You’ve Got Mail: A History of the Post Office
For more than two centuries, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night has kept American letter carriers from delivering the mail. But now it seems like budget woes might do what the weather couldn’t. What would it mean for our country if the mail only came a few days a week — or not at all?
The Health of the Nation
The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Body Politics: A History of Health Care.” You can listen to the entire episode here. Political scientist Jacob Hacker, author of the “public plan,” uses history to explain how we wound up with a system so different from the European model, and why lobbyists hold [...]
Health Care in the New World
The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Body Politics: A History of Health Care.” You can listen to the entire episode here. Reporter Catherine Moore visits Virginia’s Mt. Malado, the first hospital in the New World, and finds out why the “public plan” in the Virginia colony may have had its drawbacks. [...]
Heathen Health
The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Body Politics: A History of Health Care.” You can listen to the entire episode here. The Memory Palace‘s Nate DiMeo tells the story of how inoculation first came to the New World. Excerpted from: Body Politics: A History of Health Care
"Body Politics" Transcript
This is the transcript of “Body Politics: A History of Health Care,” first broadcast in October of 2009.
Body Politics: A History of Health Care
Recent fights about health care reform have landed several people in the hospital. So who foots the bill? Historically, what’s been the government’s role in keeping Americans healthy?
