BackStory

BackStory / Panoply

BackStory is a society podcast hosted by BackStory / Panoply. It has 176 episodes, with the latest published October 2023.

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 talking about and explore it through the lens of American history. Through stories, interviews, and conversation with our listeners, we make history engaging and fun.

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Title

Date

Duration

Thar She Blows Again: The History of Whales and America (Part 2)

Oct 12, 2018

66m

Thar She Blows: The History of Whales and America

Oct 5, 2018

45m

Close Encounters: UFOs in American History

Sep 21, 2018

64m

Shore Thing: A History of the Beach

Jul 13, 2018

52m

Teen Activists: A History of Youth Politics and Protest

Apr 13, 2018

66m

You Have The Right to Remain Silent: A History of the Miranda Warning

Mar 23, 2018

36m

Forgotten Flu: America & the 1918 Pandemic

Feb 2, 2018

46m

What’s Cooking? A History of Food in America

Dec 15, 2017

53m

Too Good To Be True?: Myths in American History

Jul 28, 2017

53m

Call To Arms: Enlistment In America

Jun 1, 2017

44m

A More Perfect Union?: The Reconstruction Era

Mar 31, 2017

47m

Behind the Bylines: Advocacy Journalism in America

Mar 17, 2017

49m

Counter Culture: A History of Shopping [rebroadcast]

Dec 15, 2016

51m

New & Improved: Advertising in America [rebroadcast]

Dec 1, 2016

58m

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