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Series produced by BackStory with the American History Guys

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A collection of the best stories and features from BackStory, meant for excerpt by programs or stations.

BackStory is a weekly one-hour public radio show that provides a national broadcast audience with an enjoyable and accessible way of engaging challenging themes in American history and how they connect with today.

The pieces in this series are available for individual excerpt. If you are interested in full episodes of BackStory, check out our main series page.


188 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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The American History Guys riff on citizenship. Does being born on American soil guarantee American citizenship?

Bought by Radio Newark, KFAI Minneapolis, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 4
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Host Peter Onuf talks to religion scholar Peggy Bendroth about “Day of Doom” by Michael Wigglesworth, a poem in which dead babies talk to us from b...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Radio Newark, KBRP Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 4
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich talks to Host Ed Ayers about the movement away from midwifery and towards hospital births.

Bought by Radio Newark, KHNS, KBRP Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 4
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Host Brian Balough explores the meaning of "wartime" with Mary Dudziak, an historian at Emory University's School of Law. Well after V-J Day, Dudz...

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KBRP Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
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Host Peter Onuf talks with Amy Greenberg, an historian at Pennsylvania State University, on the rogue diplomat that ended the Mexican-American War ...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 11:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Ed Ayers talks with historian Amy Wood about how lynching photographs were used first by white supremacists to spread terror.

Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 2
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BackStory Producer Eric Mennel tells the story of how a turn-of-the-century American writer grappled with his own ambivalence about the meanings an...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:04
  • Purchases: 3
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Hosts Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf tell the story of the founding of Liberia.

Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 3