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Oct 5, 2023
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Oct 4, 2023
1 min
It turns out that all good things must come to an end...including BackStory.
Jul 3, 2020
1 hr 19 min
This Friday we’re airing the final episode of BackStory, in which Nathan, Joanne, Ed, and Brian explore different kinds of finales throughout American history.
Jun 30, 2020
6 min
In this best of BackStory, we present three of our listener’s favorite interviews from the show.
Jun 26, 2020
51 min
Coming Feb 2021…
In most history classes, students learn that the Emancipation Proclamation and Union victories “freed the slaves.” But ending slavery in America required much more than battlefield victories and official declarations. Black people battled for their own freedom, taking incredible risks for a country that had actively denied their right to it. And after the Civil War, they made freedom real by organizing for equality and justice.
On Seizing Freedom, you’ll hear stories of freedom taking and freedom making, in the words of those who did both. Drawing on stories from diaries, newspapers, letters, and speeches, we’ll recreate voices that have been muted time and time again.
This excerpt is from the first episode of the series. It tells the story of those who escaped slavery to enlist with the Union Army—an army that wasn’t particularly interested in having them.
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Jun 24, 2020
18 min
On this episode of BackStory, Joanne is joined by Jonathan Wells and Nancy Metz to tell the story of Dickens’ tumultuous -- but ultimately triumphant -- relationship to the United States and his American readers.
Jun 19, 2020
39 min
On this episode of The Last Archive, historian Jill Lepore tells the story of a Spring day in 1919, when a woman’s body was found bound, gagged, and strangled in a garden in Barre, Vermont.
Jun 12, 2020
57 min
On this episode of BackStory, Joanne and Brian learn about how different communities have struggled to acquire adequate health care.
Jun 5, 2020
56 min
On this episode of BackStory, Joanne and Ed shine a light onto the dark history of true crime in modern American history.
May 29, 2020
1 hr 6 min
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