The Future of America's Past
Join Ed Ayers, award-winning historian and co-host of the hit podcast BackStory, as he travels to places that define the most misunderstood parts of America’s past. Visit sites Americans struggle to discuss and learn from National Park Service interpreters, museum educators, and cutting-edge guides how they engage a diverse public with the fullness of our nation’s history.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Freedom Fortress
08-08-201928 minAt Virginia’s Fort Monroe, Ed explores a remarkable place: the spot where slavery began in British North America, and the site where it began to unravel during the Civil War. From...
- Ep 2
2.The Fire of a Movement
08-08-201928 minOn March 25, 1911, New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burst into flames, and 146 workers — nearly all young women, many of them teenage immigrants — perished. Ed visits th...
- Ep 3
3.Lines in the Sand
15-08-201928 minTexas has long been a place of contentious borders and cross-cultural exchange. Six national flags have flown over Texas since the 1500s, starting with European contests for the la...
- Ep 4
4.A Grave Injustice
22-08-201928 minShortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. military and the FBI arrested more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Taken to desert camps and confin...
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