Emily Gadek

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  • Username: footnotepodcast
  • Digital Producer
  • Role: Producer Group Staff

Recent Pieces from Emily Gadek

Caption: Students from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, NC raise the Confederate flag in April 1961., Credit: Digital Public Library of America, East Carolina University.

Gray Coats on the Silver Screen (06:56)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Film critic Eileen Jones talks with Brian Ballogh about Hollywood’s enduring love affair with Confederate heroes. This story comes from the BackStory episode "Contested ...
Caption: Students from J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, N.C. raise the Confederate flag in April 1961., Credit: Digital Public Library of America, East Carolina University.

Confederate States of Mind (08:49)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

WBEZ Chicago’s Logan Jaffe talks with three Americans for whom the Confederate flag represents three very different things. This story comes from the BackStory episode ...
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: President Nixon gamely tries out his chopsticks at a banquet given in his honor, 1972., Credit: White House Photo Collection

Southerners True and True (06:34)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Historian Joe Orser has the story of Chang and Eng Bunker, and how their efforts to assimilate illuminate changing attitudes towards Chinese immigrants across the 19th ...
Caption: William Jennings Bryan beating the drum of populism, cover of 'Puck' magazine, 1901. , Credit: Library of Congress

Populists at the Podium (08:50)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie talks about the legacy of segregationist demagogue George Wallace in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. This segment ...
Caption: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, painted by Claude Chuchetiere c.1696., Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Nun But the Truth (07:12)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Host Brian Balogh heads to Our Lady of the Angels, a Trappist monastery in the Blue Ridge Mountains, to find out what life is really like behind the walls of a convent. This ...
Caption: New York Mayor Seth Low shown taming the Tammany Tiger on the cover of Puck Magazine, Credit: Library of Congress

What Fools These Mortals Be! (07:52)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

BackStory producer Emily Gadek has the story of a satirical arms race during the election of 1884 that changed the face of political cartooning. This story comes from the ...
Caption: "The Happy Cottagers," by Clifford R. James, Credit: Library of Congress

Single Serving (05:16)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Sociologist Zsuzsa Berend reconsiders the lives of 19th-century women who chose, rather than to marry, to be happy by being useful. This story comes from the BackStory ...
Caption: Italian-British driver Dario Resta finished a close second at the 1915 Indianapolis 500. , Credit: Library of Congress

A Quick Reno-vation (07:14)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

The Guys talk with historian Mella Harmon and guest Barbara Davis about Reno, Nev.'s boom years as America’s quickie divorce capital. This story comes from the BackStory ...
Caption: Cartograph by Ruth Taylor White, for the Hawaii Tourist Bureau, circa 1930. , Credit: Via the University of Oregon’s Knight Library.

Island of Immortals (09:21)
From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Chinese immigrants held on San Francisco's Angel Island in the early 20th century carved poetry deep into the walls that confined them. Judy Yung walks us through that story, ...