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Did That Really Happen?
The movie podcast for history nerds. In every episode, historians Jamie and Sofia talk about a different historical film and take a deep dive into the parts that did and didn’t really happen. In each episode, we try to answer the big questions: Is this good history? Is this a good movie? And are those the same thing? To get in touch, send us an email at DidThatReallyHappenPod@gmail.com, or follow us on Twitter @ReallyHappenPod. You can also support the show by visiting Patreon.com/DidThatReallyHappen Our theme music is “Allon Gay Gay”, performed by Jon Sayles.
This week we've got a listener-requested episode on Brooklyn! Join us as we travel back to 1950s Ireland and New York and learn about Irish dances, golf, Coney Island, 1950s immigration, and more!
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Source Paul Rouse, How Golf Took Root in Ireland, Irish Examiner, available at https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport-columnists/arid-20472471.html
John T. Ridge, Dance Halls of Irish New York, available at https://nyirishhistory.us/article/dance-halls-of-irish-new-york/
Linda Dowling Almeida, Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995 (Indiana University Press, 2001), https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20060pn .
The Beach in 1954: https://www.britannica.com/place/Coney-Island-amusement-area Aaron Rose's Coney Island at the Museum of the City of New York: https://collections.mcny.org/asset-management/24UAKVQPB41?&WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP Marta Gutman, "Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the WPA Swimming Pools in New York City," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no.4 (2008): 532-61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jsah.2008.67.4.532 Carolina Bank Munoz, Penny Lewis, and Emily Tumpson Molina, "Brooklyn," in A People's Guide to New York City (University of California Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2j6xfj4.8
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/brooklyn Glenn Kenny, "Brooklyn," https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brooklyn-2015
In this definitely NSFW episode, we're traveling back to 17th century Italy with Benedetta! Join us as we learn about the trial of Benedetta Carlini, comets, convent theater, and more!
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https://daily.jstor.org/lesbianism-at-the-convent/ Judith C. Brown, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1986, Archive.org) Rudolph M. Bell, "Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine Archives: An Exchange," Renaissance Quarterly 40, no.3 (1987): 485-511. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2862521
Image of the comet over Heidelberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1618_W1#/media/File:Comet_1618_Heidelberg.jpg Nicholas Kollerstrom, "Galileo vs. 1618's Great Comet: Fly Like an Eagle," DIO 21, 2018 Elisa Neckar, "Sept. 6, 1618: The First Comet Seen Through a Telescope," Astronomy, available at https://www.astronomy.com/today-in-the-history-of-astronomy/sept-6-1618-the-first-comet-seen-through-a-telescope/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetta_(film) Rotten Tomatoes Reviews: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/benedetta Blank Check Podcast (Paul Verhoeven Series)
Elissa B. Weaver, Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
This week we're traveling back to Edwardian England with Kind Hearts and Coronets! Join us as we learn about man traps, municipal baths, executing nobility, suffragettes doing awesome stuff like smashing windows and flying hot air balloons, and more!
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National Trust Collections: Humane Mantrap with No Teeth: https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/832217 Henry Yau, "Student Spotlight #2: Man Traps," The Museum of English Rural LIfe: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/student-spotlight-2-man-traps/ Keith Fitzpatrick-Mathews, Man Traps and Spring Guns and Burymead, North Hertfordshire Museum, available at https://northhertsmuseum.org/man-traps-and-spring-guns-at-burymead/
https://www.criterion.com/films/357-kind-hearts-and-coronets?srsltid=AfmBOoqI6mqHSaktbVr3VfmjtvrX_EoEHYVpCazVLklhDJtp_Vz21UaE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_Hearts_and_Coronets Philip Kemp, https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/414-kind-hearts-and-coronets-ealing-s-shadow-side https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kind-Hearts-and-Coronets David A. Ellis, Conversations with Cinematographers, 15. https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=kind-hearts-and-coronets
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/PLA01/03/0063 https://www.victorianturkishbath.org/F0GLOSSARY/SFglossPages/Slipper_w.htm Dave Day and Margaret Roberts, "Working at the Baths," Swimming Communities in Victorian England (2019), 157-201.
https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/londons-public-executions/ https://capitalpunishmentuk.org/english-hangmen-1850-to-1964/ Colin Rhys Lovell, "The Trial of Peers in Great Britain," The American Historical Review 55, no.1 (1949): 69-81. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1841088 Execution of Lord Lovat (1747), https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/v/object-96988/a-representation-of-the-execution-of-lord-lovat/ https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/the-beheading-of-clan-fraser-chief-watched-by-thousands-859749 Robin Eagles, "The Last Peer Hanged for Murder," https://historyofparliament.com/2022/05/10/the-last-peer-hanged-for-murder/ Andrew Thrush, "The execution of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk," https://historyofparliament.com/2022/04/28/the-execution-of-thomas-howard-4th-duke-of-norfolk/
https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/v/object-547960/glass-smashing-for-votes-suffragettes-as-window-breakers/ https://bowstreetmuseum.org.uk/shattering-suffrage/ https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/suffragettes-on-file/window-smashing-campaign/ https://balloonteam.net/montgolfier/on-this-day-the-suffragette-airship/ https://blogs.loc.gov/families/2022/09/venturesome-ladies-trailblazing-female-fliers/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Matters#/media/File:The_London_Illustrated_News_(7th_November_1908.webp
We don't have a new episode this week, so we're releasing a Patreon episode from the vault: 2022's canceled-too-soon series, A League of Their Own. Join us as we learn about the AAGPBL's weird code of conduct, WWII-era mail censorship, and more!
Sources: Full text available at https://www.aagpbl.org/history/rules-of-conduct https://www.aagpbl.org/teams/rockford-peaches/1944 Lisa Taylor/Justina Moloney, "Passed Censor," Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project, Library of Congress (28 August 2017). https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/08/passed-censor/ "Victory Mail," National Postal Museum, Smithsonian. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/victory-mail and https://youtu.be/tj_LoG7wStY Myron Fox, "Censorship!" American Experience, PBS (2000). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/warletters-censorship/ "Letters Home: Wartime Correspondence from the Natale Bellantoni Papers," Hoover Institution Library & Archives https://histories.hoover.org/letters-home/#:~:text=Throughout%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,hands%20should%20mail%20be%20intercepted. Devan Coggan, "Abbi Jacobson responds to angry reactions to A League of Their Own: 'Representation matters so much'" Entertainment Weekly (15 August 2022). https://ew.com/tv/a-league-of-their-own-reactions-abbi-jacobson-responds/ Rebecca Nicholson, "A League of Their Own review-- this gorgeous baseball drama is about something far bigger than sport," The Guardian (12 August 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/12/a-league-of-their-own-review-baseball-drama-abbi-jacobson-madonna-movie-remake Jenna Scherer, "A League Of Their Own serves up a whole new crop of Peaches," AV Club (10 August 2022). https://www.avclub.com/a-league-of-their-own-season-1-review-1849391265 Linda Holmes, "New Peaches, new problems: 'A League of Their Own' makes a successful move to TV," NPR (11 August 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/08/11/1116855780/a-league-of-their-own-2022-amazon-prime-review Riese, "32 Excerpts From Really Special "League Of Their Own" Reviews Written By Homophobes Who've Had Quite Enough," Autostraddle, (15 August 2022). https://www.autostraddle.com/32-homophobic-league-of-their-own-reviews/ https://youtu.be/1OvULWYcSjQ
This week we're traveling back to 1940s Germany (yup, this is a heavy one, folks) with Nuremberg! Join us as we learn about real-life figures like Douglas Kelley, Emmy Goering, Howie Triest, and more!
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James Wylie, "The Battle to Be 'First Lady of the Third Reich.'" Daily Telegraph (London), November 14, 2019, 22,23. EBSCOhost. Richard J. Evans. 2015. The Third Reich in History and Memory. Oxford University Press. EBSCOhost. George Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality. New York: Howard Fertig, 1985 "Frau Goering Gets Year, but is Freed," New York Times, 22 July 1948, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/22/archives/frau-goering-gets-year-but-is-freed-court-also-confiscates-30-of.html https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/the-err-and-the-nazi-partys-systematic-looting-of-europe-xmbqkk/8289/ https://www.errproject.org/jeudepaume/about/err.php
Douglas Kelley, 22 Cells in Nuremberg, https://archive.org/details/22-cells-in-nuremberg-douglas-m-kelley-z-library/page/n7/mode/2up Jack El-Hai, "The Psychiatrist and the Nazi," World War II 28, no. 5 (2014): 38-45. Jack El-Hai, "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist," Scientific American, (2011), https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-nazi-and-the-psychiatrist/ Martin Levinson, "General Semantics and PTSD in the Military," ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 72, no.3 (2015): 258-64, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24762164 . Meilan Solly, "The True Story Behind 'Nuremberg,' a WWII Drama About Hermann Goring's Cat-and-Mouse Game With an American Psychiatrist," Smithsonian Magazine (2025) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-story-behind-nuremberg-a-wwii-drama-about-hermann-gorings-cat-and-mouse-game-with-an-american-psychiatrist-180987621/ José Brunner, ""Oh Those Crazy Cards Again": A History of the Debate on the Nazi Rorschachs, 1946-2001," Political Psychology 22, no.2 (2001): 233-61, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3791925
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_(2025_film) Interview with James Vanderbilt, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/11/nx-s1-5487719/nuremberg-james-vanderbilt https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/nuremberg-james-vanderbilt-interview
Mario Cacciotollo, "Jewish Army Translator Who Got Close to the Nazis," BBC, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14706309
This week we're traveling back to 18th century Manchester (and America!) with The Testament of Ann Lee! Join us as we learn about Ann Lee's life with her awful husband Abraham and fellow spiritual leader Jane Wardley, shaker spirituals, pacifism, and more!
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pacifism/ Ngram for Pacifism: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pacifism&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 George Fox on peace: https://quaker.org/legacy/minnfm/peace/fox_1651.htm Tolstoy, "The Law of Violence and the Law of Love", 1908, available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1908/the-law-of-violence-and-the-law-of-love/chapter-8.html
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/pop-religion-hunger-and-thirst-embodied-religion-testament-ann-lee https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_testament_of_ann_lee Guy Lodge, https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-testament-of-ann-lee-review-amanda-seyfried-1236503769/ Peter Bradshaw, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/01/the-testament-of-ann-lee-review-shaker-venice-film-festival-amanda-seyfried-mona-fastvold Peyton Robinson, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-testament-of-ann-lee-amanda-seyfried-film-review-2025
https://shakermuseum.org/learn/school-programs/shaker-music/ Nardi Reeder Campion, Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers (Brandeis University Press, 2026). https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.37730392 Linda Fujie, ""Draw the Chords of Union Stronger": The Musical Life of the American Shakers," The World of Music 35: 3 (1993): 51-79. Daniel Patterson, The Shaker Spiritual (Dover, 1979, 2000) https://archive.org/details/shakerspiritual0000patt/page/2/mode/2up . https://www.shakermuseum.us/tis-gift-simple-things-arent-simple-seem/?nocache=1 https://home.shakerheritage.org/let-us-labor-the-evolution-of-shaker-dance/ https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-shaker-dance-and-worship-18th-century-photo-researchers.html https://daily.jstor.org/the-rhythms-of-shaker-dance-marked-the-shakers-as-other/ EP Thompson, Making of the English Working Class BS Youngs, "The Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing," 1823, Full text available on Google Books
Nardi Reeder Campion, Mother Ann Lee (2026) https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.37730392.11 A summary view of the Millennial Church, or United Society of Believers (commonly called Shakers) : comprising the rise, progress, and practical order of the society, together with the general principles of their faith and testimony (1823), https://archive.org/details/asummaryviewmil02wellgoog/page/n4/mode/2up
This week we're cracking open the Patreon vault to deliver unto you a bonus episode on Season 1 of The Terror! Join us as we learn about the horrors of the Franklin expedition, including lead poisoning, proof of death, and creepy old diving gear.
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https://www.divingheritage.com/deanekern.htm https://www.whitstablemuseum.org/exhibit/diving/ https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~cmi/dive/diveHist.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologists-get-eerie-first-look-inside-arctic-shipwreck-franklin-hms-terror-180973011/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(TV_series) Indiewire: https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-terror-location-cgi-not-shot-outside-1201945793/
Keith Millar, Adrian W. Bowman, and William Battersby, "A re-analysis of the supposed role of lead poisoning in Sir John Franklin's last expedition, 1845-1848," Polar Record 51, no. 258 (2015): 224-38. Anne Keenleyside, Margaret Bertuli, and Henry C. Fricke, "The Final Days of the Franklin Expedition: New Skeletal Evidence," Arctic 50, no.1 (1997): 36-46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40512040 Douglas R. Stenton, "Finding the dead: bodies, bones and burials from the 1845 Franklin northwest passage Expedition," Polar Record (2018): 197-212. Brian D. Powell, "The memorials on Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada: an historical and pictorial survey," Polar Record 2, no.223 (2006): 325-33. https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks Soup tin: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-2033 Peglar Papers: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-2113 https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/did-lead-poisoning-finish-off-a-doomed-arctic-expedition/
This week we're traveling back to 1970s Brazil with The Secret Agent! Join us as we learn about deaths at Carnival, the legend of the Hairy Leg, indigenous servants, and more!
Sources: Da-Silva, Elidiomar. (2025). A PERNA CABELUDA, DE RECIFE, PERNAMBUCO: POSSÍVEIS DIÁLOGOS COM A ZOOLOGIA CULTURAL - Barbante - Revista Literária (ISSN 2338-1414) (Da-Silva, Elidiomar. 2025). 13. 20-27. 10.5281/zenodo.17655754. Diario de Pernambuco, Issue from 10 December 1975: https://memoria.bn.gov.br/docreader/DocReader.aspx?bib=029033_15&pagfis=78246 Diario de Pernambuco, Issue from 11 December 1975: https://memoria.bn.gov.br/docreader/DocReader.aspx?bib=029033_15&pagfis=78266 Wilson Chapman, Watch 'The Secret Agent' Director Kleber Mendonça Filho Tell Guillermo del Toro the Story Behind the Film's Hairy Leg," Indiewire: https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/the-secret-agent-hairy-leg-making-of-1235182134/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent_(2025_film) Andy Crump, "How The Secret Agent Appeals to Brazilian Collective Memory," Time, available at https://time.com/7336528/the-secret-agent-brazilian-history-interview/ Erik Luers Interview with Kleber Mendonca Filho, Filmmaker, available at https://filmmakermagazine.com/132652-interview-kleber-mendonca-filho-the-secret-agent/
Christopher Dunn, "Afro-Bahian Carnival: A Stage for Protest," Afro-Hispanic Review 11, no. 1/3 (1992): 11-20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41417220 Victoria Baena, "Favelas in the Spotlight: Transforming the Slums of Rio de Janeiro," Harvard International Review 33, no. 1 (2011): 34-37. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42763442 "AROUND THE WORLD Rio Celebrates 'Quiet' Carnival." 1979., Feb 28 The Globe and Mail. "March 3, 1976 (Page 4 of 56)." 1976., Mar 03 Detroit Free Press, General edition, 4. "180 die in Brazil's carnival," (1971) https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/25/archives/180-die-in-brazils-carnival.html Tom Murphy, "92 deaths reported as Rio Carnival ends," UPI Archives (Feb. 20, 1985). https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/02/20/92-deaths-reported-as-Rio-Carnival-ends/5635477723600/ "164 Die in Rio During Carnival," Los Angeles Times (March 1, 1990), https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-01-mn-2198-story.html US and Brazil: https://www.statista.com/statistics/187592/death-rate-from-homicide-in-the-us-since-1950/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24027422/#&gid=article-figures&pid=fig-2-uid-1
Henrique Espada Lima, "Wages of Intimacy: Domestic Workers Disputing Wages in the Higher Courts of Nineteenth-Century Brazil," International Labor and Working-Class History 88 (2015): 11-29. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43956662 Peter Wade, "Blacks and Indigenous People in Latin America," Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, 24-40 (2010). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183p73f.7 Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Indigenous International Relations," Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics (2018): 97-125. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt20krzcq.11 Merike Blofield, "Feudal Enclaves and Political Reforms: Domestic Workers in Latin America," Latin American Research Review 44, no.1 (2009): 158-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20488173
We don't have a new episode this week, so we're cracking open the Patreon vault and releasing one of our bonus episodes on The Ghost Bride! Join us on our journey to 1890s Malacca, and learn about the ghost bride custom, clothing, currency, and more!
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37103447 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-07/ghost-marriages-in-rural-china-continue-to-thrive/9608624 Wenzhang Zhou and Yang Feng, "When Religious Folk Practice Meets Karl Marx: Courts' Response to Ghost Marriage in Modern China," Religions, 14 (2023) Myron L. Cohen, "Souls and Salvation: Conflicting Themes in Chinese Popular Religion," in Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, ed. James L. Watson and Evelyn S. Rawski. University of California Press, 1990
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Bride_(TV_series) Patrick Brzeski, "Netflix Unveils Launch Dates for First Trio of Chinese-Language Originals," The Hollywood Reporter, 26 August 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-sets-launch-dates-first-chinese-language-originals-1234398/ Mathew Scott, "Netflix Launches Mobile-Only Plan for Malysia," The Hollywood Reporter, 24 October 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-launches-mobile-plan-malaysia-1249730/ https://decider.com/2020/01/23/the-ghost-bride-netflix-stream-it-or-skip-it/ Chiang Hai Ding, "The Origins of the Malaysian Currency System (1867-1906)," Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39, no.1 (1966): 1-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41491873
The Kebaya: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230302-the-asian-blouse-that-tells-a-tale-of-many-cultures Peranakan fashion: https://www.roots.gov.sg/stories-landing/stories/peranakan-fashion-and-its-international-sources/story Singapore, Sarong Kebaya and Style: Peranakan Fashion (National Heritage Board), https://artsandculture.google.com/story/6AVxGAwa3F7DJA?hl=en
Note: Due to technical difficulties, there were issues affecting Jamie's audio quality this week. We apologize and promise it will be fixed on our next episode.
This week we're traveling back to 1950s America with Good Night, and Good Luck! Join us as we learn about Red Scare-Era figurse like Annie Lee Moss, Joe and Shirley Wershba, Milo Radulovich, Don Hollenbeck, and more!
Sources:
Loren Ghiglione, Why Don Hollenbeck Fascinated Me Enough to Write His Biography. History News Network. Available at https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-don-hollenbeck-fascinated-me-enough-to-write-h Loren Ghiglione, Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism. New York: Columbian University Press CBS News: February 2nd 1951: https://youtu.be/F8DsMDzUpe4?si=2GNdaXsGlyIStfwI Interview with Loren Ghiglione: https://cupblog.org/2008/10/03/interview-with-loren-ghiglione-author-of-cbss-don-hollenbeck/
https://www.michbar.org/programs/milestone/milestones_miloradulovich "Joseph Wershba on the Milo Radulovich Story" https://youtu.be/MEBNxrIT8r0?si=EqheG_CZKDzzDvQP https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-bhl-2008173 "The Wisconsin Magazine; 1329; Joe McCarty," 1987-05-08, PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed February 27, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-42n5tgg7 Martin, Douglas, "OBITUARIES: MILO RADULOVICH, 81, DIES; SYMBOL OF '50S RED SCARE." New York Times (November 21, 2007), 1. THE RADULOVICH CASE. 1953. New York Times (1923-);30. ELAINE WOO "M. Radulovich, 81; airman's case played key role in helping to end McCarthy era." Los Angeles Times (2007);1. Holley J. "Milo radulovich; cast out of air force, he put face on 'ravages of McCarthyism'." The Washington Post (2007);1.
Matthew Wills, "How Annie Lee Moss Survived McCarthyism," JSTOR Daily, https://daily.jstor.org/how-annie-lee-moss-survived-mccarthyism/ "Mrs. Moss is Sorry," NY Times (1957), https://nyti.ms/4kXSwf3 Andrea Friedman, "The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and McCarthyism," JAH 94:2 (2007): 445-68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25094960
Joseph Wershba, Remembered. WNYC Studios, available at https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/140064-joseph-wershba-remembered?tab=transcript
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Night,_and_Good_Luck https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/good-night-and-good-luck-2005
This week we're traveling back to 1940s New York with Blue Moon! Join us as we learn about the relationship between Rogers and Hart, air raid blackouts, EB White, going on the wagon, and more!
Sources: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22off+the+wagon%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22on+the+wagon%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Jellinek, Elvin Morton. Phases in the Drinking History of Alcoholics: Analysis of a Survey Conducted by the Grapevine, Official Organ of Alcoholics Anonymous. United States: Hillhouse Press, 1946. Coffey, Edward Hope. Manhattan Cocktail. United States: L. MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1929. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37132/origin-of-the-idiom-falling-off-the-wagon
Richard Goldstein, City Room Answers: https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/answers-about-world-war-ii-in-new-york-part-iii/ Siobhan McGirl, "Surprise Blackouts Sweep the East Coast," World War 2.0, available at https://blogs.shu.edu/ww2-0/1942/08/21/surprise-blackouts-sweep-the-east-coast/ "New Raid Signal Blacks Out City," New York Times, February 19 1943. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/1943/02/19/archives/new-raid-signal-blacks-out-city-public-response-encouraging-mayor.html?smid=url-share
https://time.com/7325788/blue-moon-true-story-lorenz-hart/
Robert Gottlieb, "Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership," The Atlantic April 2013. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1947/11/01/no-matter-what-the-skirt-length-is-every-prospect-pleases-me-because-i-am-vile https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1943/03/20/i-accept-with-widespread-pleasure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_(2025_film) Brian Tallerico review, RogerEbert.com: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blue-moon-tiff-ethan-hawke-margaret-qualley-film-review-2025 Parade magazine video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T7NGAvrCXkQ
This week we're covering the history of the Pacific Northwest from the late 19th century to 1968 with Train Dreams! Join us as we learn about boot memorials, Chinese and Chinese-American railroad workers, women working as fire lookouts, and more!
Sources: Dina Gachman, "The History of Lady Lookouts," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/female-fire-lookouts-have-been-saving-wilderness-over-century-180977352/ Photo of Hallie Daggett and Her Dog, Fish and Wildlife: https://www.fws.gov/media/hallie-daggett
https://www.facebook.com/ottawavalleywhereabouts/posts/loggers-memorial-griffith-on-45236783-77270483located-within-the-lower-madawaska/294395130019562/ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Canoe_Country/52-2DQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=logging%20memorial%20boots%20nailed%20to%20tree&pg=PA66&printsec=frontcover https://www.facebook.com/100064525572391/posts/5518774848187361/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumoine_River
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29768334/ Bilge Ebiri, "Train Dreams Is a Staggering Work of Art," Vulture 21 November 2025, https://www.vulture.com/article/sundance-review-train-dreams-is-a-staggering-work-of-art.html Bob Mondello, "The new film 'Train Dreams' is almost unbearably beautiful," NPR All Things Considered 7 November 2025. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5598447/the-new-film-train-dreams-is-almost-unbearably-beautiful Brian Tallerico, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/train-dreams-film-review-2025 Justin Chang, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-current-cinema/train-dreams-is-too-tidy-to-go-off-the-rails https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/train_dreams
Jennifer Fang, "Erasure and Reclamation: Centering Diasporic Chinese Populations in Oregon History," Oregon Historical Quarterly 122, no.4 (2021): 324-41. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5403/oregonhistq.122.4.0324 Sarah M. Griffith, "Finding Chinese Immigrants in Unconventional Records," History News 58, no.1 (2003): 20-23. John R. Wunder, "The Chinese and the Courts in the Pacific Northwest: Justice Denied?" Pacific Historical Review 52, no.2 (1983): 191-211. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3638795 Yukari Takai, "Asian Migrants, Exclusionary Laws, and Transborder Migration in North America, 1880-1940," OAH Magazine of History 23, No.4 (2009): 35-42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40506013 Asian Workers in Kinsey Brothers Photographs of the Lumber Industry, 1890-1945, University of Washington Digital Libraries, https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/clarkkinsey/search/searchterm/asian%20japanese/field/subjec/mode/any/conn/and/cosuppress/ https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/clarkkinsey/id/416/rec/45 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-bloody-history-of-anti-asian-violence-in-the-west https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Asian_Americans
This week we're traveling back to the 1950s with Hedda! Join us as we learn about pretty little things, 1950s fashion, sparklers, women working as professors, and more!
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"Celebrating the Legacy of England's First Female Professor," King's College, available at https://www.kcl.ac.uk/celebrating-legacy-of-englands-first-female-professor "Gender Breakdown for Teachers in History," Making History, available at https://archives.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/statistics/gender.html Peter West, "Five Lessons on Bringing Truth Back to Politics from Britain's First Female Philosophy Professor," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/five-lessons-on-bringing-truth-back-to-politics-from-britains-first-female-philosophy-professor-164191
https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/reinventing-hedda-nia-dacosta-tessa-thompson-and-nina-hoss-redefine-the-ibsen-classic-for-a-new-era/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedda_(2025_film)
Google Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22pretty+little+thing%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Ellen Glasgow, The Romantic Comedians, (1926), 38. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Romantic_Comedians/c6FAAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pretty%20little%20thing%22&pg=PA39&printsec=frontcover Martin Holt, Out of Bondage (1905), 80. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Out_of_Bondage/IvBEAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pretty%20little%20thing%22&pg=PA80&printsec=frontcover James Stephens, Light for Little Lanterns, (1886), 5. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Light_for_little_lanterns_a_series_of_mi/nZO4d4Up9ggC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pretty%20little%20thing%22&pg=PA5&printsec=frontcover
https://www.directsparklers.com/inspiration/the-history-of-sparklers/ https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/technology-you-asked-general-science/how-do-sparklers-work http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/11/98/e-cyclopedia/207791.stm https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1993/07/04/the-sparkling-history-of-a-fireworks-favorite/ https://www.si.edu/object/archives/sova-nmah-ac-0533 See "Custodial History" and "Provenance" Ogata Gekko 尾形月耕, Lighting Sparklers Over River, painting, 1891. https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S2003.8.1699/
Image of Vintage Dress Pattern: https://thevintagepatternshop.com/shop/vintage-sewing-patterns/1950s-sewing-patterns/dresses-all-types-1950s-sewing-patterns/1950s-vintage-sewing-pattern-b34-halterneck-dress-bolero-r381/ Hedda For Your Consideration Flipbook: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/950039259/4-5/ Vintage Dancer, 10 1950s Dress Styles: https://vintagedancer.com/1950s/1950s-dress-styles/
This week we're traveling back to first-century Jerusalem with The Book of Clarence! Join us as we learn about Mary Magdalene, Barabbas, Biblical sick burns, and more!
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Martínez-Cruz, B., Mendizabal, I., Harmant, C. et al. Origins, admixture and founder lineages in European Roma. Eur J Hum Genet 24, 937–943 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2015.201 Gresham D, Morar B, Underhill PA, Passarino G, Lin AA, Wise C, Angelicheva D, Calafell F, Oefner PJ, Shen P, Tournev I, de Pablo R, Kuĉinskas V, Perez-Lezaun A, Marushiakova E, Popov V, Kalaydjieva L. Origins and divergence of the Roma (gypsies). Am J Hum Genet. 2001 Dec;69(6):1314-31. doi: 10.1086/324681. Epub 2001 Nov 9. PMID: 11704928; PMCID: PMC1235543.
James Carroll, "Who Was Mary Magdalene?" Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-mary-magdalene-119565482/ Cornelis Bennema, "Mary Magdalene: Recognizing the Shepherd's Voice," Encountering Jesus (2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9m0t70.27 Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet (audiobook).
Y'all Translation Bible, https://www.bible.com/bible/4108/JHN.20.YALL
NIV Study Bible
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_book_of_clarence_2024 Robert Daniels, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-book-of-clarence-film-review-2024 Alissa Wilkinson, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/movies/the-book-of-clarence-review.html https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-book-of-clarence-review-lakeith-stanfield-1235780399/
It's a new year, so it's time for our New Year's tradition of taking a look at movies that tried to predict the future. This year, we're traveling to the year 2019 with Akira! Join us as we learn about the Tokyo Olympics, biker gangs, technical schools, riots, and more!
Sources: 2020 Host City Election Announcement: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/2020-host-city-election Image of the Stadium: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1087204/olympic-stadium-for-tokyo-2020-completed' January 2019 image, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kokuritsu_Kasumigaoka_Rikujo_Kyogijo-23a.jpg
Education Senmon Gakko: Japanese Vocational Education. Available at https://cordmagazine.com/education/education-senmon-gakko-japanese-vocational-education/ A Complete Guide to Senmon Gakkou in Japan: https://studyinjapan.org/a-complete-guide-to-senmon-gakkou-in-japan/
Rikkyo University Institute of Peace and Community Studies, "Local Responses to Prime Minister Abe's Attack on Article Nine and the Constitution," translated by Saito Yuriko,The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol. 14, issue 3, no. 5 (2016). David Slater, Robin O'Day, Satsuki Uno, Love Kindstrand and Chiharu Takano, "SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy): Research Note on Contemporary Youth Politics in Japan," The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 37, No. 1, September 14, 2015. Obe Mitsuro, "World News: Students Protest Japan Military Shift," The Wall Street Journal (2015). Simon Denyer, "Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka speaks out for Black Lives Matter, faces backlash: Protests in Japan have reignited a debate over racism and policing. Osaka has also won support for speaking out," Washington Post (June 8, 2020). Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida, "In Japan, the Message of Anti-Racism Protests Fails to Hit Home," New York Times (July 1, 2020). Anna Fifield, "Fierce opponent of U.S. military bases in Okinawa detained for three months: A protest leader's continued detention without trial has triggered accusations that Japanese authorities are trying to silence him." Washington Post (2017). "1969: Student Protestors Paralyze Tokyo in Anti-War Demonstrations," New York Times (reprinted October 22, 2019) Alastair Gale, "Japan Pushes Ahead with Antiterrorism Bill; Government says legislation is needed as part of counterterrorism preparations for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo," Wall Street Journal (May 23, 2017). Mariko Tamura, "Flower Demo: Fighting Sexual Violence in Japan," https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/16387
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(1988_film) Tom Usher, "How Akira has Influenced All of Your Favorite Film, TV, and Music," Vice, available at https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-akira-has-influenced-modern-culture/ https://akira.fandom.com/wiki/Akira_(anime)
https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/bosozoku-biker-gangs-of-japan https://medium.com/@essie.angelica/the-rise-and-fall-of-japans-notorious-motorcycle-gang-ee31464c2406 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251017/p2a/00m/0na/053000c https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/30-years-akira-teenage-kicks-anime-style Christopher Gerteis, "Cold War Warriors," in Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (Cornell University Press, 2021), 100-120.
This week we're traveling back to the 19th century with Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein! Join us as we learn about syphilis, big-ass blunderbusses, the Evelyn Tables, Arctic expeditions, and more!
Sources: An account of divers schemes of arteries and veins, dissected from adult human bodies, and given to the repository of the Royal Society by John Evelyn, Esq; F. R. S. To which are subjoyn'd a description of the extremities of those vessels, and the manner the blood is seen, by the microscope, to pass from the arteries to the veins in quadrupeds when living: with some chirurgical observations, and figures after the life, by William Cowper, F. R. S. Richard K Aspin, "John Evelyn's Tables of Veins and Arteries: An Undiscovered Letter," Medical History 39 (1995) Photos: Hunterian Museum, Evelyn Tables: https://hunterianmuseum.org/whats-on/hunterian-museum-displays/surgery-and-anatomy-from-ancient-times-to-the-1700s-room-1
Erling Kagge, "Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole," Literary Hub (2025), https://lithub.com/arctic-rush-inside-the-19th-century-craze-to-reach-the-north-pole/ https://guides.loc.gov/polar-exploration/timeline Javier Cacho, "Arctic Obsession Drove Explorers to Seek the North Pole," National Geographic (2020), https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/expedition-to-the-north-pole Roald Amundsen, "Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole," (1902), http://www.jstor.org/stable/1775167
Myths of the Blunderbuss https://americanrevolutioninstitute.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/46F42011-5A24-4754-86A9-630691208800 https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_469432
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(2025_film) Pop Culture Happy Hour, 'Frankenstein' https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5600702 https://youtu.be/qIXsN-Z3UBE?si=bTQ3GigvOIWAO3_u Film School, "How Guillermo del Toro Made Frankenstein," https://youtu.be/tThIpKCXfJI?si=vKel6PTL08Z1Y_lI
The History of Syphilis, Part II: Treatment, Cures, and Legislation. Science Museum. Available at https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/history-syphilis-part-two-treatments-cures-and-legislation' Szu Shen Wong, "Syphilis and the Use of Mercury," Pharmaceutical Journal, available at https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/opinion/syphilis-and-the-use-of-mercury Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics, and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800, Third Edition
This week we're traveling back to a full century of American history with The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman! Join us as we learn about naming of enslaved people, "paddy rollers", Black communities in East Texas, and more!
Sources: Sparks, Elmer E, and Celia Black. Interview with Celia Black, Tyler, Texas. Tyler, Texas, November , 10, 1974. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1975009_afs17476/. Sparks, Elmer E, and Charlie Smith. Interview with Charlie Smith, Bartow, Florida. Bartow, Florida, None , 3, 1975. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1975023_afs17510/. Jennifer Davis, "A Voice from the South: Dr. Anna Julia Cooper," LOC, available at https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2025/02/a-voice-from-the-south-dr-anna-julia-cooper/ Sean Coughlan, "Last Survivor of Transatlantic Slave Trade Discovered," BBC, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/education-52010859
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Miss_Jane_Pittman_(film) Creating the Emmy-Winning Old Age Makeup for The Autobiography of Miss Jane PIttman, available at https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/creating-the-emmy-winning-makeup-for-the-autobiography-of-miss-jane-pittman Interview with Thomas Moore on Producing Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, available at https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/shows/autobiography-of-miss-jane-pittman-the?chapter=9&clip=68703
African-American Cowboys with their Mounts Saddled Up, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.9862669 Ronald Wendell II, MA Thesis, https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/92b088d1-1108-4044-8219-c7a03d5f87e5/content
Scott L. Matthews, "Documenting SNCC and the Rural South: Danny Lyon and the Cultural Politics of Civil Rights Movement Photography" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469646473_matthews.8 Keith Rice, "The Civil Rights Movement and Steiner-Lobman Polly Brand Work Clothes," 2 September 2022, https://bradleycenterliberated.substack.com/p/denim-and-civil-rights
Sally E. Hadden, "Slave Patrols," https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469616742_ely.57
Lisa Cook, John Parman, and Trevon Logan, "The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 55, 1 (2021) Recall Their Names: The Personal Identity of Enslaved South Carolinians, Charleston Time Machine, available at https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/recall-their-names-personal-identity-enslaved-south-carolinians Laura Alvarez Lopez, "Who Named Slaves and Their Children? Names and Naming Practices Among Enslaved Africans Brought to the Americas and Their Descendants With a Focus on Brazil," Journal of African Cultural Studies 27, 2 (2015)
This week we're traveling back to 18th-century France with Perfume: The Story of a Murderer! Join us as we learn about tanneries, the town of Grasse, infanticide, perfumers' guilds, and more!
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https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-2007 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/perfume_the_story_of_a_murderer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume:_The_Story_of_a_Murderer_%28film%29 A.O. Scott, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/movies/27perf.html
Tracey Rizzo (2004) Between dishonor and death: infanticides in the causes célèbres of eighteenth-century France, Women's History Review, 13:1, 5-22, DOI: 10.1080/09612020400200380
Arhoune, Ilham@, Impact of Chemicals and Working Conditions on Tannery Workers' Health and Recommendations for Improving the Situation. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5347318 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5347318 " 1. Rabbani G, Billah B, Giri A, et al. Factors Associated With Health Complaints Among Leather Tannery Workers in Bangladesh. Workplace Health & Safety. 2020;69(1):22-31. doi:10.1177/2165079920936222 " https://montecristomagazine.com/beauty/medieval-tannery-town-french-riviera-became-perfume-capital-world#gsc.tab=0 https://www.tfcg.ca/old-occupation-tanner
Kirsten James, The Science of Scent and Business of Perfume in Paris and London, 1650-1815, PhD thesis, University of Toronto (2019).
Eleanor Beardsley, "Sick Of Tanneries' Stench Centuries Ago, A French Town Began Making Perfume. It Stuck." NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039393853/sick-of-tanneries-stench-centuries-ago-a-french-town-began-making-perfume-it-stu Luxus Magazine, Grasse: World Capital of Perfume: https://magazine.luxus-plus.com/en/brief-history-of-luxury-grasse-world-capital-of-perfume/
This week we're going back to a weird, weird version of 19th-century Nicaragua with Walker! Join us as we learn about William Walker's ill-fated efforts in Sonora, the Filibuster War, the El Nicaraguense newspaper, and more!
Sources: Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketch: "Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days'": https://youtu.be/XL54pji1nfA?si=o0UbrhVH1ewe3p3J Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_(film) Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/walker Roger Ebert's Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/walker-1987 Craig J Clark, "Alex Cox Says Goodbye--and Good Riddance--To Hollywood," Crooked Marquee, available at https://crookedmarquee.com/alex-cox-says-goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-hollywood/
Rufus Kay Wyllys, "William Walker's Invasion Of Sonora, 1854" Arizona Historical Review, http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623744 Rufus Kay Wyllys, "The Republic of Lower California, 1853-1854," Pacific Historical Review 2:2 (1933): 194-213. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3633829 Robert G. Cleland, "Bandini's Account of William Walker's Invasion of Lower California," Huntington Library Quarterly 7:2 (1944): 153-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3815990 The Sierra citizen. (Downieville, CA), Feb. 11 1854. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86058097/1854-02-11/ed-1/. The Nevada journal. (Nevada City, CA), Apr. 14 1854. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84026884/1854-04-14/ed-1/
Joseph Bilby, "Through Hades with his Hat Off: The strange career of A.J. Morrison," Military Images 11:5 (1990): 14-15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44032253 Walter Johnson, "The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny," in River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjsf5q7.17 Michel Gobat, Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America (Harvard University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24w64hk.7
Issue of El Nicaraguense from 3/12/1856, UT Austin Archives: available at https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:c81aa1b7-44bd-444c-b097-de95dd810392 Issues of El Nicaraguense, Volume 1: https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/nicaragua/El_Nicaraguense-Aug-Nov-1856.pdf James Carson Jamison, With Walker in Nicaragua. First Battle of Rivas excerpt available at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=GYpnAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA28&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en
This week we're traveling back to 1987 Oakland with Freaky Tales! Join us as we learn about punk v. skinhead battles, Sleepy Floyd, Operation Ivy, and more!
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Southern Poverty Law Center, Timeline of the Racist Skinhead Movement: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/timeline-racist-skinhead-movement/ Christopher Phelps, "Skinheads: The New Nazism," Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/10048.html Steve Knopper, "Nazi Punks Fuck Off: How Black Flag, Bad Brains, and More Took Back Their Scene from White Supremacists," https://www.gq.com/story/punks-and-nazis-oral-history Gabe Meline, "The Realy Life Freaky Tales Behind Freaky Tales," available at https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland
Singh SP. Sakshi and Dhyana: the origin of mindfulness-based therapies. BJPsych Bull. 2023 Apr;47(2):94-97. doi: 10.1192/bjb.2022.39. PMID: 35796539; PMCID: PMC10063990. Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mindfulness&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Jessie Sun, "Mindfulness in Context: A Historical Discourse Analysis," available at https://jessiesun.me/publication/sun-2014/sun-2014.pdf
Aaron Carnes, In Defense of Ska, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/operation-ivy-energy-in-defense-of-ska-book-aaron-carnes-1162048/ https://cmagazine.org/2018/03/22/924-gilman/ https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/rancid-rice-the-rudiments-bumblescrump-the-aborted?photo=392323 https://www.924gilman.org/about https://eastbayexpress.com/twenty-five-years-of-924-gilman-1/ https://eastbaypunk.com/about/ https://www.kqed.org/arts/11333286/green-day-dookie-924-gilman
Liam O'Donoghue, https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/berkeley-nazi-brawl-bay-area-movie-freaky-tales-20250563.php RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/freaky_tales Christy Lemire, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/freaky-tales-pedro-pascal-movie-review-2025 The Hollywood Reporter, https://youtu.be/DhgFbs2QPbo?si=sLuHMtMzF3xh_Ket CBS Mornings, https://youtu.be/BRYTyYOLQEk?si=9k8aWh0GNErBWvJg
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland https://www.espn.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/3703/sleepy-floyd https://www.espn.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/3703/type/nba/seasontype/3
This week we're traveling back to the Soviet Union of the 1980s with Citizen X! Join us as we learn about the people who hunted Andrei Chikatilo, the myth of eyes retaining the last image they see before they die, blood typing tests, leather jackets, and more!
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_X Monday Morning Critic Interview with Chris Gerolmo: https://youtu.be/OTgt3qA8bE4?si=KPSXouQ0xBQoTONS
Rare Historical Photos: 1980s Soviet Fashion: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/soviet-fashion-from-1980s/ Ebay, Vintage NKVD Coat: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1693160699/vintage-military-leather-coat-nkvd-ussr?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=ussr+leather+coat&ref=sr_gallery-1-3&pro=1&frs=1&sts=1&content_source=ea92b9d4-aade-40d3-b4f5-76303f343729%253A173171afec9899d2d1a7aae295e34fbd6f5b6db7&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=ea92b9d4-aade-40d3-b4f5-76303f343729%3A173171afec9899d2d1a7aae295e34fbd6f5b6db7 Photo: Two Young Women in Gorky Park, 1990: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/two-young-women-wearing-black-leather-and-heavy-make-up-news-photo/635964153?adppopup=true Photo: Eduard Shevardnaze Surrounded by Body Guards, 1991: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/soviet-foreign-minister-eduard-on-his-way-to-the-parliament-news-photo/635967087?adppopup=true
"Body-wide chimerism and mosaicism are predominant causes of naturally occurring ABO discrepancies Eva-Maria Dauber, Oskar A. Haas, Karin Nebral, Christoph Gassner, Sabrina Haslinger, René Geyeregger, Hein Hustinx, Sofia Lejon Crottet, Erwin A. Scharberg, Michael Müller-Steinhardt … See all authors First published: 07 July 2024 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.19618" Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrei-Romanovich-Chikatilo
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/archive/a-killers-confidante-in-a-murderous-town Priscilla L. Walton, "If You Love Someone, Hunt Them Down and Kill Them," in Our Cannibals, Ourselves (University of Illinois Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcgrz.10
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NOTE: Due to a technical mishap, there are some issues with Jamie's audio quality in this episode. We apologize and promise the issue will be fixed in our next episode.
This week we're traveling back to the Middle Ages with Catherine Called Birdy! Join us as we talk about medieval birthing practices, book ownership, citrus, farts, why "butt trumpet" should become a widely used phrase, and more!
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Butt trumpet marginalia in the Rothschild Canticles, c. 1300, MS 404, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, https://www.flickr.com/photos/beinecke_library/4382703456/in/set-72157623494993704 https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-a-butt-tuba-and-why-is-it-in-medieval-art-michelle-brown "Foreign Names and Flatulence: Dodging Censorship in the Book Trade," Untold Lives blog 26 September 2016, https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/09/foreign-names-and-flatulence-dodging-censorship-in-the-book-trade.html Hunter Oatman-Stanford, "Naughty Nuns, Flatulent Monks, and Other Surprises of Sacred Medieval Manuscripts," Collectors Weekly 24 July 2014, https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/naughty-nuns-flatulent-monks-and-other-surprises-of-sacred-medieval-manuscripts/ Jody Enders, "The Farce of the Fart" in "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries (University of Pennsylvania Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fhctm.9 Anatoly Liberman, "Gone with the Wind: More Thoughts on Medieval Farting," Scandinavian Studies 68, no.1 (1996): 98-104. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40919835
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Tacuinum Sanitatis: Medieval Horticulture and Health - Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tropical-fruits-Vienna-2644-A-lemon-Citrus-limon-folio-19r-B-pomegranate_fig6_267278636 [accessed 20 Aug 2025] "The history of Citrus in the Low Countries during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, available at https://books.openedition.org/pcjb/2197 Wouter van der Meer" Tudor History Q and A blog: https://queryblog.tudorhistory.org/2010/04/question-from-jacob-oranges-in-tudor.html?m=0
Susan Cavanaugh, "A Study of Books Privately Owned in England: 1300-1450," available at https://www.proquest.com/openview/cdf761684489fc60d4b2b93e0df09b04/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Isis Davis-Marks, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-study-shows-medieval-women-used-birthing-belts-180977207/ Andrew Curry, https://www.science.org/content/article/medieval-birthing-girdle-contains-delivery-fluid-milk-and-honey https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2025/01/permission-to-practise-medicine.html Karen Smith Adams, "From 'The Help of Grave and Modest Women' to 'The Care of Men of Sense': The Transition from Female Midwifery to Male Obstetrics in Early Modern England" MA Thesis, Portland State University (1988). https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4802&context=open_access_etds Becky Lawton, "Call the Medieval Midwife," https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/03/call-the-medieval-midwife.html
This week we're traveling back to the 1960s with Nickel Boys! Join us as we learn about the horrific excavations of the Dozier School, the circulation of MLK speeches, Mexican-American identity in the South, and more!
