Nina Earnest
- Username: NinaEarnest
- PRX Member
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Nina Earnest
Monumental Divide
(10:28)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Historian Maurie McInnis and journalist Michael Paul Williams weigh in on the history and controversy of the Confederate monuments on Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue. ...
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 ...
Party People
(07:33)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Scholars Harry Watson and Jason Opal tell the story of “people’s president” Andrew Jackson’s notoriously wild inauguration party. This segment comes from the BackStory ...
A Plague O' Both Your Houses
(07:38)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Historian Paul Gilje describes a series of riots against smallpox inoculation in colonial Massachusetts, making the case that 18th century mobs and contemporary populists ...
The Ghost of An Idea
(09:40)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Producer Nina Earnest has the story of Ida Craddock, whose spiritualist sex advice became the target of censor Anthony Comstock’s crusade to ban the transport of “obscene, ...
Is the Pope a Catholic?
(10:17)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Scholar Maura Farrelly and host Brian Balogh discuss the pervasive bias against American Catholics that endured for much of U.S. history, which occasionally erupted into ...
With Liberty and Justice For All?
(08:44)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
At the height of World War II, Jehovah’s Witnesses fought for the right not to pledge allegiance to the flag. Historian Sarah Barringer Gordon has the story of the remarkable ...
Pursuing Freedom
(06:41)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
English professor Jeannine DeLombard talks with host Ed Ayers about the paradox some slaves faced when they sued their owners for the right to be free. This story comes from ...
On the Bly
(11:31)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
With the help of historians Joyce Chaplin and Matthew Goodman, BackStory producer Nina Earnest has the story of journalist Nellie Bly’s 1889 race ’round the world against ...
