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    Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens

    Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens

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    Starry-Eyed: A History of the Heavens

    FromBackStory

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    Length:
    49 minutes
    Released:
    Aug 25, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Why do we want to travel to the moon, to Mars, or beyond? We’re saluting this week’s total solar eclipse by looking at how Americans in the past have made sense of meteors, eclipses, and the stars. 

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    Released:
    Aug 25, 2017
    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.