Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Maria Anna Mozart
11 november 2020 · 32 min
Maria Anna Mozart is often left out of brief accounts of her brother’s life. But his sister was sharing the bench with him and was also considered an impressive and accomplished musician. Lees meer
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
9 november 2020 · 41 min
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an astronomer who made a lot of firsts. She grew up in a society that didn’t really prioritize education for girls, and she was determined and creative about getting around that. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: The Night Witches
7 november 2020 · 25 min
This episode from 2015 covers the Night Witches, an all-female bombing regiment in the Soviet Air Force. Flying biplanes meant for dusting crops and training new recruits, they dropped 23,000 tons of bombs on German forces in WWII. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Unearthed! in Autumn 2020
6 november 2020 · 9 min
Tracy and Holly discuss the wealth of unearthed stories that came up this time around, as well as their favorite finds from this batch. Lees meer
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Unearthed! in Autumn 2020, Part 2
4 november 2020 · 34 min
Part two of our autumnal unearthing report includes shipwrecks, exhumations, repatriations, and quite a bit about Vikings, and a bit of potpourri. Lees meer
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Unearthed! in Autumn 2020, Part 1
2 november 2020 · 34 min
It's once again time to take a look at things that have been literally and figuratively unearthed over the last few months. In part one of this Autumn 2020 edition, we'll talk about books and letters, edibles and potables, animals, and some other stuff. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: The History of Halloween Candy
31 oktober 2020 · 30 min
Happy Halloween! To celebrate, we're revisiting a 2014 episode. Candy and Halloween go hand-in-hand, but when did candy become the standard for trick-or-treating, and who invented the holiday's most famous sweet treats like candy corn? Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Tarot and Hellhounds
30 oktober 2020 · 15 min
Holly and Tracy talk about their experience with tarot cards and readings, and about the bad rap black dogs get. Happy Halloween to all of our listeners who celebrate it! Lees meer
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Three Hellhounds in History
28 oktober 2020 · 35 min
As we inch closer to Halloween, we're talking about three of the MANY supernatural canines and hellhounds that have lengthy histories in our collective storytelling. Two are similar and from England, and one is a fun figure from southern Louisiana. Lees meer
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A Brief History of Tarot Cards
26 oktober 2020 · 35 min
How did a card game gain a reputation for being connected to mysticism? Tarot's history takes a significant turn in the 18th century, but much of that shift in perception is based on one author's suppositions and theories. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: Belle Gunness
24 oktober 2020 · 21 min
We're revisiting a 2011 episode today. In 1908, a fire leveled the Indiana home of Belle Gunness. Four bodies were found in the cellar, and it seemed possible that Gunnes might have escaped. When about a dozen more bodies were found, Gunness was revealed as a serial killer. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Stoker and
23 oktober 2020 · 15 min
Holly and Tracy talk about the work and life of Bram Stoker, including a brief talk about his mother. And then talk turns to Tracy's new interview with Kate Landdeck, and the glamour of Jackie Cochran. Lees meer
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Interview: Jackie Cochran with Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck
21 oktober 2020 · 44 min
Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck joins the show for a second time, to talk with Tracy about Kate’s new book – but mostly about Jacqueline Cochran – who was an incredible pilot, and one of the driving forces behind the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Lees meer
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Bram Stoker
19 oktober 2020 · 40 min
Dracula is an iconic character, and the man who created him has become almost as much of a source of fascination for many as his famous vampire.. But even Bram Stoker's own life story - at least as he told it - may have some fictional elements. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: Why would you put a cadaver on trial?
17 oktober 2020 · 18 min
In this 2011 episode, prior hosts Sarah and Deblina cover Pope Stephen VI having his deceased predecessor Formosus exhumed and put on trial in 897. The corpse was found guilty, but this desecration disgusted Romans and made them rebel. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Demon Core & Green Book
16 oktober 2020 · 16 min
Tracy and Holly share stories of their own moments of poor judgement, and the Tracy discusses her interview with Alvin Hall and Janée Woods Weber, creators of the podcast Driving the Green Book. Lees meer
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Interview: Driving the Green Book
14 oktober 2020 · 46 min
Tracy talked to Alvin Hall and Janée Woods Weber, host and producer of the podcast Driving the Green Book. Alvin and Janée share their thoughts on the show, the Green Book, and the road trip they took to make the show. Lees meer
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The Demon Core and Other Criticality Accidents
12 oktober 2020 · 36 min
The Demon Core was a sphere of plutonium-gallium alloy that the U.S. made for use in an atomic bomb during World War II. After the war, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory had two separate, fatal criticality accidents while working with it. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: Spring-heeled Jack, Mystery Assailant!
