BackStory

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The following audio clips are excerpted from the BackStory episode “Love Me Did: A History of Courtship,” broadcast in January/February of 2010.  You can listen to the entire episode here.

• Pam Epstein, a PhD candidate in history at Rutgers University, shares some of her favorite 19th century personal ads with BackStory’s 19th Century Guy, Ed Ayers.

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• Historian Beth Bailey talks to BackStory’s 20th Century Guy Brian Balogh about the origins of dating, and how it evolved over the course of the 20th century.

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  • SPECIAL WEB EXTRA: Beth Bailey tells Brian about three generations of courtship in her own family… and why there are only two entries for the word “love” in the index of her book.

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