Nina Earnest

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  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Nina Earnest

Caption: Students from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, NC raise the Confederate flag in April 1961., Credit: Library of Congress.

Monumental Divide (10:28)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Historian Maurie McInnis and journalist Michael Paul Williams weigh in on the history and controversy of the Confederate monuments on Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue. ...
Caption: A family listening to the radio in Royal Oak, Michigan, 1939. Photo by Arthur S. Siegel., Credit: Library of Congress.

Listener Supported: A BackStory Fundraising Special (38:20)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Pledge drive hour for stations carrying BackStory with the American History Guys. Includes special content on the history of pledge drives and fundraisers in America, as well ...
Caption: William Jennings Bryan beating the drum of populism, cover of 'Puck' magazine, 1901. , Credit: Library of Congress

Party People (07:33)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Scholars Harry Watson and Jason Opal tell the story of “people’s president” Andrew Jackson’s notoriously wild inauguration party. This segment comes from the BackStory ...
Caption: William Jennings Bryan beating the drum of populism, cover of 'Puck' magazine, 1901., Credit: Library of Congress

A Plague O' Both Your Houses (07:38)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Historian Paul Gilje describes a series of riots against smallpox inoculation in colonial Massachusetts, making the case that 18th century mobs and contemporary populists ...
Caption: "Quiet! Loose talk can cost lives." Office of War information 1943., Credit: National Archives

The Ghost of An Idea (09:40)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Producer Nina Earnest has the story of Ida Craddock, whose spiritualist sex advice became the target of censor Anthony Comstock’s crusade to ban the transport of “obscene, ...
Caption: "This is the enemy." Depiction of a Nazi officer, 1943, Credit: Library of Congress

Is the Pope a Catholic? (10:17)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Scholar Maura Farrelly and host Brian Balogh discuss the pervasive bias against American Catholics that endured for much of U.S. history, which occasionally erupted into ...
Caption: Female personification of the Bill of Rights, 1941, Credit: Library of Congress

With Liberty and Justice For All? (08:44)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

At the height of World War II, Jehovah’s Witnesses fought for the right not to pledge allegiance to the flag. Historian Sarah Barringer Gordon has the story of the remarkable ...
Caption: Female personification of the Bill of Rights, 1941, Credit: Library of Congress

Pursuing Freedom (06:41)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

English professor Jeannine DeLombard talks with host Ed Ayers about the paradox some slaves faced when they sued their owners for the right to be free. This story comes from ...
Caption: Italian-British driver Dario Resta finished a close second at the 1915 Indianapolis 500. , Credit: Library of Congress

On the Bly (11:31)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

With the help of historians Joyce Chaplin and Matthew Goodman, BackStory producer Nina Earnest has the story of journalist Nellie Bly’s 1889 race ’round the world against ...
Caption: Surrender of Genl. Lee, at Appomattox C.H. Va. April 9th. 1865, Credit: Currier & Ives, Library of Congress

Crime & Punishment (09:41)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Were any rebel leaders hung for treason? Historian David Blight explains what happened to Confederate officials after the war, and why. This story comes from the BackStory ...