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show and podcast back story with the american history guys. >> you ready, guys? >> ready. >> plug it in. >> all right. >> hey. on the air. >> major production support for back story was provided by the national endowment for the humanities. ♪ >> from the virginia foundation for the humanities in charlottesville, virginia, this is back story. it's october 8th, 1871. we're in chicago. and a fire is spreading. it's a horrible fire. nobody's exactly sure how it started. it started on the westside of chicago, but it spread incredibly quickly and before long, the central district is afla...

>> since he's your brother. >> not really. on the other side. >> hi, i'm from the university of california. >> i see trouble. >> no. >> you're not from uc davis, are you? >> this is a question for 18th century guy and 19th century guy. >> i love it. bring it on. >> the question is about the regulation of alcohol and slavery and the regulation of alcohol and interaction between whites and native americans. i know that those two were the focuses of early focuses of the regulation of alcohol. >> that's a great question and it's absolutely true. if you want to see the state begin to oper...

night, unfortunately they lost. but i -- it was a good game. i was really struck -- >> they lost because you left early. >> i had to prepare for back story. i was really struck by the efforts at least to create a family setting. beer was being sold. beer was being consumed. but there was a play area for kids, there were lots of young people there. and these beer gardens late 19th, early 20th century were an effort in a constructive way to domesticate drink within a larger set of family values. if you will. >> though i never want you to think that i'm not an american exceptionalist, a...

>> until prohibition. >> not according to the temperance forces. having encouraged saloons to serve lunch they came up with the slogan, there is no free lunch. and they used that to underscore the price that workers were paying for that so called free lunch. the price in drunkenness, it et cetera. >> thank you for asking a question i could answer. >> since he's your brother. >> not really. on the other side. >> hi, i'm from the university of california. >> i see trouble. >> no. >> you're not from uc davis, are you? >> this is a question for 18th century guy and 19th century guy. >> i...

brewing is now. we are now back. >> we're living in the golden age? let's hear it for ourselves. ladies and gentlemen. >> as of last month, the united states now has more than 2,000 breweries in operation. >> yea. >> yea for america. we're back to where we were a century ago. >> yeah. >> sort of a rebirth. i guess now is it kind of a self-conscious, or is this natural, is this kind of forced by a yuppieficationing? >> i think it's a natural outgrowth. >> as natural as this beer. >> but also i think it's the interest in foods that are local handma handmade. how many of you home brew? ...