Listen Sunday morning and Tuesday night for public radio's only call-in history show, BackStory, a program from the Virginia Foundation For The Humanities and the University of Virginia.
BackStory brings historical perspective to the events happening around us today. On each show, renowned U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf, and Brian Balogh tear a topic from the headlines and plumb its historical depths.
Past episodes have explored women's history, Abraham Lincoln, the American identity and African American history.
Ayers, Onuf, and Balogh drill down to colonial times and earlier, revealing the connections - and disconnections - between past and present. With its passionate, intelligent, and irreverent approach, BackStory is fun and essential listening.
Hear BackStory beginning this Sunday morning at 6 and Tuesday night at 10 and let us know what you think.
BackStory replaces The State We're In, which has been discontinued. Radio Netherlands has eliminated all English lanugage programming due to reductions in their government funding.
You'll find VPR's complete broadcast schedule here.
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