Emily Gadek
- Username: footnotepodcast
- Digital Producer
- Role: Producer Group Staff
Recent Pieces from Emily Gadek
Gray Coats on the Silver Screen
(06:56)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Film critic Eileen Jones talks with Brian Ballogh about Hollywood’s enduring love affair with Confederate heroes. This story comes from the BackStory episode "Contested ...
Confederate States of Mind
(08:49)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
WBEZ Chicago’s Logan Jaffe talks with three Americans for whom the Confederate flag represents three very different things. This story comes from the BackStory episode ...
Listener Supported: A BackStory Fundraising Special
(38:20)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Pledge drive hour for stations carrying BackStory with the American History Guys. Includes special content on the history of pledge drives and fundraisers in America, as well ...
Southerners True and True
(06:34)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Historian Joe Orser has the story of Chang and Eng Bunker, and how their efforts to assimilate illuminate changing attitudes towards Chinese immigrants across the 19th ...
Populists at the Podium
(08:50)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie talks about the legacy of segregationist demagogue George Wallace in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. This segment ...
Nun But the Truth
(07:12)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Host Brian Balogh heads to Our Lady of the Angels, a Trappist monastery in the Blue Ridge Mountains, to find out what life is really like behind the walls of a convent. This ...
What Fools These Mortals Be!
(07:52)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
BackStory producer Emily Gadek has the story of a satirical arms race during the election of 1884 that changed the face of political cartooning. This story comes from the ...
Single Serving
(05:16)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Sociologist Zsuzsa Berend reconsiders the lives of 19th-century women who chose, rather than to marry, to be happy by being useful. This story comes from the BackStory ...
A Quick Reno-vation
(07:14)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
The Guys talk with historian Mella Harmon and guest Barbara Davis about Reno, Nev.'s boom years as America’s quickie divorce capital. This story comes from the BackStory ...