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David Canfield Interview with RaMell Ross and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/nickel-boys-telluride-exclusive-awards-insider?srsltid=AfmBOor0GmWj9WdElwUsFDSFjin9iJFcXiJGYeKF1ZkLFVGHvogkPHAI How Nickel Boys Was Filmed in First-Person POV: https://www.theverge.com/24318489/nickel-boys-ramell-ross-interview-first-person-cinematography Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_Boys
https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/ 1968 records, https://www.ebay.com/itm/256940070706?itmmeta=01K2N47HV7MRK73AZVCR13RX76&hash=item3bd2d25732:g:8r0AAOSwBGtoLQ7T&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4MHg7L1Zz0LA5DYYmRTS30mP1%2Bszy%2Bf6oVsASGa76%2BT6T7uHacf7Cm%2FjdA%2ByTSvnvFH9qx4MXJebysIfG0bnMzw%2Frg1%2Fj2ZpEvbyaNVVJL8v8uA6ZDH637qT9DBURWwR5AP6X2UyjS84oaicywqrtGRJFmTDHiPdM3AOcdz6K1n9Sg9tqBwFtSjNZN087eDcc2UAPoK1nDJR1pEwKU43A5kTdTzxyUhfWrR84X1Wvn%2F5wP%2Fy%2FZvE88xfgNhiiK%2BHFWS9IiOayG2pBLCwn7ToT1GMXB8COAbYKcPx4%2B%2FF7pie%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-SfnqSVZg, https://www.ebay.com/itm/387262357112?itmmeta=01K2N47HV6C6JWENTA1FTVXKMD&hash=item5a2aa29e78:g:n2oAAOSwhKNmrrU-&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4MHg7L1Zz0LA5DYYmRTS30m7rHgwCXW5OKCOZBpIuqTDUa8e4Fr6cjGgrnFXY1aiv3R98Ks0x7IkOcBlGJLQthx%2F6C9%2FiHxMFXf5Eu6o0Zyx73WrPpLQ23k2CC1sXLZLjxlzxqNofeY77UCrEUpDt07MjmRwneQ7hfCYySVT%2FHnEqbYH80QduZE01AADrpxFU19AXRUVL4OZpq7uKVG5%2F75WwJbYkvQpU04GmdY1wQgNuF3vEB7kdkDm5o4CeHpXtCZI%2FUMg1Jv1cpG6MKAoWypcYkmc9TmbkVgDdQEHvd6T%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-KfnqSVZg
Jarrod Hanson and Ruben Donato, "The Braceros: Mexican Workers in the Jim Crow South, 1949-1951," Social Education 83, no.1 (2019): 51-57. Julie M. Weise, "Mexican Nationalisms, Southern Racisms: Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South, 1908-1939," American Quarterly 60, no.3 (2008): 749-77. Tyina Steptoe, ""Blaxicans" and Black Creoles," in Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (University of California Press, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt19633hq.10
Erin Kimmerle et al, Report, Documentation of the Boot Hill Cemetery (8JA1860) at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys: Interim Report, 2012 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=dozier_school Erin Kimmerle, "Forensic Anthropology in Long-Term Investigations: 100 Cold Years," Annals of Anthropological Practice 38, 1
This week we're going back to 18th century France with Marie Antoinette! Join us as we learn about Marie' and Louis' not great sex life, giving birth in public, Marie's journey to France, scandalous pamphlets, and more!
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Cara Mia DiMassa, "That Austrian Woman," Los Angeles Times (2001). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-21-bk-59630-story.html Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (audiobook) John Hardman, Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen (Yale University Press, 2019) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvnwbx1c
Charlotte Hodgman, "16 things you (probably) didn't know about the rituals behind royal births, from the medieval era to the present day," History Extra, available at https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/royal-births-rituals-queens-lying-in-audiences-holy-girdle/ Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. First Anchor Books, 2001
Leah Price, "Vies Privees et Scadaleuses: Marie-Antoinette and the Public Eye," The Eighteenth Century 33, no.2 (1992): 176-92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41467542 Pierre Saint-Amand, "Terrorizing Marie Antoinette," translated by Jennifer Curtiss Gage, Critical Inquiry 20, no.3 (1994): 379-400. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343862 Nancy Barker, ""Let Them Eat Cake": The Mythical Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution," The Historian 55, no.4 (1993): 709-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24448793 Jill H. Casid, "Queer(y)ing Georgic: Utility, Pleasure, and Marie-Antoinette's Ornamented Farm," Eighteenth-Century Studies 30, no.3 (1997): 304-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30054251 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1993-1212-21?selectedImageId=97366001
Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. First Anchor Books, 2001 https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/first-visit-holy-roman-emperor-joseph-ii-1777 Fogg RN, Boorjian SA. 1122 THE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION OF LOUIS XVI: A CONSEQUENCE OF ANATOMY, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, OR NAÏVETÉ? Journal of Urology [Internet]. 2010 Apr 1 [cited 2025 Aug 1];183(4S):e434. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2010.02.2319
The Making of Marie Antoinette Roger Ebert, "Pretty in Pink" (2006) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/marie-antoinette-2006 Rotten Tomatoes, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1158195-marie_antoinette/reviews Anthony Quinn, The Independent, https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/marie-antoinette-12a-420757.html Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_(2006_film) Kirsten Dunst Breaks Down Her Career, from 'Bring It On' to 'Spider-Man'| Vanity Fair; https://youtu.be/SOzoNKWrsKU?si=pHS4NRPCft0dpLI5 Kirsten Dunst Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Characters; https://youtu.be/pev4mrWUatA?si=NFS4hXZ6JJrLHgWE Sofia Coppola Shares Her Rich Film Archival | W Magazine; https://youtu.be/u6p_PuXq9hE?si=KjyXP2U_xVb8hOZt
This week we're traveling back to 1970s Britain with Joy! Join us as we learn about the real people who invented IVF, including Patrick Steptoe, Jean Purdy, and Matron Muriel, as well as how papers like the Daily Mirror covered the whole thing.
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Bourn Hall Fertility Clinic: https://www.bournhall.co.uk/fertilityblog/international-nurses-day-12-may-recognising-the-dedication-of-fertility-nurses/ John Webster, "Muriel Harris: Nursing IVF to Success," Science Museum Blog, available at https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/muriel-harris-nursing-ivf-to-success/
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We're traveling back to the 1930s Mississippi Delta with Sinners! Join us as we learn about fake plantation money, "Rocky Road to Dublin", Chinese-American communities in Mississippi, hoodoo, and more!
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John Jung, "Chinese for the South: Mississippi Delta Chinese Migration Chains," in Zhang, Wenxian, et al. Far East, Down South: Asians in the American South. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/49183. "Shaolu Yu, ""Placing Racial Triangulation, Triangulating Place and Race: Chinese Grocery Stores in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow Era,"" Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(1) 2022, pp. 97–122"
Karin Lurvink, "Strapped for Cash: Non-cash Payments on Louisiana Cotton Plantations, 1865-1908," TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR SOCIALE EN ECONOMISCHE GESCHIEDENIS 11, 3 (2014) Sonny Albarado, "The violent and racist fight against laborers’ basic rights in the South," Arkansas Advocate, 2023
Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Mojo Workin': The Old African-American Hoodoo System (University of Illinois Press, 2013). Cierra Black, "Sinners Hoodoo Consultant Talks Working with Ryan Coogler & Protecting Black Spirituality On-Screen: 'Blues Is the Music of Hoodoo'" Teen Vogue 3 May 2025. Marcelitte Failla, ""You Deserve, Baby!": Spiritual Co-creation, Black Witches, and Feminism," The Witch Studies Reader 75-89 (Duke University Press, 2025). https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.25003747.9 Kinitra D. Brooks, "Haints, Hollers, and Hoodoo," Southern Cultures 29:4 (2023): 2-7. Zora Hurston, "Hoodoo in America," The Journal of American Folklore 44:174 (1931): 317-417. https://www.jstor.org/stable/535394
"The Rocky Road to Dublin" in Will Carleton, Will Carleton's "Dandy Pat Songster (1866). https://www.google.com/books/edition/Will_Carleton_s_Dandy_Pat_Songster/ULo-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Rocky%20Road%20to%20Dublin%22&pg=PA59&printsec=frontcover The Citizen (1842), https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Citizen/VYdPAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Rocky%20Road%20to%20Dublin%22&pg=PA262&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/Diprose_s_Standard_Song_Book_and_Reciter/jzJYAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rocky%20Road%20to%20Dublin&pg=PA24&printsec=frontcover "The Rocky Road to Dublin," in The New Singer's Journal (1871) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Henry_De_Marsan_s_New_Comic_and_Sentimen/3Lk_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Rocky%20Road%20to%20Dublin%22&pg=PA175&printsec=frontcover The rocky road to Dublin. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/amss-as111860/ "Along the Rocky Road to Dublin" (1915) https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sharris_c/92/ D Taylor, "'Champagne Charlie is my name': The swell, the Irish and the cockney," in From Mummers to Madness (2021). Michael Pierse, ""A Pole of Differentiation": Pasts and Futures in Irish Working-Class Writing," Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives (2020). "The Schools' Collection" folklore collected by students in Ireland from 1937-1939 https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/stories?SearchText=blackthorn&SearchLanguage=ga&Page=1&PerPage=20 https://www.myirishjeweler.com/blog/irish-folklore-the-blackthorn-and-fairies-fighting-and-harry-potter/?srsltid=AfmBOoqlYcrE-xW106rf2XlffXUu-8oyNtkuISgfqsRmUOsNFEh0g9RU
RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sinners_2025 Richard Brody, ""Sinners" is a Virtuosic Fusion of Historical Realism and Horror," April 17, 2025 The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/sinners-movie-review Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_(2025_film) \ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-dollar_gross
This week we're going back to the 19th century American West with Strange Way of Life (Our first episode on a short film)! Join us as we learn about facial hair, wineskins, and plenty of other cowboy stuff!
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https://lastreszzz.com/en/history/?srsltid=AfmBOoojnNidxyQUlHy6ROfjs2IvEFdIFplsf640inYm1hGcpgOSP9teChristopher Oldstone-Moore, "Mustaches and Masculine Codes in Early Twentieth-Century America," Journal of Social History 45:1 (2011): 47-60. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41678816 F. Gercher, Man with mustache and goatee, facing left, half-length portrait, platinum print, c.1900 Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004676300/ R.A. Lewis, Unidentified man with goatee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, cartes de visite, between 1865 and 1886, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022677719/ Artist once known, Unidentified man with moustache and goatee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, cartes de visite, between 1865 and 1886, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022677725/ Artist once known, William Mills, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, identification photograph (counterfeiting, Columbus, Ohio), 1875, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022677454/ Courtney Campbell, "14 Famous Cowboys, Gunslingers, & Lawmen of the Wild West," https://www.wideopencountry.com/famous-cowboys-wild-west/ Interview with Pedro Almodovar: https://newsletter.oscars.org/news/post/pedro-almodovar-strange-way-of-life-interview Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/strange_way_of_life Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Way_of_Life
This week we're traveling back to the late 60s/early 70s with Call Jane! Join us as we learn about religion and abortion activism, hospital abortion boards, and the surprisingly complex history of the snickerdoodle.
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News Report by Peter Heller on Abortion, 1969. Oregon Public Broadcasting. Available at https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-153-988gtx44 Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel, Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling. Creative Commons. Available at https://documents.law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/beforeroe2nded_1.pdf
"Good things to eat" Sixth Division of the Ladies Society, First Presbyterian Church (1913) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9t159g6v?urlappend=%3Bseq=142 The "Home" Cook Book (1914), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.rsl9sl?urlappend=%3Bseq=118%3Bownerid=27021597766901606-122 Woman's Home Companion (1915) Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills (1929) J. O. Dahl, Menu making for professionals in quantity cookery (1939) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000114597218?urlappend=%3Bseq=182%3Bownerid=13510798901193441-186 James Beard, Cook it Outdoors (1949) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319510009574021 Cook book, compiled by Women of St. Paul Lutheran Church (1953) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435059270363?urlappend=%3Bseq=113%3Bownerid=13510798904058095-119 All-American Foods: a 4-H Learn to Cook Project Leaders' Guide (1975) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d03882083v Army Nutrient values of master menu recipes and food items (1985) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112105106089?urlappend=%3Bseq=5%3Bownerid=32607013-4 Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=snickerdoodle&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
Gillian Frank, "The Religious Network that Made Abortion Safe When it Was Illegal," https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/the-religious-network-that-made-abortion-safe-when-it-was-illegal Sarah McCammon, "50 Years Ago, A Network Of Clergy Helped Women Seeking Abortion," https://www.npr.org/2017/05/19/529175737/50-years-ago-a-network-of-clergy-helped-women-seeking-abortion Linda Freund, "What I learned after meeting a Catholic nun who supports abortion rights," Independent 2 August 2022, https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abortion-rights-catholic-teachings-vatican-church-b2136442.html Leslie J. Reagan, "Radicalization of Reform," in When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface (University of California Press, 2022). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2kx88fq.16 Johanna Schoen, "Abortion care as moral work," Journal of Modern European History (2019): 262-79. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26832825
Michelle Mehrtens, "The Underground Abortion Network That Inspired 'Call Jane'," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-underground-abortion-network-that-inspired-call-jane-180981032/ The Story of One of the Few Black Members of Chicago's Abortion Rights Underground. History News Network. Available at https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-story-of-one-of-the-few-black-members-of-chica
RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/call_jane Rebecca Harrison, "Call Jane review: a powerful, timely pro-choice drama," BFI: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/call-jane-powerful-timely-pro-choice-drama Sheila O'Malley, "Call Jane," https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/call-jane-movie-review-2022 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7461272/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_Call%2520Jane Oscars, "'Call Jane' w/Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Wunmi Mosaku & more | Academy Conversations" https://youtu.be/5NPBfoI1YlE?si=Hp4mnqsnsswiPUBZ
This week we're traveling to the 1972 Olympics with September 5! Join us as we learn about journalists like Peter Jennings and Geoffrey Mason, satellite TV, and more! NOTE: Due to a technical issue, there are some sound quality problems on Jamie's audio. We promise these issues will be fixed on our next episode.
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Travis Vogan, ABC News Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television. University of California Press, 2018
Peter Jennings Interview With Larry King, 2002. Transcript available at https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2002-04-10/segment/00 Charles Glass, Peter Jennings Obituary, 2005. The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-jennings-304600.html
Bob Granath, "Telstar Opened Era of Global Satellite Television," https://www.nasa.gov/history/telstar-opened-era-of-global-satellite-television/ Garry Whannel, "Television and the Transformation of Sport," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 625 (2009): 205-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40375916 Eva Maria Gajek, "More than Munich 1972. Media, Emotions, and the Body in TV Broadcast of the 20th Summer Olympics," Historical Social Research, 43, no.2 (2018): 181-202. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26454286
David Wharton, "Eye on the Storm: Events in Munich forever changed Games, and how TV presents them," Los Angeles Times 26 August 2002: D1, D10. Les Carpenter, "Telling it like it was in 'September 5' meant sidelining Howard Cosell," The Washington Post 14 January 2025. CBS Sunday Morning, "Reporting the tragedy of the 1972 Munich Olympics," https://youtu.be/emhJrz4eYlc?si=r051-xBlOhbzVASh "Why the media played a fatal role in the 1972 Munich Olympics | DW History and Culture" https://youtu.be/GwFG0d_wzds?si=W5G5-DKTKWKYEarR https://books.google.com/books?id=5VYEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=LIFE+magazine+olympics+1972&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidm9q5lPOMAxUuhIkEHQX6NmkQ6AF6BAgHEAM Sports Video Group, "Geoffrey Mason, Sean McManus on ABC Sports Remaining in Control of the Munich Massacre Coverage," https://youtu.be/cnElwryDcA0?si=mPczShOAirk_QKFn
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_5_(film) Carolyn Giardina, "How the September 5 Filmmakers Created an Authentic Experience," Variety: https://variety.com/2024/artisans/artists/september-5-authentic-experience-cinematography-production-design-1236204356/ Jake Kanter, "‘September 5’ Director Tim Fehlbaum Says Film About 1972 Olympics Massacre Is Not A “Political Statement” On Israel-Gaza — Venice Film Festival," Deadline, available at https://deadline.com/2024/08/september-5-tim-fehlbaum-not-political-statement-israel-gaza-venice-film-festival-1236072543/
This week we're going back to 1972 with Shirley! Join us as we learn about Barbara Lee, Shirley Chisholm's meeting with George Wallace, the 1972 Democratic Convention, the equal time rule, and more! Note: Due to some microphone-related technical difficulties, this episode has some audio quality issues, but those will be resolved in our next episode.
Source PBS: Equal Time Rule: https://www.pbs.org/standards/media-law-101/candidate-appearances/ https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/03/archives/u-s-court-rules-mrs-chisholm-must-receive-equal-time-on-tv.html Debra Michals, "Shirley Chisholm," National Women's History Museum: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/13/archives/court-refuses-to-review-fcc-equal-time-ruling.html
"Life Story: Barbara Lee," Women and the American Story, available at https://wams.nyhistory.org/end-of-the-twentieth-century/the-information-age/barbara-lee/ A Conversation with Barbara Lee, JFK Library, available at https://www.jfklibrary.org/node/392391
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shirley Dominic Griffin, "'Shirley' is a Tragedy Presented as a Triumph," Baltimore Beat, https://baltimorebeat.com/shirley-is-a-tragedy-presented-as-a-triumph/ Nicholas Quah, "Shirley Never Matches the Power of Its Subject," Vulture https://www.vulture.com/article/netflixs-shirley-chisholm-biopic-never-does-her-justice.html
This week we're traveling back to 1830s Germany (and Transylvania) with Nosferatu! Join us as we learn about the folklore of garlic, exhuming suspected vampires, plague ships, and more!
Sources: Booseum: Vampires! Carnegie Museum of Natural History, available at https://carnegiemnh.org/booseum-vampires/#:~:text=Garlic%2C%20specifically%20the%20chemical%20compound,would%20%E2%80%9Ckill%E2%80%9D%20a%20vampire. Vampire Myths Originated With a Real Blood Disorder, available at https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/vampire-myths-originated-real-blood-disorder Eater Video: How Garlic Became a Vampire Killer, and Other Allium Myths, available at https://www.eater.com/2016/11/14/13626258/garlic-vampire-repellent-allium-myths-forklore
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Marek Polcyn and Elzbieta Gajda, "Buried with sickles: early modern interments from Drawsko, Poland," Antiquity 89, no. 348 (2015): 1373-87. Saul Epstein and Sara Libby Robinson, "The Soul, Evil Spirits, and the Undead: Vampires, Death, and Burial in Jewish Folklore and Law," Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies of the Preternatural 1, no.2 (2012): 232-51. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/preternature.1.2.0232 Agnes Murgoci, "The Vampire in Roumania," Folklore 37, no.4 (1926): 320-49. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1256143
David Canfield, "Making Nosferatu," Vanity Fair, available at https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/nosferatu-shot-list-awards-insider?srsltid=AfmBOoquAyo3_YpRnmKQTTsu1im1fEPuks-8FQHVSQt9fRc2VqYjc5U7 William Earl, "Bill Skarsgard's Nosferatu Transformation," Variety, available at https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/bill-skarsgard-nosferatu-transformation-makeup-mustache-count-orlok-1236249285/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(2024_film) Meagan Navarro Review, Bloody Disgusting: https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3847134/nosferatu-review-robert-eggers-macabre-masterpiece/
"GERMANY. Plague on a ship Public Health Reports (1896-1970), Vol. 16, No. 5 (February 1, 1901), p. 210 (1 page) https://www.jstor.org/stable/41457493
" Ainsley Hawthorne, "Plague Upon the Waters: How a Disease-Ridden Steamboat Spread Yellow Fever," CBC, available at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/apocalypse-then-yellow-fever-1.5936980 Philippa Helliwell, "Plague Ahoy! Maritime Quarantine in the 18th Century," National Archives, available at https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/plague-ahoy-maritime-quarantine-in-the-18th-century/
This week we're traveling back to the 1980s with American Psycho! Join us as we learn about Wall Street killers, men's skincare products, Page 6, "Hip to be Square", and more!
Sources:
Cynthia Weiner, "What We Miss When We Talk About the Preppy Killer," Crime Reads (2025), https://crimereads.com/what-we-miss-when-we-talk-about-the-preppy-killer/ James Feron, "Wall St. Analyst Guilty in Murder of Second Wife," The New York Times 17 March 1989, B2, 38. Leonard Buder, "Suspect Seized in Two Murders in Wall St. Area," The New York Times 23 June 1982, B1. https://casetext.com/case/dodell-v-walsh "Driver Sentenced in Fatal Shooting," New York Times 1984, https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/02/nyregion/the-city-driver-sentenced-in-fatal-shooting.html and https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/11/nyregion/broker-is-resentenced-in-slaying-after-crash.html
Deborah Blumenthal, "The Male Difference," NY Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/16/magazine/the-male-difference.html "Skin Care for Men Surging," NY Times, 18 December 1984, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/18/business/skin-care-for-men-surging.html Ruth la Ferla, "Men's Style: Putting on a Face," NY Times, 26 October 1986, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/26/magazine/men-s-style-putting-on-a-renewed-face.html
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Kate Storey, "The Secret History of Page 6," Esquire, available at https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a30709872/page-six-gossip-history-new-york-post/ Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo, How Page Six Became the Most Feared Gossip Column in the World, Hollywood Reporter, available at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/page-six-feared-gossip-column-paper-of-wreckage-1236024546/
This week we're going back to the Roaring 20s with Some Like It Hot! Join us as we learn about the Valentine's Day Massacre, speakeasies, Shell Oil, blood typing, and more!
Sources:
"Prohibition," Mob Museum, available at https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-prohibition-underworld/the-speakeasies-of-the-1920s/ Legends of America, Prohibition Speakeasies: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-prohibitionspeakeasy/'
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"St. Valentine's Day Massacre Wall" Mob Museum, https://themobmuseum.org/exhibits/massacre-wall/ and https://stvalentinemassacre.org/the-massacre/#full [warning: graphic images] https://youtu.be/5HBDbnLD0sM?si=vS9Ow5jSliyJ4dlk
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot Bob Mondello, "Remembering the Hollywood Hays Code 40 Years On," NPR. https://www.npr.org/2008/08/08/93301189/remembering-hollywoods-hays-code-40-years-on Sam Wasson, "Some Like It Hot: How to Have Fun," Criterion, available at https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6048-some-like-it-hot-how-to-have-fun?srsltid=AfmBOopPS5q3nXRLHIkqMtZqsPgVAxYq_e-masNPf2WcgpTW5x7kwepr Roger Ebert Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-some-like-it-hot-1959#google_vignette
This week we're traveling back to the ye old internet days of 2015 with Zola! Join us as we learn about Vine, Backpage, Florida strip club rules, and more!
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Casey Newton, "Why Vine Died: Closing the Loop" The Verge (2016) https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13456208/why-vine-died-twitter-shutdown John Herrman, "Vine Changed the Internet Forever. How Much Does the Internet Miss It?" New York Times (2020).
Justin Perlman, "What was Backpage? Why Did It Shut Down?" Philadelphia Weekly February 29, 2024. https://philadelphiaweekly.com/what-was-backpage-why-did-it-shut-down/ Rahul Choudhary, "What Was Backpage . com| Why It Shut Down By The Government Officials?" Medium, October 10, 2020. https://medium.com/@literatureguide/what-was-backpage-com-why-it-shut-down-by-the-government-officials-96f944ae119c Felicia Garcia, "The Backpage . Com Bust" Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe U.S. Helsinki Commission (2018), https://www.csce.gov/articles/backpagecom-bust/ Sanctuary for Families and NY State Anti-Trafficking Coalition, "Human Trafficking: A White Paper for the NYPD" https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/IP/human-trafficking/content/2.Human%20Trafficking%20White%20Paper%20for%20the%20NYPD.PDF Molly Smith and Juno Mac, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights (New York: Verso, 2020), 123-5.
Hillsborough County Code of Ordinances Part A, Chapter 4, Article 1: https://library.municode.com/fl/hillsborough_county/codes/code_of_ordinances,_part_a?nodeId=HICOCOORLA_CH4ALBE Shawn Alff, "Strip Clubs Top to Bottom," Tampa Bay News, available at https://www.cltampa.com/news/strip-clubs-top-to-bottom-12289009
Reddit Thread: The Zola Story-Jess's Side: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/3quslp/the_zola_story_jesss_side/ Christopher Spata Interview with Jess. Complex. Available at https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/christopher-spata/real-jess-from-zolas-story-interview
Aisha Harris, "'Zola' Takes A Twitter Thread And Turns It Into A Fever Dream On Film," NPR, https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1009630748/zola-review-twitter-taylour-paige-riley-keough-janicza-bravo-movie Sheila O'Malley, "Zola," Roger Ebert 2021 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/zola-movie-review-2021 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/aug/04/zola-review-aziah-wells-trip-florida-pole-dancing-seductive-comedy-thriller https://youtu.be/nXiNxW2jupc?si=MZcc9CrQ-c7Pqoc-
This week we're going back to 16th-century Peru with Aguirre, The Wrath of God! Join us as we learn about Spanish women who went on expeditions, the real Lope de Aguirre, the wild stories behind the production of this film, and more!
Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of incest and sexual abuse.
Sources:
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguirre,_the_Wrath_of_God Roger Ebert Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-aguirre-the-wrath-of-god-1972 Geoff Andrew, "Great Beginnings: Aguirre, The Wrath of God," BFI: https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/great-beginnings-aguirre-wrath-god Michael Atkinson, "Werner's World," Criterion, available at https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6529-werner-s-world?srsltid=AfmBOopmJcoczeWFdUu2Io46q1vEQHdNjG8DzsLtojNkiAPjPhGS0E8U Anya Jeremko-Greenwald, "11 Craziest Things That Have Happened During the Making of Werner Herzog's Films," IndieWire: https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/11-craziest-things-that-have-happened-during-the-making-of-werner-herzogs-films-58559/ Kate Connolly, "Klaus Kinski Repeatedly Raped Me During My Childhood, Claims Daughter," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/10/klaus-kinski-rape-claims-daughter Roger Ebert Interview with Werner Herzog: https://web.archive.org/web/20190626115333/https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-werner-herzog
Lope de Aguirre to Philip, King of Spain, 1561, letter, translated by Tom Holloway, Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1561aguirre.asp Hernán Neira, "The Philosophical Underwriting of a Rebellion: Pedro de Ursua and Lope de Aguirre's Expedition in Search of El Dorado," Chasqui 37, no.2 (2008): 106-126. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29742271 Descubrimiento del río de las Amazonas según la relación hasta ahora inédita de Fr. Gaspar de Carvajal, con otros documentos referentes á Francisco de Orellana y sus compañeros; publicados á expensas del Excmo. Sr. duque de T'Serclaes de Tilly, con una introducción histórica y algunas ilustraciones por José Toribio Medina Beatriz Pastor, "Lope de Aguirre the Wanderer: Knowledge and Madness," Disposito 11, no.28/29 (1986): 85-98. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41491291 Pedro Simon, The expedition of Pedro de Ursua & Lope de Aguirre in search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560-1 Translated from Fray Pedro Simon's Sixth Historical Notice of the Conquest of Tierra Firme by William Bollaert (London: Hakluyt Society, 1861). https://archive.org/details/expeditionofpedr00simrich https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lope-de-Aguirre
Rocio Quispe-Agnoli, "Taking Possession of the New World: Powerful Female Agency of Early Colonial Accounts of Peru," Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 28, 2 (2011) Eloisa Gomez-Lucena, "Who Were the Women Conquistadores in the Americas?" National Geographic, available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/women-conquistadoras-spain-america
This week we travel back to dinosaur times with 65! Join us as we learn about all kinds of prehistoric weirdness, including pack-hunting dinosaurs, Spanish moss, swamp creatures, the big asteroid, and more!
Sources:
Emily Osterloff, "How an Asteroid Ended the Age of the Dinosaurs," Natural History Museum, available at https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-an-asteroid-caused-extinction-of-dinosaurs.html#:~:text=The%20impact%20site%2C%20known%20as,largest%20crater%20on%20the%20planet. Eric Hand, "Updated: Drilling of Dinosaur-killing Impact Crater Explains Buried Circular Hills," Science, available at https://www.science.org/content/article/updated-drilling-dinosaur-killing-impact-crater-explains-buried-circular-hills Image of continents 65 million years ago, available at https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/1044470/view/continents-65-million-years-ago-illustration Tyrannosauroid Fossil Localities Map, available at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tyrannosauroid_fossil_localities_map.png
Natalie Johnson, "Jurassic Park Got It Wrong: UWO Research Indicates Raptors Don't Hunt in Packs," UWO Today, available at https://www.uwosh.edu/today/84696/jurassic-park-got-it-wrong-uwo-research-indicates-raptors-dont-hunt-in-packs/ Cameron Duke, "Tyrannosaurs May Have Hunted Together in Packs Like Wolves," New Scientist, available at https://www.newscientist.com/article/2275060-tyrannosaurs-may-have-hunted-together-in-packs-like-wolves/ Sean Mowbray, "Do We Know if Dinosaurs Were Smart Enough to Hunt in Packs?" Discover Magazine, available at https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/do-we-know-if-dinosaurs-were-smart-enough-to-hunt-in-packs
Daniel Strain, "Paleontologists discover Colorado 'swamp dweller' that lived alongside dinosaurs," https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/10/23/paleontologists-discover-colorado-swamp-dweller-lived-alongside-dinosaurs https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/heleocola-piceanus-colorado Stephen Greb, William A DiMichele, Robert Gastaldo, Cortland Eble, and Scott Wing, "Prehistoric Wetland," Elsevier (2022) https://web.colby.edu/ragastal/files/2022/08/2022_GrebEtAl_PrehistoricWetlands.pdf Life on Our Planet, "In the Shadow of Giants" Netflix.
Missouri Botanical Garden, https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=f427 "10 Fascinating Facts About Spanish Moss," Mental Floss (2023), https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67807/10-things-you-should-know-about-spanish-moss Chelsea Harvey, "The World's Oldest Moss Outlived the Dinosaurs, but It May Not Survive Climate Change," Scientific American (August 10, 2023). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-worlds-oldest-moss-outlived-the-dinosaurs-but-it-may-not-survive-climate-change/ https://www.edenproject.com/learn/eden-at-home/a-guide-to-prehistoric-plants Josef Pšenička and Stanislav Opluštil, "The epiphytic plants in the fossil record and its example from in situ tuff from Pennylvanian of Radnice Basin (Czech Republic)," Bulletin of Geosciences 88, no.2 (2013): 401-16. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241660344_The_epiphytic_plants_in_the_fossil_record_and_its_example_from_in_situ_tuff_from_Pennsylvanian_of_Radnice_Basin_Czech_Republic
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/65 Christy Lemire, "65" https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/65-movie-review-2023 Late Night with Seth Meyers https://youtu.be/tJfmy48AplM?si=kts3zwrzZJBalQji
It's a new year, so it's once again time for our annual special episode on depictions of the future! Join us as we take a look at 2019-as-imagined-in-1981's Blade Runner, with discussions of gas flares, Japanese influence on American culture, the resurgence of 1940s fashion, and more!
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Ryan Britt, "Blade Runner: How Its Problems Made It a Better Movie," Den of Geek, available at https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/blade-runner-making-of-history/ Roger Ebert Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blade-runner-directors-cut-1992 Ben Sherlock, "Like Tears in Rain," Screen Rant, available at https://screenrant.com/blade-runner-behind-scenes-facts-ridley-scott-harrison-ford-sci-fi-movie/ Daniel Gillespie, "Blade Runner Star Says He Ad-libbed the Movie's Most Iconic Line," Screen Rant, available at https://screenrant.com/blade-runner-edward-james-olmos-ad-lib-details/ Rachel Leishman, "The Blade Runner Discourse is Never-ending," Mary Sue, available at https://www.themarysue.com/blade-runner-discourse/
Hannah Huber, "The 2019 Fashion Trends You’ll Still Be Wearing in 2020," Glamour https://www.glamour.com/gallery/best-fashion-trends-2019 Sarah Siegal, "These Were the Makeup Trends We Saw Everywhere This Year," PopSugar https://www.popsugar.com/beauty/makeup-trends-2019-45624809 https://poetryincostume.com/2018/03/15/how-blade-runners-rachael-encapsulated-a-moment-of-fashion-zeitgeist/ Avery Matera, "9 2019 Fashion Trends You'll See Everywhere," Teen Vogue (2019) https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/popular-fashion-trends-2019
https://www.sitelinesb.com/what-happened-to-the-gas-flame-on-highway-101/ https://youtu.be/mt-4ttjYSzg?si=TKwBXRWXJeiSSe3h "Gas flaring: What is it and why is it a problem?" BBC (2022) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63051458 https://lamag.com/news/ask-chris-orange-hydrocarbon-fairy https://www.aqmd.gov/home/rules-compliance/compliance/r1118/flare-operators https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/air-quality/historical-data-by-year/2019-air-quality-data-tables.pdf?sfvrsn=8
https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/memory-manipulated Satan Wants You https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/this-book-plunged-the-world-into-a-terrifying-obsession-with-satanic-cults-in-the-1980s-1.7031992
"The Phenomenon of 'Japan Bashing' in US-Japanese Relations," Journal of American Studies, available at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/225129904.pdf Lessons for Today from the US-Japan Trade War of the 1980s, NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2019/05/20/725139664/lessons-for-today-from-the-u-s-japan-trade-war-of-the-1980s US Census Quick Facts, Demographics of Los Angeles: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescitycalifornia/PST045222 Terry Gross, "Hollywood Relies on China to Stay Afloat. What Does That Mean for Movies?" NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1081435029/china-hollywood-movies-censorship-erich-schwartzel James Tager, "Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing," PEN America, available at https://pen.org/report/made-in-hollywood-censored-by-beijing/#heading-14 Drew Dietsch, "The History of Anime's Journey to America," Fandom, available at https://www.fandom.com/articles/anime-history-america
For our last episode of 2024, we're traveling back to 1920s Hollywood with Singin' in the Rain! Join us as we learn about mood music on set, elocution lessons, fan magazines, stunts, and more!
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Pamela Hutchinson, "The Silent Era Film Stars Who Risked Life and Limb Doing Their Own Stunts," The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/sep/07/silent-era-film-stars-risked-their-lives-doing-film-stunts "The Evolution of Stunts: Part I," British Action Academy, available at https://www.britishactionacademy.com/blog/the-action-reel/the-evolution-of-stunts-part-one/
Ronald Haver, "Singin' in the Rain," Criterion Collection (1988), https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/817-singin-in-the-rain Earl Hess and Pratibha Dabholkar, Singin in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece (University of Kansas Press, 2009), https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.1544771 https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/donald-oconnor-singin-in-the-rain-star-dead-at-78 Turner Classic Movies, "Debbie Reynolds Talks About Singin' in the Rain," https://youtu.be/EEizqKN7dpA?si=eiXIx2fvbUig5LgA
Nolan Moore, "The Obscure Accordionist Who Played Mood Music on Silent Film Sets," Atlas Obscura (Sept. 20, 2016). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-obscure-accordionist-who-played-mood-music-on-silent-film-sets Patrick Miller, "Music and the Silent Film," Perspectives of New Music (1982/3): 582-4. http://www.jstor.com/stable/832894
Pamela Hutchinson, "Photoplay magazine: the birth of celebrity culture," The Guardian 26 January 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jan/26/photoplay-magazine-hollywood-film-studios-stars-celebrity-culture Photoplay [Jul-Dec 1930] | Media History Digital Library
Dan Nosowitz, "How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm," Atlas Obscura, available at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-british-accent-took-old-hollywood-by-storm
This week we're traveling back to 1989 with Lisa Frankstein! Join us as we learn about leg warmers, intuitive people and emotional vampires, the world's biggest contraceptive sponge, tanning beds, and more!
Sources: Tori Telfer, "A Brief History of Leg Warmers," Bustle, available at https://www.bustle.com/articles/29436-whatever-happened-to-leg-warmers-hint-animals Rare Historical Photos, "The Legwarmers Craze of the 1980s," available at https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/legwarmers-fashion-1980s/
Ngram, "Intuitive person:" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=intuitive+person&year_start=1900&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false https://www.google.com/books/edition/You_the_Healer/-e5fyvbWc9YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22intuitive%20person%22&pg=PA120&printsec=frontcover NGram, "Emotional vampire," https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=emotional+vampire&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Kurtz, Irma. "INTUITION--You'Ve Got it, use it!" Cosmopolitan 180, no. 2 (02, 1976): 176-180.
D.S. Nachtwey and R.D. Rundel, "A Photobiological Evaluation of Tanning Booths," Science 211, no. 4480 (1981): 405-7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1685358 Wehner et al, "International Prevalence of Indoor Tanning Systmatic Review and Meta-analysis," JAMA Dermatol. 2014 April ; 150(4): 390–400. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.6896. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_tanning#:~:text=Friedrich%20Wolff%2C%20a%20German%20scientist,America%20in%20the%20late%201970s. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1903/finsen/biographical/ https://wolffsystem.de/en/history/
Guttmacher Institute, "Trends in Contraceptive Use in the United States, 1982-1995," Available at https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/1998/01/trends-contraceptive-use-united-states-1982-1995 CDC, "Use of Contraception in the United States, 1982-2008", available at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_029.pdf
Rogerebert.com Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lisa-frankenstein-movie-review-2024 Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lisa_frankenstein Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Frankenstein
This week we're traveling back to 1920s England with Wicked Little Letters! Join us as we learn about the real women who appear as characters in this movie, including Edith Swan, Rose Gooding, and Police Officer Gladys Moss!
Sources: Audrey Cartron, Women in the Police Forces in Britain, 1880-1931, MA thesis, full text available at https://library.college.police.uk/docs/theses/CARTRON-Women-in-the-police-forces-in-Britain-1880-1931.pdf Sislin Fay Allen, National Archives: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/significant-people-collection/sislin-fay-allen/ History of Women in Policing, Manchester City Archives: https://gmpmuseum.co.uk/collection-item/history-of-women-in-policing/ "UK's First Asian Female Police Officer Remembered by Met Police," BBC, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-55886983
"Wicked little letters: the Littlehampton libel case," The National Archives, https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/interwar/wicked-little-letters-the-littlehampton-libel-case/ Victor Bailey, review Bee Wilson, "Merely a Warning that a Noun is Coming," London Review of Books 40, no.2 (2018). https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/media/images/edith-swan-indictment-first-t.max-1024x1024.format-webp.webp https://www.findmypast.com/blog/history/wicked-little-letters
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Little_Letters RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wicked_little_letters BBC Radio 1, "“F*’ BOOM!” Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on pigeon impressions and Wicked Little Letters," https://youtu.be/bdrRjdjkhpo?si=LbFtL_j55SCbYxqZ
This week we're traveling back to 1970 with Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret! Join us as we learn about Earth Day, female cantors, espadrilles, supermodels, adhesive pads, and more!
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Sources: Kathleen Horton, "The Story of. . . The Supermodel," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-the-supermodel-26388 Sarah Lindig and Natalie Matthews, "The Evolution of the Supermodel," Elle, availble at https://www.elle.com/fashion/g28495/evolution-of-the-supermodel/?slide=25 Google Ngram, "Supermodel": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=supermodel&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
Ellen Burney, "A brief history of espadrilles: From humble origins to fashion must-have," Vogue India (9 August 2018). https://www.vogue.in/content/brief-history-espadrilles-humble-origins-fashion-must https://www.whowhatwear.com/audrey-hepburn-sabrina-style https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/news/a57038/espadrilles-history-revolution-basque-stylish/
https://www.earthday.org/history/ https://youtu.be/WbwC281uzUs and https://youtu.be/y3RCPAtmpv8?si=jC7VQVR0bK3iY04y
Jackie Hajdenberg, "Meet the Real-Life Rabbi in the Synagogue Scene in 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," Jerusalem Post, available at https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-741919#google_vignette On Rosh Hashanah, Meet the Woman Who Made History as the First Female Cantor, Time Magazine, available at https://time.com/4512240/rosh-hashanah-first-woman-cantor/ Irene Heskes, "Cantors: American Jewish Women," Available at https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/cantors-american-jewish-women#:~:text=Among%20the%20most%20famous%20of,1987)%2C%20Goldie%20Malavsky%20(1923
Helen King, https://theconversation.com/from-rags-and-pads-to-the-sanitary-apron-a-brief-history-of-period-products-203451 http://www.mum.org/sanapron.htm https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2016/03/04/solving-womans-oldest-hygienic-problem-in-a-new-way-a-history-of-period-products/ Kat Eschner, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/surprising-origins-kotex-pads-180964466/
Kate Erbland, "Five Decades, Generations of Women, and One Letter: Making the Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Movie," IndieWire, available at https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret-movie-interview-1234831555/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_There_God%3F_It's_Me%2C_Margaret._(film)
This week we're traveling back to 1990s Miami with Wasp Network! Join us as we learn about terrorist attacks on Cuban resorts, the Angola Crisis, that McDonald's in Guantanamo Bay, and more!
Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency National Foreign Assessment Center, "An Analysis of Cuban Military Intervention in Angola and Ethiopia," 31 October 1978, available at https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80T00634A000400010046-2.pdf "Angola, Independence and Civil War," Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/place/Angola/Independence-and-civil-war The Angola Crisis, 1974-1975, Office of the Historian, available at https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/angola
A.C. Grimes, "The Surprising Location Of Cuba's Only McDonald's," Mashed (9 January 2021). https://www.mashed.com/309819/the-surprising-location-of-cubas-only-mcdonalds/ Lyle Rexer and Jason Oddy, "Outside the Law: Inside Guantanamo," Aperture 179 (2005): 32-9.
Salim Lamrani, "The Case of the Five Cuban Political Prisoners," Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality (NYU Press, 2015). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287jk0.11 Salim Lamrani, "Economic Sanctions from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Barack Obama," The Economic War Against Cuba (NYU Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.ort/stable/j.ctt9qgg7f.7 Holly Ackerman, "The Balsero Phenomenon, 1991-1994," Cuban Studies 26 (1996): 169-200. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487714 Rosie Gray, "Relative Says Families Of Slain "Brothers To The Rescue" Weren't Warned Of Cuban Spy Release," BuzzFeedNews (23 December 2014). https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/relative-says-families-of-slain-brothers-to-the-rescue-weren
"Exile Groups Said to Be Planning Attacks on Cuban Resorts," Tampa Bay Times, available at https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/07/23/exile-groups-said-to-be-planning-attack-on-cuban-resorts/ "Summary of Main Terrorist Actions Against Cuba, 1990-2000," available at https://www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/Documents/terror-summary.shtml ". 216. Memorandum From Viron P. Vaky of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs, Office of the Historian, available at https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve10/d216 " Winston Cho, "Netflix Settles Defamation Suit Brought By Cuban Exiles Over Spy Thriller 'Wasp Network'," The Hollywood Reporter (24 January 2024). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-settles-defamation-suit-brought-cuban-exiles-wasp-network-1235806098/ Brian Tallerico, "Wasp Network," RogerEbert.com (19 June 2020), https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wasp-network-movie-review-2020 Arantxa Tirado and Simon Vazquez, "Wasp Network Is a Rare Movie That Doesn't Paint Cubans as Cartoonish Villains," Jacobin (11 August 2020). https://jacobin.com/2020/08/wasp-network-five-cuban-revolution Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_Network_(film) Hollywood Reporter interview: https://youtu.be/T0f1hhx4xvo?si=DZfh5zqnHkVWAK7d Interview with Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez: https://youtu.be/o4pWqTSwidI?si=C_-YORb1uzpOxmkq
This week we're traveling back to 1920s Minnesota with Sweet Land! Join us as we learn about immigrant marriages, German acceptance in Minnesota, English-only churches, and more! We also debut the new Tina Belcher Film Grading Scale, and award this film a respectable score of Two Butts.
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La Vern J. Rippley, "Conflict in the Classroom: Anti-Germanism in Minnesota Schools, 1917-19," Minnesota History 47, no.5 (1981): 170-83. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20178699 Tina Steward Brakebill, "From "German Days" to "100 Percent Americanism": McLean County, Illinois 1913-1918: German Americans, World War One, and One Community's Reaction." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 95, no. 2 (2002): 148-171. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40193520 Ehsan Alam, "Anti-German Nativism, 1917-1919," MNOpedia, https://www.mnopedia.org/anti-german-nativism-1917-1919 Becky Little, https://www.history.com/news/anti-german-sentiment-wwi https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2022/09/german-immigration-loclrblogint/
Mark Kuss, "Hey Man! Watch Your Language: Treatment of Germans and German Americans in New Orleans during World War I," Louisiana History 56, no.2 (2015): 178-98. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24396453 Paul Ramsey, ""The War against German-American Culture: The Removal of German-Language Instruction from the Indianapolis Schools, 1917–1919." Indiana Magazine of History 98, no. 4 (2002): 285-303. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27792420 Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle and Nancy M. Vaillancourt, "One Flag, One School, One Language: Minnesota's Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s." Minnesota History 61, no. 8 (2009): 360-371. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40543955
Gary Marks, Matthew Burbank, "Immigrant Support for the American Socialist Party, 1912 and 1920," https://www.jstor.org/stable/1171437
"Go West, Young Woman! An Exploration of Mail Order Brides in America." Smithsonian, available at https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-articles/go-west-young-woman Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, "Armenian Refugee Women: The Picture Brides, 1920-1930," Journal of American Ethnic History (Spring 93) Marian L. Smith, "'Any Woman Who is Now or May Hereafter Be Married': Women and Naturalization, ca 1802-1940," Genealogy Notes 30, 2 (1998) Seema Sohi, "Barred Zones, Rising Tides, and Radical Struggles: The Antiradical and Anti-Asian Dimensions of the 1917 Immigration Act," Journal of American History (2022)
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Land IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428038/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-16-wk-movie16-story.html
This week we're going back to postwar Tokyo with Godzilla Minus One! Join us as we learn about the rebuilding of Ginza, war orphans, sea mine removal, how Godzilla stands upright in the water, and more!