10 oktober 2020 · 22 min
We're revisiting a 2010 episode from previous hosts. Most people are familiar with Jack the Ripper, but Victorian England was also plagued by an odd character named Spring-heeled Jack. Were reports of this bounding scoundrel a symptom of mass hysteria, or something factual? Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Blavatsky and Shipton
9 oktober 2020 · 12 min
Holly and Tracy talk about Madame Blavatsky's shocking level of cigarette smoking and the surprising amount of Mother Shipton material Tracy was able to find. Lees meer
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Mother Shipton
7 oktober 2020 · 37 min
Mother Shipton may or may not have been a real person. She's described as living in 16th-century England, and was everything from an oracle to a witch to the daughter of the devil, depending on which of the many sources you’re reading. Lees meer
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Madame Blavatsky
5 oktober 2020 · 50 min
Blavatsky is an iconic figure. She was the founder of the theosophical movement, and lived a life of adventure that’s hard to believe. The impact of her work is undeniable whether you believe her to have been a genuine mystic or a total fraud. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: The Green Children of Woolpit
3 oktober 2020 · 33 min
This 2017 episode covers the story of how, in the 12th century, two children, green in color, appeared in Suffolk, England. The green children were written about in the 12th and 13th centuries as fact, but some people today classify as this tale as folklore. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Tanaka Hisashige and Nina Otero-Warren
2 oktober 2020 · 10 min
On this casual Friday chat, Tracy and Holly talk about the genius of Tanaka Hisashige, and Tracy's frustrations at finding the more problematic aspects of Nina Otero-Warren's story. Lees meer
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Nina Otero-Warren
30 september 2020 · 43 min
Nina Otero-Warren was from a prominent New Mexico family, and worked in education, politics, and the suffrage movement, focusing largely on Spanish speakers. Lees meer
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Tanaka Hisashige
28 september 2020 · 32 min
Tanaka Hisashige was an inventor, a craftsman and an artisan, and he lived during a time that Japan went through enormous cultural, scientific and technological changes. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy
26 september 2020 · 32 min
This episode is from 2017. Whitman is often touted as the best and most important poet in U.S. history, but he also worked as a teacher and a journalist. And his poetry career didn't start out particularly well. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Paramount Decrees
25 september 2020 · 12 min
Holly and Tracy talk about the business dealings of Hollywood in context with the moral scandals that were playing out in the press at the time, as well as the way films are distributed today versus in Adolph Zukor's time. Lees meer
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The Paramount Decrees: The Court Cases - Pt. 2
23 september 2020 · 33 min
Once Adolph Zukor combined his production company, Famous Players-Lasky, with Paramount’s distribution company, he had consolidate two aspects of the industry under one business. His next step was obvious: gain control of exhibition of films as well. Lees meer
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The Paramount Decrees: Paramount’s Beginnings - Pt. 1
21 september 2020 · 30 min
The development of the Hollywood studio industry features a number of people who drove it forward. Today, we're talking about Adolph Zukor and William Hodkinson, and how their work led to the founding of Paramount. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: Alexander Selkirk
19 september 2020 · 28 min
In this 2011 episode, prior hosts Sarah and Deblina talk about privateer Alexander Selkirk, who became a buccaneer in 1695. In 1704, after a fight with his captain, Selkirk was put ashore on an uninhabited island about 400 miles west of Valparaiso. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Forten and the Lawson Murders
18 september 2020 · 11 min
Holly and Tracy delve into the unverifiable parts of James Forten's life and the problematic idea of respectability. Tracy also talks about her geographical connection to the Lawson family murders which took place in 1929 and how that informed her knowledge about it as a teenager. Lees meer
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Six Impossible Episodes: There’s a Book About That!
