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The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "I Try To Imagine Eva Braun"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat

Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

Thenceforward and Forever Free: The Emancipation Proclamation

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

Caption: "Abraham Lincoln and His Emancipation Proclamation," The Strobridge Lith. Co., 1888 , Credit: Library of Congress

In this episode of BackStory, we take a look at the narratives surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and try to unpack its legacy. How can we ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, WFPL News, WOUB, WTJU and more

Apocalypse Now & Then: A History of End-Times

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

Caption: Five Roads to Doomsday, Credit: 1946 Popular Science article on the Hayden Planetarium

On this episode: moments when we thought the game was about to be all over. The History Guys look at why apocalyptic visions gain traction from ti...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WRPI, and WTJU

Three Squares: Mealtime in America

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

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 KBRP Community Radio and WTJU

Small Island, Big Shadow: Cuba and the US

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

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

Been There, Done That: Historical Reenactments

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

Caption: Member of the Chesapeake and Potomac Vintage Baseball Club, Credit: Eric Mennel

On this episode, the History Guys ask what drives Americans to the suit up in the clothes of the past and reenact their history. Is it purely educa...

Bought by KREV-LP and WTJU

Borrowed Times: A History of the National Debt

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

Caption: WWI bonds poster, Credit: Library of Congress

The History Guys explore why the national debt has continued to be so controversial in a country that was founded on borrowing.

Bought by KSKQ, WMMT, WFIU, WEZU, and WTJU

Contagion: Responding to Infectious Disease

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

Caption: Vaccination Poster, Credit: Library of Congress

In this hour of BackStory we trace the trajectory of that change and examine the shifting role of the state when it comes to coping with epidemics....

Bought by KREV-LP

Here to There: A History of Mapping

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

Caption: Rambles Through Our Country -- An Instructive Geographical Game for the Young, 1890., Credit: LOC

We're devoting this episode of BackStory to maps - asking how the ways in which Americans have mapped geography illustrate the ways in which Americ...

Bought by WMMT and KREV-LP

City Upon a Hill: American Exceptionalism

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes

Caption: "The great Bartholdi statue, Liberty enlightening the world", Currier & Ives, 1885, Credit: Library of Congress

This week on BackStory, the History Guys tackle the myth of the city upon a hill: American exceptionalism. They trace its origins in Alexis de Tocq...

Bought by KREV-LP, Prairie Public, WCAI / WNAN, and WMMT