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 histo ...
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Japanese History Junk Food - The Hiraga Gennai Bookclub "On Farting"
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Nick, not an expert, talks about his favorite work by Edo period Japanese renaissance man Hiraga Gennai, "On Farting". Listen to Nick and Stephen, two goobers who like Japanese history but not enough to learn much about it, discuss this little known work by Japan's favorite closeted homosexual inventor of asbestos! Let me google that for you! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/15/national/history/laughter-the-best-medicine-for-humanity/#.Xr-IoS-cZ24
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Nick, not an expert, talks about his favorite work by Edo period Japanese renaissance man Hiraga Gennai, "On Farting". Listen to Nick and Stephen, two goobers who like Japanese history but not enough to learn much about it, discuss this little known work by Japan's favorite closeted homosexual inventor of asbestos! Let me google that for you! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/15/national/history/laughter-the-best-medicine-for-humanity/#.Xr-IoS-cZ24
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