“Questions Remain” — Transcript
This is the transcript of “Civil War 150th: Questions Remain,” broadcast in April of 2011. You can listen to the entire show here. Tape: From VFH Radio in Charlottesville, Virginia, this is “BackStory.” Peter Onuf: From weapons of mass destruction to the U.S.S. Maine, each of America’s wars has been accompanied by its own [...]
“Why They Fought” – Features and Highlights
The following interviews are included in the BackStory episode “Civil War 150th: Why They Fought,” produced in March of 2011. You can listen to the entire episode here. Gary Gallagher: Why Northerners Fought — University of Virginia historian Gary Gallagher argues that while Northern leaders’ opposition to slavery brought on the Civil War, it wasn’t [...]
Civil War 150th: Why They Fought
Join the History Guys as they explore the forces and motivations behind Americans’ willingness to take up arms against one another.
"School Days" Transcript
Transcript of “School Days: A History of Public Education,” originally aired in September of 2009.
School Days: A History of Public Education
The statistics look grim, but is America’s educational system any worse off than it’s ever been? Why have schools been the sites of so many social movements?
