313: Best of BackStory: The Time Ed Ayers Marched Into Richmond

BackStory

History, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As BackStory moves towards the end of its production, we’ve asked our hosts to select memorable moments from the show that we’re publishing as episodes once per month.

A founding host of the show, Ed Ayers has had hundreds of conversations on a huge variety of topics. But some of his favorite BackStory moments touched on anniversaries and events related to his own field in American history: slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

So in this best of BackStory, we will take a deep dive into what the Confederacy means today, and learn about the newly opened Civil War Museum. Then, we’ll hear tape from a BackStory live show at the 150th anniversary of the liberation of Richmond, Virginia.

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0:00.0	Presenting Hop On Board, a podcast series by Southeastern, six podcasts, six celebrity
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0:17.2	unsolved mysteries and spooky happenings, and Miranda Sawyer getting Artie on the Ken
0:21.9	Coast.
0:22.9	Get the inside track on Kenton East Sussex with Hop On Board, listen now wherever you
0:27.2	get your podcasts.
0:30.4	Major funding for Backstories provided by Anonymous Donor, the National Endowment for
0:34.4	the Humanities and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
0:40.9	From Virginia Humanities, this is Backstory.
0:49.9	Welcome to Backstory, the show that explains the history behind today's headlines.
0:54.4	I'm Ed Ayers.
0:55.8	If you're new to the podcast, each week, along with my colleagues, Joanne Freeman, Nathan
1:00.5	Connelly and Brian Ballot, we explore a different aspect of American history.
1:05.6	Now I've covered many different topics in my decade with Backstory, from the poetry of
1:10.9	Walt Whitman to the politics of the Supreme Court and lots of stranger subjects in between.
1:16.3	But some of my favorite backstory moments have touched on anniversaries and events related
1:21.2	to my own field in American history, slavery, the Civil War, and reconstruction.
1:27.6	Those conversations tell stories of pain and struggle, of change and triumph.
1:33.2	They bring in path-breaking scholarship and some of the best public history, and I'm
1:37.6	grateful to have had the chance to bring them to you over so many years.
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