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🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | Major funding for backstory is provided by an anonymous donor, the National Endowment |
0:05.5 | for the Humanities, and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation. |
0:10.3 | From Virginia Humanities, this is backstory. |
0:13.1 | The show that explores the history behind the headlines. |
0:15.8 | I'm Ed Hears. |
0:16.8 | And I'm Nathan Connolly. |
0:18.7 | If you're just tuning in, we're historians, and each week, along with our colleagues, |
0:22.8 | Brian Ballot and Joanne Freeman, we explore the history of one topic that's been in the |
0:27.2 | news. |
0:28.2 | But this episode is a bit different. |
0:31.2 | For several years, backstory's hosts have been invited to appear on WBURs here and |
0:36.1 | now, and we discuss a broad range of topics that have recently been in the news. |
0:41.5 | Last week, Ed and I appeared on the program. |
0:43.8 | The topic was America's relationship to tobacco. |
0:47.1 | In the segment we relied heavily on the research and scholarship of Sarah Miloff, an assistant |
0:51.3 | professor of history at the University of Virginia. |
0:54.2 | Our book, The Sigarette, a political history, comes out in October. |
0:58.4 | Regrettably, neither Nathan nor I credited Professor Miloff on the air for her work. |
1:04.4 | That's patently unfair and we're deeply sorry. |
1:08.2 | So in this special segment, we're grateful to have Professor Miloff join us on the program |
1:12.6 | to talk about what happened last week, as well as a broader issue involving historians |
1:16.5 | who regularly appear in the media. |
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