Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: Young Americans: A History of Childhood
BackStory radio episode in which the American History Guys discuss the nature of childhood and how the concept of childhood has been defined and redefined over the ages. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Back Story Radio: Shocked and Appalled: A History of Scandal
BackStory Radio looks at the legacy of misconduct from public officials in American history and explores perceptions and evolving attitudes on where to draw the line between public and private life. Audio and transcripts available in...
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Back Story Radio: Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History
BackStory Radio episode in which the American History Guys explore the long tradition of conspiracy thinking in America. Audio and transcripts are provided in segments.
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Back Story Radio: Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America
The original broadcast of BackStory episode marking the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address explores the history of oratory in America discussing what makes an iconic speech or speaker that will endure through the ages....
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Back Story Radio: Rinse and Repeat: Cleanliness in America [Rebroadcast]
Rebroadcast of BackStory Radio episode on the history of what it has meant to be "clean". Audio and transcript are provided.
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Back Story Radio: That Lawless Stream: A History of the Mississippi River
BackStory Radio podcast explores the Mississippi River in the context of American life, work, and imagination. Audio and transcripts are available.
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Back Story Radio: Born in the Usa: A History of Birth [Rebroadcast]
This BackStory Radio episode marks their first birthday with a rebroadcast of Born in the USA: A History of Birth in which the American History Guys explore perceptions of birth, citizenship, and controversies past and present. It...
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Backstory Radio: Four More Years: Presidential Inaugurations
BackStory Radio podcast looks at the last 224 years of American presidential inaugurations to explore the history surrounding these pomp celebrations and transitions. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Backstory Radio: City Upon a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism [Rebroadcast]
BackStory Radio episode discusses the history of American Exceptionalism and the rhetoric behind it. Audio and transcripts are provided.
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Backstory Radio: Coming Home: A History of War Veterans [Rebroadcast]
BackStory Radio rebroadcast of an episode examining the history of war Veterans' experience as they return home from war. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Back Story Radio: Monumental Disagreements: Memorials in America
BackStory Radio episode on monuments in America, who gets them and why, and the controversy that surrounds some of them. It provides the audio in segments, no transcript available.
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Back Story Radio: On the Money: A History of American Currency
Podcast on the history of the changing face of American currency. From Greenbacks to Bitcoin, the American History Guys explore which currencies throughout history Americans have embraced and why. This audio is provided in segments, no...
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Backstory Radio: Serve & Protect? A History of the Police
BackStory Radio podcast on the history of policing in America and what it means to serve and protect. Audio and transcript are provided.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Idea of America: Reflections on Birth of the u.s.
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interview conducted with Pulitzer Prize winner, Gordon S. Wood, author of "The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States" about the book. What does it mean to be American? Wood...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: American History and the World
[Free Registration/Login Required] Thomas Bender presents a documentary tying together American history with the world. He discusses the development of United States nationalism, globalization, and economics during the discovery of the...
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Back Story Radio: Stuck: A History of Gridlock
BackStory episode examines the topic of legislative standoffs in Congress by looking at the history of Congressional gridlock and evaluating the outcome. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Pbs Teachers: Life and Death in the War Zone: Military Medicine Through Time
Investigate the history of military medicine from the Civil War to the Iraq War, and interpret archival photographs shot on and off the battlefield.
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Back Story Radio: The Departed: Extinction in America
BackStory Radio episode in which the American History Guys explore how American thinking about extinction has developed and factored into the American psyche. The audio and transcripts are available.
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Back Story Radio: Controversial Wars
BackStory Radio podcast in which the American History Guys and their guest peer through the history and explore what happens on the home front during war explaining the controversies surrounding them.
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Pbs Learning Media: Shaping Public Opinion: Crash Course Government and Politics
Where do our political opinions come from? Most people's politics are grounded in their ideologies, but there are also other, external influences, such as the government itself, interest groups, and the media. We'll discuss how these...
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Pbs Learning Media: Political Ideology: Crash Course Government and Politics
In this episode, we look at political ideology in America. We're going to focus on liberals and conservatives and talk about the influencers of both of these viewpoints. It's important to remember that political ideologies don't always...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Living Room Candidate
An online exhibition that offers more than 500 commercials from every presidential race since the start of television campaign advertising in 1952. Visitors to the site can view the commercials, and read commentaries about top campaign...
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Pbs Learning Media: Founding Principles: Civil Rights
Learn about important civil right movements in American history. Through a study of foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, students learn about the fight for equal rights by different groups...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: American History Subjects: People Timeline
Wonderful resource for students and teachers of history provides videos for important and famous people throughout history, including presidents, activists and reformers, inventors and athletes, arranged chronologically by century.