Sources: "Ginza," Tokyo Official Website: https://www.ginza.jp/en/history/2#:~:text=As%20early%20as%20April%2C%201946,Ginza%20%2Ddori%20during%20this%20festival.&text=In%20addition%20to%20the%20regular,goods%20to%20the%20US%20troops. "Post-war Ginza," Old Tokyo, available at https://www.oldtokyo.com/post-war-ginza-1945/ "The Lost Metropolis: 1930s Tokyo Street Life in Pictures," The Guardian available at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/may/17/the-lost-metropolis-1930s-tokyo-street-life-kineo-kuwabara-in-pictures
US Naval Institute, "Success Meant Death: An Interview with Kaoru Hasegawa," available at https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1995/october/success-meant-death-interview-kaoru-hasegawa Richard Lloyd-Parry, "Survivor Shame," The Independent, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/survivor-shame-1592965.html Roger B. Jeans, "Victims or Victimizers? Museums, Textbooks, and the War Debate in Contemporary Japan," Journal of Military History 69, 1 (2005) Lili van der Does-Ishikawa, "Contested Memories of the Kamikaze and the Self-Representations of Tokko-Tai Youth in Their Missives Home," Japan Forum 27, 3 (2015) John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. WW Norton, 2000.
Mariko Asano Tamanoi, "The Origins and Plight of Sensō Koji (War Orphans) In Postwar Japan," APJIF, 18, iss. 13, no.1 (2020). https://apjjf.org/2020/13/tamanoi Robert Efirt, "Japan's "War Orphans": Identification and State Responsibility," The Journal of Japanese Studies 34, no.2 (2008): 363-88. http://www.jstor.com/stable/27756572 Mariko Asano Tamanoi, "Memory Map 3: Orphans' Memories," Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2009), 84-114. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqrg5.7
Sheldon Garon, "Operation STARVATION, 1945: A Transnational History of Blockades and the Defeat of Japan," The International History Review 46, no.4 (2024): 535-50. Michael Sturma, "Mopping Up," in Surface and Destroy: The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific (University Press of Kentucky, 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcr03.13 John S. Chilstrom, Mines Away! The Significance of U.S. Army Air Forces Minelaying in World War II (Air University Press, 1992). John S. Chilsstrom, "A Test for Joint Ops: USAAF Bombing Doctrine and the Aerial Minelaying Mission," Air Power History 40, no.1 (1993): 35-43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26279445 Lieut. Commander Arnold S. Lott, USN, "Japan's Nightmare--Mine Blockade," U.S. Naval Institute, Vol. 85/11/681 (November 1959). https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1959/november/japans-nightmare-mine-blockade https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20231003-140471/ https://www.state.gov/dipnote-u-s-department-of-state-official-blog/investing-in-the-future-of-the-pacific-u-s-assistance-continues-to-address-wwii-era-explosive-hazards/ https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15088407
RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/godzilla_minus_one Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_Minus_One https://variety.com/2024/artisans/news/godzilla-minus-one-visual-effects-water-scene-610-shots-1235891768/ Oscar win: https://youtu.be/h3q7SaXhCPE?si=dSEUEIhlPD9g2xEU
This week we're traveling back to 1960s Congo with The Siege of Jadotville! Join us as we learn about General Tshombe, Dag Hammarsjkold, UN forces in Jadotville, uranium mining, and more!
Sources:
Frank Swain, "The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb," BBC (2020). https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-forgotten-mine-that-built-the-atomic-bomb Moore, W. Robert. "White Magic in the Belgian Congo: Tribesmen Mine Uranium, Run Machines, Study Modern Medicine as Booming Trade Opens Up the Vast Colony's Resources." National Geographic Magazine, March 1952, [321]+. National Geographic Virtual Library (accessed August 1, 2024). Susan Williams, "How a rich uranium mine thrust the Congo into the centre of the Cold War," The Conversation (2016). https://theconversation.com/how-a-rich-uranium-mine-thrust-the-congo-into-the-centre-of-the-cold-war-64761 Tom Zoellner, "A (Radioactive) Cut in the Earth That Will Not Stay Closed," Scientific American (2009). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-radioactive-cut-that-will-not-stay-closed/
"Dag Hammarskjold," United Nations, available at https://www.un.org/depts/dhl/dag/time1961.htm Emma Graham-Harrison et al, "RAF Veteran 'Admitted 1961 Killing of Secretary-General," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/12/raf-veteran-admitted-killing-un-secretary-general-dag-hammarskjold-in-1961 "Interview with Secretary General," British Pathe, available at https://youtu.be/5mdY-RE3ZEg?si=7R8VBeQ-KdyYe3XH Mads Brugger, "Cold Case Hammarskjold," Magnolia Pictures, 2019 "Monday 18 September 1961," Aviation Safety Network, available at https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/333493
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siege_of_Jadotville_(film) Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_siege_of_jadotville
Lar Joye, "What's on Film: The Siege of Jadotville," History Ireland 25, no.1 (2017): 50-51. John Terence O'Neill, "The Irish Company at Jadotville, Congo, 1961: Soldiers or Symbols?," International Peacekeeping 9, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 127-144. Narayan Swamy, "Gallant Irish Unit Surrenders," The Times of India, Bombay, September 19, 1961. Frank McNally, "Five Irish soldiers took their own lives after Jadotville siege," The Irish Times (May 15, 2019). https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/five-irish-soldiers-took-their-own-lives-after-jadotville-siege-1.3893633 Security Council official records, 16th year : 973rd meeting, 13 November 1961, New York; United Nations Digital Library, https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/631329?ln=en&v=pdf Report to the Secretary-General from his Special Representative in the Congo regarding Mr. Patrice Lumumba; https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/630673?ln=en&v=pdf Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 26 Sept. 1961. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1961-09-26/ed-1/seq-3/ https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/past/onucF.html Isaac Chotiner, "The Real Story Behind Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination," The New Yorker, October 30, 2023. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/06/the-lumumba-plot-the-secret-history-of-the-cia-and-a-cold-war-assassination-stuart-a-reid-book-review
Jiwon Amy Yoo, "Moise Kapenda Tshombe," Blackpast.org, available at https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/tshombe-moise-kapenda-1919-1969/
This week we're traveling back to 1940s Venice with A Haunting in Venice! Join us as we learn about mad honey, When the Lights Go On Again, the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Meet Me In St. Louis, and more!
Sources: Gunduz, Abdülkadir;Şimşek, Perihan;Ayaz, Faik Ahmet, "Worldwide Distribution and Clinical Characteristics of Mad Honey Poisoning Cases," Central European Journal of Public Health (March 2023) Niko Vorobyov, "What It's Like Tripping on Mad Honey, the Hallucinogen That is (Maybe) an Aphrodisiac," Salon, 2022, available at https://www.salon.com/2022/04/10/what-its-like-tripping-on-mad-honey-the-hallucinogen-that-maybe-is-an-aphrodisiac/ Mad Honey, Atlas Obscura, available at https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/mad-honey-red-hallucinogen
Imperial War Museum, Collection of Accounts: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Lights_Go_On_Again The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.), 10 Nov. 1944. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014085/1944-11-10/ed-1/seq-12/ The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.), 29 May 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045324/1943-05-29/ed-1/seq-12/ https://genius.com/Vera-lynn-when-the-lights-go-on-again-lyrics
"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24508 MOVIES AT WAR Other title:Film Bulletin, no. 107 (1943)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_Me_in_St._Louis
Matt Zoller Seitz, "A Haunting in Venice," https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-haunting-in-venice-movie-review-2023 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Haunting_in_Venice Justin Chang, "The big twist in 'A Haunting in Venice'? It's actually a great film," NPR, https://www.npr.org/2023/09/22/1201010896/a-haunting-in-venice-review-agatha-christie-hercule-poirot https://variety.com/2023/film/news/haunting-in-venice-producer-more-poirot-movies-tina-fey-1235726819/ Todd Gilchrist, "'A Haunting in Venice' Review: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Supernatural Dimension to His Hercule Poirot Series," Variety (Sep. 9, 2023). https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/a-haunting-in-venice-review-kenneth-branagh-1235717211/
This week we're going back to 1930s-1950s Spain with The Endless Trench! Join us as we learn about Franco on the radio, attacks on hermitages during the Spanish Civil War, Eisenhower's visits to Spain, and more!
Sources:
Christy Lemire review, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/saltburn-movie-review-2023 Julius Ruiz, The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Julian Casanova, The Spanish Republic and Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Raymond Carr, Spain: A History (Oxford University Press, 2000).
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/toasts-the-president-and-general-francisco-franco-spain-state-dinner-madrid Exchange of Letters Between the President and the Chief of State, General Franco, of Spain, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/exchange-letters-between-the-president-and-the-chief-state-general-franco-spain https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/spain Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 21 Dec. 1959. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1959-12-21/ed-1/seq-6/
Victory Speech Excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMN6JhL1yGQ Salvador Gomez Garcia et al, "The Sound Portrait of a Dictator: A Study of Franco's Image in Radio Nacional de Espana," Media History 28, 2 (2022)
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_endless_trench Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_Trench
"Gendered Violence," Spanish Civil War Virtual Museum, available at https://www.vscw.ca/en/node/9#:~:text=The%20shaving%20of%20women's%20heads,Guards%20and%20other%20police%20forces . Laura Munoz-Enciar, "Unearthing Gendered Repression: An Analysis of Violence Suffered by Women During the Civil War and Franco's Dictatorship in Southwestern Spain," World Archaeology (2019)
This week we're traveling back to the long-ago days of 2006 with Saltburn! Join us as we reminisce about Juicy tracksuits, Jagerbombs, Livestrong wristbands, and other artifacts of our misspent youth.
Sources: Christy Lemire review, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/saltburn-movie-review-2023 Nicholas Barber, "Saltburn film review: 'Lurid' comedy skewers Britain's super-rich," BBC 5 October 2023, https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231005-saltburn-film-review-lurid-comedy-skewers-britains-super-rich David Rooney, "‘Saltburn’ Review: Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s Fun but Derivative Take on Class Envy," The Hollywood Reporter 31 August 2023, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/saltburn-review-barry-keoghan-jacob-elordi-emerald-fennell-1235577882/ Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltburn_(film)
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"The Heritage Tracksuit," https://juicycouture.co.uk/collections/the-heritage-tracksuit Sarah Lindig, "The Juicy Couture Tracksuit Is Now a Relic in a Museum," Bazaar, 15 November 2015, https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a12983/juicy-couture-track-suit-on-exhibit-at-london-museum/ https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O110643/tracksuit-juicy-couture/ Irene Anna Kim and Steve Cameron, "How Juicy Couture went from a million-dollar empire to the sale rack," Business Insider, 19 October 2020. https://www.businessinsider.com/rise-and-fall-of-juicy-couture-tracksuits-2019-11?op=1
Emily McCullar, "Making the Band: An Oral History of the Livestrong Bracelet," Texas Monthly July 2024. https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/livestrong-wristband-oral-history-twentieth-anniversary/ Kevin Kos, "The Jagerbomb: No Longer Just a College Drink!" available at https://www.kevinkos.com/post/elevated-jager-bomb "Jagerbomb" Diffords Guide, available at https://www.diffordsguide.com/en-au/cocktails/recipe/3060/jagerbomb Jagerbomb, Google Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=J%C3%A4gerbomb&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
This week we're going back to 1970 with a patron-requested episode on The Holdovers! Join us as we learn about The Newlywed Game, helicopters, Librium, race and class in the Vietnam War, the surprisingly heated controversies over men with long hair, and more!
Sources: IMDB trivia page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14849194/goofs/ US Centennial Flight Commission, History of Private Helicopters: https://www.centennialofflight.net/essay/Rotary/Private_heli/HE15.htm Civil and Commercial Helicopter Use: https://www.century-of-flight.net/civil-and-commercial-helicopter-use/
Leigh H. Edwards, "Reality TV and the American Family," The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History (2010), 123-44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcnkz.12 "Fear of a Black Movement: Public Enemy's Chuck D Fights the Power Thirty Years Strong: A Dialogue with Alicia Virani," in Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape (2022): 162. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2ks6vsj.10 Bryan Hardin Thrift, "Turning Off Turn-On: Helms as a TV Executive in the 1960s," Conservative Bias: How Jesse Helps Pioneered the Rise of Right-Wing Media and Realigned the Republican Party (University Press of Florida, 2014), 137-63. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvx1htq1.10 https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/shows/newlywed-game-the
Ingrid Waldron, "Increased Prescribing of Valium, Librium, and Other Drugs--An Example of the Influence of Economic and Social Factors on the Practice of Medicine," International Journal of Health Services 7, no.1 (1977): 37-62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45129975 "Tranquilizer Librium Best for Alcoholics," The Science News-Letter 87, no. 19 (1965): 303. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3948684 HOFFER, A. “Lack of potentiation by chlordiazepoxide (Librium) of depression or excitation due to alcohol.” Canadian Medical Association journal vol. 87,17 (1962): 920-1.
"Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities in the Vietnam War: A Resource Guide," Library of Congress, https://guides.loc.gov/racial-ethnic-and-religious-minorities-in-the-vietnam-war "Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty Statistics," Military Records, National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics James Burk and Evelyn Espinoza, "Race Relations Within the US Military," Annual Review of Sociology 38 (2012): 401-22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23254602 Arnold Barnett, Timothy Stanley, and Michael Shore, "America's Vietnam Casualties: Victims of a Class War?" Operations Research 40, no.5 (1992): 856-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/171812
Seija Rankin, "Making of the Holdovers: Depressing S*** Can Still Feel Cozy," Hollywood Reporter, available at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/making-of-the-holdovers-paul-giamatti-1235788162/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holdovers
Andrew Robert Herrick, "A Hairy Predicament: The Problem with Long Hair in the 1960s and 1970s." Masters Thesis, 2006, available at https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1875&context=etd
This week we're going back to 1940s LA with Devil in a Blue Dress! Join us as we learn about Black homeownership in midcentury Los Angeles, Charlotta Bass and The Eagle, postwar jobs, and more!
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Kelly Simpson, "The Great Migration: Creating a New Black Identity in Los Angeles," PBS, available at https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/the-great-migration-creating-a-new-black-identity-in-los-angeles Marques Augusta Vestal, "Black Housing Politics in 1940s South Los Angeles," MA Thesis, 2014, UCLA. Available at https://escholarship.org/content/qt1ns4f6z6/qt1ns4f6z6_noSplash_4f334160f70a9138a0db208ee1b4aa2c.pdf?t=nlk3x9#:~:text=Nearly%2040%20percent%20of%20blacks,than%20ten%20percent%20in%20Chicago.&text=Angeles%20newspaper%20the%20Liberator%2C%20Jefferson,greatest%20state%22%20for%20African%20Americans. Ryan Reft, "Segregation in the City of Angels: A 1939 Map of Housing Inequality in LA," PBS, available at https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/segregation-in-the-city-of-angels-a-1939-map-of-housing-inequality-in-l-a Black Los Angeles: 1930-2020. ArcGIS StoryMap. Available at https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dfd7cd4341a6493fa6cf38633333cece
Los Angeles Sentinel, ProQuest Historical newspapers David L. Clark, "Los Angeles: Improbable Los Angeles," in Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth Since World War II, eds. Richard M. Bernard and Bradley R. Rice (University of Texas Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/775763.14 Arthur C. Verge, "The Impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles," Pacific Historical Review 63, no.3 (1994): 289-314. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3640968
Regina Freer, "L.A. Race Woman: Charlotta Bass and the Complexities of Black Political Development in Los Angeles," American Quarterly 56, no.3 (2004): 607-32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40068236 Rodger Streitmatter, "Charlotta A. Bass: Radical Precursor of the Black Power Movement," Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History (University Press of Kentucky, 1994). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130jn0r.12 Democracy Now! "Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass: Remembering First Black Woman to Run for VP in 1952," YouTube, https://youtu.be/Hlkw24ifqdk?si=0IlaNF9cVbKqEBEQ
Julian Kimble, "Devil in a Blue Dress: Crossing the Line," The Criterion Collection, July 20, 2022, https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7873-devil-in-a-blue-dress-crossing-the-line Dan Kois, "The 1990s Denzel Mystery That Should've Launched a Franchise," Slate, https://slate.com/culture/2022/07/carl-franklin-interview-devil-in-a-blue-dress-and-denzel-washington.html Will Fancher, "The Untold Truth of Devil In A Blue Dress," Looper, August 6, 2022, https://www.looper.com/955040/the-untold-truth-of-devil-in-a-blue-dress/ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/devil-in-a-blue-dress-1995
This week we become Robert Eggers completists with an episode on The Northman! Join us as we learn about berserkers, slavery in the Viking era, textiles, and more!
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Ben Cartwright, "Making the cloth that binds us. The role of textile production in producing Viking-Age identities," in Viking Worlds: Things, Spaces, and Movement eds. Marianne Hem Eriksen, Unn Pedersen, Bernt Rundberget, Irmelin Axelsen, and Heidi Lund Berg (Oxbow Books), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1dgwk.15 Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, "Gender, Material Culture, and Identity in the Viking Diaspora," Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 5 (2009): 253-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45019127 Eva B. Andersson, "Tools, Textil Production and Society in Viking Age Birka," in Dressing the Past, eds. Margarita Gleba, Cherine Munkholt, and Marie-Louise Nosch (Oxbow Books). https://www.jstor.org/stbale/j.ctt1cfr7jb.13 Eirnin Jefford Franks, "Gender in the Viking World," in The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World, eds.LESZEK GARDEŁA, SOPHIE BØNDING, PETER PENTZ (Oxbow Books, 2023). https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.5699282.8
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_northman Stephen Barker, "10 Behind the Scenes Facts About the Northman" Screen Rant, available at https://screenrant.com/the-northman-behind-the-scenes-facts/ Gabriella Paiella, Interview with Robert Eggers, GQ, available at https://www.gq.com/story/robert-eggers-the-northman-interview
Thomas K. Heeboll-Holm, "Piratical Slave Raiding: The Demise of a Viking Practice in High Medieval Denmark," Journal of Scandinavian History 46, 4 (2021) Ben Raffield, "The Slave Markets of the Viking World: Comparative Perspectives on an Invisible Archaeology," Slavery and Abolition 40, 4 (2019) Ruth Mazo Karras, "Concubinage and Slavery in the Viking Age," Scandinavian Studies 62, 2 (1990)
H. David Brumble, "Berserks and the Tragedy of Warrior Individualism," Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies (Anthem Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2272801.17 Michael P. Speidel, "Berserks: A History of Indo-European "Mad Warriors"," Journal of World History 13, no.2 (2002): 253-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20078974 Anatoly Liberman, "Berserks in History and Legend," Russian History 32, no.3/4 (2005): 401-11. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24663272 Owen Rees, "Going berserk," Medieval Warfare 2, no.1 (2012): 23-6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/48578628 Erika Ruth Sigurdson, "Violence and Historical Authenticity: Rape (and Pillage) in Popular Viking Fiction," Scandinavian Studies 86, no.3 (2014): 249-67. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/scanstud.86.3.0249 https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/lewis-chess-pieces/
This week we're going back to the 1980s with Charlie Wilson's War! Join us as we learn about the horrific things people used to do with safety pins, Soviet ambitions in the Persian Gulf, Gust Avrokotos, refugees from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and more!
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"Advertisement: Maybelline." Seventeen, 07, 1982, 18-19 "Mascara Magic." Seventeen, 05, 1981 "Advertisement: Maybelline." Cosmopolitan, 11, 1978, 117 "Dear Beauty Editor." Seventeen, 02, 1978, 10
The Wilson Center Digital Archive, Sources available at https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/topics/soviet-invasion-afghanistan The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan, PBS Newshour: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/asia-july-dec06-soviet_10-10 Francis Fukuyama, "The Soviet Threat to the Persian Gulf" Rand Corporation, 1981, available at https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P6596.pdf'
Jonathon Green, "slang," The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (Oxford University Press, 2015) "cake eater," Oxford English Dictionary (2020). Ngram Google Books
Tazreena Sajjad, "Analysis: Where do Afghanistan's refugees go?" PBS News Hour (24 August 2021). https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/analysis-where-do-afghanistans-refugees-go "Afghanistan's refugees: forty years of dispossession," Amnesty International (20 June 2019), https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/06/afghanistan-refugees-forty-years/ "Afghan Migration After the Soviet Invasion," NatGeo, https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/file/afghan_MIG.pdf Meindersma, Christa. "Afghanistan." In Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2009). “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; Interview with Perez de Cuellar,” 1982-02-18, NewsHour Productions, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 25, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-507-xk84j0c044 Amina Khan, "Protracted Afghan Refugee Situation," Strategic Studies 37, no.1 (2017): 42-65. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, "Impact of the Afghan War on Pakistan," Pakistan Horizon 41, no.1 (1988): 23-45.
Patricia Sullivan, "CIA Agent Gust Avrokotos Dies at 67," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/12/25/cia-agent-gust-l-avrakotos-dies-at-age-67/22a47f22-6594-4b9d-a90a-6f7914aa909a/
Roger Ebert, "Evil Empire falls victim to clout," 20 December 2007, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/charlie-wilsons-war-2007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War_(film) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/charlie-wilsons-war-2-159301/
This week we're going back to the 1970s with If Beale Street Could Talk! Join us as we learn about the Rockefeller Drug Laws, New York jails, the term "Holy Roller", and more!
Source Brian Mann, "The Drug Laws That Changed How We Punished," NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2013/02/14/171822608/the-drug-laws-that-changed-how-we-punish
Fodei Batty, "How to Understand the Complicated History of 'Go Back to Africa'" Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/26/is-go-back-to-africa-always-an-insult-heres-a-brief-history-of-american-back-to-africa-movements/ African Americans in Ghana, Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-origins/era-7-the-great-convergence-and-divergence-1880-ce-to-the-future/x23c41635548726c4:other-materials-origins-era-7/a/connecting-decolonization-in-africa-and-the-us-civil-rights-movement#:~:text=The%20desire%20to%20repatriate%E2%80%94to,building%20their%20new%20nation%2Dstate.
Heather Ann Thompson, "How a Series of Jail Rebellions Rocked New York--and Woke a City," The Nation, 21 March 2019 https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/new-york-jail-rebellion-1970-tombs-mdc/ Daniel Chasin, "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: How New York's Bail Reform Saga Tiptoes around Addressing Economic Inequality," Cardozo Law Review 43, no. 1 (October 2021): 273-312 Aleza Van Brunt and Locke E. Bowman, "Toward a Just Model of Pretrial Release: A History of Bail Reform and a Prescription for What's Next," The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 108, no.4 (2018): 701-774. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48572970 https://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/probation-and-pretrial-services/supervision/pretrial-risk-assessment/pretrial-release https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/pretrial_detention/ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jails2024_table3.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/incomejails.html
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Gregg Kilday, "Making of 'If Beale Street Could Talk': How 'Moonlight' Oscar Winner Barry Jenkins Brought James Baldwin's 1974 Novel to the Big Screen," Hollywood REporter, available at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/a-look-making-beale-street-could-talk-1160625/' Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/if_beale_street_could_talk/reviews Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Beale_Street_Could_Talk_(film)
This week we're traveling back to the 1930s with Amsterdam! Join us as we learn about Smedley Butler, birding, the Harlem Hellfighters, that story about Mussolini running a kid over with a car, and more!
Sources: The Press: Vanderbilt Truth (1931) available at https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,930365,00.html Pete Vack, "A Mussolini Alfa Romeo Mystery," available at https://velocetoday.com/a-mussolini-mystery/ Smedley Butler Mussolini 1931, WWII Editorial Cartoon Project, available at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ww2/1931-2/
Jonathan M. Katz, Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2021), 304-334. Dietrich, Christopher R. W., ed. Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1sjwpfz. Erick Trickey, "One Hundred Years Ago, the Harlem Hellfighters Bravely Led the U.S. Into WWI," Smithsonian Magazine (14 May 2018), https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-hundred-years-ago-harlem-hellfighters-bravely-led-us-wwi-180968977/ "Remembering the Harlem Hellfighters," National Museum of African-American History and Culture
Stephen Barker, "Amsterdam: 10 Behind the Scenes Facts About the Star-Studded Movie," Screen Rant, available at https://screenrant.com/amsterdam-behind-the-scenes-facts-star-studded-movie/ Amsterdam, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(2022_film) Christy Lemire review, Rogerebert.com: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amsterdam-movie-review-2022
Tim Birkhead, "How Bird-Collecting Evolved into Bird-Watching," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-bird-collecting-evolved-into-bird-watching-180980506/
*NOTE: Due to a technical mishap, we had some problems with Jamie's audio on this one. We apologize for the sound quality issues.
Content Warning: This episode features discussion of cannibalism and other disturbing content.
This week we're traveling back to 1970s Uruguay with Society of the Snow! Join us as we learn about Numa Turcatti, the photos taken on the mountain, student protests, radios, the Strauch cousins, and more!
Sources:
Drew Weisholtz, "What Happened to Numa Turcatti, Narrator of Society of the Snow?" Today, available at https://www.today.com/popculture/movies/society-of-the-snow-numa-turcatti-narrator-rcna133613 Amanda Rodriguez and Jeronimo Pineda, "Society of the Snow: The Spirit of Numa Turcatti and the Soccer Team Named After Him," El Pais, available at https://english.elpais.com/sports/2024-01-22/society-of-the-snow-the-spirit-of-numa-turcatti-and-the-soccer-team-named-after-him.html
Eduardo Strauch and Mireya Soriano, "Returning to the scene of the crash: A survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash reflects," Salon, (2019) https://www.salon.com/2019/06/15/returning-to-the-scene-of-the-crash-a-survivor-of-the-uruguayan-rugby-team-plane-crash-reflects/ Matt J. Rossano, Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution (Columbia University Press, 2013). Blair Braverman and Sarah Marshall, "Flight 571: Survival in the Andes with Blair Braverman," You're Wrong About podcast (31 October 2022). Charles A. Krause, "After the Andes," The Washington Post (4 November 1978), https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/11/05/after-the-andes/962054ad-fde2-4c87-9e6d-c656fee2dc49/ https://www.backpacker.com/trips/alive-again-new-findings-in-the-1972-andes-plane-crash/ https://www.history.com/news/miracle-andes-disaster-survival https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/1972-andes-plane-crash-story-photos/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/04/nando-parrado-andes-plane-crash-1972-rugby-team Emilio Mayorga and John Hopewell, Variety (2022), https://variety.com/2022/film/global/netflix-bayona-society-of-the-snow-1235253671/ Society of the Snow: Who Were We on the Mountain (Netflix, 2024) RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/society_of_the_snow Sheila O'Malley, "Society of the Snow," Roger Ebert (5 January 2024), https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/society-of-the-snow-2024 Peter Bradshaw, "Society of the Snow review- cannibalism in the ice in incredible real-life survival tale," The Guardian (19 December 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/19/society-of-the-snow-review-cannibalism-in-the-ice-in-incredible-real-life-survival-tale The Tupamaros: https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/uruguay/tupamaros-uruguay.htm
Today we're traveling to early 2000s Chile (but also 18th century France, and some other times, too) with vampire-themed political satire El Conde! Join us as we learn about Lucia Hiriart, Augusto Pinochet's shady money dealings, that time he got arrested in London, and more!
Sources:
John Bartlett, "Widow of Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet Dies at 99," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/16/lucia-hiriart-widow-chilean-dictator-augusto-pinchocet-dies-age-99 Eva Vergara, "Lucia Hiriart, Widow of Chilean Dictator Pinochet, Dies at 99." Washington Post, Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2021/12/17/pinochet-widow-hiriart-dead/
Andres Oppenheimer, "Ex-Dictator Had Millions in U.S. Bank," (2004). https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/ex-dictator-had-millions-us-bank Hector Tobar and, Eva Vergara. "The World; New Evidence Shatters Chileans' Image of a Frugal Pinochet: [HOME EDITION]." Los Angeles Times, Aug 02, 2004. O'Brien, Timothy,L. "At Riggs Bank, A Tangled Path Led to Scandal." New York Times (1923-), Jul 19, 2004. TIMOTHY L O'BRIEN and,LARRY ROHTER. "U.S. and Others Gave Millions to Pinochet." New York Times, Dec 07, 2004, Late Edition (East Coast). TIMOTHY L O'BRIEN and,LARRY ROHTER. "The Pinochet Money Trail." New York Times, Dec 12, 2004, Late Edition (East Coast). Minder, Raphael. "Spain Reopens Pinochet Inquiry into Tax Evasion and Laundering: [Foreign Desk]." New York Times, Jul 31, 2021, Late Edition (East Coast). Robinson, Eugene. "Thief of State: [FINAL Edition]." The Washington Post, Dec 12, 2006. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6606013 RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/el_conde Jessica Kiang, "'El Conde' Review: Pablo Larraín’s Bizarro-World Reckoning With Pinochet’s Bloodthirsty Legacy," Variety, https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/el-conde-review-pablo-larrain-the-count-1235708790/ Drew Gillis, "El Conde review: Dictators suck in Pablo Larraín's vampiric satire," AV Club, https://www.avclub.com/el-conde-review-pablo-larrain-1850832103 Carlos Aguilar, "El Conde," https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/el-conde-movie-review-2023 Variety, "'El Conde' Cinematographer Breaks Down the Flying Vampire Nun Sequence Using a 90-Foot Crane & Wires," https://youtu.be/bUBbN_xWnCE?si=LRZrkhtwn1zCBhcE
Veronica Diaz-Cerda, "General Pinochet's Arrest: 20 Years On, Here's How It Changed Global Justice," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/general-pinochet-arrest-20-years-on-heres-how-it-changed-global-justice-104806 """Pinochet Arrested in London,"" The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/1998/oct/18/pinochet.chile"
This week we're traveling back to the 1920s with Killers of the Flower Moon! Join us as we learn about William "King" Hale, Mollie Burkhardt, FBI Agent Tom White, and more!
Sources:
David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. Doubleday, 2017
https://ualr.edu/sequoyah/thisday/hale-given-life-sentence-february-1-1929/ FBI Vault: https://vault.fbi.gov/Osage%20Indian%20Murders https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/osage-murders-case https://www.npr.org/2018/04/06/600136534/largely-forgotten-osage-murders-reveal-a-conspiracy-against-wealthy-native-ameri Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 16 Jan. 1957. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1957-01-16/ed-1/seq-28/ "Review: FAILED PROTECTORS: THE INDIAN TRUST AND ""KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON"" Reviewed Work: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Review by: Matthew L.M. Fletcher Michigan Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 6, 2019 SURVEY OF BOOKS RELATED TO THE LAW (April 2019), pp. 1253-1269 (17 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45135202 " Donald Fixico, "The Osage Murders and Oil," The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources 2nd edition (University Press of Colorado, 2012), 27-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46nvt7.7 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/osage-murders-photos-killers-of-flower-moon https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/white-thomas-bruce and https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/federal-correctional-institution https://www.fbi.gov/news/podcasts/inside-the-fbi-the-osage-murders https://voicesofoklahoma.com/interviews/conner-joe-carol/ https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OS005 https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a45547775/what-happened-to-everyone-in-killers-of-the-flower-moon-after-the-film-ends/ Kirsten Chuba, "Osage Consultant Admits to Complicated Feelings over Killers of the Flower Moon," Hollywood Reporter, available at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/killers-of-the-flower-moon-osage-consultant-mixed-feelings-1235620231/ Richard Brody, "Martin Scorsese on Making Killers of the Flower Moon," The New Yorker, available at https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/martin-scorsese-on-making-killers-of-the-flower-moon
We're back with 2024's first episode on Rustin! Join us as we learn about the speeches delivered at the March on Washington, Strom Thurmond's attacks on Bayard Rustin, Dr. Anna Hedgeman, the Bonus Army, and more!
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Emma Rothberg, "Anna Arnold Hedgeman," National Women's History Museum, available at https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/anna-arnold-hedgeman
GPO, Congressional Record, 1963, Part 11, Page 14836. Full text available at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1963-pt11/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1963-pt11-7-2.pdf
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Organizing Manual No. 2 (1963), https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.31888236
John Lewis: https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/lewis-speech-at-the-march-on-washington-speech-text/ A. Philip Randolph: https://theblackfreedommovement.voices.wooster.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/131/2018/02/A.-Philip-Randolphs-1963-March-on-Washington-speech.pdf "March on Washington History by NMAAHC," https://youtu.be/ZA9TJCV-tks?si=3aiw9BgzmLDRsXsk including B. Rustin speaking
"The March of the Bonus Army," American Experience, PBS, https://youtu.be/mSC1lbfXfRQ?si=g9weuwd7x1_yuH0j
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rustin_2023 Autostraddle review: https://www.autostraddle.com/rustin-review/
For our final episode of the year, we're changing things up with Escape from New York! Join us as we explore how well this 1981 film predicted the year 1997, with discussions of island prisons, crime rates, Telex technology, and more!
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Tim Wadsworth, "Is Immigration Responsible for the Crime Drop? An Assessment on the Influence of Immigration on Changes in Violent Crime Between 1990 and 2000," Social Science Quarterly 91, 2 (2010) Dara Lind and German Lopez, "16 Theories for Why Crime Plummeted in the US," Vox, available at https://www.vox.com/2015/2/13/8032231/crime-drop John Gramlich, "Voters Perceptions of Crime Continue to Conflict with Reality," Pew, available at https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/11/16/voters-perceptions-of-crime-continue-to-conflict-with-reality/ John Gramlich, "What We Know About the Increase in Murder in 2020," Pew, available at https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/ Dennis Thompson, U.S. Violent Crime Rate Drops Significantly Since 1980s; Reduction may be due to programs that try to break cycle of violence, experts say. Available at Gale OneFile.
German Lopez, "Mass incarceration in America, explained in 22 maps and charts," Vox 11 October 2016, https://www.vox.com/2015/7/13/8913297/mass-incarceration-maps-charts Associated Press, "In 90's, Prison Building by States and U.S. Government Surged," The New York Times 8 August 1997. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/08/us/in-90-s-prison-building-by-states-and-us-government-surged.html NY Demographics https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/historical-population/nyc_total_pop_1900-2010.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary Rosie Blunt, "Rikers Island: Tales from inside New York's notorious jail," BBC News 20 October 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50114468 Caroline Delbert, "Forced Exile: The World's Dubious History of Prison Islands," Popular Mechanics 15 February 2023, https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a42665100/history-of-prison-islands/
Jake Malooley, "John Carpenter is Scared," Esquire, available at https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a34518538/john-carpenter-2020-interview-coronavirus-trump-they-live-the-thing/ Rotten Tomatoes, Escape from New York: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1006717-escape_from_new_york WIkipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York Siskel and Ebert Review, available at https://youtu.be/xW-JL58fQQk?si=jadAn9OME4P604ks
Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/technology/telex
This week we're going back to the 1790s with Love and Friendship! Join us as we learn about marriage practices, loyalists in Britain, "bad air", influenza, and more!
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RB Outhwaite, "Age at Marriage in England From the Late Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1972. Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. Excerpt available at https://www.amrevmuseum.org/read-the-revolution/liberty-s-exiles Benjamin H. Irvin, "Tar and Feathers in Revolutionary America." Available at https://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays/irvin.feathers.html#10 Nathaniel Philbrick, "The Worst Parade Ever to the Hit the Streets of Boston," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-parade-to-ever-hit-the-streets-of-boston-12934258/
Margaret DeLacy, "The Conceptualization of Influenza in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Specificity and Contagion," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 67, no.1 (1993): 74-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44444169 Mary J. Dobson, "Contours of death: disease, mortality, and the environment in early modern England," Health Transition Review 2 (1992): 77-95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40651902 Ken Hiltner, "Representing Air Pollution in Early Modern London," in What Else is Pastoral? Renaissance Literature and the Environment (Cornell University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7v88q.9 Bill Luckin, "' The Heart and Home of Horror': The Great London Fogs of the Late Nineteenth Century," Social History 28, no.1 (2003): 31-48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4286944 "Great Fgg in and about London.," National Intelligencer 4 May 1814, Gale Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/love_and_friendship https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/love-and-friendship-2016
This week we're traveling to turn-of-the-century Mexico with the Dance of the 41! Join us as we learn about opinion polling, Amada Diaz, euphemisms for homosexuality, and more!
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Tom W. Smith, "The First Straw? A Study of the Origins of Election Polls," Public Opinion Quarterly 54 (1990) Campbell Rhodes, "A Brief History of Opinion Polls," Available at https://www.moadoph.gov.au/explore/stories/history/a-brief-history-of-opinion-polls Manuel Bettancourt Review, Dance of the 41, Variety. Available at https://variety.com/2021/film/news/dance-of-the-forty-one-review-el-baile-de-los-41-1234983809/ Rotten Tomatoes, available at https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dance_of_the_41
Lucas E. Espinoza and Rosalva Resendiz, "Los Secretos de la Redada de los 41: A Sociohistorical Analysis of a Gay Signifier," NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings, 6 (2018). https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1197&context=naccs Thaddeus Morgan, "41 Has a Secret Meaning in Mexico, Thanks to a Queer Underground Ball," History, https://www.history.com/news/dance-of-41-mexico-gay-history Carlos Monsiváis, "De las variedades de la experincia homoerotica," Debate Feminista 35, (2007): 163-92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42624981 Carlos Monsiváis, Renato Leduc, "Los iguales, los semejantes, los (hasta hace un minuto) perfectos desconocidos (A cien años de la Redada de los 41)," Debate Feminista 24 (2001): 301-27. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42625415 Milada Bazant, "Cronica de un Baile Clandestino," in Tradiciones y conflictos: historias de la vido cotidiana en Mexico e Hispanoamerica eds. Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuro and Milada Bazant (El Colegio de Mexico). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv47wbxj.14
Google Ngram, "Amor Socratico": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=amor+socr%C3%A1tico&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=es-2019&smoothing=3 Edward Carpenter, "Homogenic Love and its Place in a Free Society," 1894, full text available at https://archive.org/details/homogenic-love-and-its-place-in-a-free-s/page/n3/mode/2up Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics, and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800, Third Edition. Pearson, 2012
This week we're going back to 1960s Europe with The Man From UNCLE! Join us as we learn about black market weapons, kidnapped scientists, amphibious cars, CIA recruitment, and more!
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"Nazis and Axis Collaborators Were Used to Further US Anti-Communist Objectives in Europe; Some Immigrated to the United States," Report by the Comptroller of the United States, 1985. Available at https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87M01152R000300410001-8.pdf CIA Tried to Get Mafia to Kill Castro: Documents. Reuters, available at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-secrets-idUSN2636255220070626
Kidnapping of Dr. Walter Linse: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/openness-russia-and-eastern-europe-intelligence/2022-05-11/secret-war-germany-cias ""Kidnapped" scientist is back at Soviet Embassy," The Times of India (19 September 1967): 7. "West German Rocket Act Kidnapped," The Arizona Post (Tucson, AZ), 5 October 1962, 3. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82000867/1962-10-05/ed-1/seq-3/ "Israeli Held by Swiss; Claim Bid To 'Coerce' German Scientists," The Jerusalem Post (17 March 1963): 1. Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Yale University Press, 2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkz54.15 TV Tropes: "Kidnapped Scientist," https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidnappedScientist
"Remarks By President Barack Obama In Prague As Delivered," 5 April 2009, (Prague, Czech Republic), https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-prague-delivered Sue Branford, "Nuclear secret is out," The Observer (28 June 1981): 11. Siegfried Buschschluter, "Bonn denial on S. Africa arms," The Guardian (15 August 1977): 6. Anthony Tucker, "Terrorist nuclear bombs 'feasible'," The Guardian (24 December 1973): 4.
"The Amphibious Car that Lyndon Johnson Used to Prank People," available at https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/amphicar-president-johnson-1960s/ "8 Amphibious Cars You Never Knew Existed," available at https://www.wilsonvilletoyota.com/blog/social/fun/8-amphibious-cars-you-never-knew-existed/
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_U.N.C.L.E._(film) Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_man_from_uncle Glenn Kenny, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Roger Ebert . com (11 August 2015), https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-man-from-uncle-2015 Peter Bradshaw, "The Man from UNCLE review: Style paired with deathly boring substance," The Guardian (11 August 2015). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/11/the-man-from-uncle-review-style-paired-with-deathly-boring-substance Julie Miller, "The Fall of Armie Hammer: A Family Saga of Sex, Money, Drugs, and Betrayal," Vanity Fair (11 March 2021). https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal
*Note: We decided to delay our planned episode for this week, so instead we are releasing one of the bonus episodes from our Patreon feed.
Sources:
Pamela D Arcineaux, "The Storyville Madam Who Challenged Jim Crow, and Won," The Historic New Orleans Collection, available at https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/storyville-madam-who-challenged-jim-crow-and-won
Storyville Guidebooks to Sin, Images Available at https://www.hnoc.org/virtual/storyville/guidebooks-sin
"The Sex Workers of Storyville," The Historic New Orleans Collection, available at https://www.hnoc.org/virtual/storyville/sex-workers-storyville
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/interview_with_the_vampire/s01 Caroline Framke, https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/interview-with-the-vampire-review-amc-anne-rice-1235388669/
Gilbert King, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-portrait-of-sensitivity-a-photographer-in-storyville-new-orleans-forgotten-burlesque-quarter-166324443/ "Brothels & Music"
The Historic New Orleans Collection, https://www.hnoc.org/virtual/storyville/music-and-musicians Jelly Roll Morton to Earle Cornwall, 27 April 1938, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/3/1214
Light Townsend Cummins, Judith Kelleher Schafer, Edward F. Haas, and Michael L. Kurtz, Louisiana: A History (Malden, MA:Wiley Blackwell, 2014, 6th edition) 313-15.
This week we're going back to the Roman Empire with Centurion! Join us as we learn about the Picts, Roman armor, the 9th Legion, and more!
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Michael Squire, Embodied Ambiguities on the Prima Porta Augusta. Art History 36, 2 (2013) "Muscle Cuirass". Australian National University. Available at http://artserve.anu.edu.au/raid1/student_projects97/armour/muscle/muscle.html Joshua J Mark, "Picts" World History Encyclopedia, available at https://www.worldhistory.org/picts/ Tacitus' Account of the Battle of Mons Graupius, ed. Joshua J. Mark, World History Encyclopedia, available at https://www.worldhistory.org/article/776/tacitus-account-of-the-battle-of-mons-graupius/#:~:text=Tacitus%20records%20that%20the%20Romans,Romans%20marched%20forward%20in%20formation.
Julianna Grigg, "The Romans and the Picts," The Picts Re-Imagined (Arc Humanities Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvfxvd0p.7 David J. Breeze and Brian Dobson, "A View of Roman Scotland in 1975," Glasgow Archaeological Journal 4 (1976): 124-43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44811052 J.G. Scott, "The Roman Occupation of South-West Scotland from the Recall of Agricola to the Withdrawal under Trajan," Glasgow Archaeological Journal 4 (1976): 29-44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44811041 D.J. Woolliscroft, "More thoughts on why the Romans failed to conquer Scotland," Scottish Archaeological Journal 22:2 (2000): 111-22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27917432 Kate Ravilious, "Land of the Picts," Archaeology: A Publication of the Archaeological Institute of America (Sep/Oct 2021). https://www.archaeology.org/issues/441-2109/letter-from/9932-scotland-picts Joshua L. Mark, "Tacitus' Account of the Battle of Mons Graupius," 9 January 2015, https://www.worldhistory.org/article/776/tacitus-account-of-the-battle-of-mons-graupius/
Tom Stanier, "The Brigantes and the Ninth Legion," Phoenix 19:4 (1965): 305-13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1085830 Menachem Mor, "Two Legions: The Same Fate? (The Disappearance of the Legions IX Hispana and XXII Deiotariana)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 62 (1986): 267-78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20186341 David J. Breeze and Brian Dobson, "Roman Military Deployment in North England," Britannia 16 (1985): 1-19. https://www.jstor.org/stable/526389 R.P. Wright, "Tile-Stamps of the Ninth Legion Found in Britain," Britannia 9 (1978): 379-82. https://www.jstor.org/stable/525953 Miles Russell, "The Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious loss," BBC (16 March 2011). https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-12752497 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_(film) Roger Ebert, "Landscape painting with blood and guts," Rogerebert.com/reviews/centurion-2010 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1020558/
This week we're going back to 1890s Kenya with The Ghost and the Darkness! Join us as we learn all about Colonel John Patterson, the Kenya-Uganda Railway, the ivory trade, burial practices, and more!
