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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283: In God We Trust? The History of Religious Identity in America 2019-06-21
Sponsored Promotion: Bleeped 2019-06-18
282: The Many Lives of Roe v Wade: The Little Known History Behind the Famous Ruling 2019-06-14
Sponsored Promotion: Unknown History Podcast 2019-06-11
281: Mind, Body and Spirit: The History of Wellness in America 2019-06-07
280: Song of Ourselves? Walt Whitman and the American Imagination 2019-05-31
279: Paying for the Past: Reparations and American History 2019-05-24
Sponsored Promotion: Family Ghosts 2019-05-20
234: You Have The Right to Remain Silent: A History of the Miranda Warning 2019-05-17
278: The Year of the Woman: A History of Women in Congress 2019-05-10
277: The Civil War in the 21st Century: A New Museum Marks an Old Conflict 2019-05-03
275: Alternative Facts, Falsehoods and Delusions: The Lies We've Told Ourselves and Each Other in American History 2019-04-19
274: Death on the Assembly Line: Industrial Tragedies in American History 2019-04-12
273: All the Presidents’ Vetoes: A Brief History of Saying No to Legislation 2019-04-05
236: Teen Activists: A History of Youth Politics and Protest 2019-03-29
272: Burnt Corks & Cakewalks: The Toxic Legacy of Blackface in American History 2019-03-22
243: Shore Thing: A History of the Beach 2019-03-15
271: Oh, Bloody Hell: BackStory’s History of Profanity in America 2019-03-08
270: Shattering the Glass Ceiling in America: BackStory Celebrates Women's History Month 2019-03-01
269: Man vs. the Machine: Technophobia and American Society 2019-02-22
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