Segment from Man Up

City Men on the Beard “Frontier”

Historian Sean Trainor talks with Ed about the fierce 19th century debates over beards, and how booming American cities created the perfect climate for all that facial hair to grow.

Grill, Baby, Grill!

Loren Moulds, a historian and the head of digital scholarship and preservation at the University of Virginia Law School, tells us how social scientists helped hook American men into cooking for the family.

00:06:46

City Men on the Beard “Frontier”

Historian Sean Trainor talks with Ed about the fierce 19th century debates over beards, and how booming American cities created the perfect climate for all that facial hair to grow.

00:07:27

More to Love

BackStory host emeritus Peter Onuf talks with Katharina Vester, an associate professor of history at American University, about the rise of dieting in the 19th century and how it was preferable for men to be slim and women to have a few extra pounds on their bodies.

00:09:36