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Ahmed al-Dawoody, Respect for the Dead Under Islamic Law: Considerations for Humanitarian Forensics. ICRC, available at https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2018/11/01/respect-for-the-dead-under-islamic-law-considerations-for-humanitarian-forensics/ Rodney Muhumuza, "Africa Slowly Turning to Cremations, Though Long Taboo," AP, available at https://apnews.com/article/e4d90cbae6b84d2d95e74e357f2b8c16 Abdullah Shihipar, "Sri Lanka's Baseless Forced Cremations Must Stop," Washington Post (25 January 2021): https://go-gale-com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/ps/i.do?p=ITBC&u=nhmccd_main&id=GALE%7CA649607653&v=2.1=r&sid=ebsco&aty=ip Yanky Fachler, "The Zion Mule Corps--and Its Irish Commander," History Ireland 11:4 (2003): 34-8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27725064 J.H. Patterson, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures (Gutenberg Press, 2009). https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3810/3810-h/3810-h.htm William K. Storey, "Big Cats and Imperialism: Lion and Tiger Hunting in Kenya and Northern India, 1898-1930," Journal of World History 2:2 (1991): 135-73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20078498 Paul Raffaele, "Man-Eaters of Tsavo," Smithsonian Magazine (January 2010). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/man-eaters-of-tsavo-11614317/ Field Museum: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/man-eating-lions-tsavo Samuel G. Ruchman, "Colonial Construction: Labor Practices and Precedents Along the Uganda Railway, 1893-1903," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 50:2 (2017): 251-73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44723449 Major E.H.M. Leggett, "The Economic Development of British East Africa and Uganda," Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 63: 3246 (5 February 1915): 209-20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41341935 A.M. O'Connor, "New Railway Construction and the Pattern of Economic Development in East Africa," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36 (June 1965): 21-30. https://www.jstor.org/stable/621451
GC Whitehouse, The Building of the Kenya-Uganda Railway, Library of Congress, available at https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_13809/?sp=5&r=-0.302,0.162,1.407,0.881,0 RW Beachey, "The East African Ivory Trade in the 19th Century," Journal of African History 8, 2 (1967)
This week we're traveling back to 1890s New England with The Lighthouse! Join us as we try to figure out what the heck is going on in this movie, and along the way learn about seagull myths, how lighthouses work, New England dialects, Davy Jones, and more!
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"Seagulls," A Dictionary of English Folklore, Oxford Reference Dictionaries, available at https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100450456;jsessionid=0C830965CCC27A471D73ABD544FFA75D Fletcher S Bassett, Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in All Lands and in All Times (1885). Available on Google Books.
Etymology Online, available at https://www.etymonline.com/word/Davy%20Jones https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Folk_lore_Record/zW0AAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=davy+jones+locker+folklore&pg=PA66&printsec=frontcover
Thomas L. Cromwell, Jr., "Ye Olde Englysshe 'Ye'" American Speech 24:2 (1949) 115-19. https://www.jstor.org/stable/486618 Herman Melville, Moby Dick, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2701/pg2701-images.html
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film) Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lighthouse_2019 Vanity Fair, "Willem Dafoe Rewatches Spider-Man, The Lighthouse, Platoon & More | Vanity Fair" https://youtu.be/88MCNN0abIU?si=ZDLA7om0MmdMYjBy GQ, "Robert Pattinson Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ," https://youtu.be/pz52gPH3ou4?si=J3SfP1S8lpCrc_Ix
Eric Grundhauser, "When the Lights Go Out: 8 of the World's Loneliest Lighthouses," Atlas Obscure (25 August 2015). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-the-lights-go-out-8-of-the-worlds-loneliest-lighthouses Sean Kirst, "Dark Past Haunts Lighthouse Thursday, October 31, 1996," The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories by Sean Kirst (Syracuse University Press, 1996). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ht4w1r.33 Michael Brian Schiffer, "The Electric Lighthouse in the Nineteenth Century: Aid to Navigation and Political Technology," Technology and Culture 46:2 (2005): 275-305. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40060849 D. Alan Stevenson, "The Development of Lighthouses," Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 80: 4130 (1932): 224-42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41358948 "Beacons of Safety," Scientific American (1926). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/24976807 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Sur_Lighthouse https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/saint-john-n-b-home-to-foghorn-inventor-1.941959 "Yellow Gals (Doodle Let Me Go)" http://balladindex.org/Ballads/Hugi380.html "Doodle Let Me Go (Yaller Girls)" https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/doodleletmego.html
This week we're traveling back to 1950s Hollywood with Hail Caesar! Join us as we learn about the Writers Guild, stars going on arranged dates, the phrase "cut the mustard", how stars concealed unplanned pregnancies, and more!
Sources:
Jeffrey Schwartz, Tab Hunter Confidential. Allan Glaser Productions, 2015. Available on Amazon Prime.
Benjamin McVay, "Movie Stars in the Studio System: Secrets and Rules," Cinema Scholars, available at https://cinemascholars.com/movie-stars-in-the-studio-system-secrets-and-rules/
Writers Guild of America West https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history and https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history/a-history-of-wga-contract-negotiations-and-gains
Hilary Swett, "The Screen Writers' Guild: An Early History of the Writers Guild of America," WG Foundation (2020). https://www.wgfoundation.org/screenwritersguild-history
Greg Myre, "How The CIA Found A Soviet Sub--Without the Soviets Knowing," All Things Considered (NPR, 18 September 2017). https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/18/549535352/how-the-cia-found-a-soviet-sub-without-the-soviets-knowing
Lila Thulin, "During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw," Smithsonian Magazine (10 May 2019). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-cold-war-ci-secretly-plucked-soviet-submarine-ocean-floor-using-giant-claw-180972154/
"Russian Foxtrot Class attack submarine B-39, has gone to pasture." https://sdmaritime.org/visit/the-ships/b-39-submarine/
Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, and Arthur Garfield Kennedy, "cut the mustard," American Speech, Vol. 2 (1927), 352.
Dialect Notes Vol. 3 (University of Michigan and American Dialect Society, 1905).
Anne Helen Petersen, "Clark Gable Accused of Raping Co-Star," Buzzfeed News, 2015. Available at https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/loretta-young
Bill Desowitz, "Hail Caesar! How the Coen Brothers Made Their Hollywood Valentine," IndieWire, available at https://www.indiewire.com/awards/industry/hail-caesar-the-coen-brothers-hollywood-1201781360/
Wikipedia, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail,_Caesar!
NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, this episode contains some lost audio.
This week we're traveling back to the 19th century with The Harder They Fall! Join us as we learn about the real-life figures behind the characters of this film, including Stagecoach Mary, Cherokee Bill, and more!
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Paul M. Lucko, "Goldsby, Crawford [Cherokee Bill]," Texas State Historical Society, available at https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/goldsby-crawford
Art T. Burton, "Goldsby, Crawford," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, available at https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GO006
Juliet Galonska, "Cherokee Bill," On the Outlaw Trail, NPS, available at https://www.nps.gov/fosm/learn/historyculture/cherokee-bill-outlaw-trail.htm
Shelby Amspacher, "Stagecoach Mary Fields," Smithsonian National Postal Museum, https://postalmuseum.si.edu/stagecoach-mary-fields
Roger D. Hardaway, "African-American Women on the Western Frontier," Negro History Bulletin 60, no.1 (1997): 8-13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24766796
Kelli Cardenas Walsh, "Fields, Stagecoach Mary," in Black Women in America ed. Darlene Clark Hine (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Maggie Slepian, "Stagecoach Mary: A Montana Legend," Distinctly Montana 3 May 2023. https://www.distinctlymontana.com/stagecoach-mary
https://arcadiapublishing.com/blogs/news/pioneering-black-women-stagecoach-mary
Erin Blakemore, "Meet Stagecoach Mary, the Daring Black Pioneer Who Protected Wild West Stagecoaches," History, 28 January 2021, https://www.history.com/news/meet-stagecoach-mary-the-daring-black-pioneer-who-protected-wild-west-stagecoaches
"Cathay Williams," Santa Fe Historic Trail, https://www.nps.gov/people/cwilliams.htm
Tamara Shiloh, "Cathay Williams: Buffalo Soldier," Oakland Post (27 March 2019):1.
DeAnne Blanton, "Cathay Williams Black Woman Soldier 1866-1868," Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women in the Military X, no. 3 (1992): 1.
Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles, Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology (Texas A&M University Press, 2007).
RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_harder_they_fall
The Drew Barrymore Show, "Zazie Beetz Tells Drew About Her "The Harder They Fall" Fight Scene with Regina King," https://youtu.be/V3Gr4K_KJhY
"Jay-Z, Jeymes Samuel, and James Lassiter discuss making THE HARDER THEY FALL | Netflix" https://youtu.be/okyZHi4muoo
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jonathan-majors-abuse-allegations-yale-1234781136/
Holly Rivet, "Love and Death on the Frontier: Finding Ben Reeves at the National Archives," Rediscovering Black History, National Archives, available at https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/08/18/ben-reeves-at-the-national-archives/
Art T. Burton, "Reeves, Bass," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, available at https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=RE020
Today we're traveling back to the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s with Boogie Nights! Join us as we learn all about the impact of VHS on the porn industry, adult film awards, the history of the San Fernando Valley, and more!
Sources:
Timothy Buzzell, "Demographic Characteristics of Persons Using Pornography in Three Technological Contexts," Sexuality & Culture 9, no.1 (2005): 28-48. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy-Buzzell-2/publication/227101923_Demographic_characteristics_of_persons_using_pornography_in_three_technological_contexts/links/5627ead608ae518e347b2faa/Demographic-characteristics-of-persons-using-pornography-in-three-technological-contexts.pdf
Jonathan Coopersmith, "Sex Vibes and Videotape: Sexuality and Electrical Technology in the 20th Century: The Role of the Pornography Industry in the Development of Videotape and the Internet," http://owncloud.unsri.ac.id/journal/threat/sex_vibes_21century.pdf
Ingrid Rachel Olson, Pornography, Spectatorship, and Sex Education in the VCR Era, Dissertation, The University of British Columbia (2018).
Karl A. Groskaufmanis, "What Films We May Watch: Videotape Distribution and the First Amendment," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 136, no.4 (1988): 1263-1300. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3312163
Peter Alilunas, Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (University of California, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1d4v0gx
Steven Niedbala, "The Ontology of the Pornographic Image: The Meese Commission and the Rise of Sexual Media," Grey Room 64 (2016): 104-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26778436
AFAA Award Ceremonies: A Pictorial History, Part I (1977-1980). The Rialto Report. Available at https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/08/19/afaa-awards/
Ben Sherlock, "You're Not the King of Dirk: 10 Behind the Scenes Facts About Boogie Nights," ScreenRant, available at https://screenrant.com/boogie-nights-behind-scenes-facts-paul-thomas-anderson-movie/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Nights
Oral history of Boogie Nights: http://grantland.com/features/boogie-nights/
Melia Robinson, "How LA's 'Porn Valley' Became the Adult Entertainment Capital of the World", Insider, available at https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-porn-valley-hugh-hefner-2017-9
Roth v. United States, 1957. Opinion available at https://www.oyez.org/cases/1956/582
Miller v. California, 1973. Opinion available at https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-73
Rose Eveleth, "What Can We Learn from the Porn Industry About HIV?" Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-can-we-learn-from-the-porn-industry-about-hiv-111558622/
This week we're traveling back to the 1970s with our 100th Episode Spectacular!!! Join us as we learn about activists Cleve Jones and Anne Kronenberg, Prop 6, and the Coors Boycott, before we look back on our favorite segments from past episodes.
Sources:
Footage of 1978 Board of Supervisors Meeting, Anne Kronenberg: https://archive.org/details/glbths_1999-52_012_sc
Photo of Anne Kronenberg Delivering Eulogy, SJSU Archives: https://digitalcollections.sjsu.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A80_364
Anne Kronenberg, Faculty Biography, available at https://npli.sph.harvard.edu/about/people/anne-kronenberg/
Japhy Grant, "Immortalized in Milk, Anne Kronenberg Still Sees the Big Picture," Queerty, available at https://www.queerty.com/immortalized-in-milk-anne-kronenberg-still-sees-the-big-picture-20090122
Allyson Brantley, "Taking on the Coors Brewing Company (And the Conservative Family Behind It," Public Seminar, available at https://publicseminar.org/essays/taking-on-the-coors-brewing-company-and-the-conservative-family-behind-it/
Taplines Episode on How Coors Busted Its Union and Boosted Its Boycott, available at https://vinepair.com/taplines-podcast/coors-labor-union-boycott/
Allyson Brantly, "The 1970s Beer Boycott Inspiring Amazon Organizers Today," Zocalo, available at https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/04/21/the-1970s-coors-beer-boycott/ideas/essay/
Cleve Jones, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement (New York: Hachette Books, 2017).
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Milk-actors-and-the-people-they-play-3184353.php
"Vote No On Proposition 6" https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.13910627
Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris (eds.), An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings (University of California Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt24hsnt
Jackie M. Blount, "How Sweet It Is!" Counterpoints 367 Sexualities in Education: A Reader (2012): 46-60. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42981383
Katherine Turk, ""Our Militancy is in Our Openness": Gay Employment Rights Activism in California and the Question of Sexual Orientation in Sex Equality Law," Law and History Review 31, no.2 (2013): 423-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23489486
Karen Graves, "Presidential Address: Political Pawns in an Educational Endgame: Reflections on Bryant, Briggs, and Some Twentieth-Century School Questions," History of Education Quarterly, 53, no.1 (2013): 1-20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24481661
Kirk Honeycutt, "'Milk': Film Review" The Hollywood Reporter (2 November 2008). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/milk-review-2008-movie-125079/#!
RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/milk
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/emile-hirsch-interview-jail-rehab-1201758602/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_(2008_American_film)
David Edelstein, "'Milk' Is Much More Than A Martyr Movie," Fresh Air NPR (26 November 2008). https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97518380
This week we're going back to 1920s Chicago with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom! Join us as we learn about The Defender, some NSFW slang, recording contracts, Ma Rainey's love life, and more!
Sources:
Katherine A. Bitner, "The Role of the Chicago Defender in the Great Migration of 1916-1918," Negro History Bulletin 48, 2 (1985)
James R. Grossman, "Blowing the Trumpet: The Chicago Defender and Black Migration During World War I," Illnois Historical Journal 78, 2 (1985)
Mary E. Stovall, "The Chicago Defender in the Progressive Era," Illinois Historical Journal 83, 3 (1990)
Chicago Defender Homepage (Current Version): https://chicagodefender.com/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey%27s_Black_Bottom_(film)
K. Allison Hammer, ""Just like a natural man": The B.D. styles of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and Bessie Smith," Journal of Lesbian Studies (2019): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2019.1562284
Robert Springer, "Folklore, Commercialism and Exploitation: Copyright in the Blues," Popular Music 26, no.1 (2007): 33-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4500298
Mariana Brandman, "Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939)," National Women's History Museum. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/gertrude-ma-rainey
Jas Obrecht, ""See See Rider Blues"--Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1924)," Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Ma%20Rainey.pdf
Edward McClelland, "The Complicated Record Exec Left Out of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Chicago Mag (20 January 2021). https://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/ma-rainey-j-mayo-williams/
Layli Phillips and Marla R. Stewart, ""I Am Just So Glad You Are Alive": New Perspectives on Non-Traditional, Non-Conforming, and Transgressive Expressions of Gender, Sexuality, and Race Among African Americans," Journal of African American Studies 12, no.4 (2008): 378-400. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41819183
Rebecca Bush, "Woman, Southern, Bisexual," The Public Historian 41, no.2 (2019): 94-115. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26862126
Steve Goodson, "Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939) "Hear Me Talkin' to You"," in Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times eds. Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark (University of Georgia Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt175734n.12
Jonathan Ned Katz, "Ma Rainey's "Prove It On Me Blues," 1928: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey's Amazing Resistance Anthem," OutHistory. https://www.outhistory.org/oldwiki/index.php?title=Ma_Rainey%27s_%22Prove_It_On_Me_Blues,%22_1928
Carla Williams, "Blues Music," 2015, http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/blues_A.pdf
Complete Timeline of Slang Terms for Vagina: https://timelinesofslang.com/vaginact.html
"Pussy," Green's Dictionary of Slang: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/bl252wa
Online Etymology Dictionary: https://www.etymonline.com/word/pussy
"Pussy and Pusillanimous" Penn Language Log: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24012#:~:text=There's%20a%20plausible%20and%20well,development%20of%20pussy%20%3D%20female%20genitals
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2p85xj
This week we travel back to 1960s Mississippi with Mississippi Burning! Join us as we learn about the epic tale of the integration of Ole Miss, murderous Klansmen, civil rights activist training, and more!
Sources:
"James Meredith at Ole Miss" https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/ole-miss-integration Debbie Elliott, "Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot," NPR Morning Edition (1 Oct 2012). https://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/161573289/integrating-ole-miss-a-transformative-deadly-riot CW Eagles, "The Fight for Men's Minds: The Aftermath of the Ole Miss Riot of 1962," The Journal of Mississippi History (2009). http://www.jasonklodt.com/s/eagles-fightmensminds.pdf Charles W. Eagles, The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss, (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 319-71. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807895597_eagles.22
"Lawrence A. Rainey, R.I.P.," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 38 (2003): 125. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3134229 Renee C. Romano, Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders (Harvard University Press, 2014), 26, 46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qdswt.4 Howard Ball, Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kansas, 2004), 7-8, 23, 94-99, 122, 135-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mmfsn9 Kent Spriggs (ed.), Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980 (University Press of Florida, 2017), 177, 180-83, 198, 223, 280-1. https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/mississippi-burning "Investigation of the 1964 Murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman," File No. DJ 144-41-686 https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/micheal-schwerner-james-chaney-andrew-goodman "Mississippi Burning (MIBURN) Case Part 1 of 9" FBI Records: The Vault, p73-6. https://vault.fbi.gov/Mississippi%20Burning%20%28MIBURN%29%20Case/Mississippi%20Burning%20%28MIBURN%29%20Case%20Part%201%20of%209/view Irv Letofsky, "Another Case of Murder in Mississippi: TV movie on the killing of three civil rights workers in 1964 tries to fill in what 'Mississippi Burning' left out," Los Angeles Times (4 Feb 1990): H8. Jesse Kornbluth, "The Struggle Continues," New York Times (23 July 1989): SM16. "Mississippi cleric resigns over hiring of ex-sheriff," Chicago Tribune (24 April 1989): 3. Phyllis Messinger, "Slow Change Marks Town 20 Years After Civil Rights Killings," Hartford Courant (31 July 1984): A7. Paul Hendrickson. "20 Years Ago, in the Heat of the Night: On the Anniversary of the Murders, Mississippi Guards its Memories Mississippi's Longest Summer the Summer of '64." The Washington Post, Jul 10, 1984. "Ex-Sheriff Hits TV for Job Loss." Chicago Defender (Big Weekend Edition), Mar 01, 1975. "Ex-Sheriff Rainey: He's Haunted by the Past." Boston Globe, Sep 22, 1974.
Craig Smith, "Western Pennsylvanians Recall Their Route to the March on Washington," TribLive, https://archive.triblive.com/local/local-news/western-pennsylvanians-recall-their-route-to-the-march-on-washington/ Jennifer Taylor, "The 1965 Freedom Patrols and the Origins of Seattle's Police Accountability Movement," Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, available at https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/freedom_patrols.htm Interviews with Sam H. Bowers Jr. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, available at https://da.mdah.ms.gov/bowers/ "Samuel Bowers, 82, Klan Leader Convicted in Fatal Bombing, Dies," New York Times, November 6 2006: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/us/06bowers.html "Klan Leader Sentenced to Life," Southern Poverty Law Center, available at https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/klan-leader-sentenced-life US Department of Justice Report, Referral to the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi: https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1041791/download
Roger Ebert, "Mississippi Burning," 9 December 1988. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mississippi-burning-1988 Seongyong Cho, "Looking Back at Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning," 9 Sept 2020. https://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/looking-back-at-alan-parkers-mississippi-burning Robert Brent Toplin, "Mississippi Burning Scorches Historians," Perspectives (1 April 1989). https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/april-1989/mississippi-burning-scorches-historians Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Burning
This week we're going back to the 1960s with Boston Strangler! Join us as we learn about the Boston PD's bad advice to women, raids on queer communities, the death of Albert DeSalvo, and more!
Sources:
James H. Hammond, "Boston 'Strangler' Flees Hospital; Women Are Told to Lock Doors," The Washington Post (25 Feb 1967): 1. Douglas Crocket, "What Did the Five Strangle Victims Have in Common?" Boston Globe (24 Aug 1962): 4. Charles Claffey, "9 Stranglings Still Unsolved--And Circle of Fear Widens," Boston Globe (15 Sep 1963): 38. "Police Working Without Result on Stranglings," Boston Globe (8 July 1962): 6. Douglas Crocket, "Police Have Queried 3000 Persons in Strangling Case," Boston Globe (20 Jan 1963): 9. Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 09 Dec. 1962. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1962-12-09/ed-1/seq-7/ "What Police Say: 'Women Too Trusting.. Careless'." Boston Globe (1960-), Sep 19, 1965. "Public Faces/Private Lives," The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston, https://www.historyproject.org/exhibition/public-faces-private-lives Robert B. Kenney, "South Cove Branded Degenerates' Hangout," Boston Globe (8 July 1965): 1. Joseph Keblinsky, "The Dapper Strikes Out," Boston Globe (11 Jly 1965): A4. "Remember Scollay Square?" Boston Globe (2 November 1963): 4. "Rowdy Ways of Scollay Sq. Soon Will Go: Proper Boston Stands the Death Watch," Chicago Daily Tribune (11 March 1962): B8. Anthony J. Yudis, "Renewal to Oust 28 Liquor Spots: Battle for South Cove," Boston Globe (30 May 1965): 11. Sixtieth Annual Report of the Police Commissioner for the City of Boston for the Year Ending December 31, 1965. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hl2k7i?urlappend=%3Bseq=33%3Bownerid=116415389-37 Blackwood, Harold. "What People Talk about: Boston Revisited After 20 Years, Ex-Navy Man Likes what He Sees." Boston Globe (1960-), Apr 14 1963, p. 1. ProQuest. Jan Brogan, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv29g2gxr.6 Anne Gray Fischer, "Boston: The Place is Gone! Policing Black Women to Redevelop Downtown," in The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469665061_fischer.8
"DeSalvo, Confessed Boston Strangler, Found Stabbed to Death in Prison Cell," New York Times, 11/27/1973, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/27/archives/desalvo-confessed-boston-strangler-found-stabbed-to-death-in-prison.html Susan Kelly, "The Boston Stranglers," Kensington, 2013.
Nathan Smith, "The Tenacious Woman Reporters Who Helped Expose the Boston Strangler," Smithsonian, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-tenacious-women-reporters-who-helped-expose-the-boston-strangler-180981786/ Kevin Slane, "Separating Fact From Fiction in the Boston Strangler Movie," Boston.com, available at https://www.boston.com/culture/movies/2023/03/17/boston-strangler-movie-whats-real-not/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Strangler_(film)
This week we're traveling back to 1970s Iran with Persepolis! Join us as we learn about Qajar princes, the role of the CIA in the Shah's regime, banned music in 1970s Iran, the Iran-Iraq War, and more!
Sources: Afshar v. Department of State (1983). Case text available at https://casetext.com/case/afshar-v-department-of-state Richard T. Sale, "SAVAK: A Feared and Pervasive Force," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/05/09/savak-a-feared-and-pervasive-force/ad609959-d47b-4b7f-8c8d-b388116df90c/ AJ Langguth, "Torture's Teachers," New York Times, June 11 1979, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/11/archives/tortures-teachers.html "CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup," The National Security Archive, available at https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/
Qajar portraits https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/exhibition-highlights/ Miriam Berger, "The divisive legacy of Iran's royal family," The Washington Post (16 January 2020), https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/16/divisive-legacy-irans-royal-family/ Yann Richard, Iran: A Social and Political History since the Qajars (Cambridge University Press, 2019). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/17/british-spys-account-sheds-light-on-role-in-1953-iranian-coup Eskandari, Mohammad. “Pierre Razoux , The Iran–Iraq War, Trans. Nicholas Elliot (London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015). Pp. 640. $39.99 Cloth. ISBN: 9780674088634.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, no. 1 (2017): 202–205.
Heather Rastovac, "Contending with Censorship: The Underground Music Scene in Urban Iran," Intersections 10, 2 (2009)
RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/persepolis Wiki: Kristin Hohenadel, "An Animated Adventure, Drawn From Life," New York Times (21 Jan 2007) https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/movies/21hohe.html Roger Ebert's review (2008); https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/persepolis-2008
Ranj Alaaldin, "How the Iran-Iraq war will shape the region for decades to come," The Brookings Institute (9 October 2020), https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/10/09/how-the-iran-iraq-war-will-shape-the-region-for-decades-to-come/ Bruce Riedel, "Lessons from America's First War with Iran," The Brookings Institute (22 May 2013), https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lessons-from-americas-first-war-with-iran/
This week we're going back to 2007 with The Big Short! Join us as we learn about bespoke tranche opportunities, various hedge fund guys, Sofia's predictions for what Millennial side hustles will look like when none of us are retired in 50 years, and more!
Sources:
Jack Schwager, Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win. Wiley, 2012 Indiewire interview with Adam McKay: https://www.indiewire.com/2015/12/interview-adam-mckay-talks-the-big-short-making-a-bourne-style-financial-drama-angering-judd-apatow-more-100043/ John Szramiakje, "Here's the Story of One of the Heroes of the Big Short," Insider, available at https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-burry-life-story-2017-5 Johnny Brayson, "Where the Big Short's Michael Burry Is Today," Bustle, available at https://www.bustle.com/articles/133631-what-is-michael-burry-doing-today-the-big-short-character-is-still-weary-of-the-financial Reed Stevenson and Bloomberg, "Criminally Unjust: Big Short Investor Who Called Subprime Mortgage Collapse Slams Coronavirus Lockdowns," Fortune, available at https://fortune.com/2020/04/07/big-short-michael-burry-subprime-mortgage-coronavirus-lockdowns/ Flaxman et al, "Estimating the Effects of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Europe," Nature, available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7
John J. McConnell and Stephen A. Buser, "The Origins and Evolution of the Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities," Annual Review of Financial Economics 3 (2011): 173-92, https://www.jstor.org/stable/42940424. Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein, "The Roots of the Great Recession," in The Great Recession eds. David B. Grusky, Bruse Western, and Christopher Wimer (Russel Sage Foundation), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610447508.6 Richard H. Sander, Yana A. Kucheva, and Jonathan M. Zasloff, "The Mortgage Crisis and the Great Recession," Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing (Harvard University Press, 2018)., https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24trdcq.28 Donald Palmer and Michael W. Maher, "The mortgage meltdown as normal accidental wrongdoing," Strategic Organization 8, no.1 (2010): 83-91. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23728572 Robert J. Schiller, "Mortgage Lenders and Securitizers," Finance and the Good Society (Princeton University Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32bb86.11
John Divine, "What Is a Bespoke Tranche Opportunity?" U.S. News & World Report (16 August 2021), https://money.usnews.com/investing/stock-market-news/articles/what-is-a-bespoke-tranche-opportunity Adam Uzialko, "The Return of CDOs: Is Another Economic Crisis on the Horizon?" Business News Daily (21 February 2023), https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/10353-cdo-financial-derivatives-economic-crisis.html Erin Corbett, "Bespoke Tranche Opportunities Vs. CDOs," Bustle (30 March 2016), https://www.bustle.com/articles/150913-how-are-bespoke-tranche-opportunities-collateralized-debt-obligations-different-lets-break-it-down Hillary E. Crawford, "The Danger of Bespoke Tranche Opportunities," Bustle (5 April 2016), https://www.bustle.com/articles/152086-are-bespoke-tranche-opportunities-dangerous-they-pose-a-risk-just-not-right-away Christopher Whittall, "RPT-Banks, investors pile back into synthetic CDOs," (29 April 2019), https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL5N22B5Q2 Christopher Whittall, "Synthetic CDO machine whirrs into gear again," (20 May 2022), https://www.ifre.com/story/3375562/synthetic-cdo-machine-whirrs-into-gear-again-ntzlc1mtzp
NOTE: This episode was originally posted as a Patreon-only bonus episode.
This week we're talking about the first season of A League of Their Own! Join us as we learn about censored letters in WWII, the code of conduct for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, and more!
Sources:
Full text available at https://www.aagpbl.org/history/rules-of-conducthttps://www.aagpbl.org/teams/rockford-peaches/1944
Lisa Taylor/Justina Moloney, "Passed Censor," Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project, Library of Congress (28 August 2017).
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/08/passed-censor/ "Victory Mail," National Postal Museum, Smithsonian. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/victory-mail and https://youtu.be/tj_LoG7wStY
Myron Fox, "Censorship!" American Experience, PBS (2000). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/warletters-censorship/ "
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Devan Coggan, "Abbi Jacobson responds to angry reactions to A League of Their Own: 'Representation matters so much'" Entertainment Weekly (15 August 2022). https://ew.com/tv/a-league-of-their-own-reactions-abbi-jacobson-responds/
Rebecca Nicholson, "A League of Their Own review-- this gorgeous baseball drama is about something far bigger than sport," The Guardian (12 August 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/12/a-league-of-their-own-review-baseball-drama-abbi-jacobson-madonna-movie-remake
Jenna Scherer, "A League Of Their Own serves up a whole new crop of Peaches," AV Club (10 August 2022). https://www.avclub.com/a-league-of-their-own-season-1-review-1849391265
Linda Holmes, "New Peaches, new problems: 'A League of Their Own' makes a successful move to TV," NPR (11 August 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/08/11/1116855780/a-league-of-their-own-2022-amazon-prime-review
Riese, "32 Excerpts From Really Special “League Of Their Own” Reviews Written By Homophobes Who’ve Had Quite Enough," Autostraddle, (15 August 2022). https://www.autostraddle.com/32-homophobic-league-of-their-own-reviews/ https://youtu.be/1OvULWYcSjQ
Today we're traveling back to the 1820s and the Kingdom of Dahomey with The Woman King! Join us as we learn about cowrie shells, Agojie weapons, the 1820s slave trade, King Ghezo, and more!
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Wendy Ide, "The Woman King review - a thunderously cinematic good time," The Observer (1 Oct 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/01/the-woman-king-review-a-thunderously-cinematic-good-time-viola-davis-gina-prince-bythewood-sheila-atim RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_woman_king Robert Daniels, "The Woman King," (16 Sept 2022) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-woman-king-movie-review-2022 ITV News, "Viola Davis defends new film The Woman King after Dahomey slave trade history backlash | ITV News," YouTube, https://youtu.be/ZxsvsSDvDcE The Daily Show, "Thuso Mbedu - “The Woman King” & Social Impact with Paramount+ | The Daily Show," https://youtu.be/HAMULqA8cEw Good Morning America, "Viola Davis talks new film, 'The Woman King' l GMA," YouTube https://youtu.be/fKGpMU2xSJk Marion Johnson, "The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa, Part I," The Journal of African History 11, no.1 (1970): 17-49. https://www.jstor.org/stable/180215 Mahir Saul, "Money in Colonial Transition: Cowries and Francs in West Africa," American Anthropologist 106, no.1 (2004): 71-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567443 "Cowrie Shells and Trade Power," National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian, https://nmaahc.si.edu/cowrie-shells-and-trade-power Barbara J. Heath, "Cowrie Shells, Global Trade, and Local Exchange: Piecing Together the Evidence for Colonial Virginia," Historical Archaeology 50, no.2 (2016): 17-46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24757075 Akinwumi Ogundiran, "Of Small Things Remembered: Beads, Cowries, and Cultural Translations of the Atlantic Experience in Yorubaland," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 35, no.2/3 (2002): 427-57. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3097620 Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson, "British Abolition and its Impact on Slave Prices Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa, 1783-1850," The Journal of Economic History 55, no.1 (1995): 98-119. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123769 Peter Morton-Williams, "The Oyo Yoruba and the Atlantic Trade, 1670-1830," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 3, no.1 (1964): 25-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41856687 Randy J. Sparks, "Blind Justice: The United States's Failure to Curb the Illegal Slave Trade," Law and History Review 35. no.1 (2017): 53-79. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26338410 Augustus A. Adeyinka, "King Gezo of Dahomey, 1818-1858: A Reassessment of a West African Monarch in the Nineteenth Century," African Studies Review 17, no.3 (1974): 541-48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/523800
Group Portrait, Paris, 1891: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons#/media/File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Groepsportret_van_de_zogenaamde_'Amazones_uit_Dahomey'_tijdens_hun_verblijf_in_Parijs_TMnr_60038362.jpg Frederick Edwyn Forbes, "Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the Kingdom of Dahomey, and the residence at his capitol, 1849 and 1850," available at https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ngLr7B6zBM8C/page/n41/mode/2up Maeve Adams, "The Amazon Warrior and the De/Construction of Gendered Imperial Authority in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature," Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 6, 1 (2010) Augustus A. Adeyinka, "King Gezo of Dahomey, 1818-1858: A Reassessment of a West African Monarch in the Nineteenth Century," African Studies Review 17, 3 (1974) E.A. Soumonni and E.A. Soumoni, "Dahomean Economic Policy Under Ghezo, 1818-1858: A Reconsideration," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 10, 2 (1980) Robin Law, "The Politics of Commercial Transition: Factional Conflict in Dahomey in the Context of Ending the Slave Trade," Journal of African History 38, 2 (1997)
This week we're jumping into the history of science with Marie Curie biopic Radioactive! Join us as we learn about petite Curies, famous medium Eusapia Palladino, whether or not Marie Curie was truly afraid of hospitals, her scandalous affair, and more!
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Charles L. Dana, et al. "Report of an Investigation into the Phenomena Connected With Eusapia Palladino," Science, May 20 1910. Francesco Paolo de Ceglia and Lorenzo Leporiere, "Becoming Eusapia: The Rise of the "Diva of Scientists", Science in Context 33 (2020)
Timothy Jorgensen, "How Marie Curie Brought X-Ray Machines To the Battlefield," (2017) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-marie-curie-brought-x-ray-machines-to-battlefield-180965240/ https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/our-movement/our-history/marie-curie-invisible-light-the-red-cross-and-wwi https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/marie-curie
Susan Quinn, Marie Curie: A Life (Plunkett Lake Press, 2019). New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 19 Nov. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1911-11-19/ed-1/seq-24/ The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.), 07 Nov. 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022472/1912-11-07/ed-1/seq-11/ The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.), 28 Nov. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86058226/1911-11-28/ed-1/seq-2/ Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 28 Nov. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1911-11-28/ed-1/seq-12/
This week we're going back to the Old West with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs! Join us as we learn about dry counties, whether or not birds can count, bank robbery, the Chautauqua, and more!
Sources: A.V. "Why America Still Has 'Dry Counties'," The Economist, available at https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/06/05/why-america-still-has-dry-counties Nancy Kay Tisdale, The Prohibition Crusade in Arizona. MA Thesis, 1965. Full text available at https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/551788/AZU_TD_BOX252_E9791_1965_251.pdf?sequence=1 Chautaqua: An American Narrative. PBS. Available at https://www.pbs.org/video/chautauqua-an-american-narrative-chautauqua-an-american-narrative/ Kelsey Ables, "What is Chautauqua? The Site of the Rushdie Attack Has a Long History," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/08/13/chautauqua-history/
Jacky Emmerton, "Birds' Judgments of Number and Quantity," Avian Visual Cognition https://pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/emmerton/ Hank Davis and Jeff Memmott, "Counting Behavior in Animals: A Critical Evaluation," Psychological Bulletin 92:3 (1982): 547-71. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hank-Davis/publication/232453414_Counting_behavior_in_animals_A_critical_evaluation/links/555b44e808ae8f66f3ad5120/Counting-behavior-in-animals-A-critical-evaluation.pdf Joe Nickell, "Animal Shows" Secrets of the Sideshows, 299-321 (University Press of Kentucky, 2005). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcf40.16
Michael T. Caires, "Building a Union of Banks: Salmon P. Chase and the Creation of the National Banking System," New Perspectives on the Union War edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Elizabeth R. Varon, 160-85 (Fordham University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1dnpx.10 E. Michael Rosser and Diane M. Sanders, "Overview of Banks and Mortgage Banking in the United States," A History of Mortgage Banking in the West: Financing America's Dreams, 19-40 (University Press of Colorado, 2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vz4910.7 John Warnock, "Tucson: A Place-Making," Journal of the Southwest 58:3 (2016): 361-616. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26310194 Brian D. Behnken, "Bandits Everywhere: Anti-Mexican Violence, Mexican and Mexican American Resistance," Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469670140_behnken.11 Robert M. Utley, "Who Was Billy the Kid?" Montana The Magazine of Wester History 37:3 (1987): 2-11. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4519066 Stuart H. Traub, "Rewards, Bounty Hunting, and Criminal Justice in the West: 1865-1900," Western Historical Quarterly 19:3 (1988): 287-301. https://www.jstor.org/stable/968233
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ballad_of_buster_scruggs Peter Bradshaw, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review - the Coens' brutal salute to the western," The Guardian, 31 August 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/31/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-review-coen-brothers-western Glenn Kenny, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," RogerEbert.com 9 November 2018, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-2018 Terry Gross interview, Fresh Air, https://www.npr.org/2019/02/08/692636652/filmmakers-joel-and-ethan-coen-on-singing-cowboys-and-working-with-oxen Claire Lampen, "All the Allegations Against James Franco," The Cut 13 July 2022. https://www.thecut.com/2022/07/all-the-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-james-franco.html BBC News, "Liam Neeson bemoans sexual harassment 'witch hunt' in Hollywood," 13 January 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-42675667 BBC News "Liam Neeson in racism storm after admitting he wanted to kill a black man," 5 February 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47117177
This week we're going back to 1860s Ireland with The Wonder! Join us as we learn about anorexia mirabilis, turf, Victorian hair tokens, and more! *Content Warning: This episode features discussion of eating disorders and sexual abuse.
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Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, University of California Press, 1988 Gail Sher, "The Fasting Spirit," The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 8, 2 (1988) Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary, Penguin Books, 2001 Interview with Emma Donoghue, NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2016/09/17/494360267/emma-donoghues-new-novel-the-wonder?t=1658214518736 Interview with Sebastian Lelio and Florence Pugh, Deadline, available at https://deadline.com/2022/11/the-wonder-florence-pugh-sebastian-lelio-interview-contenders-los-angeles-1235177120/ "Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder Lin Elinor Pettersson Nordic Irish Studies Vol. 16 (2017), pp. 1-20 (20 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26486974"
Liam Kennedy, ""The People's Fuel": Turf in Ireland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change, edited by Richard W. Unger, 25-30 (2013). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Verena-Winiwarter/publication/260497629_The_View_from_Below_On_Energy_in_Soils_and_Food/links/02e7e5317108b2128c000000/The-View-from-Below-On-Energy-in-Soils-and-Food.pdf#page=27 Emmet Larkin, "Economic Growth, Capital Investment, and the Roman Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Ireland," The American Historical Review, 72, no.3 (1967): 852-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1846659 Muiris O'Sullivan and Liam Downey, "Turf-Harvesting," Archaeology Ireland 30, no.1 (2016): 30-33. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43745953 Caitriona Clear, Social change and everyday life in Ireland, 1850-1922 (Manchester University Press, 2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt155jj46 "Two Men Cutting Turf with their Dog in the Background," n.d. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.30233352 Rory Carroll, "‘We’re being left with nothing’: Ireland’s turf wars expose rural grievances," The Guardian (4 May 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/were-being-left-with-nothing-irelands-turf-wars-expose-rural-grievances
Jolene Zigarovich, "Circulating Bodies: Secular Mementos, Jewelry, and Hairwork," in Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 131-56. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2hq0hnc.8 Victoria & Albert Museum examples of mourning rings: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O376217/ring/ and https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O376204/ring/ and https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O123385/mourning-ring-unknown/ Deborah Lutz, "The Dead Still Among Us: Victorian Secular Relics, Hair Jewelry, and Death Culture," Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no.1 (2011): 127-42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41307854
We're back with our first episode of 2023, and we're talking about RRR! Join us as we learn about the Gymkhana Club, riot gear, Lala Lajpat Rai, flogging in the British Raj, and more!
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Volume 281 (6 July 1883): https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1883-07-06/debates/53f4430d-fcb5-43e2-b9e1-e478f12fb23d/India-CriminalLaw%E2%80%94PunishmentOfFlogging Sean Lang, "John Nicholson: The Sadistic British Officer Who Was Worshipped As a Living God in India," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/john-nicholson-the-sadistic-british-officer-who-was-worshipped-as-a-living-god-in-india-99889 David Skuy, "Macauley and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to India's Legal System in the 19th Century," Modern Asian Studies 32, 3 (1998) Whipping Act of 1909, Full Text Available at https://www.indiacode.nic.in/repealed-act/repealed_act_documents/A1909-4.pdf Radhika Singha, "The Rare Infliction: The Abolition of Floggin in the Indian Army, circa 1835-1920," Law and History Review 34, 3 (2016) "Discrimination Still Alive and Well in India's Clubs," Irish Times, available at https://www.irishtimes.com/news/discrimination-still-alive-and-well-in-india-s-exclusive-clubs-1.1209302 Amrit Dhillon, "No Dogs or Indians: Colonial Britain Still Rules at India's Private Clubs," Sydney Morning Herald, available at https://www.smh.com.au/world/no-dogs-or-indians-colonial-britain-still-rules-at-indias-private-clubs-20170630-gx1vtk.html "Report of the Committee Appointed in the Government of India to Investigate the Disturbances in the Punjab," 1920, available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report_of_the_Committee_Appointed_in_the/u9INAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=delhi+gymkhana+club&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover Vinay Lal, "Hinduism," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World edited by Peter N. Stearns (Oxford University Press, 2008). C.V. Mathew, "Arya Samaj," in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity edited by Roger E. Hedlund, Jesudas M. Athyal, Joshua Kalapati, and Jessica Richard (Oxford University Press, 2011). "Hindu Nationalism," in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History edited by Stanley N. Katz (Oxford University Press, 2009). "Hindu nationalism," in A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations edited by Garrett W. Brown, Iain McLean, and Alistair McMillan (Oxford University Press, 2018). Christophe Jaffrelot, "Madan Mohan Malaviya and Lala Lajpat Rai," in Hindu Nationalism: A Reader (Princeton University Press, 2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s415.9 D.P. Singh, "Lala Lajpat Rai: His Life, Times and Contributions to Indian Polity," The Indian Journal of Political Science 52, no.1 (1991): 125-36. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41855539 Vanya Bhargav, "Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas on Caste: Conservative or Radical?" Studies in Indian Politics 6, no.1 (2018): 15-26. J.S. Bains, "Lala Lajpat Rai's Idealism and Indian National Movement," The Indian Journal of Political Science 46, no. 4 (1985): 401-20. S.R. Bhakshi and S.R. Bhakshl, "Simon Commission and Lajpat Rai: An Assessment," Porceedings of the Indian History Congress 50 (1989): 507-18.
Saṅgīt Mahābhāratī, "Vandé Mātaram," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Music of India (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Martin Thomas, "'Poying the Butcher's Bill': Policing British Colonial Protest after 1918," Crime, History & Societies 15, no.2 (2011): 55-76. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42708833 Aftab Nabi, "Consolidating the British Empire: The Structure, Orientation, and Role of Policing in Colonial Africa and Asia," Pakistan Horizon 69, no.2 (2016): 47-77. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44988203 David Arnold, "The Police and Colonial Control in South India," Social Scientist, 4, no. 12 (1976): 3-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3516332 Simeon Shoul, "Soldiers, Riot Control and Aid to the Civil Power in India, Egypt and Palestine, 1919-39," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 86, no. 346 (2008): 120-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44231576 Prashant Kidambi, "'The ultimate masters of the city': police, public order and the poor in colonial Bombay, c. 1893-1914," Crime, History & Societies 8, no.1 (2004): 27-47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42708561
John Powers, "If you haven't been back to the movies yet, Indian epic 'RRR' is the reason to go," NPR (11 October 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1127995338/rrr-review--rajamouli-indian-epic-cult-following Steve Rose, "Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 5 - RRR" The Guardian (19 December 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/19/best-movies-of-2022-in-the-us-no-5-rrr Glen Weldon et al, "'RRR' is an inteRRRnational phenomenon," Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR (11 July 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1107301440/rrr-is-an-interrrnational-phenomenon Nitish Pahwa, "A Wild Indian Blockbuster is Ravishing Movie Fans, but They're Missing Its Troubling Subtext," Slate (8 June 2022). https://slate.com/culture/2022/06/rrr-review-indian-blockbuster-netflix-hindu-nationalism.html Rotten Tomatoes, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rrr
For our final episode of 2022, we're mixing things up! Instead of depictions of the past, we're turning our attention to depictions of the future with 1996's Barb Wire! Join us as we get into what this movie got right and wrong about the dystopian year of 2017 with discussions of moving to Canada, brain scanning technology, licensed sex work, smoking, and more!
