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Climate change could make snowshoe hare camouflage less protective.
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 01:00
“Nanosponges” in the bloodstream could mop up toxins from bacteria, bees, or snakes.
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 01:00
In a recent visit to Cologne, Germany, producer Dred-Scott Keyes spoke with three Afro-German men: Joe Otoyo, Denis Nunekpeku and Ermias Bilai abou...
- Added: Apr 13, 2013
- Length: 59:57
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
This week on War News Radio, “Peace News in Wartime”, we discuss the role of Morocco in the Arab Spring. Then, we learn about the process of establ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 30:01
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
A new flying robot can sense and dodge obstacles.
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 01:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
Big-rig driver Boyd Applegate tells his sister, Rhonda Dixon, about volunteering at the polls nearly every Election Day for 20 years.
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:03
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Elections are at the foundation of our democracy, but voter turnout in the last presidential election was only about 57%. It's easy to be nostalgic...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Moving up, moving home, and moving your body.
In Latitudes’ On the Move special we’ll sample many varieties of mobility. From self-deportation to ...
Bought by KUOW and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 51:28
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
The statistics look grim, but is America's educational system any worse off than it's ever been? Why have schools been the sites of so many social...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
American political conventions haven't always been so predictable. Before becoming scripted for television, conventions were often where pressing i...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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...
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
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
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
The US has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country. At the Maine State Prison, inmates are being taught skills to care for their ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 1
Modern science has given us a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. But we don't use it.
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 1
The Philadelphia School District released a plan to close schools, dismantle the school district as we know it, eliminate union jobs & and privatiz...
- Added: Jun 12, 2012
- Length: 04:15
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
This week on BackStory, we tackle extreme weather: how we've tried to predict it, control it, make sense of it. Along the way, we discover that ou...
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 04:10
