330: Best of BackStory: The Time the People Picked

BackStory

History, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As BackStory nears the end of its production, we’ve asked our listeners to call in with moments from the show’s history and compile their very own “Best of BackStory.”

We got some great responses covering a range of topics, each of them meaningful to the present moment in their own way.

So in this best of BackStory, we present three of our listener’s favorite interviews from the show. You’ll learn about the early U.S. Postal Service, and hear from residents of Hamlet, North Carolina as we explore the painful memory of a 1991 tragedy. Then, you’ll discover the long evolution of the Confederate flag’s design.

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0:00.0	Major funding for backstory is provided by an anonymous donor, the National
0:04.4	Endowment for the Humanities and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
0:11.3	From Virginia Humanities, this is backstory.
0:20.2	Welcome to backstory. The show that explains the history behind today's headlines.
0:26.2	I'm Brian Dullin. And I'm Joanne Freeman. If you're new to the podcast, each week, along with our colleagues, Nathan
0:34.1	Conley and Ed Ayers, we explore a different aspect of American history. And this week, we're exploring
0:40.6	American history with some of our listeners too. Next month, backstory wraps up production after more than
0:47.8	12 years. That's an amazing sentence. And to commemorate the show, over the last six months, you've
0:55.2	heard best of backstory episodes presented by each of our five hosts, past and present. But on this
1:02.2	episode, we wanted to hear from you, the listener, about your favorite moments from the show.
1:08.2	We got some great responses. I'm not surprised about that. This was great listeners. And I want to thank
1:14.5	everyone who got in touch. You guys chose a range of topics each of them meaningful to the present
1:21.0	moment in their own way. So on the final installment of our best of backstory series, we're really
1:28.4	excited to present to you your favorite backstory moments. You're going to learn how residents of the
1:34.2	North Carolina town are still grappling with painful memories from an industrial tragedy, almost
1:40.3	30 years ago. And you'll hear about the history and ongoing controversy of the Confederate monuments
1:46.6	along Richmond's monument Avenue. But first up, we have a message from backstory listening to Chris
1:52.8	Wade with his favorite moment from the show's history. My name is Chris Wade in the Scottsville,
2:00.4	Virginia, not far from the land of Wahoo Wah. The episode that really caught me was from years ago.
2:08.6	The subject was male. How the postal service created a network to unite the various parts of the
2:16.1	infant country, sort of a national nervous system. And the show went on to cover how Mark Twain and
2:23.3	Buffalo Bill brought the pony express into popular culture. It even got to talking about an
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