As 2012 winds down, and a New Year is born, American History Guys Brian, Ed, and Peter reflect on their first weekly season, reprising favorite interviews, riffs, features, and calls.
BackStory Radio examines how apocalyptic visions gain traction from time to time, and what they tell us about American hopes and fears through the centuries.
The American History Guys consider the advent of air conditioning, and explore its far-reaching implications on everything from architecture and leisure to demography and politics.
Why is there no image of George Washington on the Washington Monument? Three history professors discuss the controversy over building the Washington Monument in "Monumental Disagreements,"...
The American history guys, all history professors, ask whether there was ever a Golden Age of home ownership in the second episode of a new NEH-funded weekly radio show being launched across the country.
University of Virginia history professors Peter Onuf and Brian Balogh and Ed Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, explore “Childbirth in America” in the first episode of a NEH-funded weekly show.