The Future of America's Past
Join Ed Ayers - award-winning historian and co-host of the hit podcast BackStory - as he travels to places that define the most misunderstood parts of America's past.
- 2019-2020
- 2 seasons
- Documentary
Join Ed Ayers - award-winning historian and co-host of the hit podcast BackStory - as he travels to places that define the most misunderstood parts of America's past.
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Season 2 Episode Guide
Episode 1
The Revolutions
Mon, Mar 16, 2020 27 mins
What does "freedom" mean to those outside the halls of power - and what did it mean during the American Revolution? Host Edward Ayers visits sites in Boston and Philadelphia to put that question to curators, museum educators, a playwright, and a tribal preservation officer. He learns about the ways in which women, Native Americans, and African Americans made the words of the Revolution come true in their own lives.
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