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The Backstory: Why did these two presidents have 2 nonconsecutive terms?
Donald Trump and Grover Cleveland are the only two presidents to get elected to two nonconsecutive terms. Their personalities and lifestyles explain …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Backstory: The fire was master
Take a look back, and you’ll see how similar human reaction is over the centuries to so many things that happen to us today. Take the recent fires in…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Backstory: Our world on fire
The fires in California are terrifying to watch. But fire has a deep history…and there are lessons to be learned.
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1 year, 5 months ago
The Backstory: Barbie dolls: boobs, Mickey Mouse club, and fraud
Success doesn’t always come easy. We’re talking boobs, plastic, marketing directly to little kids…and getting indicted for corporate fraud. Who knew …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Backstory (Replay): A hero emerges from a 19th century insane asylum
On this replay episode of The Backstory: Did you know that as recently as the Victorian era, somebody could have you committed to an insane asylum ju…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Backstory: Looking good at any price
We’ll do anything to look fabulous these days—Ozempic, Botox, plastic surgery—but we have nothing on our ancestors. Sounds unpleasant, but they used …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Backstory: Making a statement with A Christmas Carol
Was Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" inspired by political outrage? That’s the story and it makes sense when you hear what he went through and wh…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Backstory (Replay): How did Christmas turn into trees and egg nog?
On this replay episode of The Backstory: We all have our Christmas traditions, but how did Santa Claus, Christmas trees, and George Washington’s reci…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Backstory: The charming spy who got away with it all
Espionage in the mid-1900s was very much like what you see in the early James Bond movies. Kim Philby, a British aristocrat and a notorious double ag…
1 year, 6 months ago
(Replay) The Backstory: The 9-year-old Union soldier
In this re-release episode: War is a terrible thing under any circumstance. But imagine the Civil War. There were more deaths than the combined total…
1 year, 6 months ago