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Open Vault: Wgbh Media Library and Archives
Ever-expanding archive of historically significant video, audio, images, and transcripts produced by public educational television and radio broadcaster WGBH. Search for primary sources to support and inform studies in history, the arts...
Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: Tapped Out: Thirsting for Fresh Water
BackStory audio segment on the history of water in America. The American History Guys explore a number of topics related to water as a resource including rights, access, supply, and management. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Back Story Radio: Island Hopping
BackStory audio includes several stories organized around the theme Islands. The American History guys explore U.S. history by focussing on an alternative perspective of the island, from Hawaii to the Great Lakes, through the Caribbean...
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Back Story Radio: Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America
Audio segment from BackStory Radio on the history of oratory in America in which the American History guys discuss what makes an iconic speech or speaker that will endure through the ages. Audio and transcript are provided.
Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: America, Inc: A History of Corporations
BackStory Radio episode is about the history of corporations in America and how they have been perceived both publicly and politically throughout American history. It provides both the audio and transcript in segments.
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Back Story Radio: American Exodus: A History of Emigration
This BackStory Radio episode explores U.S. emigration, why people have chosen to leave the U.S. and what parts of an American lifestyle went with them. It is provided in audio and transcript in segments.
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Back Story Radio: Responsibility to Protect? History of Humanitarian Intervention
BackStory Radio episode explores the concept of humanitarian intervention and the U.S. efforts to protect. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Back Story Radio: Young Americans: A History of Childhood
BackStory radio episode in which the American History Guys discuss the nature of childhood and how the concept of childhood has been defined and redefined over the ages. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Back Story Radio: Shocked and Appalled: A History of Scandal
BackStory Radio looks at the legacy of misconduct from public officials in American history and explores perceptions and evolving attitudes on where to draw the line between public and private life. Audio and transcripts available in...
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Back Story Radio: Grassy Knolls: Conspiracy Thinking in American History
BackStory Radio episode in which the American History Guys explore the long tradition of conspiracy thinking in America. Audio and transcripts are provided in segments.
Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: Talk of the Nation: Oratory in America
The original broadcast of BackStory episode marking the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address explores the history of oratory in America discussing what makes an iconic speech or speaker that will endure through the ages....
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Back Story Radio: Rinse and Repeat: Cleanliness in America [Rebroadcast]
Rebroadcast of BackStory Radio episode on the history of what it has meant to be "clean". Audio and transcript are provided.
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Back Story Radio: That Lawless Stream: A History of the Mississippi River
BackStory Radio podcast explores the Mississippi River in the context of American life, work, and imagination. Audio and transcripts are available.
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Back Story Radio: Born in the Usa: A History of Birth [Rebroadcast]
This BackStory Radio episode marks their first birthday with a rebroadcast of Born in the USA: A History of Birth in which the American History Guys explore perceptions of birth, citizenship, and controversies past and present. It...
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Backstory Radio: Four More Years: Presidential Inaugurations
BackStory Radio podcast looks at the last 224 years of American presidential inaugurations to explore the history surrounding these pomp celebrations and transitions. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Backstory Radio: City Upon a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism [Rebroadcast]
BackStory Radio episode discusses the history of American Exceptionalism and the rhetoric behind it. Audio and transcripts are provided.
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Backstory Radio: Coming Home: A History of War Veterans [Rebroadcast]
BackStory Radio rebroadcast of an episode examining the history of war Veterans' experience as they return home from war. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Back Story Radio: Monumental Disagreements: Memorials in America
BackStory Radio episode on monuments in America, who gets them and why, and the controversy that surrounds some of them. It provides the audio in segments, no transcript available.
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Back Story Radio: On the Money: A History of American Currency
Podcast on the history of the changing face of American currency. From Greenbacks to Bitcoin, the American History Guys explore which currencies throughout history Americans have embraced and why. This audio is provided in segments, no...
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Backstory Radio: Serve & Protect? A History of the Police
BackStory Radio podcast on the history of policing in America and what it means to serve and protect. Audio and transcript are provided.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Idea of America: Reflections on Birth of the u.s.
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interview conducted with Pulitzer Prize winner, Gordon S. Wood, author of "The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States" about the book. What does it mean to be American? Wood...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: American History and the World
[Free Registration/Login Required] Thomas Bender presents a documentary tying together American history with the world. He discusses the development of United States nationalism, globalization, and economics during the discovery of the...
Backstory Radio
Back Story Radio: Stuck: A History of Gridlock
BackStory episode examines the topic of legislative standoffs in Congress by looking at the history of Congressional gridlock and evaluating the outcome. Audio and transcript are provided.
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Pbs Teachers: Life and Death in the War Zone: Military Medicine Through Time
Investigate the history of military medicine from the Civil War to the Iraq War, and interpret archival photographs shot on and off the battlefield.