16 september 2020 · 35 min
These are episodes that we’d love to do as a full-length episode, and we’ve gotten listener quests for most of them. But there’s a book that’s so central to the subject that the book is really the place to go. Lees meer
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James Forten
14 september 2020 · 43 min
As a child and young man, James was part of the British colonies that rebelled against rule from the throne. As an adult, he made his fortune in sail making, and turned his influence to the causes of abolition and civil rights. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning in Love
12 september 2020 · 26 min
In this 2015 episode, prior hosts Sarah and Deblina covered a poet's romance. Robert Browning's early work wasn't as well-received as Elizabeth Barrett's poetry. Yet Barrett mentioned his work in one of her poems, and they started a correspondence that blossomed into love. However, Elizabeth's father remained an obstacle. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Croesus and Cultures
11 september 2020 · 12 min
Holly and Tracy discuss the story of Croesus and how disabilities are represented in the writing of Herodotus. The topic then turns to the Igbo women's practice called sitting on a man, and how the Western world often misunderstands other cultures. Lees meer
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Women’s War of 1929
9 september 2020 · 34 min
The Women’s War was a response to British colonialism in Nigeria. British authorities described the group as a “hostile mob” because they didn’t recognize that the so-called mob was largely a long-established method for Igbo women to hold men accountable. Lees meer
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Croesus of Lydia
7 september 2020 · 32 min
The story of the ridiculously wealthy Croesus, which was fictionalized in a number of ways, becomes a cautionary tale about pride and hubris, and what really has value in life. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
5 september 2020 · 32 min
This 2018 episode is running in honor of Labor Day in the U.S. Memphis sanitation workers stayed off the job starting January 12, 1968 in a strike that lasted for nine weeks. This was the strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was assassinated on April 4 of that year. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Delano and Slocum
4 september 2020 · 12 min
Tracy and Holly discuss trying to stay organized, the relevance of the Delano grape strike today, and how Joshua Slocum's story makes us think about our travel yearnings, and the tricky part of his story. Lees meer
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Captain Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
2 september 2020 · 37 min
Joshua Slocum was the first person known to sail around the world alone. Unlike lighthouse keeper Ida Lewis, he didn’t always enjoy that solitude – and unlike cyclist Annie Londonderry, he actually made the journey he became famous for. Lees meer
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The Delano Grape Strike & Boycott
31 augustus 2020 · 41 min
The Delano Grape Strike, which led to an international boycott of table grapes as grape workers in California tried to get better pay, working conditions, and union contracts covering their work. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: Elbridge Gerry's Monstrous Salamander
29 augustus 2020 · 31 min
This 2018 episode covers Elbridge Gerry, who signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. Gerrymandering is the drawing of political districts to give a particular party or group an advantage or disadvantage, and it's named after him. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: The White House
28 augustus 2020 · 12 min
Holly and Tracy talk about how this week's topic shifted from its original plan. They also discuss how slavery in the U.S. capital has been handled in media. Lees meer
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The White House and Its Legacy, Part 2
26 augustus 2020 · 33 min
On the second part of the discussion of White House history, Holly and Tracy first cover the gardens and landscaping, and then dig into discussion of how slavery is a part of the very foundation of the building. Lees meer
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The White House and Its Legacy, Part 1
24 augustus 2020 · 32 min
Today’s White House has 132 rooms and 35 bathrooms. But that hasn’t always been the case. It also was not always called the White House, of course, and it has a LOT of history. Lees meer
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SYMHC Classics: Bracero Program
22 augustus 2020 · 30 min
This 2016 episode covers a time in the the 20th century when the U.S. and Mexico had agreements in place allowing, and even encouraging, Mexican nationals to enter the U.S. to perform agricultural work and other labor in the American Southwest. Lees meer
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Hollow Earth and Canning
21 augustus 2020 · 16 min
Tracy and Holly talk about their personal thoughts on Symmes's hollow Earth theory, and then talk about their experiences with canning and winning prizes at state fairs. Lees meer
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Nicolas Appert and the Invention of Canning
19 augustus 2020 · 38 min
Canning dramatically changed how people around the world have dealt with food. Early canning efforts were kind of stabs in the dark, though – we hadn’t figured out the microbiology component yet. Lees meer
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Symmes’s Theory of Concentric Spheres
17 augustus 2020 · 40 min
In 1818, something about the rings of Saturn - we don't know what, exactly - led John Cleves Symmes to conclude that the Earth was hollow. And he spent the rest of his life promoting this strange idea. Lees meer
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