Program Information

Series: BackStory with the American History Guys
Program: Louis Hyman
Duration: 00:09:11
Year Produced: 2009
Description:

Historian Louis Hyman talks about the structural changes that led to record levels of personal debt in the late 20th century. It’s not that Americans are more willing to go into debt than they used to be, he says, but rather that they are no longer able to pay that debt off.

BackStory is a public radio program that brings historical perspective to the events happening around us today. On each show, renowned U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf, and Brian Balogh tear a topic from the headlines and plumb its historical depths.

For more information visit: http://www.backstoryradio.org/

Virginia Standards

6th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » USII.6
11th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » VUS.8