History for the Headlines: 2015 in Review

BackStory

Education, History

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Here at BackStory, we’re always on the lookout for stories from the past that help us make sense of our lives today. As 2015 comes to a close, we’re winding back the clock to find out what some of our favorite BackStory moments have to say about the year’s major news stories. What does the 19th century populist movement tell us about the 2016 presidential campaign? And how does the 1897 battle over America’s first long-distance oil pipeline connect to the Keystone XL debate? In this episode, we’ll take a second look at 2015—and turn up a few surprises along the way.

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0:00.0	This is backstory. I'm Ed Ayers.
0:03.0	2015 has flown by in a flurry of sound bites.
0:06.0	The justice is in a five to four ruling legalized
0:09.0	same sex marriage, a massacre in San Bernardino.
0:12.0	I am officially running for president of the United States.
0:17.0	Here at backstory, we made sense of some of those news stories
0:21.0	by looking at America's past.
0:24.0	Take the 2016 presidential candidates,
0:26.0	many adopted populous messages promising to put the people
0:30.0	in charge. In 1828, candidate Andrew Jackson said the same thing,
0:34.0	and it made for an hectic first day in office.
0:37.0	A huge strung of people just went into the White House,
0:40.0	who had not been personally invited, but who felt personally invited.
0:44.0	There was no guard to hold them back. There were no police.
0:47.0	Nobody had planned for 20,000 people.
0:51.0	Today on backstory, we're getting the history
0:53.0	behind some of 2015's biggest headlines.
1:00.0	Major funding for backstory is provided by an anonymous donor,
1:05.0	the National Endowment for the Humanities,
1:07.0	the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation,
1:10.0	and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.
1:13.0	From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,
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