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BackStory, the American History Podcast, ends Production in 2020
Charlottesville, VA— After more than three hundred episodes that have reached millions of listeners over the last twelve years, BackStory, the American history podcast produced by Virginia Humanities, will record its final episode …
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BackStory Awards Inaugural Prize for Excellence in Public History
BackStory, the American history podcast produced by Virginia Humanities, awarded the first ever “BackStory Prize” to The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. “The Equal Justice Initiative is grateful to …
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BackStory Celebrates Ten Years
Since 2008, BackStory, Virginia Humanities’ American history podcast, has provided listeners with a weekly deep-dive into the past, using current events as an opportunity to offer lively historical views of …
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Meet VFH Board Member Ed Ayers
University of Richmond President Emeritus and Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities, Ed Ayers may be best known as one of the voices on VFH’s BackStory with the American History Guys. But he was also the …
