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BackStory

BackStory
Meat Consumption
American History
Beefsteak Election
Barbecue
Spam
Cold War
Chicago Hot Dog
Eel
Buffalo
Labor Day

BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at Virginia Humanities.

There’s the history you had to learn, and the history you want to learn - that’s where BackStory comes in. Each week BackStory takes a topic that people are talking about and explores it through the lens of American ... more

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