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J.J. McCullough, "Did Americans really move to Canada under Trump? Data tells a bigger story." The Washington Post (23 August 2022). https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/23/canada-us-immigration-data-republican-presidents/ James McCarten, "'Feels kind of hopeless': Here's why some Americans are looking to move to Canada," Global News (18 July 2022). https://globalnews.ca/news/8996261/americans-move-canada/ Judy Dutton, "Seriously, How Many Americans Will Move to Canada? A Reality Check," yahoo!news (9 November 2016). https://news.yahoo.com/seriously-many-americans-move-canada-203000264.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACmJFAA767l-aD8rP_Z7fjghljqlB8bqtWVNU2dJrE9qEkWf-l6KISfGxDBFe-elI3JS45ALHM9OZnk2TOTdBev3BCg2bq_1gFnV444eDD9Ol1lwsAO47qCTiae_GUgSE79idEtkMHHq-fyAxQQCnH65ZTf7U2WN71lJvJ5ACDYM
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," Smoking & Tobacco Use: Adult Data," https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm Sandy McDowell, "Smoking Rates Historically Low, but Other Cancer-related Behaviors Need Improvement," American Cancer Society (19 May 2021). https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/acs-report-smoking-rates-historically-low-but-other-cancer-related-behaviors-need-improvement.html Lydia Saad, "U.S. Smoking Rate Still Coming Down," Gallup (24 July 2008). https://news.gallup.com/poll/109048/us-smoking-rate-still-coming-down.aspx World Health Organization, "Tobacco," (24 May 2022). https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco
Seiro Ito and Aurelie Lepine, "The Effect of Sex Work Regulation on the Health and Wellbeing of Sex Workers: Evidence from Senegal," Health Economics, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.3791 "Global Mapping of Sex Work Laws," NSWP, available at https://www.nswp.org/sex-work-laws-map
Yasmin Anwar, "Scientists Use Brain Imaging to Reveal Movies in Our Mind," Berkeley News, available at https://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/ Ian Sample, "Researchers Use Brain Scans to Read People's Minds," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/mar/12/mind-reading-brain-scans-memories https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a38958677/barb-wire-true-story-pam-and-tommy/ https://screenrant.com/barb-wire-movie-pamela-anderson-what-happened/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/
This week we're going back to 1990s West Virginia with Dark Waters! Join us as we learn about forever chemicals, the EPA, DuPont's court settlements, and more!
Sources: Sharon Lerner, "The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception," The Intercept, 11 August 2015 Mariah Blake, "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia," HuffPost https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/ https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/reference-news-release-epa-settles-pfoa-case-against-dupont-largest-environmental Sharon Lerner, "The Teflon Toxin," https://theintercept.com/2015/08/20/teflon-toxin-dupont-slipped-past-epa/ Nathaniel Rich, "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare," https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html "Weinberg Memo," https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2289501-weinberg-memo.html Chicago Tribune, Farmer Wilbur Earl Tennant's Historic Video Shows Mysterious Cow Disease: https://www.chicagotribune.com/9a272e0c-2b50-4dc7-8f14-04432c04e948-132.html Jeff Mordock, "Dupont denied retrial in $1.6M chemical cancer case," Delaware Online 17 February 2016, https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2016/02/17/duponts-motion-void-16m-jury-verdict-denied/80530306/ Mariah Blake, "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia," HuffPost https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/ Glynis Board, "DuPont Offers $670M Settlement for "Teflon" Chemical Contamination of Water," WV Public Broadcasting (13 February 2017) http://redirect.wvpublic.org/post/dupont-offers-670m-settlement-teflon-chemical-contamination-water Monica Amarello, "DuPont, Chemours and Corteva Reach $4 Billion Settlement on ‘Forever Chemicals’ Lawsuits" Environmental Working Group (January 2021) https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/dupont-chemours-and-corteva-reach-4-billion-settlement-forever-chemicals Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dark_waters_2019 Owen Gleiberman, "Film Review: 'Dark Waters'" Variety (13 November 2019). https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/dark-waters-review-mark-ruffalo-todd-haynes-1203402923/ VICE News, "Mark Ruffalo Takes Us Inside the Making of 'Dark Waters'" YouTube; https://youtu.be/JyE4_7j6UdQ The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, "Mark Ruffalo - Playing a Real-Life Hero in True Horror Story "Dark Waters" | The Daily Show" YouTube; https://youtu.be/5pWFJPyyPAw GQ, "Mark Ruffalo Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ" https://youtu.be/Q-Kt-6joSns Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film) Mark Eichmann, "DuPont execs react to villain role in 'Dark Waters' film," WHYY (1 November 2019). https://whyy.org/articles/dupont-execs-react-to-villain-role-in-dark-waters-film/
This week we're traveling back to the 1960s and 70s with David Fincher's Zodiac! Join us as we learn about ciphers, Melvin Belli's role in the case, Detective Dave Toschi, "I Am Not Paul Avery" buttons, and more!
Sources:
Melvin Belli Letter: https://www.zodiacciphers.com/melvin-belli-letter.html
Clip of Melvin Belli on Jim Dunbar show: https://youtu.be/TsM-kwU2mRU
Clip of Dave Toschi on Melvin Belli Letter: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/231077
Armistead Maupin on the Dave Toschi Letters: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/231082
"Police Officials on Coast Deny Inspector Forged Zodiac Letters," New York Times (16 July 1978)
"Investigator of Zodiac Murders Loses Post Over Letters to Paper," New York Times, (12 July 1978)
James Felton, "FBI Confirms Zodiac Killer's Infamous 340 Cipher Has Been Decoded..." IFL Science, https://www.iflscience.com/fbi-confirms-zodiac-killers-infamous-340-cipher-has-been-decoded-and-his-message-finally-revealed-62044
Katie Dowd, https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/zodiac-340-cipher-solved-solution-code-15795178.php#photo-6406008
Dave Smith, "Zodiac Killer---Chilling Portrait of Madness," Los Angeles Times (15 October 1969): 1.
https://youtu.be/-1oQLPRE21o and https://youtu.be/ekbur_b8F3M
"An interview with Paul Avery About the Zodiac Killer" https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/231066
Michael Taylor, https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Paul-Avery-Longtime-Newspaper-Reporter-2722001.php
Dave Smith, "Zodiac Threatens to Kill Reporter for S.F. Newspaper," Los Angeles Times (31 October 1970): b1.
Christian Zilko, "Zodiac Turns 15: 15 Behind the Scenes Facts You Didn't Know About the David Fincher Movie," IndieWire, available at https://www.indiewire.com/feature/zodiac-david-fincher-behind-the-scenes-trivia-1234702993/
Tiffany Hearsey, "Robert Graysmith on Shooting Zodiac with David Fincher," Rue Morgue, available at https://rue-morgue.com/robert-graysmith-on-shooting-zodiac-with-david-fincher/
This week we're traveling back to the 18th century with Prey! Join us as we learn about horses and dogs in Comanche society, rites of passage, buffalo hunting, and more!
Sources:
Yvette Running Horse Collin, "The Relationship Between the Indigenous Peoples of America and the Horse: Deconstructing a Eurocentric Myth," Dissertation, University of Alaska
J Frank Dobie, "The Comanches and Their Horses," Southwest Review 36, 1 (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prey_2022
Sandra Hale Schulman, "Comanche Nation vs. 'Predator'," Indian Country Today (12 June 2022). https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/comanche-nation-vs-predator
Wendy Ide, "Prey review- stylish Predator prequel rooted in Native American history," The Guardian (6 August 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/06/prey-review-stylish-predator-prequel-rooted-in-native-american-history
Mia Galuppo, "Next Big Thing: 'Prey' Star Amber Midthunder on Bringing an Indigenous Action Hero Into 'Predator' Franchise," The Hollywood Reporter (4 August 2022). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/prey-amber-midthunder-indigenous-representation-predator-movie-1235191007/
HeyUGuys, "Prey - Amber Midthunder & Jhane Myers on a Comanche dub, streaming release & the film's physicality," YouTube (5 August 2022). https://youtu.be/CAFq-tF77s0
CinemaBlend, "'Prey' Interviews With Amber Midthunder, Dan Trachtenberg & More!" YouTube (1 August 2022). https://youtu.be/YL1XlfdS20o
Sarah Rose, "Coco the Dog is Georgia's breakout rags-to-riches canine star--with aliens involved!" GPB (16 August 2022). https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/08/16/coco-the-dog-georgias-breakout-rags-riches-canine-star-aliens-involved#:~:text=Coco%2C%20a%20rescued%20dog%20from,stars%20Amber%20Midthunder%20(left).
Riley Steward, "Prey Breakout Dakota Beavers Went from Working at TJ Maxx to Fighting Predators," GQ (12 August 2022). https://www.gq.com/story/prey-dakota-beavers
Carson Burton, "'Prey' Star Dakota Beavers Talks Upending Traditional Native Representation in His First Acting Role," Variety (5 August 2022). https://variety.com/2022/film/news/prey-dakota-beavers-predator-native-representation-1235326590/
SE Roberts, "That's Not a Wolf: English Misconceptions and the Fate of New England's Indigenous Dogs," The William and Mary Quarterly (2022).
Peter Mitchell, Horse Nations: The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenous Societies Post-1492 (Oxford University Press, 2015), 151-4.
Joshua Abram Kercsmar, "Wolves at Heart: How Dog Evolution Shaped Whites' Perceptions of Indians in North America," Environmental History 21, no.3 (2016): 516-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44132074
Matthew Jackson, "The Dog in 'Prey' Had No Acting Experience Before the Movie, But She Kept Getting Extra Scenes," SYFY (8 August 2022). https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/prey-dog-no-acting-experience-before-the-movie
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Dog
Bradley Folsom, "An Interesting and Odd Present: Transporting American Bison across the Atlantic in the Eighteenth Century," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 120, no.1 (2016): 1-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44647077
M. Scott Taylor, "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison," The American Economic Review, 101, no.7 (2011): 3162-95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41408734
Loretta Fowler, The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains (Columbia University Press, 2003). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/fowl11700.5
Robert Michael Morrissey, "Bison Algonquians: Cycles of Violence and Exploitation in the Missisippi Valley Borderlands," Early American Studies 13, no.2 (2015): 309-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24474892
Annette Kuhlmann, "American Indian Women of the Plains and Northern Woodlands," Mid-American Review of Sociology 16, 1 (1992)
Meagan Navarro, "Prey Producer Jhane Myers Used Her Own Cultural Background to Capture Comanche Authenticity," Bloody Disgusting, available at https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3725606/prey-producer-jhane-myers-used-her-own-cultural-background-to-capture-comanche-authenticity-interview/
This week we're going back to 1902 and the Sea Islands with Daughters of the Dust! Join us as we talk about Gullah quilting practices, the Wanderer, African-American migration to Canada, and more!
Sources:
Kathy J. Brown, "Gullah Geechee Visuality as Protest Art, Contemplative Practice, and Anti-Racist Pedagogy," The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry 9, no.1 (2022): 22-42.
Betsey Poore, "Living History Captures the Essence of Gullah," (9 July 2013). https://islandconnectionnews.com/living-history-captures-the-essence-of-gullah/
Arthur Chisolm, "#146 Part 1 Gullah Rag Quilting Workshop," (31 January 2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAtavj-Rh4&ab_channel=ArthurChisolm
D. Chongo Mundende, "African American Exodus to Canada," Oklahoma Historical Society, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AF001
Steve Schwinghamer, "The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers," Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/black-american-farmers
https://ansa.novascotia.ca/community
https://www.tompsc.com/DocumentCenter/View/5624
Roger Ebert's Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/daughters-of-the-dust-1992
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_Dust
Interview with Julie Dash: https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/we-have-a-lifetime-of-stories-to-tell-julie-dash-on-daughters-of-the-dust
Charles J Montgomery, "Survivors From the Cargo of the Negro Slave Yacht Wanderer," American Anthropologist.
Livia Gershon, "This Yacht Trafficked Enslaved Africans Long After the Slave Trade Was Abolished," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/louisiana-museum-remembers-yacht-turned-slave-ship-180977653/
Today we're traveling back to 1960s Poland with a listener request episode on Ida! Join us as we learn about "enemies of the people", Helena Wolinska-Bruce, historical examples of people hiding in the woods, and more!
Sources:
Order of St. Augustine official website: https://beafriar.org/blog-archive/2016/12/27/the-postures-and-gestures-of-ordination
Julie Keefer, "In Hiding," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/in-hiding
Charlene Schiff, "The Girl from the Forest," USHMM, https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/the-girl-from-the-forest and "For a Rainy Day (Men Zol Nit Bedarfen)" https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/echoes-of-memory/for-a-rainy-day-men-zol-nit-bedarfen
J.P. O'Malley, "'Into The Forest' Tells Story Of One Family's Escape From Nazi-Created Zhetel Ghetto," NPR (7 September 2021). https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1034739946/into-the-forest-tells-story-of-one-familys-escape-from-nazi-created-zhetel-ghett
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_(film)
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ida_2013
David Denby, ""Ida": A Film Masterpiece," The New Yorker (27 May 2014). https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ida-a-film-masterpiece
Godfrey Cheshire, "Ida" RogerEbert.com (2 May 2014) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ida-2014
Robert Booth, "Widow, 88, faces arrest warrant over death of Polish hero," The Guardian (21 November 2007) https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/nov/21/secondworldwar.ukcrime
Anne Applebaum, "The Three Lives of Helena Brus," (6 December 1998). https://www.anneapplebaum.com/1998/12/06/the-three-lives-of-helena-brus/
"August Emil Fieldorf," Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Emil_Fieldorf
Agata Fijalkowski, "Politics, Law, and Justice in People's Poland: The Fieldorf File," Slavic Review 73, no.1 (2014): 85-107. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.73.1.0085
Jan C. Behrends, "Rokossowski Coming Home: The Making and Breaking of an (Inter)-National Hero in Stalinist Poland," The Hungarian Historical Review 5, 4 (2016)
Renata Sczcepanik, Gavin Simpson, and Sabina Siebert, "Prison Officers in Poland," Communist and Post-Communist Studies 47, 1 (2014)
Piotr J. Wrobel, "Class War or Ethnic Cleansing? Soviet Deporations of Polish Citizens from the Eastern Provinces of Poland, 1939-1941," The Polish Review 59, 2 (2014)
This week we're traveling back to the 1930s with Night of the Hunter! Join us as we talk about the Bluebeard legend, ice cream, how much Rachel Cooper rules, itinerant preachers, and more!
Sources:
Charles Perrault, "“Blue Beard”," Fairy Tales and Other Traditional Stories, Lit2Go Edition, (0), accessed July 31, 2022, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/68/fairy-tales-and-other-traditional-stories/4858/blue-beard/ .
Casie E. Hermansson, Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition, (University Press of Mississippi, 2009). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvhxt
Alison Lurie, "Review: One Bad Husband: What the "Bluebeard" story tells us about marriage," American Scholar 74:1 (2005): 129-32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41221385
British Library, "The History of Blue Beard," https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-history-of-blue-beard
Kelly Faircloth, "Something Is Wrong in This House: How Bluebeard Became the Definitive Fairy Tale of Our Era," Jezebel (17 October 2018). https://jezebel.com/something-is-wrong-in-this-house-how-bluebeard-became-1829596691
Comic: The times dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 31 May 1903. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1903-05-31/ed-1/seq-25/
Comic: The Washington herald. (Washington, D.C.), 29 Oct. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1922-10-29/ed-1/seq-34/
Gillette ad: Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 05 Nov. 1939. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1939-11-05/ed-1/seq-114/
Modern-day Bluebeards: Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), 04 Sept. 1931. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063730/1931-09-04/ed-1/seq-5/
The West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.), 06 May 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1920-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.), 10 Feb. 1905. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092356/1905-02-10/ed-1/seq-1/
Spirit of Jefferson. (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]), 26 Oct. 1909. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026788/1909-10-26/ed-1/seq-1
Evening journal. (Martinsburg, W. Va.), 17 May 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059585/1912-05-17/ed-1/seq-6/
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.), 30 April 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059586/1920-04-30/ed-1/seq-1/
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.), 17 Nov. 1931. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014085/1931-11-17/ed-1/seq-10/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Powers
https://www.wvpublic.org/radio/2019-03-18/march-18-1932-mass-murderer-harry-powers-executed-at-moundsville-state-penitentiary
Terrence Rafferty, "Night of the Hunter: Holy Terror," Criterion Collection, available at https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1657-the-night-of-the-hunter-holy-terror
Faculty of Horror, Episode 44: https://www.facultyofhorror.com/2016/11/episode-44-if-i-could-turn-back-time-the-night-of-the-hunter-1955-and-the-innocents-1961/
Jeri Quinzio, "Ice Cream During the Depression." University of California Press Blog.
Farrell Evans, "Why Ice Cream Soared in Popularity During Prohibition," History.com
Jon Butler, "Forum: American Religion and the Great Depression," Church History 80, 3 (2011)
Wayne Flynt, "Religion for the Blues: Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression," Journal of Southern History 71, 1 (2005)
Heather D Curtis, "God is Not Affected by the Depression: Pentacostal Missions During the 1930s," Church History 80, 3 (2011)
Monroe Billington and Cal Clark, "Baptist Preachers and the New Deal," Journal of Church and State 33, 2 (Spring 1991)
This week we're traveling back to the 1930s with Night of the Hunter! Join us as we talk about the Bluebeard legend, ice cream, how much Rachel Cooper rules, itinerant preachers, and more!
Sources:
Charles Perrault, "“Blue Beard”," Fairy Tales and Other Traditional Stories, Lit2Go Edition, (0), accessed July 31, 2022, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/68/fairy-tales-and-other-traditional-stories/4858/blue-beard/ .
Casie E. Hermansson, Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition, (University Press of Mississippi, 2009). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvhxt
Alison Lurie, "Review: One Bad Husband: What the "Bluebeard" story tells us about marriage," American Scholar 74:1 (2005): 129-32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41221385
British Library, "The History of Blue Beard," https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-history-of-blue-beard
Kelly Faircloth, "Something Is Wrong in This House: How Bluebeard Became the Definitive Fairy Tale of Our Era," Jezebel (17 October 2018). https://jezebel.com/something-is-wrong-in-this-house-how-bluebeard-became-1829596691
Comic: The times dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 31 May 1903. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1903-05-31/ed-1/seq-25/
Comic: The Washington herald. (Washington, D.C.), 29 Oct. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1922-10-29/ed-1/seq-34/
Gillette ad: Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 05 Nov. 1939. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1939-11-05/ed-1/seq-114/
Modern-day Bluebeards: Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), 04 Sept. 1931. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063730/1931-09-04/ed-1/seq-5/
The West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.), 06 May 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1920-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.), 10 Feb. 1905. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092356/1905-02-10/ed-1/seq-1/
Spirit of Jefferson. (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]), 26 Oct. 1909. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026788/1909-10-26/ed-1/seq-1
Evening journal. (Martinsburg, W. Va.), 17 May 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059585/1912-05-17/ed-1/seq-6/
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.), 30 April 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059586/1920-04-30/ed-1/seq-1/
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.), 17 Nov. 1931. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014085/1931-11-17/ed-1/seq-10/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Powers
https://www.wvpublic.org/radio/2019-03-18/march-18-1932-mass-murderer-harry-powers-executed-at-moundsville-state-penitentiary
Terrence Rafferty, "Night of the Hunter: Holy Terror," Criterion Collection, available at https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1657-the-night-of-the-hunter-holy-terror
Faculty of Horror, Episode 44: https://www.facultyofhorror.com/2016/11/episode-44-if-i-could-turn-back-time-the-night-of-the-hunter-1955-and-the-innocents-1961/
Jeri Quinzio, "Ice Cream During the Depression." University of California Press Blog.
Farrell Evans, "Why Ice Cream Soared in Popularity During Prohibition," History.com
Jon Butler, "Forum: American Religion and the Great Depression," Church History 80, 3 (2011)
Wayne Flynt, "Religion for the Blues: Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression," Journal of Southern History 71, 1 (2005)
Heather D Curtis, "God is Not Affected by the Depression: Pentacostal Missions During the 1930s," Church History 80, 3 (2011)
Monroe Billington and Cal Clark, "Baptist Preachers and the New Deal," Journal of Church and State 33, 2 (Spring 1991)
Today we're traveling back to the 1970s with Blackkklansman! Join us as we learn about the real Ron Stallworth, women in the KKK, whether or not Flip Zimmerman was a real guy, and more!
Sources:
Ron Stallworth, Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime (New York: Flatiron Books, 2018)
Johnny Brayson, "Here's The Real Story Behind Adam Driver's 'BlacKkKlansman' Character," Bustle (9 August 2018). https://www.bustle.com/p/where-is-flip-zimmerman-in-2018-the-blackkklansman-character-played-a-key-role-in-a-wild-true-story-10015280
Chuck Arnold, "Meet the real detective behind 'BlacKkKlansman'" New York Post (9 August 2018). https://nypost.com/2018/08/09/meet-the-real-detective-behind-blackkklansman/
VIBE Magazine, "Spike Lee Explains How BlacKkKlansman Was Made | VIBE" YouTube (7 August 2018). https://youtu.be/pKRslSc-wNw
CBS Mornings, "Spike Lee, real-life Ron Stallworth talk new film "BlacKkKlansman"" YouTube (10 August 2018). https://youtu.be/BkkTLULVMCo
SAG-AFTRA Foundation, "Conversation with BLACKKKLANSMAN," YouTube (12 Novermber 2018). https://youtu.be/XslaWRgKoFE
Rotten Tomatoes, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blackkklansman
Mark Kermode, "BlacKkKlansman review - a blistering return to form for Spike Lee," The Guardian (26 August 2018). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/26/blackkklansman-review-spike-lee-blistering-return-to-form
A.O. Scott, "Review: Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' Journeys Into White America's Heart of Darkness," The New York TImes (9 August 2018). https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/movies/blackkklansman-review-spike-lee.html
Richard Brody, ""BlacKkKlansman," Reviewed: Smike Lee's Vision of Resistance to White Supremacy," The New Yorker (10 August 2018). https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/blackkklansman-reviewed-spike-lees-vision-of-resistance-to-white-supremacy
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlacKkKlansman
"'Free the Pendleton 14' podcast shines new light on issue of white supremacy among active duty military," AirTalk KPCC. https://www.kpcc.org/programs/airtalk/2019/01/24/64114/free-the-pendleton-14-podcast-shines-new-light-on/
Lois Beckett, "How the US military has failed to address white supremacy in its ranks," The Guardian (24 June 2020). https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/24/us-military-white-supremacy-extremist-plot
Seth G. Jones, Catrina Doxsee, Grace Hwang, and Jared Thompson, "The Military, Police, and the Rise of Terrorism in the United States," Center for Strategic & International Studies (12 April 2021). https://www.csis.org/analysis/military-police-and-rise-terrorism-united-states
Kathleen Belew, "The White Power Movement at War on Democracy," HFG Research and Policy in Brief (January 2021). https://www.hfg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WhitePowerVersusDemocracy.pdf
Kathleen Belew, "There Are No Lone Wolves: The White Power Movement at War," in A Field Guide to White Supremacy, 312-24 (University of California Press, 2021). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1xbc21c.26
Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Harvard University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24w659z.6
Kathleen Blee, "Women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan Movement," Feminist Studies 17, 1 (1991)
Kathleen Blee, "Becoming a Racist: Women in Contemporary Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi Groups," Gender and Society 10, 6 (1996)
William F. Pinar, "White Women in the Ku Klux Klan," Counterpoints 163 (2001)
This week we're traveling back to. . . well, it's not totally clear, but we're talking about Cold War history with Top Secret! Join us as we learn about that weird heel click salute, Ripple, surf rock, the fascinating history of the phrase "that sucks", and more!
Sources:
"Churchill Broadcast on the Soviet-German War (June 1941)" https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/churchill-broadcast-on-the-soviet-german-war-june-1941
Daniel Thomas Curtin, The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-war, (1917) https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Land_of_Deepening_Shadow/jxEyAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Sarah Wagner and Thomas Matyók, "Monumental Change: The Shifting Politics of Obligation at the Tomb of the Unknowns," History and Memory 30, no.1 (2018): 40-75.
"Desalination history" https://www.water.vic.gov.au/water-grid-and-markets/desalination/desalination-background/desalination-history
David Sedlak, "Turning to the Sea for Drinking Water," Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource, 217-37 (Yale University Press, 2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vksm5.15
E. Delyannis, "Historic background of desalination and renewable energies," Solar Energy, 75, no.5 (2003): 357-66.
Andreas N. Angelakis, Mohammad Valipour, Kwang-Ho Choo, Abdelkader T. Ahmed, Alper Baba, Rohitashw Kumar, Gurpal S. Toor, and Zhiwei Want, "Desalination: From Ancient to Present and Future," Water 13 (2021).
"Why suck is a dirty word | | The Guardian" https://amp.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/sep/13/guardianletters4
Gillian Frank, "Discophobia: Antigay Prejudice and the 1979 Backlash against Disco," Journal of the History of Sexuality, 16, no.2 (2007): 276-306. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30114235
Dear and Peter Kemp, (eds.) "sucking the monkey," The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (Oxford University Press, 2007).
John Ayto and John Simpson, "suck," The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (Oxford University Press, 2013).
BBC Learning English, "Suck it and see," https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the-english-we-speak/ep-170404
Billboard Magazine, June 29 1963: https://books.google.com/books?id=XgsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false
Beach Boys "Surfin'" 1961: https://youtu.be/3jIdYAAO7cM
Ben Finney, "Surfing in Ancient Hawaii," The Journal of Polynesian Society 68, 4 (1959)
RL Rutsky, "Surfing the Other: Ideology on the Beach," Film Quarterly 52, 4 (1999)
Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren, "Making Surfboards: Emergence of a Trans-Pacific Cultural Industry," Journal of Pacific History 49, 1 (2014)
https://drunkard.com/55-dead-end-drinks/
It's the third and final chapter of the Fear Street trilogy! Join us as we discuss why the title really should have been Fear Street 1694, Puritan attitudes toward homosexuality, the good old days when gossip was a crime, and more!
Sources:
Rachel Black, Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia: https://books.google.com/books?id=mb0SZIYCXREC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://nerfpedialegacy.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Soaker_50
Associated Press, "Doused Police Chief Hits Crowd with Pepper Spray," Chicago Tribune (25 July 1993): 16.
"Kids Turn in 100 Toy Weapons," Dayton Daily News (11 November 1994): 5B.
Sally Deneen, "In Play: A Consumer's Guide to Toys," Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (28 November 1991): 1E.
Christine Eisel, "Several Unhandsome Words": The Politics of Gossip in Early Virginia, dissertation (May 2012), https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=bgsu1332788117&disposition=inline
Francis T. McAndrew, "How "The Gossip" Became a Woman and How "Gossip" Became Her Weapon of Choice," The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition, ed. Maryanne L. Fisher (2014). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank-Mcandrew/publication/261063555_How_The_Gossip_became_a_woman_and_how_Gossip_became_her_weapon_of_choice/links/5a0604e7a6fdcc65eab17a53/How-The-Gossip-became-a-woman-and-how-Gossip-became-her-weapon-of-choice.pdf
Susan Ratcliffe (ed.), "Gossip," in Oxford Essential Quotations, 6 ed. (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Gyles Brandreth (ed.), "Gossip," in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, 5 ed. (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Mary Beth Norton, "Witchcraft in the Anglo-American Colonies," OAH Magazine of History 17, no.4 (2003): 5-10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163614
Mary Beth Norton, "Gender and Defamation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," The William and Mary Quarterly 44, no.1 (1987): 3-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1939717
Walter W. Woodward, "New England's Other Witch-hunt: The Hartford Witch-hunt of the 1660s and Changing Patterns in Witchcraft Prosecution," OAH Magazine of History, 17, no.4 (2003): 16-20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163616
Elizabeth Reis, "Confess or Deny? What's a "Witch" to Do?" OAH Magazine of History, 17, no.4 (2003):11-13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163615
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fear_street_part_three_1666
Nick Allen, "Fear Street Part Three: 1666" Rogerebert.com (16 July 2021). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fear-street-part-three-1666-2021
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Street_Part_Three:_1666
"Kiana Madeira & Olivia Scott Welch Discuss 'Fear Street' Movies | Entertainment Weekly" Entertainment Weekly YouTube (28 July 2021). https://youtu.be/dJR6EktKk-E
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, ""Fear Street: 1666" Brings the Trilogy to a Very Gay Close," Autostraddle (19 July 2021). https://www.autostraddle.com/fear-street-1666-gay/
"Fear Street Cast Play MTV Yearbook & Reveal Creepy On Set Moment | MTV Movies" MTV UK YouTube (7 July 2021). https://youtu.be/_GxtoJ1uznY
Richard Godbeer, "The Cry of Sodom: Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England," William and Mary Quarterly 52, 2 (1995)
Roger Thompson, "Attitudes Towards Homosexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England Colonies," Journal of American Studies 23, 1 (1989)
This week we're continuing our exploration of Fear Street with Part II: 1978! Join us as we learn about Cherry Bomb, the origins of the word "shagadelic", 1970s Stephen King, the surprisingly violent history of Halloween teen vandalism, and more!
Sources:
Google Ngram, "Shagadelic": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shagadelic&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cshagadelic%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cshagadelic%3B%2Cc0
OED, Shagadelic: https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/269205;jsessionid=60BE157F752D353BB699000D850299EC
Richard Lingeman, "Something Nasty in the Bathtub," New York Times Review of Books, March 1 1977, available at https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/lifetimes/kin-r-shining.html
Carol Lawson, "Behind the Bestseller: Stephen King," New York Times Review of Books, September 23 1979, available at https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/lifetimes/kin-v-behind.html
Stephen King Bibliography, available at https://stephenkingbooks.co.uk/books/?wpv_view_count=373&wpv_paged=6
Early examples of general Halloween vandalism: St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.), 09 Nov. 1893. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1893-11-09/ed-1/seq-4/ and Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa), 03 Nov. 1896. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88059319/1896-11-03/ed-1/seq-1/ and Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.), 04 Nov. 1898. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063592/1898-11-04/ed-1/seq-4/ and The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.), 08 Nov. 1901. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85030821/1901-11-08/ed-1/seq-1/
More typical early forms of vandalism: The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]), 18 Oct. 1924. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015313/1924-10-18/ed-1/seq-1/ [plus an ax murder] Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 22 Oct. 1949. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1949-10-22/ed-1/seq-29/ Burning a barn: Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.), 08 Nov. 1962. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016209/1962-11-08/ed-1/seq-6/
Throwing TP in opposition: Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.), 09 Nov. 1962. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062224/1962-11-09/ed-1/seq-4/
Prince Edward County/R.R. Moton H.S. and vandalism: The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.), 12 Nov. 1963. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn98068396/1963-11-12/ed-1/seq-1/
Parents encouraging mild vandalism: Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 30 Oct. 1960. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1960-10-30/ed-1/seq-85/
Egging and soaping: Greenbelt news review. (Greenbelt, Md.), 03 Nov. 1960. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89061522/1960-11-03/ed-1/seq-5/
Emily Chertoff, "A Sinister History of Halloween Pranks," The Atlantic 31 October 2012. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/a-sinister-history-of-halloween-pranks/264127/
Brian VanHooker, "A messy History of Egging and Toilet-Papering Houses," MEL, https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/a-messy-history-of-egging-and-toilet-papering-houses
Google ngram: "Toilet-papering" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=toilet-papering&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctoilet%20-%20papering%3B%2Cc0 "teepeeing" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=teepeeing&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cteepeeing%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cteepeeing%3B%2Cc0
Rotten Tomatoes, Fear Street: 1978: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fear_street_part_two_1978
Meagan Navarro, "Fear Street Part 2: 1978 Pays Tribute to Classic Slashers With Higher Body Count," Bloody Disgusting, available at https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3672761/review-fear-street-part-2-1978-pays-respects-classic-slashers-higher-body-count/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Bomb_(The_Runaways_song) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbling_Under_Hot_100
Emily Nyberg, "The Runaways Planted a Cherry Bomb in the Rock Industry," https://pages.stolaf.edu/americanmusic/2015/04/21/1164/
Alan Penchansky, "Runaways" Talent in Action, Billboard (26 February 1977). https://books.google.com/books?id=FEUEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA39&dq=%22Cherry%20Bomb%22&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false
"A Day In The Life Of KIM FOWLEY: Producer 'Hustles' His Way Through Deals, Phone Calls, New Projects," Billboard (8 October 1977). https://books.google.com/books?id=DkUEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT59&dq=Runaways&pg=PT59#v=onepage&q=Runaways&f=false
"Runaway Hit" Billboard (19 February 1977). https://books.google.com/books?id=jkUEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA4&dq=Runaways&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Billboard (4 February 1978). https://books.google.com/books?id=gSQEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT97&dq=Runaways&pg=PT47#v=onepage&q=Runaways&f=false
This week we're starting our first trilogy with Fear Street 1994! Join us as we learn about metal detectors and safe sex posters in schools, income inequality, "going postal", and more!
Sources:
Richard Burkhauser, Kenneth Couch, Andrew Houtenville, and Ludmila Rovba, "Income Inequality in the 1990s: Re-Forging a Lost Relationship?" University of Connecticut: Department of Economics Working Paper Series (2004). https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=econ_wpapers
Susan E. Mayer, "How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment?" Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago (January 2000) https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED447233.pdf
Songman Kang, "Inequality and Crime Revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime," Journal of Population Economics 29, no.2 (April 2016): 593-626. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44280406
Neil Metz and Mariya Burdina, "Neighbourhood income inequality and property crime," Urban Studies, 55, no.1 (January 2018): 133-150. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26428428
Fahui Wang and Martin T. Arnold, "Localized income inequality, concentrated disadvantage and homicide," Applied Geography 28, issue 4 (2008): 259-270. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622808000374
"VOA Special Report: Retail Shootings," https://projects.voanews.com/mass-shootings/english/locations/retail.html
"VOA Special Report: Workplace Shootings," https://projects.voanews.com/mass-shootings/english/locations/workplace.html
Sharon Shahid and Megan Duzor, "History of Mass Shooters," VOA News (1 June 2021). https://projects.voanews.com/mass-shootings/?event=1055
"Up to 22 people stabbed at Pennsylvania high school," BBC (10 April 2014) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26959628
Rick Jervis, "Mass knife attacks, like at Texas college, are rare," USA Today (9 April 2013). https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/09/knife-attacks-lone-star-college/2069347/
Ryan Tarinelli, Michael R. Sisak, and Michael Balsamo, "5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in latest attack on Jews," PBS Newshour (29 December 2019). https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/5-stabbed-at-rabbis-house-on-hanukkah-suspect-in-custody
Lindsey Grewe and Ashley Franco, "Stabbing spree suspect, who told victims he was Jesus, appears in court," KKTV 11 News (13 January 2020). https://www.kktv.com/content/news/Man-goes-on-stabbing-spree-near-downtown-Springs-overnight-566935531.html
Molly Amman, Anna Grace Burnette, and Brittany Crowley, "A Review of Mass Stabbing Attacks Between 2004 and 2017," Journal of Threat Assessment and Management (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tam0000177
"Table 12: Murder by State, Types of Weapons, 2016" 2016 Crime in the United States FBI: UCR, https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/table-12
Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall, "Going Postal," You're Wrong About (3 May 2018), https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3884111-going-postal
Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself. American Red Cross. Wellcome Collection, available at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xxzetspp
Shaun Sutner, "School Metal Detectors Seen as Necessary Annoyance," Washington Post, 8 October 1992.
Laurell Shaper Walters, "US Education at Risk: School Violence Enters Suburbs," Christian Science Monitor, 19 April 1993.
Jaclyn Schildkraut and Kathryn Grogan, "Are Metal Detectors Effective in Making Schools Safer?" WestED Justice and Prevention Research Center, available at https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED595716.pdf
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fear_street_part_one_1994
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, "Queer Slasher "Fear Street: 1994" Delivers Trashy Fun, Gay Drama, and 90s Nostalgia," Autostraddle (5 July 2021). https://www.autostraddle.com/fear-street-1994-gay-review/
Nick Allen, "Fear Street Part One: 1994" RogerEbert.com (2 July 2021). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fear-street-part-one-1994-movie-review-2021
Today we're going back to the Regency with 2020's Emma.! Join us as we learn about pinkie rings, marriage customs, Roma stereotypes, and more!
Sources:
Church of England, "Marriage" https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/marriage
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1840) https://google.com/books/edition/The_Book_of_Common_Prayer/ba89AAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
Richard Crider, "Emma's Anglican Wedding," Christianity and Literature 28, no. 2 (1979): 34-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44310592
Rebecca Probert, "Control over Marriage in England and Wales, 1753-1823: The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 in Context," Law and History Review 27, no.2 (2009): 413-450. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40646019
Wendy Kennett, "The Place of Worship in Solemnization of a Marriage," Journal of Law and Religion 30, no.2 (2015): 260-294. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24739206
https://ew.com/awards/oscars/emma-costumes-alexandra-byrne/
Victoria & Albert Museum, examples of early 1800s wedding fashion: 1820s dress https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O63393/wedding-dress-unknown/ 1820 veil https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O359432/wedding-veil-unknown/ 1807 dress https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1261897/wedding-dress-unknown/ 1818 fashion plate https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O711008/bridal-dress-fashion-plate-unknown/
"""Harriet Innes-Ker (née Charlewood), Duchess of Roxburghe ('London Fashions for September 1806, taken Authentically from the full & half dresses of the Dutches of Roxborough as worn by her Grace on her Marriage in August last')"" published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
etching and line engraving, published 1806 7 1/4 in. x 5 1/4 in. (185 mm x 134 mm) paper size; acquired unknown source, 1930; Reference Collection NPG D47501 https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw279713/Harriet-Innes-Ker-ne-Charlewood-Duchess-of-Roxburghe-London-Fashions-for-September-1806-taken-Authentically-from-the-full--half-dresses-of-the-Dutches-of-Roxborough-as-worn-by-her-Grace-on-her-Marriage-in-August-last?LinkID=mp160026&role=art&rNo=7 "
David Cressy, "Trouble with Gypsies in Early Modern England," The Historical Journal 59, no.1 (2016): 45-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24809837
Yaron Matras, "The Historical Position of British Romani," in Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language, 57-94 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r23jh.8
Colin Clark, "'Severity has often enraged but never subdued a gipsy': The History and Making of European Romani Stereotypes," in Role of the Romanies: Images and Counter Images of 'Gypsies'/Romanies in European Cultures eds. Nicholas Saul and Susan Tebbutt, 226-246 (Liverpool University Press, 2004) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjjv0.19
Slate Interview with Autumn De Wilde: https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/emma-movie-autumn-de-wilde-interview-jane-austen-beck.html
Emma, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/emma_2020
Emma, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_(2020_film)
Ellie Harrison, "Queen's Gambit Star Reveals That She Can Make Her Nose Bleed on Cue," The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/anya-taylor-joy-emma-queens-gambit-b1767215.html
Portrait of Richard Cumberland, 1776, National Portrait Gallery. Available at https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw01669/Richard-Cumberland
National Portrait Gallery, Search Results for Years 1775-1825: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?search=ap&firstRun=true&title=&npgno=&eDate=1775&lDate=1825&medium=&subj=&set=&portraitplace=&searchCatalogue=&submitSearchTerm=Search
Leena Kim, "The History of the Pinkie Ring," Town and Country, available at https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/mens-fashion/a37937872/pinky-rings-meaning/
Alice Drum, "Pride and Prestige: Jane Austen and the Professions," College Literature 36, 3 (2009)
This week we're hopping into the DeLorean and going back to 1955 with Back to the Future! Join us as we get into just how creepy and unsettling this movie really is, "parking" with boys, Fantastic Story Magazine, the history of Black mayors in America, Chuck Berry's cousin Marvin, and more!
Sources:
"The Story of Johnny B. Goode," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jun/21/popandrock.vinylword
"Johnny B. Goode," Rolling Stone, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20061228112332/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595852/johnny_b_goode
Allen St. John, "How Back to the Future Inadvertently Dissed Chuck Berry," Forbes, available at https://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2017/03/19/how-back-to-the-future-inadvertently-dissed-late-rock-legend-chuck-berry/?sh=6984fd9e48b7
Jess Yarmosky and Meghna Chakrabarti, "The life and losses of politician Michael Tubbs," On Point WBUR (Nov. 17 2021). https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/11/17/michael-tubbs-stockton-one-of-americas-youngest-mayors-sets-the-record-straight
POV, "Black Mayors: Newark in Context," Street Fight POV PBS. http://archive.pov.org/streetfight/black-mayors-newark-in-context/ \
"List of first African-American mayors," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_African-American_mayors
Lexi Lonas, "Cities across US elect their first Black mayors," The Hill (Nov. 3, 2021) https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/579813-cities-across-us-elect-their-first-black-mayors/
James D. Wilson, Jr. "The Donaldsonville Incident of 1870: A Study of Local Party Dissension and Republican Infighting in Reconstruction Louisiana," Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 38, no.3 (1997): 329-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4233418
Euell A. Nielsen, "Pierre Caliste Landry (1841-1921)" Black Past (13 July 2016). https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/landry-pierre-caliste-1841-1921/
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Alex Schafran and Lisa M. Feldstein, "Black, Brown, White, and Green: Race, Land Use, and Environmental Politics in a Changing Richmond," Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs: History, Politics, and Prospects, ed. Christopher Niedt (Temple University Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14bstxs.11
"Fantastic Story Magazine," Bram Dijkstra Collection of Golden Age Pulp Magazines, SDSU University Library. https://libguides.sdsu.edu/c.php?g=1050496&p=7635274
David Bakan, "Adolescence in America: From Idea to Social Fact," Daedelus 100, 4 (1971)
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Ryan Gilbey, "How we made Back to the Future," The Guardian (25 August 2014) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/25/back-to-the-future-michael-j-fox-christopher-lloyd-how-we-made
https://www.backtothefuture.com/movies/backtothefuture1
Mindi Westhoff, "If Back to the Future Passed the Bechdel Test," HuffPost (20 November 2016) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/if-back-to-the-future-pas_b_8609324
"'Great Scott!' 'Back to the Future' Cast Reunites | TODAY" TODAY (21 October 2015); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgb3zk-5m4w
Philip Sledge, "Back to the Future: 10 Crazy Behind The Scenes Facts About the Movie," CinemaBlend (8 May 2020) https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2495653/back-to-the-future-crazy-behind-the-scenes-facts-about-the-movie
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/back_to_the_future
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/back-future-review-1985-movie-801103/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future#Reception
This week we're going back to 17th century Virginia with Disney's Pocahontas! Join us to learn about pugs, the promises of the Virginia Company, tattoos, Governor Ratcliffe, and more!
Sources:
IMDB, Pocahontas: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
The Making of Pocahontas, Documentary available at https://youtu.be/-78sG39u-3g
Pocahontas, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1063452-pocahontas
Roger Ebert Review, Pocahontas: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pocahontas-1995
John White, "Woman of the Secotan-Indians of North Carolina," 1585, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_carolina_algonkin-kleidung01.jpg
Edward L Bond, "Source of Knowledge, Source of Power: The Supernatural World of English Virginia, 1607-1624," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 108, 2 (2000)
AT Sinclair, "Tattooing of the North American Indians," American Anthropologist 11, 2 (1909)
Pocahontas, Powhatan Museum of Arts and Indigenous Culture, available at http://www.powhatanmuseum.com/Pocahontas.html
Joseph Highmore, Portrait of a Lady with a Pug Dog, painting reproduction available at https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/portrait-of-a-lady-with-a-pug-dog-70968
Portrait of a Lady From the Order of the Pug, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Attributed_to_Anna_Rosina_Lisiewska_-_Portrait_of_a_Lady_from_the_Order_of_the_Pug.png
William Hogarth, the Painter and His Pug, available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Painter_and_His_Pug_by_William_Hogarth.jpg
Photo of Mausoleum of William the Silent, available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/14806345853
Pugs, American Kennel Club, available at https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeds/pug-history-ancient-companion-origins/
Laura D. Gelfand, Our Dogs, Ourselves: Dogs in Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society. Brill, 2016
Forrest K. Lehman, "Settled Place, Contested Past: Reconciling George Percy's "A Trewe Relacyon" with John Smith's "Generall Historie," Early American Literature 42:2 (2007): 235-61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25057497
Jeffrey L. Sheler, "Rethinking Jamestown," Smithsonian Magazine (January 2005) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rethinking-jamestown-105757282/
John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles: together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.0262a/?st=gallery (82-106)
Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings ed. Karen Ordahl Kupperman (University of North Carolina, 1988) 79-132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807839317_kupperman.9
Martin H. Quitt, "Trade and Acculturation at Jamestown, 1607-1609: The Limits of Understanding," The William and Mary Quarterly 52:2 (1995): 227-258. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2946974
Walter L. Hixson, ""No Savage Shall Inherit the Land": The Indian Enemy Other, Indiscriminate Warfare, and American National Identity, 1607-1783," U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other eds. Michael Patrick Cullinane and David Ryan, 16-41 (Bergahn Books, 2015). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qct9n.4
Virginia Bernhard, "Poverty and the Social Order in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 85:2 (1977): 141-155. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4248117
Misha Ewen, ""Poore Soules": Migration, Labor, and Visions for Commonwealth in Virginia," in Virginia 1619: Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America eds. Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn, 133-149 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469651811_musselwhite.11
Hugh T. Lefler, "Promotional Literature of the Southern Colonies," The Journal of Southern History 33:1 (1967): 3-25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2204338
This week we're going back to the Middle Ages with David Lowery's The Green Knight! Join us as we talk about St. Winfred's head, sumptuary laws, camera obscura, horrifying puppets, and more!
