Moy, Mayling Soong and Bruce Lee Changed the Narrative About China 2019-11-11
195: Call To Arms: Enlistment in America 2019-11-08
300: Blasts from the Past: A History of Dynamite in the United States 2019-11-01
Coming Up: The History of Dynamite in America 2019-10-29
299: Haunted Histories: A BackStory Halloween Special 2019-10-25
298: Rallying Behind Racism: The Women of White Supremacy 2019-10-18
"The Schizophrenic Sixties" from episode "States of Mind" 2019-10-16
297: How Reconstruction Transformed the Constitution: A Feature Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Eric Foner 2019-10-11
"Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" from episode #0136 "Where There's Smoke" 2019-10-09
Sponsored: Introducing American Elections: Wicked Game 2019-10-08
296: Darkness Over the Plain: The Bison in American History 2019-10-04
231: Life After the Oval Office: Presidential Legacies 2019-10-02
295: Impeachment Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: High Crimes and Misdemeanors in American History 2019-09-27
Sponsored: Introducing Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi 2019-09-26
294: The Long Shadow of the Plantation: How a Weighted Past Creates a Complicated Present 2019-09-20
218: Close Encounters: UFOs in American History 2019-09-18
216: What’s in a Number?: Thirteen in American History 2019-09-13
"Trade Winds" from episode #0141 “They Might Be Giants: China and the U.S.” 2019-09-11
293: Standing Rock and the History of Indigenous Resistance in the United States 2019-09-06
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