joey chaplin who i met at the joh john hopkins' university. the only person that was always there and that was joey chaplin. you a >> you are going to tell them everything? >> no, i stop right there. >> she's the professor of early american history. her most recent work includes ground about the earth. circumnavigatiing magellan to orbit. and joyce has been kind enough to be a guest on "backstory" three times. she's going to talk to us about what it is to be dropped in a show where people know each other pretty well and bring scholarshi scholarships on a topic that we hope will reach a broader topic. let me take five or ten minutes to give you a berief history of "back story." it airs at the yuuniversity of richmond. we are four historians, we know nothing about our own history. we can't tell you exactly when we start it. we have no archives. i guess since you're all historians, none of this comes as a great surprise for you. i did some primary research meaning i went back to the oldest e-mails i had. there is an exchange in 2005 about possibl

joey, monica and several other outstanding scholars have done the research that really powers the intellectual connections in backstory, if there are any. and joyce chaplin who i met at the johns hopkins university when we were both in graduate school together. i prided myself on being the first person to the library every morning, there was only one person who was there always before me and that was joyce chaplin. do you remember that, joyce? >> you're going to tell everything about -- >> no, that's it. i stopped right there. joyce is the james duncan phillips professor of early american history at harvard university. her most recent works include "roundabout the earth: circumnavigating image land to orbit." and with allison bashford the new world of thomas robert mouthace rereading the principle of population. joyce has been kind enough to be a guest on backstory three times. >> three times. >> and she's going to talk to us a little bit about what it is to be like dropped into a show where people know each other pretty well and bring scholarship to bear on a topic that we hope will reach a broader public. not an easy thing to do and joyce has done it m