Sources:
The Life of St. Winifred, Golden Legend Volume VI, available at https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/goldenlegend/GoldenLegend-Volume6.asp#Winifred
"Camera Obscura," History of Science Museum, available at https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/camera-obscura
"When Was the Camera Invented? Everything You Need to Know." NFI, available at https://www.nfi.edu/when-was-the-camera-invented/#:~:text=While%20historians%20generally%20accept%20that,one%20he%20made%20around%201826.
Brian Tallerico, "The Green Knight," RogerEbert.com (July 30, 2021) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-green-knight-movie-review-2021
Mark Kermode, "The Green Knight review - a rich and wild fantasy," The Guardian (26 September 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/26/the-green-knight-review-david-lowery-dev-patel-gawain
Alissa Wilkinson, "The Green Knight is glorious and a little baffling. Let's untangle it." Vox (30 July 2021) https://www.vox.com/22585318/green-knight-explained-ending-spoilers-girdle-winifred-temptation
Richard Brody, ""The Green Knight," Reviewed: David Lowery's Boldly Modern Revision of a Medieval Legend," The New Yorker (August 3, 2021), https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-green-knight-reviewed-david-lowerys-boldly-modern-revision-of-a-medieval-legend
CinemaBlend, "Dev Patel & Joel Edgerton | 'The Green Knight' Interview" (July 27, 2021), https://youtu.be/VSW1ZBd2ARY
Anatomy of a Scene, "Take a Journey with Dev Patel in 'The Green Knight'" (July 30, 2021) https://youtu.be/Hc_SJ7dZQc4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Knight_(film)
Romance of Lancelot du Lac Bodleian Library MS. Raw. Q. b. 6, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cee84920-8cef-42f4-afa3-7fcd97ea55f1/
"Fashion Rules: a 14th century Knight's livery," St. John's College, University of Cambridge https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/mens-fashion#:~:text=English%20Sumptuary%20Laws%20were%20imposed,%2C%20furniture%2C%20jewellery%20and%20clothing.
"Sumptuous Origins," What (Not) to Wear: Fashion and the Law, Harvard Law School Historical & Special Collections' exhibits, https://exhibits.law.harvard.edu/purple-silk-and-cloth-gold
W. Mark Ormrod, "Landed Society, Conspicuous Consumption and the Political Economy: The Sumptuary Laws of 1363," in Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England (Boydell & Brewer, 2021), 74-82, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1grbbh2.9
Louise M. Sylvester, Mark C. Chambers, and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain: A Multilingual Sourcebook (Boydell & Brewer, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt7zstfh.16 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt7zstfh.14
David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066-1284 (London: Penguin, 2004).
Nicholas Orme, "The Culture of Children in Medieval England," Past & Present 148 (1995): 48-88. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651048
Frances K. Barasch, "Shakespeare and the Puppet Sphere," English Literary Renaissance 34:2 (2004): 157-175. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24463671
Victoria & Albert Museum, "A history of puppets in Britain," https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/a-history-of-puppets-in-britain#slideshow=21816336&slide=0
This week we're back with a new episode on Atomic Blonde! Join us as we learn about breakdancing in East Berlin, Stasi defectors, the 1989 East German student protests, Cold War British traitors, and more!
Sources:
Nicole Sperling, "How Atomic Blonde Got Its Most Insane Action Sequence," GQ, available at https://www.gq.com/story/atomic-blonde-david-leitch
Peter Debruge, "How the Atomic Blonde Team Pulled Off the Incredible One-Take Action Sequence," Variety, available at https://variety.com/2017/artisans/production/atomic-blonde-10-minute-action-scene-charlize-theron-1202512814/
Atomic Blonde, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2406566/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Blonde
Philip Oltermann, "Enemies Everywhere: Photos Show the Absurdity of Life Under the Stasi," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/enemies-everywhere-photos-show-absurdity-life-under-stasi-east-germany
Sean Lavery, "The Personal Side of an East German Spy's Defection, in 'Betrayal'," New York Magazine, August 5 2020.
Leonard Schmieding, "Of Windmills, Headspins, and Powermoves," Ambivalent Americanizations 65-85 (2008). https://www.academia.edu/download/55926808/Leonard_Schmieding_2008_Of_Windmills__Headspins__and_Powermoves.pdf
Michael Hoyler and Christoph Mager, "HipHop ist im Haus: Cultural Policy, Community Centres, and the Making of Hip-Hop Music in Germany," Built Environment 31, no.3 (2005): 237-254. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23289442
Paul Lashmar, Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv182jrfz.16
Chapman Pincher, "Their Trade is Treachery: A Retrospective," in Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 edited by Christopher R. Moran and Christopher J. Murphy, 281-288 (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgsh7.23
Richard Aldrich, "British Intelligence During the Cold War," in Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989, edited by Jonathan Haslam and Karina Urbach, 149-69 (Stanford University Press, 2014) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqsdp7h.9
Timothy Heritage and Polina Ivanova, "George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98," Reuters (26 December 2020), https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-people-george-blake/george-blake-last-in-line-of-cold-war-spies-who-betrayed-britain-dies-at-98-idUSKBN29009J
Richard W. Stevenson, "John Cairncross, Fifth Briton In Soviet Spy Ring, Dies at 82," New York Times (10 October 1995) https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/10/world/john-cairncross-fifth-briton-in-soviet-spy-ring-dies-at-82.html
"The Queen's Buckingham Palace Garden Parties," https://www.royal.uk/queens-buckingham-palace-garden-parties
https://www.vulture.com/2017/07/lets-talk-about-the-ending-of-atomic-blonde.html
Andrew Roth, "Lady Park of Monmouth Obituary: Senior MI6 officer, diplomat and Tory peer, she was known as the 'Queen of Spies'" The Guardian 28 March 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/daphne-park-obituary
BBC Nine O'Clock News, October 10th 1989: https://youtu.be/wXE8vgbk1Bo?t=976
Susanne Lohmann, "The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989-1991," World Politics 47, 1 (1994)
Marko Grdesic, "Television and Protest in East Germany's Revolution, 1989-1990," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 47, 1 (2014)
David Remnick, "East Germans Stage Protest," Washington Post, 8 October 1989. Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/10/08/east-germans-stage-protest/4bd87ba6-de59-43ee-9aab-1b6fdb03bd77/
Today we're going back to 14th-century Scotland with Outlaw King! Join us as we get into artichokes, William Wallace's body, The Battle of Loudon Hill, Robert the Bruce's long-suffering wife Elizabeth, and more! Sources:
Gabriella Sonnante et al, "The Domestication of the Artichoke and Cardoon: From Roman Times to the Genomic Age," Annals of Botany 100, 5 (2007)
John H Harvey, "Vegetables in the Middle Ages," Garden History 12, 2 (1984)
Felicity Heal, "Food Gifts, the Household, and the Politics of Exchange in Early Modern England," Past and Present 199 (2008)
J.R. Davies, "The execution of William Wallace: the earliest account." Breaking of Britain 1216-1314 (University of Glasgow, 2011). https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/80622/1/80622.pdf
Murray Dahm, "Plucked from the notes of song: Blind Harry and the sources for William Wallace," Medieval Warfare 4:3 (2014):9-12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48578348
James J. Coleman, "'Not Servile and Conquered, but Free and Independent': Commemorating William Wallace and Robert the Bruce," in Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commemoration, Nationality and Memory (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt14brwv8.7
Graeme Morton, "Chronicles of Wallace," in William Wallace: A National Tale (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b4nt.7
David H. Caldwell, "Scottish Spearmen, 1298-1314: An Answer to Cavalry," War in History 19:3 (July 2012): 267-289. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26098476
Michael Brown, "The Bannockburn War (1307-13)" in Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323 (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r298b.8
Conor McCarthy, "Outside the Law in the Middle Ages," Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 21-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv10kmcwf.5
BBC Bitesize, "The Battle of Loudoun Hill, 1307," https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8g86sg/articles/zfptwty
Susan Abernathy, "Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scotland," Medievalists.net, available at https://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/elizabeth-de-burgh-queen-scotland/
David Mackay, "Robert the Bruce Died 700 Years Ago. . . But He's Still Paying 5 Pounds to This Church Every Year," The Press and Journal, available at https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/1068815/moray-church-still-receiving-money-from-robert-the-bruce-700-years-later/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_King
Anthony D'Alessandro, "'Outlaw King' Filmmaker David Mackenzie Trims Netflix Epic By 20 Minutes Post Toronto Premiere," Deadline (23 September 2018), https://deadline.com/2018/09/netflix-chris-pine-outlaw-king-recut-by-david-mackenzie-post-tiff-premiere-1202469711/
Peter Bradshaw, "Outlaw King review- bold, watchable portrait of Robert the Bruce," The Guardian (9 November 2018). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/09/outlaw-king-review-bold-watchable-portrait-of-robert-the-bruce-chris-pine
Meilan Solly, "The True Story of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's 'Outlaw King'" Smithsonian Magazine (8 November 2018) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-robert-bruce-scotlands-outlaw-king-180970756/
Annie Howard, "Chris Pine Talks Full-Frontal Scene in 'Outlaw King': "It Was Important," The Hollywood Reporter (7 September 2018), https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/chris-pine-talks-full-frontal-scene-outlaw-king-it-was-important-watch-tiff-2018-1140079/
This week we're going back to 1840s California with the Mask of Zorro! Join us to learn about children in Catholic missions, the truly weird story of a guy named Harry Love and the head of Joaquin Murrieta, the dons of California, and more! Sources
Cecilia Rasmussen, "Early Lawman Overshadowed by His Quarry," Los Angeles Times, available at https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-me-then12-story.html
Full Documentary, "The Head of Joaquin Murrieta," Available at https://vimeo.com/189559216
Fronteras, Interview with John Valadez, available at https://video.pbswisconsin.org/video/fronteras_krwg-head-joaquin-murrieta-john-valadez/
Mask of Zorro, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mask_of_zorro
"Steven Spielberg Had to Talk Martin Campbell Into Making Mask of Zorro," SlashFilm, available at https://www.slashfilm.com/778799/the-wizard-of-oz-almost-premiered-without-its-signature-song/
Roger Ebert's Review of Mask of Zorro: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mask-of-zorro-1998
Mask of Zorro, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Zorro
Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr., We Are the Land: A History of Native California (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021).
Martin Rizzo-Martinez, "First Were Taken the Children, and Then the Parents Followed," We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), : https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv270kv7w.7 .
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, "Junipero Serra's Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias," in The Worlds of Junipero Serra: Historical Contexts and Cultural Representations edited by Steven W. Hackel (University of California Press); https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt2050wrm.12
Kevin Starr, California: A History (New York: The Modern Library, 2015).
"Mexican California," Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/california-first-person-narratives/articles-and-essays/early-california-history/mexican-california/
"Kumeyaay - The Rancho Period," https://www.kumeyaay.com/kumeyaay-the-rancho-period.html
Philip Laverty, "The Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation of Monterey, California: Dispossession, Federal Neglect, and the Bitter Irony of the Federal Acknowledgement Process," Wicazo Sa Review 18:2 (2003):41-77.
Today we're headed back to the long-ago days of 1988 with Donnie Darko! Join us as we learn about book banning, electric hand dryers, teen cocaine use, "cellar door", and more!
Sources:
Banned Books:
Leonard Kniffel, "The Dangerous Modern Library List," American Libraries 29, 8 (1998)
Eleanor Diaz and James LaRue, "50 Years of Intellectual Freedom," American Libraries 48, 11-12 (2016)
BOARD OF EDUCATION, ISLAND TREES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 26 et al., Petitioners, v. Steven A. PICO, by his next friend Frances Pico et al. Available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/457/853
Banned and Challenged Books, ALA, available at https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics
Graham Greene, The Destructors, full text available at https://100mudcats.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/destructors.pdf
Teen Cocaine Use:
Joseph Moreau, ""I Learned it by Watching YOU!" The Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the Attack on "Responsible Use" Education in the 1980s," Journal of Social History 49:3 (Spring 2016): 710-37. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43920720
Richard A. Miech, Howard Chilcoat, and Valerie Harder, "The increase in the association of education and cocaine use over the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence for a 'historical period' effect," Drug and Alcohol Dependence 79 (2005):311-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.01.022
Robert A. Johnson and Dean R. Gerstein, "Initiation of Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, Marijuana, Cocaine, and Other Substances in US Birth Cohorts since 1919," American Journal of Public Health 88:1 (1998): 27-33. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.27
Jenifer Hamil-Luker, Kenneth C. Land, and Judith Blau, "Diverse trajectories of cocaine use through early adulthood among rebellious and socially conforming youth," Social Science Research 33 (2004): 300-21.
Hand Dryers:
Handy Andy' hand dryer Photograph, Gift of General Electric Company Limited, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.26400145
Ernie Smith, "The Weird History of Hand Dryers Will Blow You Away," Atlas Obscura 24 August 2015, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-weird-history-of-hand-dryers-will-blow-you-away
Samanth Subramanian, "Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands," The Guardian 25 April 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/25/hand-dryers-paper-towels-hygiene-dyson-airblade
Background:
Jeff Izaha, "What the Hell is 'Donnie Darko' About, Anyway?" Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/donnie-darko-20th-anniversary-richard-kelly-interview-1245435/
Phil Hoad, "How we made Donnie Darko," The Guardian 12 December 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/12/how-we-made-donnie-darko-jake-gyllenhaal
Megan Summers, "10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Jake Gyllenhaal's Cult Classic Donnie Darko," ScreenRant 26 July 2020 https://screenrant.com/donnie-darko-behind-the-scenes/
"Donnie Darko" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko
Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/donnie_darko
Cellar Door:
Leslie Jones, JRR Tolkien: A Biography. Greenwood Biographies, 2003.
David Crystal, "Phonoaesthetically Speaking," Available at https://www.davidcrystal.com/Files/BooksAndArticles/-4009.pdf
Harriet Powney, "What's the Loveliest Word in the English Language?" The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/may/25/mind-your-language-loveliest-word
This week we're going back to the 1970s with Thunderheart! Join us as we learn about FBI jurisdiction on Native American reservations, the American Indian Movement, the Pine Ridge reservation, and more! Sources:
"What We Investigate: Indian Country Crime," FBI.gov: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/indian-country-crime
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/Public-Law%2083-280
Stewart Wakeling et al, "Policing on American Indian Reservations," US Department of Justice. July 2001
Maura Douglas, "Sufficiently Criminal Ties: Expanding VAWA Criminal Jurisdiction for Indian Tribes," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 166, 3 (2018)
Rebecca A Hart and M. Alexander Lowther, "Honoring Sovereignty: Aiding Tribal Efforts to Protect Native American Women from Domestic Violence," California Law Review 96, 1 (2008)
Roger Ebert Review, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/thunderheart-1992
Sam Pack, "The Best of Both Worlds: Otherness, Appropriation, and Identity in Thunderheart," Wicazo Sa Review 16, 2 (2001)
TV Reed, "Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian," Wicazo Sa Review 16, 2 (2001)
"Who is Native American, and Who Decides That?" NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2012/11/01/164101913/who-is-native-american-and-who-decides-that
Circe Sturm, "How the Native American Population Increased 87% Says More About Whiteness Than About Demographics," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/how-the-native-american-population-in-the-us-increased-87-says-more-about-whiteness-than-about-demographics-170920
Sarah Viren, "The Native Scholar Who Wasn't," New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderheart
American Experience, "Wounded Knee" We Shall Remain https://youtu.be/DgKJ6UTRMJ4
Kenny Rogers/ History Channel https://youtu.be/lJxqMAopPuA
Charles Trimble, "Honor the Goons? Never!" Indian Country Today https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/honor-the-goons-never
John M. Crewdson, "2 F.B.I. Men Die, Indian Reported Slain in a Sioux Village Near Wounded Knee," The New York Times (27 February 1975):1, 6. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/06/27/issue.html
Grace Lichtenstein, "16 Sioux Sought by F.B.I. In the Slaying of 2 Agents," The New York Times (28 June 1975): 1, 12. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/06/28/78253597.html?pageNumber=1
Molly Ivins, "5 Years After Wounded Knee, Elections Show Tribal Splits," The New York Times (24 February 1978): 12. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/02/24/110934343.html?pageNumber=12
"It's time to free Leonard Peltier, America's longest serving political prisoner," Scheer Intelligence, KCRW (3 Dec. 2021), https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/its-time-to-free-leonard-peltier-americas-longest-serving-political-prisoner
"June 26, 1975," Leonard (podcast); https://leonard.buzzsprout.com/1176053/4324784-june-26-1975?t=0
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/resmurs-case-reservation-murders
C-SPAN, "1989 - American Indian Activist Russell Means testifies at Senate Hearing," YouTube (posted 24 October 2012), https://youtu.be/xVANRroxuOo
Kevin McKiernan, "Agnes Lamont - Oglala Sioux on Pine Ridge Reservation," MPR Archive, https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1974/08/30/agnes-lamont-oglala-sioux-on-pine-ridge-reservation
https://libguides.usd.edu/abourezk-woundedknee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abourezk
PBS Newshour "Why the Sioux Are Refusing $1.3 Billion," PBS/YouTube (24 August 2011) https://youtu.be/ObabZdcEXh4
Delilah Friedler, ""Get the Hell Off": The Indigenous Fight to Stop a Uranium Mine in the Black Hills," Mother Jones March/April 2020 Issue, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/the-black-hills-are-not-for-sale/
This week we're traveling back to the late nineteenth (?) or early twentieth (?) century with Blake Edwards' The Great Race! Join us as we get into bad fencing, parachutes, suffragists, car races, songs about domestic violence, and more! Sources:
Parachutes:
"First Parachute Jump is Made Over Paris," History.com, available at https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-parachutist
Jimmy Stamp, "An Early History of the Parachute," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/an-early-history-of-the-parachute-951312/
Suffragists:
Krista Cowman, "Doing Something Silly: The Uses of Humour by the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914," International Review of Social History 52, 15 (2007)
CJ Bearman, "An Army Without Discipline? Suffragette Militancy and the Budget Crisis of 1909," Historical Journal 50, 4 (2007)
Laura E Nym Mayhall, "Defining Militancy: Radical Protest, the Constitutional Idiom, and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1908-1909," Journal of British Studies 39, 3 (2000)
The Exploress Podcast, "Silent No More: American Womens' Fight for Their Rights," Available at https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2020/10/28/silent-no-more-womens-suffrage
Car Racing:
Karen Abbott, "Paris or Bust: The Great New York-to-Paris Auto Race of 1908," Smithsonian Magazine (March 7, 2012) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/paris-or-bust-the-great-new-york-to-paris-auto-race-of-1908-116784616/
Sherry J. Holladay and W. Timothy Coombs, "The great automobile race of 1908 as a public relations phenomenon: Lessons from the past," Public Relations Review 39, no.2 (June 2013): 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.12.002
"Omaha, a Stop on the Great Race of 1908," History Nebraska, https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/omaha-stop-great-race-1908
"1908 New York to Paris Great Race," Ames History Museum, https://ameshistory.org/tribunearchives/1908-new-york-paris-great-race
"Longest Auto Race That Ever Took Place: Long-Lost Pictures Show Victor's Woes," LIFE (23 May 1955), https://books.google.com/books?id=rVYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=%22Great+Race%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjajZaDzq_1AhUAkIkEHTvhDAAQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Great%20Race%22&f=false
"T. Walter Williams of The Times Dies," The New York Times 10 November 1942, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/11/10/87399371.html?pageNumber=27
Songs About Domestic Violence:
Michael Lasser, City Songs and America Life, 1900-1950 (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), 120-150.
Henrietta Yurchenco, ""Blues Fallin' Down Like Hail" Recorded Blues, 1920s-1940s," American Music 13, no.4 (Winter 1995): 448-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052403
https://genius.com/Ma-rainey-see-see-rider-blues-lyrics
David Monod, Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925, (University of North Caroline Press, 2020), 51-90.
Vaudeville Nation, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/vaudeville/roots.html
The American Vaudeville Museum Archive https://vaudeville.library.arizona.edu/collections/
From the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn02zySmtvc
Film Background:
https://exhibits.library.gsu.edu/current/exhibits/show/johnnymercer/collaborations/henrymancini
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race
David Zeitlin, "Greatest pie fight ever creates a horrendous SPLAAT!" LIFE (9 July 1965) https://books.google.com/books?id=R1MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743232/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1008852-great_race
This week we're traveling back to 1920s France with A Very Long Engagement! Join us to learn about the amazing story of that time the president of France fell out of a train in his pajamas, the No Man's Land, WWI-era aircraft, the Paris Flood of 1910, and more!
Sources:
Film Background:
Rotten Tomatoes, A Very Long Engagement: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_very_long_engagement_2004
Roger Ebert Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-very-long-engagement-2004
Liza Bear, "Jean-Pierre Jeunet, With a Distaste for War, on His Bittersweet 'A Very Long Engagement'", IndieWire: https://www.indiewire.com/2004/11/jean-pierre-jeunet-with-a-distaste-for-war-on-his-bittersweet-a-very-long-engagement-78528/
Execution and the No Man's Land:
Nicholas Atkin, Petain. Routledge, 1998.
Self Harm and Hand Wounding, National Archives, UK: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/loyalty-dissent/self-harm-hand-wounding/
John Sweeney, "Lest We Forget: The 306 'Cowards' We Executed in the First World War," The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/nov/14/firstworldwar.uk
William A. Pelz, "Protest and Mutiny Confront Mass Slaughter: Europeans in WWI," A People's History of Modern Europe, Pluto Press.
Steven R. Welch, "Military Justice," The International Encyclopedia of the First World War, Available at https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/military_justice
Bentley B. Gilbert and Paul P. Bernard, "The French Army Mutinies of 1917," The Historian 22, 1 (1959)
Douglas Gill and Gloden Dallas, "Mutiny in Etaples Base in 1917," Past and Present 69, 1975.
Airpower in WWI:
Malcolm Cooper, "The Development of Air Policy and Doctrine on the Western Front, 1914-1918," Aerospace Historian 28, 1 (1981)
"Who Killed the Red Baron?" Nova, available at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/race-nf.html
Ellen Castelow, "WWI: The Battle for the Skies," available at https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/World-War-One-The-Battle-for-the-Skies/
The 1910 Paris Flood:
Nalina Eggert, "When Paris was under water for two months," BBC News 3 June 2016, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36443329
The Guardian, "Flooding in Paris in 1910," 7 January 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/weather/gallery/2010/jan/07/paris-france-great-flood-1910
Ishaan Tharoor, "What Paris looked like the last time floods were this bad," The Washington Post 3 June 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/03/what-paris-looked-like-the-last-time-floods-were-this-bad/
Paul Simons, "The great Paris flood of 1910," The Times (London), 19 February 2020, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-great-paris-flood-of-1910-3rmlz22mw
Pierre-Alain Roche, "The Seine River Flooding in the Ile-de-France Region" OECD https://www.oecd.org/env/cc/33995401.pdf
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.), 18 Feb. 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99062049/1910-02-18/ed-1/seq-9/
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.), 28 Jan. 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085947/1910-01-28/ed-1/seq-1/
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.), 07 Feb. 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1910-02-07/ed-1/seq-1/
Associated Press, "Grim Specter Stalks Over Paris," Weekly Journal Miner 2 February 1910 (Prescott, AZ), https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85032923/1910-02-02/ed-1/seq-1/
United Press, "Paris Flood Now Abating; Fight to Prevent Disease," Perth Amboy Evening News (Perth Amboy, NJ) 29 January 1910, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85035720/1910-01-29/ed-2/seq-1/
"Scientific American, ""Lessons of the Paris Flood."" 102, no. 6 (February 5, 1910): 118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26008227
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President Deschanel and the Train:
Edwin L. James, "Deschanel Escape Thrills France," The New York Times 25 May 1920, https://nyti.ms/323VKcW
Laurence Hills, "M. Deschanel Escapes Death," The Sun and the New York Herald 25 May 1920, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030273/1920-05-25/ed-1/seq-1/
Ralph Courtney, "President of France Falls From Fast Train at Night," New York Tribune 25 May 1920, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-05-25/ed-1/seq-1/
Associated Press, "Deschanel in Pajamas Falls Off Moving Train," Evening Public Ledger Philadelphia, PA, 24 May 1920, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1920-05-24/ed-1/seq-1/
"French President Falls From Moving Train But Is Not Missed for 40 Miles," The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]), 24 May 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1920-05-24/ed-1/seq-1/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-very-long-engagement-2004
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344510/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Long_Engagement
This week we're traveling back to 19th century America with Greta Gerwig's Little Women! Join us as we learn more about selling hair, scarlet fever, women catching fire, women's colleges, and more!
Sources:
Hair Selling:
Elisabeth G. Gitter, "The Power of Women's Hair in the Victorian Imagination," PMLA 99, 5 (1984)
JM Allen, "Monster Topknots and Balloon Chignons: Purity and Contamination in the False Hair Trade," University of Salford, 2018: https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/44308/3/Monster%20top%20knots.pdf
"The Trade in Human Hair," March 1869, available at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-trade-in-human-hair/
Emma Tarlo, "The Secret History of Buying and Selling Hair," Smithsonian, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-history-buying-and-selling-hair-180961080/
Women's Colleges:
Roberta Wein, "Women's Colleges and Domesticity, 1875-1918," History of Educatio Quarterly 14, 1 (1974)
"First Students Arrive at Mt. Holyoke Seminary," MassMoments, available at https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/first-students-arrive-at-mt-holyoke-seminary.html
Erich M. Studer-Ellis, "Springboard to Mortarboard: Women's College Foundings in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania," Social Forces 73, 3 (1995)
Background:
RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/little_women_2019
A.O. Scott, "'Little Women' Review: This Movie is Big" New York Times; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/movies/little-women-review.html
"Notes on a Scene" Vanity Fair YouTube https://youtu.be/Li9ff4rQlck
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(2019_film)
Women Catching Fire:
Alison Matthews David, "Blazing Ballet Girls and Flannelette Shrouds: Fabric, Fire, and Fear in the Long Nineteenth Century," TEXTILE, 14, no.2 (2016): 244-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2016.1139382
"A Shocking Accident." The Indiana Sentinel 23 June 1874, p.5. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87056600/1874-06-23/ed-1/seq-5/
"Pungent Paragraphs," The Republican. (Oakland, Md.), 12 Feb. 1887. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88065202/1887-02-12/ed-1/seq-6/
"Accidents." The Canton Advocate (Canton, SD) 13 January 1881. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025440/1881-01-13/ed-1/seq-1/
Ceredo Advance (Ceredo, WV) 31 march 1887), 1. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092392/1887-03-31/ed-1/seq-1/
"Too Many Women." Pittsburg Dispatch 14 September 1890, p.20. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024546/1890-09-14/ed-1/seq-20/
Scarlet Fever:
Regina Radikas and Cindy Connolly, "Young patients in a young nation: scarlet fever in early nineteenth century rural New England," Pediatric Nursing 33, no. 1 (2007).
Karl F. Meyer, "Principles of Prophylaxis Against Typhoid Fever, Whooping-Cough, Scarlet Fever and Smallpox," California and Western Medicine XXXVII, no. 6 (1932). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1658460/pdf/calwestmed00442-0002.pdf
Melanie A. Kiechle, "Learning to Smell Again: Managing the Air between the Civil War and Germ Theory," in Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (University of Washington Press, 2017) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwnp2p.11
C. Killick Millard, "The Etiology of "Return Cases" Of Scarlet Fever," The British Medical Journal 2, no. 1966 (September 1898): 614-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20255715
Robert Milne, "The Home Treatment Of Scarlet Fever," The British Medical Journal, 2, no. 2496 (October 1908): 1333-34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25279631
Frances E. Morley, "Scarlet Fever: Isolation and Disinfection," The American Journal of Nursing 1, no.8 (May 1901): 558-61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3402124
"The Scarlet Fever Epidemic," Scientific American 36, no. 7 (February 1877): 105. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26055536
"Scarlet Fever." The Portland daily press 9 December 1885, p.2 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016025/1885-12-09/ed-1/seq-2/
"Scarlet Fever: All You Need to Know" CDC https://www.cdc.gov/groupastrep/diseases-public/scarlet-fever.html
This week we're traveling back to 1940s Ireland with The Secret of Roan Inish! Join us to learn more about selkie lore, the evacuation of Irish islands, currachs, the history of education in Ireland, and more!
Sources:
Film Background:
Popcorn, Dailies, and Guiness: John Sayles on the Making The Secret of Roan Inish. Cinemontage: https://cinemontage.org/popcorn-dailies-and-guinness-the-secret-of-the-making-of-roan-inish/
Roger Ebert Review, Secret of Roan Inish: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-secret-of-roan-inish-1995
IMDB page, Secret of Roan Inish: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111112/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Currachs:
Claidhbh O Gibne, "Newgrange Currach," Archaeology Ireland 24, 3 (2010)
Tony Curtis, "Currach," The Poetry Island Review 74 (2002)
Evacuation of Islands:
Patricia Lysaght, "Paradise Lost? Leaving the Great Blasket," Bealoideas 74 (2006)
Patrick Freyne, "The Last of the Blasket Evacuees: We're Not Great Mixers on the Mainland." Irish Times, available at https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-last-of-the-blasket-evacuees-we-weren-t-great-mixers-on-the-mainland-1.1831611
Timothy J White and Andrew Riley, "Irish Neutrality in World War II: A Review Essay," Irish Studies in International Affairs 19 (2008)
"Evacuation Marks the End of an Era as Last Families Leave the Blaskets," 1953, Reprinted in the Independent: https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/evacuation-marks-end-of-an-era-as-last-families-leave-the-blaskets-27370752.html
Irish Education:
Kenneth Milne, "hedge schools" and "national schools" in The Oxford Companion to Irish History, edited by S.J. Connolly (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 237-8, 384.
Senia Paseta, Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003).
O'Donovan Rossa, Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary (Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2004).
T.J. O Ceallaigh and Aine Ni Dhonnabhain, "Reawakening the Irish Language through the Irish Education System: Chellenges and Priorities," IEJEE 8, no.2 (2015): 179-98. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1085869.pdf
Paddy Dolan, "Balances between civilising processes and offensives: Adult-child relations in Irish primary schools from the mid-nineteenth century," Human Figurations 4, no.1 (2015). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0004.105/%E2%80%94balances-between-civilising-processes-and-offensives-adult?rgn=main;view=fulltext
Moira J. Maguire and Séamus Ó. Cinnéide, "'A Good Beating Never Hurt Anyone': The Punishment and Abuse of Children in Twentieth Century Ireland," Journal of Social History 38, no.3 (2005): 635-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3790648
Selkies:
Peter Le Couteur, "Slipping Off the Sealskin: Gender, Species, and Fictive Kinship in Selkie Folktales," Gender Forum 55 (2015): 55-82. http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201509CompleteIssueAnimals.pdf#page=58
T.J. Westropp, "A Study of Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland (Continued)," Folklore 32, no.2 (1921): 101-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1255238
Get ready to see something nasty in the woodshed, because this week we're talking about Cold Comfort Farm! Join us to learn about 1920s Kenya, horrible Jell-O dishes, and the Girl Guides. Plus, Sofia delivers a tutorial on reading tea leaves, which Jamie fails in spectacular fashion.
Sources:
1920s Kenya:
Brett L. Shadle, The souls of white folk: White settlers in Kenya, 1900s-1920s (Manchester University Press, 2015), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5hjh .
Marc H. Dawson, "The 1920s Anti-Yaws Campaigns and Colonial Medical Policy in Kenya," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 3 (1987): 417-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/219687
C.J.D. Duder and C.P. Youe, "Paice's Place: Race and Politics in Nanyuki District, Kenya, in the 1920s," African Affairs 93, no. 371 (April 1994): 253-78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/723844
Martin S. Shanguhyia, "Integrating African Traditions in Environmental Control in Western Kenya: Contradictions and Failure in Colonial Policy, 1920-1963," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 49, no.1 (2016): 23-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44715441
John Overton, "The Origins of the Kikuyu Land Problem: Land Alienation and Land Use in Kiambu, Kenya, 1895-1920," African Studies Review 31, no.2 (September 1988): 109-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/524421
Reading Tea Leaves:
Laurel Dalrymple, "For Centuries, People Have Searched For Answers In The Bottom Of A Tea Cup," NPR (1 September 2015), https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/01/434621010/for-centuries-people-have-searched-for-answers-in-the-bottom-of-a-tea-cup .
Cicely Kent, Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1922. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Telling_Fortunes_by_Tea_Leaves/lrY2y1zHnWoC?hl=en&gbpv=0
Nicholas J. Crowley and Charles William Sharpe, "An old fortune-teller is reading a young woman's fortune by looking at tea leaves at the bottom of a cup." Engravings (1842). https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.24858455
Film Background:
Roger Ebert, "Cold Comfort Farm," RogerEbert.com (24 May 1996). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cold-comfort-farm-1996
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1071769-cold_comfort_farm
Wiki for John Schlesinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schlesinger
Wiki for the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Comfort_Farm_(film)
Jell-O and Jellies:
Macedoine and Other Eccentric Jellies, Food History Jottings: http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/2013/06/macedoine-and-other-eccentric-victorian.html
A High Victorian Dessert at Harewood: https://www.historicfood.com/events%202009-10.html
Brette Warshaw, "Fancy Jello Dishes During the Great Depression," Food52, available at https://food52.com/blog/7616-fancy-jell-o-during-the-great-depression
Sarah Grey, "The Social History of Jell-o Salad: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon," Serious Eats, available at https://www.seriouseats.com/history-of-jell-o-salad
Emma Grahn and Caitlin Kearney, "Tasting the 1930s: An Experiment with Congealed Salads and Other One-Dish Wonders," National Museum of American History, available at https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/tasting-1930s-experiment-congealed-salads-and-other-one-dish-wonders
Carolyn Wyman, "Jello: A Biography," Harvest Books, 2001.
Girl Guides:
Richard A. Voeltz, "The Antidote to Khaki Fever? The Expansion of British Girl Guides During the First World War," Journal of Contemporary History 27, 4 (1992)
"100 Years of Girl Guides," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2009/aug/21/girl-guides-centenary
This week we're traveling back to 1940s LA with Zoot Suit! Join us to learn more about the zoot suit style, the history of the word "Chicano", the CIO's work on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, and the real fate of main character Henry Leyvas. *
*Note: Sofia would like to let readers know that she had a long day prior to recording this and was bitten by the "um" bug, so thank you for your understanding.
Sources:
Film Background:
Siskel and Ebert Review, Zoot Suit: https://siskelebert.org/?p=7033
Center Theater Group, "How 'Zoot Suit' Changed Theater Forever." https://www.centertheatregroup.org/news-and-blogs/news/2017/january/how-zoot-suit-changed-theatre-forever/
Robert Ito, "Zoot Suit, a Pioneering Play, Comes Full Circle," New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/theater/zoot-suit-a-pioneering-chicano-play-comes-full-circle.html
Zoot Suit, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083365/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Chicano:
Google Books Ngram, Chicano: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chicano&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cchicano%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cchicano%3B%2Cc0
Jose Limon, "The Folk Performance of Chicano and the Cultural Limits of Political Ideology," Unpublished working paper, UCLA.
Code Switch, "You Say Chicano, I Say. . ." Available at https://www.npr.org/transcripts/718703438
Henry Leyvas:
"Enrique "Henry" Reyes Leyvas (1923-1971)," American Experience, PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/zoot-enrique-henry-reyes-leyvas/.
"Sleepy Lagoon Trial: The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial of 12," Zoot Suit Discovery Guide. https://research.pomona.edu/zootsuit/en/trial/ .
Sleepy Lagoon Trial Photos: https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog?f%5Bsubject_sim%5D%5B%5D=Sleepy+Lagoon+Trial%2C+Los+Angeles%2C+1942-1943&sort=title_alpha_numeric_ssort+asc
Zoot Suits:
Kathy Peiss, Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fhn0m
Stuart Cosgrove, "The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare," History Workshop 18 (1984): 77-91. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4288588.
Steve Chibnall, "Whistle and Zoot: The Changing Meaning of a Suit of Clothes," History Workshop 20 (1985): 56-81. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4288649.
Ralph H. Turner and Samuel J. Surace, "Zoot-Suiters and Mexicans: Symbols in Crowd Behavior," American Journal of Sociology 62, no.1 (1956): 14-20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2773799.
Catherine S. Ramirez, "Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics," Meridians 2, no.2 (2002): 1-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40338497.
Catherine S. Ramirez, "Saying "Nothin": Pachucas and the Languages of Resistance," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 27, no.3 (2006): 1-33. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4137381.
Alice McGrath:
PBS, American Experience, "Zoot Suit Riots": https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/zoot/#transcript
Joan Trossman Bien, "Outlaw Activist: Alice McGrath Turns 90," Ventura County Reporter, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080606170822/http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/?id=4917&IssueNum=133
Carlos Larralde, "Josefina Fierro and the Sleepy Lagoon Crusade, 1942-1945," Southern California Quarterly 92, 2 (2010)
V. Ruiz, "Una Mujer Sin Fronteras," Pacific Historical Review 73, 1 (2004)
Kenneth C Burt, "The Power of a Mobilized Citizenry and Coalition Politics: The 1949 Election of Edward R. Roybal to the Los Angeles City Council," Southern California Quarterly 85, 4 (2003)
This week we're traveling back to. . . um. . . well, let's just go with Old Timey Times, because we're talking about 2018's Ophelia! Join us to learn more about queens who have murdered their husbands, medieval clothing, conflicts between Norway and Denmark, how people in the Middle Ages talked about Adam and Eve, lots of discussion of when the heck this is taking place, and more!
Sources:
Background:
Nell Minow, "Ophelia" RogerEbert.com (28 June 2019), https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ophelia-2019.
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ophelia_2019
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5690810/
Queens Who Murdered Their Kings:
Hadley Meares, "6 Spurned Royal Women Who Triumphed Over Their Husbands," History (22 August 2018). https://www.history.com/news/spurned-women-who-triumphed-over-their-royal-husbands
Melody Kramer, "World Leaders Who Killed Their Lovers," National Geographic (30 August 2013). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/130830-kings-execution-royalty-henry-kim-jung-un-north-korea
Carolyn Harris, "Medieval Mothers Had to Marry and Murder to Get Their Way," Smithsonian Magazine (12 May 2017). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/medieval-mothers-had-marry-and-murder-get-their-way-180963282/
John Cannon, "Cnut," "Emma of Normandy," and "Edward," A Dictionary of British History (Oxford University Press, 2015).
"Edward the Confessor (c.1003-1066)," https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/edward_confessor.shtml
"Emma of Normandy," The British Library, https://www.bl.uk/people/queen-emma
https://denmark.dk/people-and-culture/monarchy
Norwegian Conflicts with Denmark:
"The Kalmar Union," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/place/Kalmar-Union
Timeline of Danish History, Lonely Planet: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/denmark/background/history/timeline/a/nar/2bc06199-020c-4d0c-b085-b183b55a7372/358836
Michael Price, "Thousand Year Old Viking Fortress Reveals Technologically Advanced Society," Science.com, available at https://www.science.org/content/article/thousand-year-old-viking-fortress-reveals-technologically-advanced-society
"Duchy of Estonia," https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/902054
The Fall of Eve:
John Flood, Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages (Routledge, 2010).
Eric Jager, The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature (Cornell University Press, 1993), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2n7jmw.13.
National Museum of Denmark, "Christianity comes to Denmark," https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/christianity-comes-to-denmark/.
Medieval Fashion:
Fashion History Timeline, 1400-1409, available at https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1400-1409/
Illustration from the Hortus Deliciarum, 1180, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliaut#/media/File:Hortus_Deliciarum_Grammatica.jpg
Robert Campin, Portrait of a Woman, 1430-1435, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimple#/media/File:RCampin.jpg
Laird Borrelli-Persson, "Romance Isn't Dead. The Proof? Massimo Cantini Parrini's Costumes for Ophelia," Vogue, available at https://www.vogue.com/article/costume-designer-massimo-cantini-parrini-on-creating-looks-for-the-movie-ophelia
"Barbette", Fashion History Timeline, available at https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/barbette/
Rosalie's Medieval Women, Tippets and Lappets, available at https://rosaliegilbert.com/tippets.html
Katharine Baetjer, "British Portraits: In the Metropolitan Museum of Art," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 57, 1 (1999)
Jayne Wackett, "Women in the Medieval Wall Paintings of Canterbury Cathedral," in Gender in Medieval Places, Spaces, and Thresholds, ed. Victoria Blud, Diane Heath, and Einat Klafter (London: University of London Press, 2019)
Grab a martini, because this week we're traveling back to 1930s London with Bright Young Things! Join us to learn more about 30s cocktail culture, the so-called King of Anatolia, interwar newspaper magnates, American evangelists in the UK, Armistice day poppies, and more!
Sources:
Cocktails:
Harry Craddock, Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930 Edition. Full Text Available at https://euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz/1930-The-Savoy-Cocktail-Book
International Bartenders' Association, Official Website: https://iba-world.com/iba-official-cocktail-list/
Lord Beaverbrook:
Laura Beers, "Education or Manipulation?: Labour, Democracy, and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain," Journal of British Studies 48, 1 (2009)
Laura Beers, "Punting on the Thames: Electoral Betting in Interwar Britain," Journal of Contemporary History 45, 2 (2010)
Alan Travis, Bound and Gagged: A Secret History of Obscenity in Britain (Profile Books, 2000)
Gary Love, "The Periodical Press and the Intellectual Culture of Conservatism in Interwar Britain," 57 (4) 2014
JM McEwen, "The Press and the Fall of Asquith," The Historical Journal 21, 4 (1978)
The King of Anatolia:
Patrick J. Kriger, "Six Reasons Why the Ottoman Empire Fell," History https://www.history.com/news/ottoman-empire-fall
"Abdulmejid II" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulmejid_II
M. Sukru Hanoiglu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t314.13
Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History (Princeton University Press, 2016), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1xrgm.6 .
https://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/mehmedvi.htm
Evangelicals in the UK:
"History" National Association of Evangelicals https://www.nae.org/about-nae/history/
British Pathe "Kentucky Singers (1930)" YouTube, https://youtu.be/M5lb-4oWc14
Roberta Freund Schwartz, "Preaching the Gospel of the Blues: Blues Evangelists in Britain," Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe ed. Neil A. Wynn (University of Mississippi Press, 2007), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvbm7.12
Guido Van Rijn, "Lowland Blues: The Reception of African American Blues and Gospel Music in the Netherlands," Cross the Water Blues, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvbm7.16
Hans Krabbendam, Saving the Overlooked Continent: American Protestant Missions in Western Europe, 1940-1975 (Leuven University Press, 2020), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1595mtj.5
Kira Thurman, "Singing the Civilizing Mission in the Land of Bach; Beethoven; and Brahms: The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Nineteenth-Century Germany," Journal of World History 27:3 (September 2016): 443-471. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44631474
Brian Ward, "Music, Musical Theater, and the Imagined South in Interwar Britain," The Journal of Southern History 80:1 (February 2014): 39-72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23796843
Poppies:
James Fox, "Poppy Politics: Remembrance of Things Present," in Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice ed. Constantine Sandis (Open Book Publishers, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287k16.8 .
Jon Dean, "Poppy Fascism," The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good (Bristol University Press, 2020), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv123x5b8.11
Sarah Freeland, "The Poppy Lady: Moina Michael started a movement for veterans," UGA Today (5 November 2017). https://news.uga.edu/poppy-lady-moina-michael/
John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields," Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47380/in-flanders-fields
Film Background:
BBC Interview with Stephen Fry: https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/09/30/stephen_fry_bright_young_things_interview.shtml
Roger Ebert review of Bright Young Things: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bright-young-things-2004
Bright Young Things Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Young_Things_(film)
https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/the-bright-young-things-behind-the-party-mask
This week we travel back to 18th century France with Portrait of a Lady on Fire! Join us as we talk about female artists, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, herbal abortifacients, flying ointment (aka "the armpit scene") and more!
