318: Best of BackStory: The Time Brian Balogh Went to a Monastery

BackStory

History, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As BackStory wraps up production, we’ve asked our hosts to select memorable moments from the show.

A founding host of the show, Brian Balogh has discussed a range of topics with a lot of different people - academic historians, museum curators, and even politicians. But some of his favorite conversations have been with everyday people who have lived and engaged with history, sometimes in surprising ways.

So in this edition of the “Best of BackStory,” Brian brings you three of his favorite interviews from his time at BackStory. You’ll hear from a member of a prison work crew, and find out what life is like behind the walls of a Catholic convent. Finally, you’ll learn about the American twist on a classic Mexican dish.

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0:00.0	Presenting Hop On Board, a podcast series by Southeastern, six podcasts, six celebrity
0:06.2	hosts, taking you on a whistle-stop tour of some of the best places to explore by rail
0:10.8	on the Southeastern network.
0:12.4	Join Greg Wallace as he tucks into delicious food and drink, rave-wilding, uncovering
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.
0:31.0	Major funding for Backstories provided by an anonymous donor, the National Endowment
0:34.8	for the Humanities and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
0:41.5	From Virginia Humanities, this is Backstory.
0:50.2	Welcome to Backstory, the show that explains the history behind today's headlines.
0:55.0	I'm Brian Valla.
0:57.2	If you're new to the podcast each week, along with my colleagues, Joanne Freeman, Nathan
1:01.5	Connolly, and Ed Ayers, we explore a different aspect of American history.
1:09.4	In my time at Backstory, I've discussed a whole range of different topics with a lot
1:13.8	of different people.
1:15.1	I've talked to academic historians, sometimes even politicians.
1:19.6	But the conversations that stand out most in my mind are the ones I've had with everyday
1:24.9	people.
1:26.3	People who have lived, made, and engaged with history, sometimes in surprising ways.
1:34.5	These are the people that are coming to grips with the product of history on a day-to-day
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