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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217: Boy Scouts Welcome Girls, Trump Drums Up Support for War, America as a Judeo-Christian Nation 2017-10-20
215: It is So Ordered: 4 Landmark Decisions of the Supreme Court 2017-10-06
214: Enemies: A History of Bad Blood 2017-09-29
213: Longer Commutes, Equifax Data Breach, and Income Inequality 2017-09-22
212: The Melting Pot: Americans & Assimilation 2017-09-15
211: A Conversation with Karl Rove 2017-09-08
Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens 2017-08-25
207: Charlottesville: Our Town, Our Country 2017-08-18
Revisionist Climate: Americans & the Atmosphere 2017-08-11
Skin Deep: Whiteness in America 2017-07-14
Hometown History: Local Stories From Across The Country 2017-07-07
Contested Landscape: The Battle over Confederate Monuments 2017-06-16
Prying Eyes: Privacy in America 2017-06-09
Body Politics, JFK at 100 and African American Memorials 2017-06-02
National Lampoon: A History of American Satire 2017-05-19
The Habit: Opioid Addiction in America 2017-05-12
Over There: America Enters WWI 2017-04-14
Seeing Red: A History of U.S./Russia Relations 2017-04-07
Border Patrols: Policing Immigration in America 2017-03-10
Taking it to the Streets: Protest in America 2017-03-03
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