Sources:
Female Painters:
Laura Auricchio, "Eighteenth-Century Women Painters in France," The Met Museum (October 2004), https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/18wa/hd_18wa.htm
Cath Pound, "The great women artists that history forgot," BBC (19 October 2016), https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161019-the-great-women-artists-that-history-forgot
Heidi A. Strobel, "Royal "matronage" of Women Artists in the Late-18th Century," Woman's Art Journal 26:2 (2005-2006): 3-9. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3598091
Catherine R. Montfort, "Self-Portraits, Portraits of Self: Adelaide Labille-Guiard and Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, Women Artists of the Eighteenth Century," Pacific Coast Philology 40:1 (2005): 1-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25474166
Laura Auricchio, "Self-Promotion in Adelaide Labille-Guiard's 1785 Self-Portrait with Two Students," 89:1 (March 2007): 45-62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25067300
The Four Seasons:
Betsy Schwarm, "Why should you listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"? - Betsy Schwarm," TED-Ed YouTube (24 October 2016), https://youtu.be/Xcpc8VDsv3c
"VIVALDI: "Four Seasons" Sonnets texts in Italian & English," https://www.baroquemusic.org/vivaldiseasons.html
https://www.charlottesymphony.org/blog/vivaldis-four-seasons-poems/
Film Background:
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/portrait_of_a_lady_on_fire
Ela Bittencourt, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Daring to See," The Criterion Collection (23 June 2020), https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6991-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-daring-to-see
Mark Kermode, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire review - mesmerised by the female gaze," The Guardian (1 March 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/01/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-review-celine-sciamma
"The Fine Brushstrokes Of 'Portrait Of A Lady On Fire'" NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/02/24/809112455/the-fine-brushstrokes-of-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire
Hilary Weaver, "Portrait of a Lady On Fire Is A Queer Survival Guide To Self-Isolation," ELLE (28 March 2020), https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a31965622/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-self-isolation-coronavirus-guide/
Carlos Aguilar, "Love Dialogue: Celine Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire," (12 February 2020) https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/love-dialogue-c%C3%A9line-sciamma-on-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire
Drew Gregory, "Celine Sciamma on "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," the Lesbian Gaze, and Queer TV That Gives Her Hope," Autostraddle (12 February 2020), https://www.autostraddle.com/celine-sciamma-on-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-the-lesbian-gaze-and-queer-tv-that-gives-her-hope/
https://www.telerama.fr/ecrans/regardez-le-brulant-portrait-de-la-jeune-fille-en-feu-de-celine-sciamma-sur-arte.tv-6966315.php
Herbal Abortifacients:
Boyce Rensberger, "Pharmacology," Washington Post, 25 July 1994, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/07/25/pharmacology/573a3a65-8038-482c-9097-0cf992d72929/
Londa Schiebinger, "Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 149, 3 (2005)
John M. Riddle and J. Worth Estes, "Oral Contraceptives in Ancient and Medieval Times," American Scientist 80, 3 (1992)
John m. Ridde, J. Worth Estes, and Josiah C. Russell, "Ever Since Eve. . . Birth Control in the Ancient World," Archaeology 47, 2 (1994)
Lucille F. Newman, "Ophelia's Herbal," Economic Botany 33, 2 (1979)
BTM, "Early Abortifacients," Pharmacy in History 35, 2 (1993)
Flying Ointment:
Karsten Fatur, "Peculiar Plants and Fantastic Fungi: An Ethnobotanical Study of the Use of Hallucinogenic Plants and Mushrooms in Slovenia." PLOS One 16 (1) 2021
David MJ Carruthers, "Lines of Flight: An Enquiry Into the Properties of the Magical Plant, It's Literature and History," Mosaic, an Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 48, 2 (2015)
Clive Harper, "The Witches' Flying Ointment," Folklore 88, 1 (1977)
Michael Ostling, "Witches' Herbs on Trial," Folklore 125, 2 (2014)
Danielle Piomelli and Antonino Pollio, "In Upupa O Strige: A Study in Renaissance Psychotropic Plant Ointments," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 16, 2 (1994)
Horror fans rejoice, because this week we're talking about The Witch! Join us to learn more about what you had to do to get expelled from Puritan communities, ritual uses of baby blood, apples, the Song of Songs, and more!
Content warning: Infanticide
Sources:
Film Background:
Stephen Saito, "Persistence of Vision: Inside the Making of the Witch, a Horror Classic for the Ages," MovieMaker, available at https://www.moviemaker.com/persistence-of-vision-the-witch-robert-eggers/
Kevin Fallon, "The Witch: The Making of the Year's Scariest Movie," Daily Beast, available at https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-witch-the-making-of-the-years-scariest-movie
Simon Abrams, "The Witch," Rogerebert.com, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-witch-2016
Song of Songs:
NIV Study Bible
William Phipps, "The Plight of the Song of Songs," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 42, 1 (1974)
Belden C. Lane, "Two Schools of Desire: Nature and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Puritanism," Church History 69, 2 (2000)
Julie Sievers, "Refiguring the Song of Songs: John Cotton's 1655 Sermon and the Antinomian Controversy," New England Quarterly 76, 1 (2003)
Expulsion from Puritan Communities:
Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/WebPub/history/mckayunderstanding1e/0312668872/Primary_Documents/US_History/Transcript%20of%20the%20Trial%20of%20Anne%20Hutchinson.pdf
Nan Goodman, "Banishment, Jurisdiction, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England: The Case of Roger Williams," Early American Studies 7, 1 (2009)
Ben Barker-Benfield, "Anne Hutchinson and the Puritan Attitude Toward Women," Feminist Studies 1, 2 (1972)
James F. Cooper Jr. "Anne Hutchinson and the 'Lay Rebellion' Against Clergy," New England Quarterly 61, 3 (1988)
Richard J. Ross, "The Career of Puritan Jurisprudence," Law and History Review 26, 2 (2008)
Witchcraft and Baby Blood:
Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze
Lindemann, Anti-Semitism Before the Holocaust
Bucholz and Key, Early Modern England
David D. Hall, Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638-1693, second edition (Duke University Press, 1999). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11hph70.6
Lyndal Roper, "'Evil Imaginings and Fantasies': Child-Witches and the End of the Witch Craze," Past & Present 167 (May 2000): 107-139. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651255
Robert Blair St. George (ed.), Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America (Cornell University Press, 2000). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv1fxmmf.11
Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, "Cotton Mather's "Dora": The Case History of Mercy Short," Early American Literature 44:1 (2009): 3-38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27750112
Aviva Briefel, "Devil in the Details: The Uncanny History of The Witch (2015)," Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 49:1 (Summer 2019).
Mary Beth Norton, "Witchcraft in the Anglo-American Colonies," OAH Magazine of History 17:4 (July 2003): 5-10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163614
Apples:
"9 Things You Didn't Know About New England's Favorite Autumn Fruit," NPR (19 September 2014). https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2014/09/18/apples-boston
Rowan Jacobsen, "Apples: A New England History," Harvard Museum of Natural History, YouTube (16 January 2019). https://youtu.be/9C4yTA_hUmE
https://www.beaconhillhousehistories.org/blog/blacksstone
David Shulman, "Apples in America," American Speech 29:1 (1954): 77-79. https://www.jstor.org/stable/453602
https://www.newportthisweek.com/articles/a-century-of-bountiful-fruit/
This week we're traveling back to 1950s Detroit with No Sudden Move! Join us to learn more about organized crime in Detroit, breakfast cereal, 20th century name changing patterns, air pollution in Los Angeles, and more!
Sources:
"Way Worse"
Google Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=way+worse&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true
Breakfast Cereal:
Anna Kang, "The Untold Truth of Honey Smacks," Mashed, https://www.mashed.com/203798/the-untold-truth-of-honey-smacks/
Wiki: "Honey Smacks," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Smacks
Joel Stice, "The Untold Truth of Trix," Mashed, https://www.mashed.com/198934/the-untold-truth-of-trix/
Natasha Bruns, "Celebrating 60 Years of the Trix Rabbit," https://blog.generalmills.com/2019/08/celebrating-60-years-of-trix-rabbit/
"The Origin of the "Trix Rabbit,"" https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-origin-of-the-trix-rabbit/
Suzanne Raga, "11 Colorful Facts You Might Not Know About Trix," Mental Floss, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/74134/11-colorful-facts-you-might-not-know-about-trix-cereal
EA Wartella, AH Lichtenstein, and CS Boon (eds.), "History of Nutrition Labeling," Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols: Phase I Report, Institute of Medicing (US) Committee on Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols (Washington DC: National Academies Press, 2010). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209859/
Air Pollution in LA:
"History of Reducing Air Pollution in the United States," EPA, https://www.epa.gov/transportation-air-pollution-and-climate-change/accomplishments-and-success-air-pollution-transportation
Sarah Gardner, "LA Smog: the battle against air pollution," Marketplace NPR, https://www.marketplace.org/2014/07/14/la-smog-battle-against-air-pollution/
Bennet Goldstein and Howell Howard, "Antitrust Law and the Control of Auto Pollution: Rethinking the Alliance between Competition and Technical Progress," Environmental Law 10:3 (Spring 1980): 517-558. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43265516
Randy Alfred, "Attack of the L.A. Smog Archives," WIRED (26 jULY 2010). https://www.wired.com/2010/07/gallery-smog/
Sarah S. Elkind, "Influence through Cooperation: The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Air Pollution Control in Los Angeles, 1943-1954," in How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, 52-82 (Unviersity of North Carolina Press, 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807869116_elkind.7
David Vogel, "Protecting Air Quality," in California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader, 154-188, (Princeton University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77k1p.9
James M. Lents and William J. Kelly, "Clearing the Air in Los Angeles," Scientific American 269:4 (October 1993): 32-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24941646
Organized Crime:
Robert A. Rockaway, "The Notorious Purple Gang: Detroit's All-Jewish Prohibition Era Mob," Shofar 20, 1 (2001)
Giacomo "Black Jack" Tocco: The Last of the Old Detroit Partnership. American Mafia History. Available at https://americanmafiahistory.com/giacomo-black-jack-tocco/
"FBI Detroit History," FBI.gov, available at https://www.fbi.gov/history/field-office-histories/detroit
Name Changes:
An Anonymous Jewish American, "I Changed My Name," The Atlantic, 1948, available at https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1948/02/i-changed-my-name/306252/
Kirsten Fermaglich, "What's Uncle Sam's Last Name? Jews and Name Changing in New York City During the WWII Era," Journal of American History 102, 3 (2015)
Kirsten Fermaglich, "Too Long, Too Foreign. . . Too Jewish: Jews, Name Changing, and Family Mobility in New York City, 1917-1942," Journal of American Ethnic History 34, 3 (2015)
Film Background:
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11525644/
Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_sudden_move
Brian Tallerico, "No Sudden Move" (1 July 2021), https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-sudden-move-movie-review-2021
This week we're traveling back to the Revolutionary Era. . . but also kinda the 19th century. . . and also the reign of James I (?) with America: The Motion Picture! Join us to learn more about Samuel Adams, motivational posters, John 3:16, Benedict Arnold, and more!
Sources:
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty:
Philip G. Davidson, "Sons of Liberty and Stamp Men," The North Carolina Historical Review 9:1 (January 1932): 38-56, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23514881
Benjamin H. Irvin, "Tar, Fearthers, and the Enemies of American Liberties, 1768-1776," The New England Quarterly 76:2 (June 2003): 197-238. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1559903
Paulina Maier, "Coming to Terms with Samuel Adams," The American Historical Review 81:1 (February 1976): 12-37, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1863739 .
"Sons of Liberty," Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/sons-of-liberty
Patrick J. Kiger, "Who Were the Sons of Liberty?" History, https://www.history.com/news/sons-of-liberty-members-causes
"Samuel Adams," National Park Service, https://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/historyculture/samuel-adams.htm
Erick Trickey, "The Story Behind a Forgotten Symbol of the American Revolution: The Liberty Tree," Smithsonian Magazine (19 May 2016), https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-behind-forgotten-symbol-american-revolution-liberty-tree-180959162/ .
Malinda Maynor Lowery, "Disposed to Fight to Their Death," The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469646398_lowery.10 .
Brad A. Jones, "Liberty Triumphant: The Stamp Act Crisis in the British Atlantic," Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2021), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv10crcq5.5
Motivational Posters:
"Hang in there, Baby," Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_in_there,_Baby
Katrina Martin, "Motivation station: A look at worksplace motivational posters from the 1920s," The Devil's Tale: Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Libraries (18 December 2014). https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2014/12/18/motivation-posters/
Gordon Grant, "'Hang in There' Creator Does," Los Angeles Times (3 September 1978), B1, B12.
Carolyn Zola, "Think "I" And You Work Alone: Mather Constructive Character Posters and the Advertising of Self-Mastery," Berkeley Undergraduate Journal 28:1 (2015). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jh651qb
John 3:16
NIV Study Bible
Daniel Dreisbach, "Bible," Mount Vernon Museum. Available at https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/bible/
Film Background:
Ethan Anderton, Interview with Matt Thompson. SlashFilm. Available at https://www.slashfilm.com/america-the-motion-picture-director-matt-thompson-interview/
America: The Motion Picture. Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/america_the_motion_picture
Steve Green, Review of America: The Motion Picture. IndieWire. Available at https://www.indiewire.com/2021/06/america-the-motion-picture-review-netflix-animated-movie-1234647652/
Benedict Arnold:
Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin, "A Traitor's Epiphany: Benedict Arnold and the Quest for Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 125, 4 (2017)
Jessica Robinson, "Benedict Arnold: American Hero, American Villain," On Point 18, 1 (2012)
Charles Royster, "The Nature of Treason: Revolutionary Virtue and American Reactions to Benedict Arnold," William and Mary Quarterly 36, 2 (1979)
Nathaniel Philbrick, "Why Benedict Arnold Turned Traitor Against the American Revolution," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/benedict-arnold-turned-traitor-american-revolution-180958786/
Today we're traveling back to 1930s Spain with The Devil's Backbone! Join us to learn about human specimen preservation, mammoth hunting, the children of leftists in the Spanish Civil War, aerial bombing of Barcelona and other major cities, and more!
Sources:
Film Background:
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Backbone
Criterion Collection: https://www.criterion.com/films/27914-the-devil-s-backbone
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/devils_backbone
Mark Kermode, "The Devil's Backbone: The Past Is Never Dead..." Criterion Essays (30 July 2013). https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2850-the-devil-s-backbone-the-past-is-never-dead
Dariel Figueroa, "How The World's Biggest Director Saved Guillermo del Toro's Dad From Kidnappers," Uproxx (10 October 2014). https://uproxx.com/movies/guillermo-del-toro-kidnapped-father/
Children of Leftists:
Katya Adler, "Spain's stolen babies and the families who lived a lie," BBC (18 October 2011). https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899
Lucia Benavides, "How Spanish Women Were Allegedly Targeted In 'Stolen babies' Cases For Decades," NPR (17 August 2018). https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639226190/how-spanish-women-were-allegedly-targeted-in-stolen-babies-cases-for-decades
Peter Anderson, "The Struggle over the Evacuation to the United Kingdom and Repatriation of Basque Refugee Children in the Spanish Civil War: Symbols and Souls," Journal of Contemporary History 52:2 (April 2017): 297-318. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44504017
Hywel Davies, Fleeing Franco: How Wales gave shelter to refugee children from the Basque country during the Spanish Civil War (University of Wales Press, 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qhdfv.2
"Learn: Forgotten Stories of Basque Child Refugees in England," https://www.unhcr.org/uk/refugeeweek/havens-east/
Frank Schauff, "Fates formed by the Spanish Civil War. Recent books on exiled children, prisoners of concentration camps and Interbrigadistas," Iberoamericana 3: 10 (June 2003): 189-191. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41673209
Jesus Alonso Carballes, "Los "Ninos de la Guerra" o las Huellas del Exilio Infantil de la Guerra Civil en el Espacio Publico," Historia Social 76 (2013): 107-124. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23496333
Limbo Water:
Julie V. Hansen, "Resurrecting Death: Anatomical Art in the Cabinet of Dr. Frederick Ruysch," The Art Bulletin 78, 4 (1996)
Alvar Martinez-Vidal and Jose Pardo-Tomas, "Anatomical Theatres and the Teaching of Anatomy in Early Modern Spain," Medical HIstory 49, 3 (2005)
Sue Anne Prince, et al "Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1730-1860," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 93, 4 (2003)
Michael G. Rhode, "The Rise and Fall of the Army Medical Museum and Library," Washington History 18, 1/2 (2006)
Hunting Mammoths:
Brigit Katz, "Two Traps Where Woolly Mammoths Were Driven to Their Deaths Found in Mexico," Smithsonian Magazine (8 November 2019). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/found-mexico-two-traps-where-woolly-mammoths-were-driven-their-deaths-180973522/
AP Archive, "Human-built "mammoth traps" rewrite Mexico's early history," AP Archive YouTube (22 May 2020). https://youtu.be/q9Q7to6kx3Y
Melvin Konner, "Scientific Tools Bring to Life a Mammoth Hunt," The Wall Street Journal (14 April 2016). https://www.wsj.com/articles/scientific-tools-bring-to-life-a-mammoth-hunt-1460646482
Jaroslaw Wilczynski, Piotr Wojtal, Martin Oliva, Krzysztof Sobczyk, Gary Haynes, Janis Limowicz, and Gyorgy Lengyel, "Mammoth hunting strategies during the Late Gravettian in Central Europe as determined from case studies of Milovice I (Czech Republic) and Krakow Spadzista (Poland)," Quaternary Science Reviews 223 (1 November 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105919
W.D. Strong, "North American Indian Traditions Suggesting a Knowledge of the Mammoth," American Anthropologist 36:1 (Jan.-Mar. 1934): 81-88. https://www.jstor.org/stable/661759
"Uncovers Evidence of Early Mammoth Hunters," The Science News-Letter 27:722 (9 February 1935): 92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3912120
Aerial Bombing in the Spanish Civil War:
Interactive Map, Bombs Dropped on Barcelona: http://btvdatalab.github.io/barcelona-800-dies-sota-bombes-/navegable.html
Giles Tremlett, "Barcelona Pursues Italy Over 1938 Bombing," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/27/barcelona-pursues-italy-1938-bombing
"The Visual Front: Posters of the Spanish Civil War," UCSD Collections, available at https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/ayuda.html
Federico Lopez-Terra, "80 Years On From the Guernica Bombing and Spain is Still Struggling to Honour Historical Memory," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/80-years-on-from-the-guernica-bombing-and-spain-is-still-struggling-to-honour-historical-memory-76238
This week we're traveling to all of space and time, pretty much, with Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure! Join us to learn more about Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, the film's disturbingly accurate grasp of the history teaching experience, Socrates (it's under So-Crates), and more!
Sources:
Joan of Arc:
P. Charlier, J. Poupon, et al. "The 'relics of Joan of Arc': A forensic multidisciplinary analysis," Forensic Science International (Online) 194:1 (2010). DOI:10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.09.006
Drunk History, "Joan of Arc Leads an Army (feat. Vanessa Hudgens) - Drunk History" Comedy Central YouTube (12 July 2018). https://youtu.be/TSDjeTgXZlw
History Editors, "Joan of Arc," HISTORY (10 March 2020). https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/saint-joan-of-arc
Jennie Cohen, "7 Surprising Facts About Joan of Arc," HISTORY (22 February 2021). https://www.history.com/news/7-surprising-facts-about-joan-of-arc?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history
Giuseppe d'Orsi, Paolo Tinuper, ""I heard voices...": From semiology, a historical review, and a new hypothesis on the presumed epilepsy of Joan of Arc," Epilepsy & Behavior 9:1 (August 2006): 152-7. https://doi-org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2006.04.020
Barbara Schildkrout, "Joan of Arc--Hearing Voices," The American Journal of Psychiatry 174:12 (1 December 2017): 1153-1154.
Daniel Hobbins, The Trial of Joan of Arc (Harvard University Press, 2005). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjz82qq.5
John R. Hughes, "Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: did he have seizures? Psychogenic or epileptic or both?" Epilepsy & Behavior 4:6 (December 2003): 793-796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2003.09.005
Susan Signe Morrison, A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages (Oxbow Books, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1dnb3.25
Gareth Williams, "Manipulation and the Maid: Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans," Medieval Warfare 4:2 (2014): 25-32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48578334
On Socrates' Daemon: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/socrates-divine-sign-religion-practice-and-value-in-socratic-philosophy/
On visions of Mary: David Blackbourn, The Marpingen Visions: Rationalism, Religion, and the Rise of Modern Germany.
Genghis Khan:
Jack Weatherford, Secret History of the Mongol Queens. Crown Press, 2010.
Did Socrates Really Say "Like Sands Through the Hourglass"?Dialogues of Plato, Translations available at https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plato/index.htm
Plato, The Republic
Engines of Our Ingenuity, No. 1469: The Hourglass: https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1469.htm
Film Background:
David Weiner, "How Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Nearly Fell Apart," Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/how-bill-teds-excellent-adventure-fell-apart-1186988/
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bill_and_teds_excellent_adventure
Shaurya Thapa, "Strangest Behind the Scenes Stories from the Bill and Ted Movies," ScreenRant, available at https://screenrant.com/strangest-behind-scenes-stories-bill-ted-movies/
This week we're traveling back to Victorian England with the Limehouse Golem! Join us for a discussion of handwriting analysis, the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Dan Leno, Marx in London, and more!
Sources:
Background:
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limehouse_Golem
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_limehouse_golem
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4733640/
Upbeat Entertainment, Behind the Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg0nH97gn7Y
Handwriting Analysis:
Jennifer L. Mnookin, "Scripting Expertise: The History of Handwriting Identification Evidence and the Judicial Construction of Reliability," Virginia Law Review 87:8 (December 2001): 1723-1845. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1073905
Douglas Grant, "Handwriting Analysis and the Police Officer," Police Journal 17:3 (July-September 1944): 203-211.
Randall McGowen, "From Pillory to Gallows: The Punishment of Forgery in the Age of the Financial Revolution," Past & Present 165 (Nov. 1999): 107-140. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651286
R.U. Piper, "The Laws of Evidence and the Scientific Investigation of Handwriting," The American Law Register 27:5, New Series Vol. 18 (May 1879): 273-291. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3304164
C. Ainsworth Mitchell, "Handwriting and its Value as Evidence," Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 71: 3673 (April 13, 1923): 373-384. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41356145
Anna Lvovsky, "The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise," Harvard Law Review 130:8 (June 2017): 1995-2081. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44865645
Becky Little, "What Type of Criminal Are You? 19th-Century Doctors Claimed to Know by Your Face," History (8 August 2019). https://www.history.com/news/born-criminal-theory-criminology
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders:
Macabre London, Ratcliffe Highway Murders: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macabre-london-podcast/id1180202350
The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Thames Police Museum: http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_1.html
"Horror and Hysteria: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders," British Newspaper Archive Blog, https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/04/22/the-1811-ratcliff-highway-murders/
Karl Marx in London:
"Take a Tour of Karl Marx's London," Penguin Random House: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/karl-marx-london-map.html
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, "Karl Marx's Life in London and Entry Into Active Politics," Great Courses Daily: https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/karl-marxs-life-in-london-and-entry-into-active-politics/
Solomon Bloom, "Karl Marx and the Jews," Jewish Social Studies 4, 1 (1942)
Dennis Fischman, "The Jewish Question About Marx," Polity 21, 4 (1989)
Sander Gilman, "Karl Marx and the Secret Language of Jews," Modern Judaism 4, 3 (1984)
Karl Marx, "On the Jewish Question," 1843. Full text available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
Dan Leno:
Dan Leno, Dan Leno, Hys Booke: A Volume of Frivolities Autobiographical, Historical, Philosophical Anecdotal, and Nonsensical (London: Greening & Co., 1899). https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=HGoqAAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=Dan+Leno+music+hall&ots=5Os4N_GvX3&sig=IlBd7dZrKUu1r6UCXq1EnannJV4
J. Hickory Wood, Dan Leno (London: Methuen & Co., 1905). https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZrdYGrPAHOQC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Dan+Leno+music+hall&ots=OE_QwxwaZ0&sig=adzACynIBodszVds7MWZuWU_Cd4
"Dan Leno -- Mrs. Kelly (1901)" https://youtu.be/ms-J7g0blVA
"Dan Leno - The Tower of London (1901)" YouTube https://youtu.be/_HMpwzgRsho
Wiki: "Songs, sketches and monologues of Dan Leno," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs,_sketches_and_monologues_of_Dan_Leno
Peter Bailey, "Conspiracies of Meaning: Music-Hall and the Knowingness of Popular Culture," Past & Present 144 (August 1994): 138-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651146
Laurence Senelick, "Politics as Entertainment: Victorian Music-Hall Songs," Victorian Studies 19:2 (December 1975): 149-180. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3825910
The Dan Leno Project: http://www.danleno.co.uk/
David Cottis, "Leno, Dan," The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2005).
James Hogg, "Leno, Dan [real name George Wild Galvin]," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (6 January 2011). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34497
Neil Armstrong, "Frank Skinner on Britain's first ever stand-up comedian" The Telegraph (3 December 2015). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/12021249/Frank-Skinner-on-Britains-first-ever-stand-up-comedian.html
"The Birth of the Music Hall Tony Lidington, Dan Leno & Frank Skinner," YouTube Promenade Promotions https://youtu.be/KYEf6VSQBq0
This week we'll travel back to the early 18th century (and the middle of the Pacific) with In the Heart of the Sea! Join us to learn more about issues of race and ethnicity on whaling ships, Herman Melville, cannibalism, the mysterious skeletons found in a cave on Henderson Island, and more!
Sources:
Race and the Crew:
Nancy Shoemaker, Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2015).
Nancy Shoemaker, "Mr. Tashtego: Native American Whalemen in Antebellum New England," Journal of the Early Republic 33:1 (Spring 2013): 109-132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23392572
Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (New York: Penguin, 2000).
Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others, The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (New York: Penguin, 2000).
Timothy G. Lynch, "Black Ahab of the Bay: William T. Shorey and the San Francisco Whale Fishery," Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America ed. Glenn Gordinier, 135-41 (Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008).
Marilyn Halter, Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (University of Illinois, 1993).
Lawrence C. Howard, "A Note on New England Whaling and Africa Before 1860," Negro History Bulletin 22:1 (October 1958): 13-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44215363
Kelly K. Chaves, "Before the First Whalemen: The Emergence and Loss of Indigenous Maritime Autonomy in New England, 1672-1740," The New England Quarterly 87:1 (March 2014): 46-71. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43285053
Film Background:
Scout Tafoya, The Unloved, In the Heart of the Sea: https://vimeo.com/412586427
Perri Nemiroff, "Ron Howard Discusses Making In the Heart of the Sea With a Low Budget Mentality," Collider: https://collider.com/ron-howard-interview-in-the-heart-of-the-sea/
Matt Zoller Seitz, Review of In the Heart of the Sea, Rogerebert.com: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-2015
Interview with Tom Holland, In the Heart of the Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RsWoxF_UD8
Melville and Hawthorne:
Steven B. Herrmann, "Melville's Portrait of Same-Sex Marriage in Moby Dick," Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche 4, 3 (2010)
Charles N. Watson, Jr. "The Estrangement of Hawthorne and Melville," New England Quarterly 46, 3 (1973)
Melville and Hawthorne, Excerpt from The Life and Works of Hermann Melville, available at http://www.melville.org/hawthrne.htm
"Read a Love Letter from Hermann Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne," LitHub, available at https://lithub.com/read-a-love-letter-from-herman-melville-to-nathaniel-hawthorne/
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Full Text available at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm
Cannibalism:
Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (New York: Penguin, 2000).
Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others, The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (New York: Penguin, 2000).
A.W.B. Simpson, "Cannibals at Common Law," The Law School Record 27 (Fall 1981): 3-10.
Duncan Frost, "'Provisions being scarce and pale death drawing nigh,/They'd try to cast lots to see who should die': The Justification of Shipwreck Cannibalism in Popular Balladry," Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 7:2 (2020): 17-34.
Paul Cowdell, "Cannibal Ballads: Not Just a Question of Taste..." Folk Music Journal 9:5 (2010): 723-747. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25654209
Henderson Island:
Vincent H. Stefan et al, "Henderson Island Crania and their Implications for Southeastern Polynesian Prehistory," The Journal of Polynesian Society 111, 4 (2002)
Marshall I. Weisler, "The Settlement of Marginal Polynesia: New Evidence from Henderson Island," Journal of Field Archaeology 21, 1 (1994)
Owen Chase, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. 1821
Thomas Ferrell Heffernan, Stove By a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex. Wesleyan University Press, 2013
F.R. Fosberg et al, "Henderson Island (Southeastern Polynesia): Summary of Current Knowledge," Atoll Research Bulletin, no 272. 1983.
Today we're traveling back to early-18th-century England with The Favourite! Join us for a discussion of Sarah Churchill, baroque dancing, duck racing, whether or not Queen Anne really had all those pet rabbits, and more!
Sources:
Rabbits/Queen Anne's Health:
Hannah Greig, "The Favourite: The Real History Behind the New Queen Anne Film," History Extra, available at https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/real-history-the-favourite-film-queen-anne-olivia-colman-hannah-greig/
HE Hemson, "For Want of An Heir: The Obstetrical History of Queen Anne," British Medical Journal 304, 6838 (1992)
Elizabeth Lane Furdell, "Medical Personnel at the Court of Queen Anne," The Historian 48, 3 (1986)
Film Background:
Off Set, "'You can look as awful as possible!': Olivia Colman on mud baths and her The Favourite make-under," YouTube (7 January 2019). https://youtu.be/-ffDZBXTrXE
"When Sex Scenes Go Wrong," Graham Norton Show https://youtu.be/y-9hRmaoCTg
BBC Radio 1 "It's a bit ropey!" https://youtu.be/zLDCiq4UQEU
CBS This Morning, "Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz call "The Favourite" a "high-stakes 'Mean Girls'" YouTube (9 November 2018). https://youtu.be/3yilBo3GGQ8
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5083738/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_favourite_2018
Heather Hogan, ""The Favourite" Review: Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone Out-Gay Each Other in Twisted Majesty," Autostraddle (3 December 2018). https://www.autostraddle.com/the-favourite-review-rachel-weisz-and-emma-stone-out-gay-each-other-in-twisted-majesty/
SAG-AFTRA Foundation, "Conversations with The Favourite," YouTube (9 November 2018). https://youtu.be/upCcaXXk_Cs
"I Have Spoken"
The Secret Garden clip: https://youtu.be/oSorBOm828U
Sarah Churchill:
Charles Littleton, "The politics of the royal bedchamber: what The Favourite does (and does not) tell us about party, Parliament and the court of Queen Anne," The History of Parliamanet: British Political, Social & Local History. https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/the-politics-of-the-royal-bedchamber-what-the-favourite-does-and-does-not-tell-us-about-party-parliament-and-the-court-of-queen-anne/
A.T. Thompson and Philip Wharton, "Sarah, duchess of Marlborough," The Queens of Society (J.W. Jarvis & Son, 1932). https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sarah_duchess_of_Marlborough/Rpg1AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Historic Royal Palaces, "Queen Anne," https://www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/history-and-stories/queen-anne/#gs.3zvsjj
James Falkner, "Churchill [nee Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, (1660-1744)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (3 January 2008). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/5405
Frances Harris, "Accounts of the Conduct of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 1704-1742," The Electronic British Library Journal British Library (1982). https://www.bl.uk/eblj/1982articles/pdf/article2.pdf
Authentick Memoirs of the Life and Conduct Of her Grace, Sarah, Late Dutchess of Marlborough, Containing A geniuine Narrative of her Grace's Conduct, from her first coming to Court, to the Death of her Royal Mistress Queen Anne, and from the Demise of the Queen to her Grace's Death. (Fleet-Lane, London: R. Walker, 1746). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000114520582&view=1up&seq=9
Baroque Dancing:
John Weaver, Orchesography; or, the Art of Dancing. 1706. Full text available at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9454/9454-h/9454-h.htm
David Wilson, "But How Do You Know How They Danced So Long Ago?" https://web.archive.org/web/20120216070000/http://www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/conf2003-2.html
Eight Bars of Dance Recorded by Feuillet in 1700. Image available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauchamp-Feuillet_notation#/media/File:Page_1_of_the_dance_la_Bouree_d'Achille_published_in_1700_by_Feuillet.jpg
Smithsonian Channel, "Can You Learn the Steps to This 18th Century Dance?" Available at https://youtu.be/m4oDi4fd39E
Matt Donnelly, "Breaking Down "The Favourite"'s Insane Royal Dance Battle," Variety, available at https://variety.com/2018/film/news/favourite-dance-scene-rachel-weisz-joe-alwyn-1203085751/
Gabriella Karl-Johnson, "From the Page to the Floor: Baroque Dance Notation and Kellom Tomlinson's The Art of Dancing Explained," Signs and Society 5, 2 (2017)
Today we're traveling back to 1990s Somalia with Black Hawk Down! Join us for a discussion of Mogadishu graffiti, hostages in the Somali conflict, Jamie's realization that the only scene she remembered from the film does not exist, the origins of the Somali Civil War, and more! **Note: This episode features the following errors that we would like to correct: 1) Top Gun was about Navy pilots, not Air Force, and 2) Karl Rove was Turd Blossom, not Scooter Libby
Content Warning: This episode features a discussion of child abuse and sexual assault
Sources:
Michael Durant and POWs:
US Army War College, "Mike Durant discusses the Battle of Mogadishu," YouTube (16 February 2011). https://youtu.be/p30dV6IEMO8
VAntage Point: Official Blog of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, "Black Hawk Down: Michael Durant," https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/66864/blackhawk-michael-durant/
Zachary Cohen, "Mike Durant: More than just the 'Black Hawk Down' guy," CNN (14 March 2016). https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/14/us/mike-durant-rewind/index.html
Dan Lamothe, "Why the 'Black Hawk Down' prisoner release is different than Bowe Bergdahl's," Washington Post (11 June 2014). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/06/11/why-the-black-hawk-down-prisoner-release-is-different-than-bowe-bergdahls/
Paul Lewis, "THE SOMALIA MISSION: Prisoners; U.N., Urged by U.S., Refuses to Exchange Somalis," New York Times (8 October 1993). https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/08/world/the-somalia-mission-prisoners-un-urged-by-us-refuses-to-exchange-somalis.html
Richard W. Stewart, The United States Army in Somalia, 1992-1994, US Army Military History, https://history.army.mil/brochures/Somalia/Somalia.htm
Frontline, "Ambush in Mogadishu," PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/
Mark Bowden, "The Legacy of Black Hawk Down," Smithsonian Magazine (January/February 2019). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/legacy-black-hawk-down-180971000/
Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Claus Kleber, Steven Livingston, and Judy Woodruff, "The CNN Effect," The Media and the War on Terrorism eds. Stephen Hess and Marvin Kalb, 63-82 (Brookings Institution Press, 2003). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt127wr6.8
Donatella Lorch, "Nigerian Soldier, Despite Ordeal, Shows No Wrath Toward Somalis," The New York Times (18 October 1993): 12.
Keith B. Richburg, "Somali Ambush Kills 7 Nigerian U.N. Soldiers," Los Angeles Times (6 September 1993). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-06-mn-32213-story.html
Remer Tyson, "Somali Captors Treated Nigerian Soldier Much Harsher Than U.S. Pilot," Seattle Times (19 October 1993) https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19931019&slug=1726806
Dominic D.P. Johnson and Dominic Tierney, "The U.S. Intervention in Somalia," Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics 205-241 (Harvard University Press, 2006). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0hfj.10
Mogadishu Graffiti:
Keith B. Richburg, "Somalia's Scapegoat," The Washington Post (18 October 1993). https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/10/18/somalias-scapegoat/6636e528-4c43-4770-bc68-1832e08acd67/
Eric Cabanis, Two children walk past graffiti in Mogadishu criticizing Jonathan Howe, a special envoy sent by U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Photograph, 30 June 1993, AFP via Getty Images, Mogadishu, Somalia. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/two-children-walk-30-june-1993-past-graffiti-in-mogadishu-news-photo/51432169
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/pair-of-marines-from-task-force-mogadishu-prepare-to-clear-news-photo/615292170?adppopup=true
Paul Salopek, "Conflict Graffiti," Foreign Policy 189 (November 2011): 94-95. ProQuest.
Associated Press, "Schoolhouse Graffiti Shows Depth of War," Los Angeles Sentinel (24 December 1992): A5. ProQuest.
Diana Jean Schemo, "On Mogadishu's 'Green Line', Nothing Is Sacred," New York Times (4 February 1993): A22. ProQuest.
Liz Sly, "'Help us, America. We want peace...'," Chicago Tribune (24 December 1992): 1. ProQuest.
Birte Vogel, Catherine Arthur, Eric Lepp, Dylan O'Driscoll, and Billy Tusker Haworth, "Reading socio-political and spatial dynamics through graffiti in conflict-affected societies," Third World Quarterly (2020): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2020.1810009
International Consortium for Conflict Graffiti https://www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/iccg/ and https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/fea681e836974047bf0487d898601bfb
Dina Kiwan, "Contesting Citizenship in the Arab Revolutions: Youth, Women, and Refugees," Democracy and Security 11:2 (April-June 2015): 129-144. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48602365
Background to the Film:
"As Black Hawk Down Director Ridley Scott is Nominated for an Oscar, An Actor in the Film Speaks Out Against It's Pro-War Message," Democracy Now, February 19th 2002
Black Hawk Down, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265086/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Jamie Tarabay, "Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Relationship of Mutual Exploitation," Al Jazeera, available at http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/29/hollywood-and-thepentagonarelationshipofmutualexploitation.html
Adrian Brune, "Protesting Black Hawk Down," The Nation, available at https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/protesting-black-hawk-down/
Roger Ebert Review, Black Hawk Down: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/black-hawk-down-2002
Lidwien Kapteijns, "Black Hawk Down: Recasting U.S. Military History at Somali Expense," Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema ed. Nigel Eltringham (Bergahn Books, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qcxp9.5
Somali Civil War:
Permanent Somali Mission to the United Nations: Country Facts. Available at https://www.un.int/somalia/somalia/country-facts
Ismail Einashe and Matt Kennard, "In the Valley of Death: Somaliland's Forgotten Genocide," The Nation, available at https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/in-the-valley-of-death-somalilands-forgotten-genocide/
Terry Atlas, "Cold War Rivals Sowed the Seeds of Somali Tragedy," Chicago Tribune, available at https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-12-13-9204230505-story.html
This week we're traveling to 1940s Mississippi with Mudbound! Join us to learn more about the 761st Tank Battalion, whooping cough, cigarettes in the US military, Black veterans in the Jim Crow South, and more!
Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of lynching and other racist violence.
Sources:
The 761st Tank Battalion:
"The Black Panthers Enter Combat: The 761st Tank Battalion, November 1944," National WWII History Museum. Available at https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/black-panthers-761st-tank-battalion
Roger Cunningham, "761st Tank Battalion," On Point 9, 3 (2004)
Walter Lewis, "A Brief History of the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II," Negro History Bulletin 25, 2 (1965)
Cynthia Neverdon-Morton, "African Americans in WWII: A Pictorial Essay," Negro History Bulletin 51/57, 1/12 (1993)
Whooping Cough:
CDC, Immunology and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases--Pink Book--Pertussis https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/pert.pdf
Nicolas Fanget, "Pertussis: a tale of two vaccines," Nature (28 September 2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/d42859-020-00013-8
E. Kuchar, M. Karlikowska-Skwarnik, S. Han, A. Nitsch-Osuch, "Pertussis: History of the Disease and Current Prevention Failure," Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 934 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2016_21
Natalie Zarrelli, "Whooping Cough Killed 6,000 Kids a Year Before These Ex-Teachers Created a Vaccine," History (23 April 2019). https://www.history.com/news/whooping-cough-vaccine-pertussis-great-depression
Harry M. Marks, "The Kendrick-Eldering-(Frost) pertussis vaccine field trial," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 100:5 (May 2007): 242-7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1861415/
Carolyn G. Shapiro-Shapin, "Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Pertussis Vaccine," Emerging Infectious Diseases 16:8 (August 2010): 1273-8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298325/
Smithsonian Antibody Initiative, "Suppressing Whooping Cough," Smithsonian National Museum of American History. https://www.si.edu/spotlight/antibody-initiative/suppressing-whooping-cough
Samuel X. Radbill, "Whooping Cough in Fact and Fancy," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 13:1 (January 1943): 33-53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44449087
Black Veterans in the South After WWII:
PBS, "Terror and Triumph," The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow YouTube. https://youtu.be/vadRcW_r-SE
Equal Justice Initiative, Lynching in America Targeting Black Veterans (2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep30689
Jennifer E. Brooks, "Winning the Peace: Georgia Veterans and the Struggle to Define the Political Legacy of World War II," The Journal of Southern History 66:3 (August 2000): 563-604. https://doi.org/10.2307/2587868
"L.R. Police Brutality Still Major Issue In Lives of Little Rock Negro People," Arkansas State Press (Little Rock, Arkansas), December 17, 1948: 1. Readex: African American Newspapers.
Defender Washington Bureau, "Attacks on GIs Spur Anti-Lynch Bill Fight," The Chicago Defender (31 March 1945): 4. ProQuest.
"Editor Witness to S.C. Slaying," The Pittsburgh Courier (24 August 1946) 1. ProQuest.
NAACP file, 1947 http://online.sfsu.edu/cwaldrep/NAACP%20LC%20Copies%20%5B3%5D.pdf
Kathy Lohr, "FBI Re-Examines 1946 Lynching," NPR https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5579862
Drunk History, "Stetson Kennedy Infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan (feat. Matt Walsh & Jason Ritter)" Comedy Central, YouTube (4 October 2019). https://youtu.be/-3VyPR0S0LM
Smoking in the US Military:
Stanford Collection of Tobacco Advertisements, available at http://tobacco.stanford.edu/tobacco_main/images.php?token2=fm_st188.php&token1=fm_img5558.php&theme_file=fm_mt023.php&theme_name=War%20&%20Aviation&subtheme_name=World%20War%20II
Richard Gunderman, "Smoking Rates Have Fallen to an All-Time Low, But How Did They Ever Get So High? The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/smoking-rates-in-us-have-fallen-to-all-time-low-but-how-did-they-ever-get-so-high-107185#:~:text=During%20World%20War%20II%2C%20free,companies%20manufacture%20290%20billion%20cigarettes.
Elizabeth Smith and Ruth Malone, "Everywhere the Soldier Will Be: Wartime Tobacco Promotion in the US Military," American Journal of Public Health 99, 9 (2009)
Mona Chalabi, "Cigarettes or War: Which is the Biggest Killer?" The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/news/reality-check/2013/dec/18/cigarettes-or-war-which-is-the-biggest-killer
Lysia Saad, "US Smoking Rate Still Coming Down," Gallup, available at https://news.gallup.com/poll/109048/us-smoking-rate-still-coming-down.aspx
Film Background:
Sundance Institute, "Mudbound," https://www.sundance.org/projects/mudbound
Ramin Setoodeh, "Can Netflix Crash the Oscars with Dee Rees' 'Mudbound'?" Variety (5 September 2017). https://variety.com/2017/film/features/mudbound-dee-rees-netflix-oscars-1202545540/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudbound_(film)
Today we're traveling back to America of the 1950s. . . and the 1960s. . . and the 1970s. . . ok, pretty much all of postwar American history. . . with Forrest Gump! Join us to learn more about generational shrimping, IQ tests, the Medal of Honor, and, of course, the all-important question of how this movie holds up after 25+ years.
Sources:
IQ Testing:
Stefan C. Dombrowski, TedED: The Dark History of IQ Tests. Available at https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-dark-history-of-iq-tests-stefan-c-dombrowski
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, "Science, Ideology, and Ideals: The Social History of IQ Testing," Centennial Review 38, 2 (1994)
Carlos Kevin Blanton, "From Intellectual Deficiency to Cultural Deficiency: Mexican Americans, Testing, and Public School Policy in the American Southwest, 1920-1940," Pacific Historical Review 72, 1 (2003)
Jason Ellis, "Inequalities of Children in Original Endowment: How Intelligence Testing Transformed Early Special Education in a North American City School System," History of Education Quarterly 53, 4 (2013)
Carl Kaestle. The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education, "Testing Policy in the United States: A Historical Perspective."
Film Synopsis:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristenlopez/2019/07/05/forrest-gump-at-25-disability-representation-for-better-and-worse/
https://www.unilad.co.uk/featured/disabled-actors-need-better-representation-in-hollywood/
Generational Shrimping:
Emily Blejwas, "Shrimpin' the Bayou," Mobile Bay (19 June 2020) https://mobilebaymag.com/shrimpin-the-bayou/
Frye Gaillard, Sheila Hagler, and Peggy Deniston, In the Path of the Storms: Bayou la Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast (University of Alabama Press, 2008, ProQuest EBook Central).
Marcie Cohen Ferris, "History, Place, and Power: Studying Southern Food," Southern Cultures 21:1 (Spring 2015): 2-7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26220209
Marcie Cohen Ferris, "The "Stuff" of Southern Food: Food and Material Culture in the American South," in The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South eds. John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, and Ted Ownby, 276-311 (University of Georgia Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n591.20 ; Beth A. Latshaw, "The Soul of the South: Race, Food, and Identity in the American South," The Larder, 99-127. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n591.11
Jessica B. Harris, "African American Foodways," The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways ed. John T. Edge, 15-18 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469616520_edge.6
Frederick Douglass Opie, "Influence, Sources, and African Diaspora Foodways," in Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History eds. Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, and Ken Albala, 188-208 (University of California Press, 2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt7zw3tn.15
E. Paul Durrenberger, "Shrimpers, Processors, and Common Property in Mississippi," Human Organization 53:1 (Spring 1994): 74-82. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44126561
Sid Moody, No title (Moonies and fishing), The Associated Press (20 May 1979) Nexis Uni.
