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240: Reflecting on Darkness: Lynching; Americans and the Holocaust

240: Reflecting on Darkness: Lynching; Americans and the Holocaust

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240: Reflecting on Darkness: Lynching; Americans and the Holocaust

FromBackStory

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
May 25, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On this week’s episode, Nathan, Brian, Joanne & Ed talk about how Americans remember and reckon with systematic violence, and how we keep this difficult history alive and in the public eye. Historian Kidada Williams reads letters from a man seeking justice for his son who was lynched, and Brian visits an exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
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Released:
May 25, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at Virginia Humanities. There’s the history you had to learn, and the history you want to learn - that’s where BackStory comes in. Each week BackStory takes a topic that people are talking about and explores it through the lens of American history. Through stories, interviews, and conversations with our listeners, BackStory makes history engaging and fun.