Archive for May, 2009
Grave Matters: A History of Death and Mourning
How present is death in American culture? Have improvements in public health and medicine removed death from our everyday lives? Join the History Guys in this Memorial Day episode of BackStory.
The Good Mother: A History of American Motherhood
For most of American history, women were charged with raising productive citizens, but not given full citizen status, themselves. Our Mother’s Day episode explores this enduring paradox.
