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In this episode we hear from Warren Zevon's 1976 self-titled debut, music from the classic Meat Puppets album Mirage and selections from Spirit in ...

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 01:53:56
Caption: "O, the fatal Stamp Act" (one colonial newspaper's reaction to the Stamp Act of 1765.)
Just in time for Tax Day, BackStory delves into the long and turbulent history of taxation in America.

Bought by KFOK-LP, WOUB, WTJU, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Wedding ceremony, 1908., Credit: LOC
Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear challenges to two major laws on marriage -- California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Ma...

Bought by WFPL News, WOUB, WMMT, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Proctor & Gamble ad, 1898., Credit: LOC
Cleanliness is next to godliness, we say, and Americans have long associated good hygiene with moral and spiritual purity. This week on BackStory, ...

Bought by WOUB, WTJU, WMMT, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Infantryman training in Ft Knox, Kentucky, 1942. , Credit: US Office of War Information.
In the aftermath of the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Americans of all political stripes are wrestling with one big question: who should, and ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KWGS, WGBH Radio Boston, KCUR, Capital Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Advertisement for cocaine toothache drops, 1885., Credit: LOC.
In December, recreational marijuana use became legal in Washington and Colorado. But back in the early 20th century, both states were among the fi...

Bought by WTJU, Spokane Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Motorcycle Postman, 1912, Credit: Library of Congress
The History Guys explore the rise - and fall - of our postal system. They consider the how the Post Office stitched together a disparate country in...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, KREV-LP, and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: At Broad Channel -- dinner. , Credit: Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
The History Guys recover from their Thanksgiving feasts with a look back at the history of mealtime in America. From Victorian table manners to the...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Infantryman training in Ft Knox, Kentucky, 1942.  US Office of War Information., Credit: Library of Congress
The US has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world -- twice as high as the second-place finisher, Yemen. In this episode of BackSt...

Bought by WMMT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WPSU-FM, WCQS, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Facing the Future: Uncle Sam offers training to every man disabled in the service, Credit: Library of Congress
On this episode of BackStory, we look at the history of America's veterans of combat. How have war veterans been treated in the aftermath of Americ...

Bought by WTJU and KREV-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "The duty of the hour; - to save her not only from Spain, but from a worse fate."  Chromolithograph, 1898., Credit: Library of Congress
Fifty years ago this week, a U.S. military jet photographed strategic nuclear missiles that had been installed by the Soviets in Cuba. Over the nex...

Bought by WRPI and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Eugene Sandow, Credit: Library of Congress
From our noses to our weight, the shape that perfect body has taken has changed dramatically over the past 200 years. On this episode of BackStory,...

Bought by WRPI, WCAI / WNAN, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Charles Mokotoff spent years hiding his hearing loss, as he performed and taught classical guitar., Credit: Cathy Dyer
Finding out you have hearing loss might not be music to your ears... but it doesn't mean you have to change your tune.

Bought by KUOW, WAMC, and WFPL News


  • Added: Aug 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 3
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Ask people why they write and you'll hear many reasons. Here are some I hadn't expected.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich spent most of his entire creative life worrying about whether his government was going to send him to jail or...

Bought by WITF and WFCR


  • Added: Oct 02, 2006
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 2
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A woman inherits her mother's table linens.

Bought by WAMC and Jennifer Cecil Moore


  • Added: Aug 04, 2004
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Willard Mental Hospital closed in 1995, but for over 100 years it was at the center of life in upstate New York, for both the patients, staff and t...

Bought by WCFM, WZBC, WRFI Community Radio, and WNYC


  • Added: May 07, 2004
  • Length: 14:38
  • Purchases: 4