Andrew Wyndham

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Recent Pieces from Andrew Wyndham

Caption: Twin mothers with their newborn babies at Columbia Maternity Hospital, Washington, D.C., April 7th, 1939 , Credit: Library of Congress

Mommy Dearest: A History of American Motherhood [rebroadcast] (54:00)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Some say motherhood is the hardest job in the world; turns out, there's a lot of history to back that up. In this special Mother's Day episode, the American History Guys ...
Caption: A family listening to the radio in Royal Oak, Michigan, 1939. Photo by Arthur S. Siegel., Credit: Library of Congress.

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 ...
Caption: "The death bed of the martyr President Abraham Lincoln", Credit: Currier & Ives, Library of Congress

Trials & Tribunes (10:38)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Scholar Elizabeth Leonard talks with host Brian Balogh about the trials of the surviving suspects in Lincoln’s assassination, conducted in an atmosphere of fear and suspicion ...
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The Plot Thickens (11:50)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Terry Alford, Edward Steers Jr., Wyatt Evans, and Sarah Jencks walk the Guys through the evolution of John Wilkes Booth’s plan not only to kill Lincoln, but top members of ...
Caption: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin at the Yalta conference, February 1945.

Stars & Tsars: A History of U.S.-Russia Relations [Rebroadcast] (54:00)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

In the past few years, the White House and the Kremlin have sparred over Syria, the Winter Olympics, and now, the crisis in Ukraine. It can be tempting to view these events ...
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library

Life on Mars? (09:02)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "The Future Then: Visions of ...
Caption: Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko, created by Westinghouse Electric Company for the 1939 World’s Fair., Credit: New York City Public Library

The New End of Old New York (09:10)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Historian Max Page talks about why New York City is so often the target of destruction on the page and the silver screen. This segment comes from the BackStory episode "The ...
Caption: The greatest department store on earth; — and every day a bargain day,’ by J.S. Pughe. Puck, 1899.

Counter Culture: The Wonderful Windows of Oz (10:09)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Producer Eli Wirtschafter brings us the story of author L. Frank Baum’s very successful career creating other fantasy lands — department store windows. This story comes from ...
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"His Accidency" (08:30)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Producer Andrew Parsons explores the legacy of John Tyler, a man who was called a tyrant and worse simply for insisting that he was, in fact, the President of the United ...
Caption: Student nurses being trained in nutrition, New York, 1942 – photographed by Fritz Henle

A Political Diet Plan (07:41)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Host Brian Balogh talks with food journalist Marian Burros about the US Senate’s attempt to encourage healthy eating in the 1970s, and the pushback against their ...