"When "Moonies" Move In," U.S. News & World Report (27 March 1978): 45. Nexis Uni. Also: UPI "Personality Spotlight; NEWLN: Rev. Sun Myung Moon: Controversial religious leader," (14 May 1984). https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/05/14/Personality-SpotlightNEWLNRev-Sun-Myung-Moon-Controversial-religious-leader/9349453355200/
The Associated Press, "Hurricane Winds Buffet Louisiana: Highways Jammed 180 M.P.H. Gusts Hit Coast..." New York Times (8 September 1974). ProQuest.
James Wilkins, Rodney Emmer, Dennis Hwang, George Paul Kemp, Barrett Kennedy, Hassan Mashriqui, and Bruce Sharky, Louisiana Coastal Hazard Mitigation Guidebook (Louisiana Sea Grant College Program 2008). http://www.dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/docs/coastal/interagencyaff/LaCoastalHazMitGuidebook.pdf
"Carmen Fades; No One Killed," Detroit Free Press (9 September 1974): 18.
Alabama Public Television, "Bayou La Batre," Journey Proud YouTube (9 October 2015). https://youtu.be/0h6ZoyBAWGI
VICE, "Ex-Cult Member Explains How He Escaped the Moonies," YouTube (14 November 2018). https://youtu.be/slFUtQQM1Ow
Film Background:
Eric Kohn, "Forrest Gump 25 Years Later: A Bad Movie That Gets Worse With Age." IndieWire. Available at https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/forrest-gump-bad-movie-25-anniversary-1202154214/
Forrest Gump, Wikipedia. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump
Roger Ebert's Review, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/forrest-gump-1994
Medal of Honor:
National Medal of Honor Museum, Recipient Database. Available at https://mohmuseum.org/recipient-database/
Joseph Blake, "The Congressional Medal of Honor in Three Wars," Pacific Sociological Review 16, 2 (1973)
Today we're traveling back to 1930s Paris with Victor Victoria! Join us to learn more about gun molls, Gay Paris, French Leave, and more!
Sources:
Gay Paris:
Elspeth H. Brown, "Queering Interwar Fashion: Photographers, Models, and the Queer Production of the "Look,"" Work!: A Queer History of Modeling (Duke University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1220kh4.8
Robert Aldrich, "Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview," Urban Studies 41:9 (August 2004): 1719-1737. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43201476
Michael Sibalis, "Urban Space and Homosexuality: The Example of the Marais, Paris' 'Gay Getto'," Urban Studies 41:9 (August 2004): 1739-1758. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43201477
Denis M. Provencher, Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France (Taylor & Francis, 2007).
Michael D. Sibalis, "Homophobia, Vichy France, and the "Crime of Homosexuality": The Origins of the Ordinance of 6 August 1942," GLQ 8:3 (2002): 301-18.
Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 2012). http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/26730/1/96.pdf
Leslie Choquette, "Beyond the Myth of Lesbian Montmartre: The Case of Chez Palmyre," Historical Reflections 42:2 (Summer 2016): 75-96. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44631073
Darryl W Bullock, "Pansy Craze: the wild 1930s drag parties that kickstarted gay nightlife," The Guardian (14 September 2017). https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/14/pansy-craze-the-wild-1930s-drag-parties-that-kickstarted-gay-nightlife
http://www.jazzageclub.com/queer-paris/630/
Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, "Brassai" Encyclopedia Britannica Academic (23 August 2012).
Mee-Lai Stone, "The City of Light and its shadows: Brassai's Paris--in pictures," The Guardian (8 October 2019). https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/08/city-of-light-brassai-paris-in-pictures-photography
Queer Music Heritage, "Brevities" http://www.queermusicheritage.com/gayephemera5.html
Brassai, Young Couple Wearing a Two-in-One Suit at the Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve, Photograph, c. 1931, The Met Museum. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265457
Brassai, Le Monocle, the Bar, Paris. On the Left is Lulu de Montparnasse. Photograph, 1933, MoMA. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/58849 ; Brassai, Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve, Photograph, c. 1932, MoMa. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/44009?artist_id=745&page=1&sov_referrer=artist You can find Brassai'd collected works at MoMA here: https://www.moma.org/artists/745#works
Film Background:
Steve Cohan, "'I Think I Could Fall In Love With Him': Victor/Victoria and the 'Drag' of Romantic Comedy," in Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s eds. Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto 37-57 (Edinburgh University Press, 1998).
John C. Tibbetts, "Robert Preston Talks about Typecasting, Cecil B. Demille, and Victory/Victoria," (interview conducted 1982), American Classic Screen Interviews (2010).
Thomas Hischak, "Victor/Victoria" The Oxford Companion to the American Musical (Oxford University Press, 2009).
"Julie Andrews on Late Night, February 17, 1982," https://youtu.be/IBtRZiKVH00
"Julie Andrews and James Garner at the premiere of Victor Victoria," https://youtu.be/29xk8LEw8N4
Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/victor-victoria
Roger Ebert, "Victor/Victoria," (1 January 1982). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/victorvictoria-1982
Vincent Canby, "'Victor Victoria,' A Blake Edwards Farce," The New York Times (19 March, 1982). https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/19/movies/victor-victoria-a-blake-edwards-farce.html
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor/Victoria
Associated Press, "NFL Great Alex Karras Dies" ESPN https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/8485773/alex-karras-detroit-lions-defensive-great-dies-age-77 ; Detroit Lions, "Alex Karras headed to Hall of Fame," YouTube https://youtu.be/wCSrlVW4FFI
Male Impersonators:
Cornell University Library Digital Collections, Postcards of Male and Female Impersonators Cross-Dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930. Available at https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/impersonator-postcards
Jeanne Bloch Postcard, Cornell University Digital Library Collections, Available at https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:24415912
Drag King History, Timeline, available at https://dragkinghistory.com/dk-timeline/
Lenard R. Berlenstein, "Breeches and Breaches: Cross-Dress Theater and the Culture of Gender Ambiguity in Modern France," Comparative Studies in Society and History 38, 2 (1996)
French Leave:
"French leave, n." Oxford English Dictionary
Seth Stevenson, "Don't Say Goodbye Just ghost." Slate (3 July 2013). https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/ghosting-the-irish-goodbye-the-french-leave-stop-saying-goodbye-at-parties.html
Gun Molls:
IMDB List of Films Featuring Gun Molls: https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=gun-moll&sort=year,asc&mode=detail&page=1
The Mob Museum, Top Five Women of Organized Crime. Available at https://themobmuseum.org/blog/top-5-women-of-organized-crime/
Claire Bond Potter, "I'll Go to the Limit and Then Some: Gun Molls, Desire, and Danger in the 1930s," Feminist Studies 21, 1 (Spring 1995)
Today we're traveling back to 1960s Baltimore with Hairspray! Join us for a discussion of flashers, the Baltimore accent, flags in classrooms, interracial relationships on TV, and more!
Sources:
Flashers:
F.G. Rooth, "Some Historical Notes on Indecent Exposure and Exhibitionism," Medico-Legal Journal 38, no. 4 (1970): 135-139.
Stuart P. Green, "To See and Be Seen: Reconstructing the Law of Voyeurism and Exhibitionism," The American Criminal Law Review 55:2 (2018): 203-258.
Thomas L. Fowler, "Of Moons, Thongs, Holdings and Dicta: State v. Fly and the Rule of Loaw, 22 Campbell L. Rev. 253" Campbell Law Review (Spring 2000).
https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/sex-crimes/public-indecency/
N-gram "Exhibitionist" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=exhibitionist&year_start=1600&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=true
Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/07/01/
National Conference of State Legislatures, "Breastfeeding State Laws," NCSL (7/9/2020). https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/breastfeeding-state-laws.aspx
https://casetext.com/case/messina-v-state-11#p606
Flags in Classrooms:
Arizona HB2583 https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/47leg/2r/summary/s.2583k12-hed_asenacted.doc.htm
4 U.S. Code § 6, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/6
Amy Crawford, "How the Pledge of Allegiance Went From PR Gimmick to Patriotic Vow," Smithsonian Magazine (September 2015). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pledge-allegiance-pr-gimmick-patriotic-vow-180956332/
"Pledge of Allegiance Law Overturned," New York Times (5 September 1970). https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/05/archives/pledge-of-allegiance-law-overturned-in-maryland.html#:~:text=ANNAPOLIS%2C%20Md.%2C%20Sept.,to%20the%20United%20States%20flag.
https://codes.findlaw.com/md/education/md-code-educ-sect-7-105.html
Michael Lipka, "Five Facts about the Pledge of Allegiance" Pew Research Center, (4 September 2013) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/04/5-facts-about-the-pledge-of-allegiance/
Interracial Kisses on TV:
Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. New York, Columbia University Press, 2003.
US Code of Television Practices for Broadcasters, Full Text: http://www.tvhistory.tv/SEAL-Good-Practice.htm
Raj Tawney, "Was I Love Lucy Ahead of Its Time?" Television Academy, available at https://www.emmys.com/news/online-originals/was-i-love-lucy-ahead-its-time
"Uncovered Footage Reveals TV's First Interracial Kiss, Long Before Star Trek," CNN, available at https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/world/first-interracial-kiss-on-tv/index.html
Donald Liebenson, "50 Years Ago, a White Woman Touching a Black Man on Television Caused a National Commotion," Vanity Fair, available at https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/harry-belafonte-petula-clark-1968-civil-rights-arm-touch-national-commotion
Dr. Jason Johnson, Twitter Post on Benson: https://twitter.com/DrJasonJohnson/status/1172929913676083206
Baltimore Accent:
Erik Singer, Technique Critique: Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents. Wired. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDvESEXcgE
Lexicon of Bawlimorese, Baltimore Hon. Available at http://www.baltimorehon.com/
Maryland 2, International Dialects of English Archive: https://www.dialectsarchive.com/maryland-2
Interview with HL Mencken, Library of Congress. Available at https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000006/
Accent Expert Explains Similarities Between Different Accents. Wired. Available at https://www.wired.com/video/watch/accent-expert-explains-similarities-between-different-accents
Film Background:
Jeffrey Kare, "The Journey of Hairspray: From Screen to Stage and Back Again!" Broadway World. Available at https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The-Journey-of-HAIRSPRAY--From-Screen-to-Stage-and-Back-Again-20161207
"When It Comes to Baltimore, John Travolta Does It His Way," Baltimore Sun, available at https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bs-xpm-2012-11-05-bs-ae-travolta-1104-20121103-story.html
This week we use the most nineties movie imaginable to travel back to the 1940s with Dead Again! Join us for a discussion of past life regression methods, the Bridey Murphy case, the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism winners, Rube Goldberg, and more!
Sources:
1948 Pulitzer Prizes:
"1948 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Journalism" https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1948
"The Wacky Inventions of Rube Goldberg," CBS News (26 January 2014). https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-wacky-inventions-of-rube-goldberg/3/
Gary Pomerantz, "When Georgia had three governors: The story that won George Goodwin a journalism prize," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (29 December 1996). https://www.ajc.com/news/special-reports/when-georgia-had-three-governors-the-story-that-won-george-goodwin-journalism-prize/PNNohvV4spaPsd5lFSzbkK/
Alexis Stevens, "Atlanta Pulitzer Prize winner George Goodwin dies at 97," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (21 January 2015). https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-pulitzer-prize-winner-george-goodwin-dies/5ndMsn77oN56RdQwTh05MO/
Raymond J. Blair, "Bert Andrews Dies in Denver: Bert Andrews, Prize Reporter, Dies at 52," The Washington Post (22 August 1953).
http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2012/07/pulitzer-prize-for-photography-1948.html
"Nat S. Finney, Ex-Reporter, Won Pulitzer in Journalism," New York Times (22 December 1982).
"The Editor's Notebook," Detroit Free Press (16 November 1947), 16.
"'Iron Curtain' Tactics Hit By Ferguson: Senator Talks Sternly Of Impeachment in Speech to Senate," The Hartford Courant (8 August 1948), 2.
"There was once a time where 3 men claimed to be Georgia's governor at the same time," 11Alive, (27 November 2020) YouTube https://youtu.be/ALhWRRaVxkw
Ronald Keith Gaddie, "Georgia's Three Governors' Controversy: An American Coup D'etat?" The University of Oklahoma, Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage" YouTube (3 August 2016). https://youtu.be/43Avbm8tZvc
Thomas Scott, "James V. Carmichael (1910-1972)" and Scott E. Buchanan, "County Unit System," New Georgia Encyclopedia https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/james-v-carmichael-1910-1972 and https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/county-unit-system
Erica Sterling, "Maceo Snipes," The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project, https://coldcases.emory.edu/maceo-snipes/
"Answers Sought in 1946 Georgia Killing," https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17127541
Film Background:
Roger Ebert, "Dead Again," https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dead-again-1991
Box Office Mojo "Dead Again," https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3209463297/weekend/
"Dead Again" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Again
"Dead Again (1991)" IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101669/
Past Life Regression:
Gabriel Andrade, "Is Past Life Regression Therapy Ethical?" Journal of Medical Ethics and the History of Medicine 10, 11 (2017)
Herbert Brean, "Bridey Murphy Puts Nation in a Hypnotizzy," Life Magazine, 1956 https://books.google.com/books?id=6FYEAAAAMBAJ&q=bridey+murphy&pg=PA30#v=snippet&q=bridey%20murphy&f=false
Kevin Heffernan, "The Hypnosis Horror Films of the 1950s: Genre Texts and Industrial Contexts," Journal of Film and Video 54, 2-3 (2002)
Chris D. Bader, "The UFO Contact Movement from teh 1950s to the Present," Studies in Popular Culture 17, 2 (1995)
Alison Winter, "Manchurian Candidates: Forensic Hypnosis in the Cold War," Grey Room 45 (2011)
The Search for Bridey Murphy, Full Movie, available at https://youtu.be/xJHD8fY3PlE
This week we travel back to Victorian England with the Importance of Being Earnest! Join us for a discussion of female archers, foundlings, boutonnieres, the film's many great zingers, tattoos, and more!
Sources:
Archery:
John Stanley, "Archery History: The Sport that Pioneered Equality for Women's Participation," World Archery, available at https://worldarchery.sport/news/178437/archery-history-sport-pioneered-equality-womens-participation
Archery Dresses, Autumn 1831, Claremont Colleges Fashion Plate Collection. Available at https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/fpc/id/174/
William Powell Frith, "The Fair Toxophilites." Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Victorian_era#/media/File:RAMM_Frith_-_The_Fair_Toxophilites.jpg
Film Background:
The Importance of Being Earnest, 2002, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest_(2002_film)
Roger Ebert Review of The Importance of Being Earnest, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-importance-of-being-earnest-2002
"The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)" IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278500/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Lady Bracknell quotes: https://www.importanceofbeingearnest.co.uk/lady-bracknell-quotes/
Foundlings:
Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London (Rutgers University Press, 2006).
Ellen Boucher, Empire's children: child emigration, welfare, and the decline of the British world, 1869-1967 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital (Bloomsbury, 2012).
Lynda Nead, "Fallen Women and Foundlings: Rethinking Victorian Sexuality," History Workshop Journal 82 (August 2016).
Jane Humphries (reviewer) "Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings. By Helen Berry (New York, Oxford University Press, 2019) 384 pp. $27.95," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 51:1 (Summer 2020).
Elizabeth Foyster, "The "New World of Children" Reconsidered: Child Abduction in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England," Journal of British Studies, 52:3 (July 2013): 669-92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41999356
Shurlee Swain, "Beyond chlid migration, inquiries, apologies and the implications for the writing of a transnational child welfare history," History Australia 13:1 (May 2016): 139-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2016.1156212
"The Lost Child Found." The Cardiff and Methyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette (16 April 1870). https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3096837/3096841/23/abandoned%20lost%20child%20London
"Law and Police." The Illustrated London News (3 April 1869). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/HN3100078408/ILN?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=ILN&xid=a37b77d5
"Story of a Lost Child." Monmouthshire Merlin (1 August 1868). https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3442593/3442595/14/abandoned%20lost%20child%20London
"Home Children, 1869-1932," Library and Archives Canada https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/Pages/home-children.aspx
Bernd Weisbrod, "How to Become a Good Foundling in Early Victorian London," Social History 10:2 (May 1985): 193-209. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4285430
"Our History" Barnardo's https://www.barnardos.org.uk/who-we-are/our-history
Boutonnieres:
"History of Fashion 1840-1900" Victoria & Albert Museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/history-of-fashion-1840-1900/
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/olli/class-materials/History_of_Fashion_Oct30.pdf
Harper Franklin, "1890-1899" Fashion History Timeline https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1890-1899/
https://bellatory.com/fashion-industry/Mens-Clothing-of-the-Late-Victorian-Era
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/09/25/19th-century-fashion-plate-magazines
Tattoos:
Database of Convict Tattoos, Digital Panopticon, available at https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/search?targ=hitlist&e0.type.t.t=root&e1.date.d.hy=1839&e1.date.d.ly=1830&e0.gender.tg.x=&e1.date.d.hm=&e0.tattoo_subjects.mts.mts=&e1.date.d.lm=&e1.date.d.hd=&e1.type.t.t=tattoo&e1.date.d.ld=
Robert Shoemaker and Zoe Alker, "How Tattoos Became Fashionable in Victorian England," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/how-tattoos-became-fashionable-in-victorian-england-122487
"Tattoo Machines," Tattooarchive.com, available at https://www.tattooarchive.com/history/tattoo_machine.php
Today we're headed back to the 15th century with The King! Join us for a discussion of Robert Pattinson's performance, female innkeepers, the Battle of Agincourt, and whole bunch of different historical figures named Henry.
Sources:
Henry IV
Family Tree of British Monarchs, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_British_monarchs
Mark Cartwright, Henry IV of England. World History Encyclopedia. Available at https://www.worldhistory.org/Henry_IV_of_England/?visitCount=5&lastVisitDate=2021-4-8&pageViewCount=5
Mark Cartwright, Henry V of England. World History Encyclopedia. Available at https://www.worldhistory.org/Henry_V_of_England/?visitCount=5&lastVisitDate=2021-4-8&pageViewCount=5
Innkeepers and Alewives:
Judith M. Bennet, "Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work," History Workshop 31 (1991)
Martha Carlin, "What Say You to a Piece of Beef and Mustard? The Evolution of Public Dining in Medieval and Tudor London," Huntington Library Quarterly 71, 1 (2008)
Justin Colson, "A Portrait of a Late Medieval London Pub: The Star Inn, Bridge Street," in Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline Baron. Elizabeth New and Christian Steer, eds. University of London Press
Marjorie K. McIntosh, "The Benefits and Drawbacks of Femme Sole Status, 1300-1630," Journal of British Studies 44, 3 (2005)
Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy
Simon Walker, "Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur (1364-1403), soldier," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (3 January 2008). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/21931
A.L. Brown and Henry Summerson, "Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke] (1367-1413)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (8 April 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/12951
"Battle of Shrewsbury 1403," Historic England (9 September 2015). https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000033
"Battle of Shrewsbury 21st July 1403," Battlefield Trust http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/medieval/battleview.asp?BattleFieldId=39 .
John Cannon, A Dictionary of British History (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Alfred H. Burne, The Battlefields of England (Pen & Sword Books, 2005), 203-13.
Timothy D. Arner, "The Disappearing Scar of Henry V: Triage, Trauma, and the Treatment of Henry's Wounding at the Battle of Shrewsbury," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 49:2 (2019): 347-76.
Agincourt:
Gordon Campbell, "Agincourt, battle of or (French) battle of Azincourt,"The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Christopher Allmand, "Agincourt, battle of (1415)," The Oxford Companion to Military History (Oxford University Press, 2004).
James Glanz, "Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt," The New York Times (24 October 2009). https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25agincourt.html
Robert McCrum, "Agincourt was a battle like no other...but how do the French remember it?" The Guardian (26 September 2015). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/26/agincourt-600th-anniversary-how-french-remember-it
Tim Treanor, "High Court Rules for French at Agincourt," DC Theatre Scene (18 March 2010). https://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/18/high-court-rules-for-french-at-agincourt/
Film Background:
Owen Gleiberman, "Venice Film Review: Timothee Chalamet in 'The King'," Variety (2 September 2019). https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/the-king-review-timothee-chalamet-1203320801/
Simran Hans, "The King review--Timothee Chalamet is all at sea as Prince Hal," The Guardian (13 October 2019). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/13/the-king-henry-v-agincourt-timothee-chalamet-robert-pattinson-joel-edgerton
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_king_2019
"Timothee Chalamet & The King's Cast on Robert Pattinson's French Accent MTV Movies," MTV UK (8 October 2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHKJoXGsOxE
https://www.themarysue.com/bowlcut-nation-the-king-timothee-chalamet/
This week we travel back to the late 19th/early 20th century with Tesla! Join us for a discussion of ice cream, karaoke, the electric chair, Anne Morgan, and more!
Sources:
William Kemmler:
"Sources on William Kemmler," Murderpedia, available at https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kemmler-william.htm
Michael S. Rosenwald, "Great God, He is Alive! First Man Executed by Electric Chair Died Slower Than Thomas Edison Expected," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/26/thomas-edison-the-electric-chair-and-a-botched-execution-a-death-penalty-primer/
Film Background:
Rivka Galchen, Interview with Michael Almereyda, LitHub. Available at https://lithub.com/michael-almereyda-on-capturing-the-unknowable-nikola-tesla/
Tesla, Wikipedia. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(2020_film)
Scout Tafoya, Limits Don't Exist: Michael Almereyda on Tesla," Rogerebert.com, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/michael-almereyda-interview-tesla
Anne Morgan:
SCETV Presents Anne Morgan's War (PBS)
"Anne Morgan: advocate for women and workers" https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/triangle-fire-anne-morgan/
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Anne Tracy Morgan." Encyclopedia Britannica, January 25, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Tracy-Morgan .
Ice Cream Cones:
https://www.idfa.org/the-history-of-the-ice-cream-cone
Merrill Fabry, "The Murky History of the Ice Cream Cone," Time (12 April 2016) https://time.com/4288576/ice-cream-cone-history/
Frascati etching, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-2009-291
"The Ice Cream Cone," Today in History, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-23
Sarah Bernhardt:
Glenn C. Altschuler, "Sarah Bernhardt's Dramatic Life, Onstage and Off," NPR, Available at https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129879698
Victoria Duckett, "Sarah Bernhardt," Women Film Pioneers Project, available at https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/sarah-bernhardt/
Elana Shapira, "Sarah Bernhardt," Jewish Women's Archive, available at https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bernhardt-sarah
Ashley Chervinski, "How Closely do the Characters in Tesla Resemble the Real People?" Refinery29, available at https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/08/9978762/tesla-cast-characters-real-people#slide-5
Today we're traveling back to 1960s/70s Chicago with 2021 Oscar winner Judas and the Black Messiah! Join us for a discussion of the Black Panther Party's breakfast program, the role played by women, the real organization that inspired "The Crowns", William O'Neal, and more!
Sources:
William O'Neal:
"Eyes on the Prize: Interview With William O'Neal," American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Available at https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-x34mk66290
Transcripts of Eyes on the Prize Interviews available at http://digital.wustl.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eop;cc=eop;rgn=main;view=text;idno=one5427.1047.125
600 F.2d 600, Iberia Hampton et al v. Edward V. Hanrahan et al, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Available at https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/600/600.F2d.600.77-1370.77-1210.77-1698.html
Robert Blau, "Jan 18th 1990: Panther Informant William O'Neal's Death Ruled a Suicide," Chicago Tribune, available at https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-01-18-9001050412-story.html
The Free Breakfast Program:
Joshua Bloom and Waldo E Martin Jr, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016).
PBS Independent Lens https://www.pbs.org/video/independent-lens-free-breakfast-program/
Erin Blakemore, "How the Black Panthers’ Breakfast Program Both Inspired and Threatened the Government" History https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party
"Nik Heynen, ""Bending the Bars of Empire from Every Ghetto for Survival: The Black Panther Party's Radical Antihunger Politics of Social Reproduction and Scale""
Pages 406-422 | Received 01 Oct 2005, Accepted 01 Jul 2008, Published online: 01 May 2009 https://doi.org/10.1080/00045600802683767
"
The Crowns:
Natalie Y. Moore and Lance Williams, The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang (Chicago Review Press: 2011).
Joshua Bloom and Waldo E Martin Jr, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016).
Film Background:
Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/judas_and_the_black_messiah
NPR "Director Shaka King On 'Judas And The Black Messiah': 'I See It ... I'm In'" https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/965362196/director-shaka-kings-journey-from-newlyweeds-to-the-black-messiah
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9784798/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/movies/judas-and-the-black-messiah-review.html
Women in the Black Panther Party:
Janelle Harris Dixon, "The Rank and File Women of the Black Panther Party and Their Influence," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/rank-and-file-women-black-panther-party-their-powerful-influence-180971591/
"Comrade Mama Akua Njeri: Long Live Revolution!" Available at https://youtu.be/T7Wdn2e6kqA
Peniel E. Joseph, "The Black Power Movement: The State of the Field," Journal of American History 86, 3 (2009)
Lisa Rofel and Jeremy Tai, "A Conversation With Ericka Huggins," Feminist Studies 42, 1 (2016)
Rhonda Y. Williams, "Black Women and Black Power," OAH Magazine of History 22, 3 (2008)
This week we're traveling back to Regency England with Sense and Sensibility! Join us for a discussion of pineapples, the Bill and Ted Test, Regency medicine, the Porcupine newspaper, the late great Alan Rickman, and more!
Sources:
Regency Doctors:
Brittany Pladek, "A Variety of Tastes: The Lancet in the Early-Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 85, 4 (2011)
"The Physician in the 19th Century," Jane Austen's World, available at https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/the-physician-in-the-19th-century/
MJD Roberts, "The Politics of Professionalization: MPs, Medical Men, and the 1858 Medical Act," Medical History 53, 1 (2009)
Michael Ashley Stein et al, "Expert Testimony in Nineteenth Century Malapraxis Actions," American Journal of Legal History 55, 2 (2015)
Regency Hair and the Bill and Ted Test:
Rachelle Hampton, "Does Your Favorite Period Drama Pass the Bill and Ted Test?" Slate, available at https://slate.com/culture/2020/04/regency-movie-costumes-bill-and-ted-test.html
"Pictorial History of Regency Hairstyles," Jane Austen's World, available at https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/tag/regency-hairstyle/
The Porcupine:
"Porcupine's Gazette" George Washington's Mount Vernon https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/porcupine-s-gazette/
"London Porcupine and Antigallican Monitor Newspaper Archives October 26, 1801 Page 1" https://newspaperarchive.com/london-porcupine-and-antigallican-monitor-oct-26-1801-p-1/
James Madison, The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (1986). Google Books snippet view.
Edward Smith, William Cobbett: A Biography In Two Volumes, Vol. 1 London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. Gutenberg E-book. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49844/49844-h/49844-h.htm#CHAPTER_XI
Ian Dyck, "Cobbett, William (1763-1835)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (September 2004). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/5734
Pineapples:
Bethan Bell, "The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple," BBC News (2 August 2020). https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53432877
Ruth Levitt, "'A Noble Present of Fruit': A Transatlantic History of Pineapple Cultivation," Garden History 42:1 (Summer 2014): 106-119. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24636289
Christopher J. Natali, "Was Northanger Abbey's General Tilney Worth His Weight in Pineapples?" Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 40:1 (2019).
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 12 March 2021), July 1807, trial of JOHN GODDING, alias GODWYN (t18070701-60).
John Godding, https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18070701-60-defend643
Film Background:
Sense and Sensibility, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114388/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
"10 Confusing Movie End Credits Finally Explained," WhatCulture.com, available at https://whatculture.com/film/10-confusing-movie-end-credits-finally-explained?page=9
This week we're traveling back to Ancient Egypt AND 1920s Egypt in 1999's The Mummy! Join us for a discussion of mummification, bandoliers, just what the heck is that invasion in the beginning of the film, female Egyptologists, and more!
Sources:
Libyan Invasion?
David Johnson, "Egypt's 1919 Revolution," Socialist Alternative, available at https://www.socialistalternative.org/2019/04/03/egypts-1919-revolution/
Ellis Goldberg, "Peasants in Revolt: Egypt 1919," International Journal of Middle East Studies 24, 2 (1992)
Libya, Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/place/Libya/History
Federica Saini Fasanotti, "Libyans Haven't Forgotten History," Brookings Institute, available at https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/01/18/libyans-havent-forgotten-history/
"The Second Italo-Sanussi War," available at http://countrystudies.us/libya/21.htm
Mummification:
Joshua J Mark, "Mummification in Ancient Egypt," Ancient History Encyclopedia, available at https://www.ancient.eu/article/44/mummification-in-ancient-egypt/
Arthur Aufderheide et al, "Human Mummification Practices at Ismant El Kharab," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 85, (1999)
David Lorton, "The Treatment of Criminals in Ancient Egypt," Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, 20, 1 (1977)
Koichiro Wada, "Provincial Society and Cemetary Organization in the New Kingdom," Studien zur Altagyptischen Kultur 36 (2007)
Ichiro Hori, "Self-Mummified Buddhas in Japan: An Aspect of the Shugen-do (Mountain Ascetic) Sect," History of Religions 1, 2 (1962)
Davey Young, "The Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies," Atlas Obscura, available at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sokushinbutsu
Bandoliers:
dictionary def: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bandolier
"A Modified Equipment for the Royal Army Medical Corps" (1911) http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jramc-16-02-08
"Bandolier, also bandoleer," The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Stuart Reid, "1335 Bandoliers," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 70:281 (Spring 1992): 64.
Anitra Nettleton, "Crossing the chest: bandoliers with and without bullets in imaging the 'Zulu'," Southern African Humanities 30 (December 2017): 125-43.
Henrik Langeluddecke, "'The Chiefest Strength and Glory of This Kingdom': Arming and Training the 'Perfect Militia' in the 1630s," The English Historical Review 118:479 (Nov. 2003): 1264-1303. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3490593
Saheed Aderinto, Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order (Indiana University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2204p6x.13
Sophie Esch, Modernity at Gunpoint: Firearms, Politics, and Culture in Mexico and Central America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv7r40t7.5
Belinda Linn Rincon, Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture (University of Arizona Press, 2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1t89kqs.10
Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (University of California Press, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1xxsj1.18
Jonathan Endelman, "Displaying the state: visual signs and colonial construction in Jordan," Theory and Society 44:3 (May 2015): 199-218. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43694757
Jane Tynan, "Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and Embodiment," in Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics ed. Catherine Baker, 213-41 (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv10kmf1g.15
Film Background:
Clark Collis, "Snakes, sandstorms, and strangulations: The making of 1999's The Mummy" Entertainment Weekly (13 August 2019) https://ew.com/movies/2019/08/13/the-mummy-making-of-brendan-fraser-stephen-sommers/
Wiki: "The Mummy (1999 film)," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film)
Roger Ebert, "The Mummy," (7 May 1999) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mummy-1999 .
Female Egyptologists:
Ruth Whitehouse, "Margaret Murray (1863-1963): Pioneer Egyptologist, Feminist and First Female Archaeology Lecturer," Archaeology International 16 (2012-13): 120-127. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ai.1608
Eliza Apperly, "The unsung women of Egyptology," Thames & Hudson (7 October 2020). https://thamesandhudson.com/news/the-unsung-women-of-egyptology/
Wiki: "Mary Brodrick" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Brodrick
Amara Thornton, Archaeologists in Print (UCL Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv3hvc9k.6
This week we're traveling back to the 19th-century American South with Harriet! Join us for a discussion of the Combahee River Raid, Reverend Samuel Green, Harriet Tubman's visions, and more!
Sources:
Combahee River Raid:
Zinn Education Project "June 2, 1863: harriet Tubman Frees Nearly 800 People" https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/harriet-tubman-raid-at-combahee-ferry/
"The Raid" Uncivil Podcast https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/uncivil?selected=GLT6754684783
"Harriet Tubman's Role in Montgomery's Raids," Florida History Online, UNF. https://www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline/montgomery/tubman.html
DeNeen L. Brown, "Renowned as a Black liberator, Harriet Tubman was also a brilliant spy," The Washington Post (12 February 2021). https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/08/harriet-tubman-spy-civil-war-union/
Harriet's Spells:
Catherine Clinton, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Janell Hobson, "Of "Sound" and "Unsound" Body and Mind: Reconfiguring the Heroic Portrait of Harriet Tubman," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 40, no. 2 (2019): 193-218.
Black Jacks:
W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997).
Film Background:
Interview with Kasi Lemmons on Harriet, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775148791/the-superhero-journey-of-harriet-tubman-now-on-film
"Harriet," Wikipedia, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
Catherine Shoard, "No One Will Know the Difference: Studio Wanted Julia Roberts to Play Harriet Tubman," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/20/studio-wanted-julia-roberts-to-play-harriet-tubman-cynthia-erivo
"The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!" Fanti, available at https://maximumfun.org/episodes/fanti/the-british-are-coming-the-british-are-coming/
Marriages:
Kahlil Chism, "Harriet Tubman: Spy, Veteran, and Widow," OAH Magazine of History 19, 2 (2005)Patrick W. O'Neil, "Bosses and Broomsticks: Ritual and Authority in Antebellum Slave Weddings," Journal of Southern History 75, 1 (2009)
Terri L. Snyder, "Marriage on the Margins: Free Wives, Enslaved Husbands, and Law in Early Virginia," Law and History Review 30, 1 (2012)
Reverend Samuel Green:
Albert Blondo, "Samuel Green: A Black Life in Antebellum Maryland," MA Thesis. Available at https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2200/sc2208/pdf/blondo.pdf
This week we're traveling back to the 1920s up through the 1950s with an NSFW episode on Professor Marston on the Wonder Women! Join us to learn about the love story between Elizabeth Marston, William Marston, and Olive Byrne, corset fetish photography, comic books, and more!
Sources:
Charles Guyette:
Tony Mitchell, "Review of Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art," The Fetishistas, available at https://thefetishistas.com/charles-guyette-unsung-fetish-hero/
Charles Guyette, FetHistory. Available at https://fethistory.blogspot.com/2017/09/charles-guyette-in-robert-harrison_3.html
Linda Williams, Porn Studies. Duke University Press, 2004.
Free Love:
"Victoria Woodhull, And The Truth Shall Make You Free:
A Speech On The Principles Of Social Freedom. 1871. Available at http://gos.sbc.edu/w/woodhull.html"
Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love. Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20715/20715-h/20715-h.htm
Wendy Hayden, "(R)Evolutionary Rhetorics: Science and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Free Love Discourse," Rhetoric Review 29, 2 (2010)
Christina Simmons, "Women's Power in Sex Radical Challenges to Marriage in the Early Twentieth Century United States," Feminist Studies 29, 1 (2003)
Mytheli Srinivas, "Birth Control in the Shadow of Empire: The Trials of Annie Besant, 1877-1878," Feminist Studies 21, 3 (2015)
Leigh Ann Wheeler, "Where Else But Greenwich Village? Love, Lust, and the Emergence of the American Civil Liberties Union's Sexual Rights Agenda, 1920-1931," Journal of the History of Sexuality 21, 1 (2012)
Penis Envy:
Freud, "Three Contributions to the Theory of Sexuality," Full Text available at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Three_Contributions_to_the_Theory_of_Sex
MC Gaines:
William Moulton Marston, "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics," The American Scholar 13:1 (Winter 1943-44): 35-44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41204638
W.W. D. Sones, "The Comics and Instructional Method," The Journal of Educational Sociology 18:4 (December 1944): 232-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2262696
M.C. Gaines, "Narrative Illustration: The Story of Comics," in Comic Art in Museums ed. Kim A. Munson (University of Mississippi Press, 2020) 88-97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv128fpwk.12
Shawna Kidman, Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood (University of California Press, 2019), 18-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvfxvb4q.6
Noah Berlatsky, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 (Rutgers University Press, 2015). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1qft01w.5
Noah Berlatsky, "Not the Secret History of Wonder Woman," The Hooded Utilitarian (17 November 2014). https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/11/not-the-secret-history-of-wonder-woman/
Alex Buchet, "Prehistory of the Superhero (Part Seven): Reign of the Superman," The Hooded Utilitarian (5 November 2013). https://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2013/11/prehistory-of-the-superhero-part-seven-reign-of-the-superman/
Carol L. Tilley, ""Superman Says, 'Read!'" National Comics and Reading Promotion," Children's Literature in Education 44 (2013): 251-263. https://rdcu.be/ce2wF
Louis Menand, "The Horror: Books" The New Yorker 84:7 (31 March 2008): 124.
Film Background:
Mark Jenkins, "'Professor Marston And The Wonder Women' Is Strangely Subdued," NPR (12 October 2017). https://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/555647901/-professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women-is-strangely-subdued
Christie Marston, "What 'Professor Marston Misses About Wonder Woman's Origins" The Hollywood Reporter (20 October 2017). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/what-professor-marston-misses-wonder-womans-origins-guest-column-1049868
Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Marston_and_the_Wonder_Women
Heather Hogan “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” Gives Us Comics History, Kink and a Queer Poly Marriage" Autostraddle (13 October 2017). https://www.autostraddle.com/professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women-gives-us-comics-history-kink-and-a-queer-poly-marriage-397758/
Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/professor_marston_and_the_wonder_women
BUILD Series https://youtu.be/pB-ZZWvvlcE
Angelique Jackson, "Netflix in Talks to Acquire Rebecca Hall's 'Passing' in Near $16 Million Deal," Variety (3 February 2021). https://variety.com/2021/film/news/netflix-passing-acquisition-deal-rebecca-hall-tessa-thompson-ruth-negga-1234899976/
Early Relationship:
Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Knopf, 2014).
"Wonder Woman (LAW 1918) BU alum said to be model for first female superhero," Bostonia. http://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/law-alumni-dc-comics-wonder-woman/
Today we travel back to 1819 Manchester with Peterloo! Join us as we get really fired up and talk about casualties of the Peterloo Massacre, women in the reform movement, and more!
Sources:
Peterloo Casualties:
"Lists of the killed and wounded from the Peterloo Massacre" https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/lists-of-the-killed-and-wounded-from-the-peterloo-massacre
"Ian Hernon, Riot! Civil Insurrection from Peterloo to the Present Day (Pluto Press, 2006). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs8hm.6 and
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs8hm.7 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs8hm.8 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs8hm.9 "
Katrina Navickas, "Peterloo and the changing definition of seditious assembly," Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789-1848 (Manchester University Press, 2016), 82-105. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1b3h98h.11
Robert Poole, "'By the Law or the Sword': Peterloo Revisited," History 91:2 (April 2006): 254-276. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24427836
"Historian tracks down living descendants from rare Peterloo veterans photograph," Manchester Metropolitan University (15 August 2019). https://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/?id=10817
National Archives, HO 42/198 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1905817
Protestors and Symbolism:
Murray Pittock, "Henry Hunt's White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition," Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era eds. Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt, 84-99 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvnjbgpx.9
Katrina Navickas, ""That sash will hang you": Political Clothing and Adornment in England, 1780-1840," Journal of British Studies 49:3 (July 2010): 540-65. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23265378
Peter Linebaugh, "The Red Cap of Liberty," Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard (University of California Press, 2019), 384-95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvd1c81c.39
Paul A. Pickering, "Class without Words: Symbolic Communication in the Chartist Movement," Past & Present 112 (August 1986): 144-62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651001
J. David Harden, "Liberty Caps and Liberty Trees," Past & Present 146 (February 1995): 66-102. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651152
James Epstein, "Understanding the Cap of Liberty: Symbolic Practice and Social Conflict in Early Nineteenth-Century England," Past & Present 122 (February 1989): 75-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/650952
Surviving banner: http://rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/127936/only-surviving-protest-banner-from-1819-peterloo-massacre-unveiled-at-touchstones
Film Background:
Indie Film Hustle, "Mike Leigh: Writing a Screenplay with Improvisation and Actors," available at https://indiefilmhustle.com/mike-leigh/
Daniel Schindel, "Mike Leigh on Why His New Film on an 1819 Massacre Feels Eerily Relevant Today," Observer, available at https://observer.com/2019/04/mike-leigh-on-why-his-new-film-about-an-1819-massacre-feels-eerily-relevant-today/
Glenn Kenny, Review on Rogerebert.com, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/peterloo-2019
Scout Tafoya, The Unloved, Part 69: Peterloo, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/the-unloved-part-69-peterloo
Mary Fildes:
Reenactment of Mary Fildes' Petition, available at Remembering Peterloo, https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/remembering-peterloo-protest-satire-and-reform/
EP Thompson, Making of the English Working Class, 1963.
EP Thompson, Customs in Common. The New Press, 1980.
Ashley J. Cross, "What a World We Make the Oppressor and the Oppressed: George Cruikshank, Percy Shelley, and the Gendering of Revolution in 1819." ELH 71, 1 (2004)
Iain McCalman, "Females, Feminism, and Free Love in an Early Nineteenth Century Radical Movement," Labour History 38 (1980)
Christina Parolin, "The She-Champion of Impiety: Female Radicalism and Political Culture in Early-Nineteenth Century England," in Radical Spaces: Venues of Popular Politics in London 1790-1845. ANU Press.
James Epstein, "Understanding the Cap of Liberty: Symbolic Practice and Social Conflict in Early-Nineteenth-Century England," Past and Present 122 (1989)
John Tyas and Journalism:
News UK Archives, Peterloo Massacre (Includes scanned copy of Tyas's article). Available at https://medium.com/@NewsUKArchives/peterloo-massacre-f7ad4d156130
News UK Archives, Times Editor Before a Cabinet Council (Scanned Letter to the Editor). Available at https://medium.com/@NewsUKArchives/times-editor-before-a-cabinet-council-4a43e4d8da02
Stephen Bates, "The Bloody Clash That Changed Britain," Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/04/peterloo-massacre-bloody-clash-that-changed-britain
Margaret Holborn, "How Peterloo Led to the Founding of the Manchester Guardian," Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/2019/aug/15/how-peterloo-led-to-the-founding-of-the-manchester-guardian
This week we travel back to 16th century Japan with Throne of Blood! Join us for a discussion of Japanese armor, elite marriages, creepy forest spirits, and more!
Sources:
Armor and Helmets:
Helmet, pennant; OA+.13545.a. ; 17th c. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_OA-13545-a
"Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868" The Met (2009). https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/art-of-the-samurai w/photo gallery here: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/art-of-the-samurai/photo-gallery
Davison Packard Koenig, "Japanese Samurai Helmet and Half Mask," Arizona State Museum, https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/online-exhibit/curators-choice/samurai-helmet-half-mask
Ian Bottomley, "The Art of Defense, a History of Samurai Helmets," Sotheby's https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-art-of-defense-a-history-of-samurai-helmets ; example: 16th century helmet and mask https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/fine-japanese-art-l19229/lot.55.html?locale=en
Myra Shackley, "Arms and the Men; 14th Century Japanese swordsmanship illustrated by skeletons from Zaimokuza, near Kamakura, Japan," World Archaeology 18:2 Weaponry and Warfare (October 1986): 247-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/124618
Morten Oxenboell, Akuto and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvsrgc7
Nancy K. Stalker, "Disintegration and Reunification 1460s-Early 1600s," Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool (University of California Press, 2018), 112-43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv2n7fgm
Women and Marriage:
Wakita Haruko, "Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan from the Perspective of Women's History," Journal of Japanese Studies 10, 1 (1984)
David Spafford, "The Language and Contours of Familial Obligation in Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Japan," in What is Family? Answers From Early Modern Japan, ed Mary Elizabeth Berry and Marcia Yonemoto. University of California Press.
Hitomi Tonemura, "Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society," Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, 3 (1990)
Film Background:
Stephen Prince, "Throne of Blood: Shakespeare Transposed," The Criterion Collection Film Guides (6 January 2014). https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/270-throne-of-blood-shakespeare-transposed
Gavin J. Blair, "1957: When Akira Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood' Was Ahead of Its Time," The Hollywood Reporter (16 March 2016). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/1957-akira-kurosawas-throne-blood-876215
"Shooting the Arrows in Throne of Blood," CriterionCollection (14 January 2014). https://youtu.be/W5MtUiYxBiY and for more info on that snippet, see https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3017-shooting-the-arrows-in-throne-of-blood
"Throne of Blood" Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_of_Blood
Today we're traveling to Nixon's America with Dick! Join us for a discussion of Checkers and other presidential dogs, Rose Mary Woods, "win a date with. . . " contests, as well as a fun digression into what exactly counts as a "lifetime supply" of tampons.
Sources:
Win a Date With. . .
Alanna Nash, "My Date WIth Davy Jones," Rolling Stone (8 March 2012). https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/my-date-with-davy-jones-113220/amp/
Sharon Marcus, "Intimacy," The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc772z0.7
Perry Nodelman, "Teaching Girls about Men: Attitudes Toward Maleness in Teen Magazines," Studies in Popular Culture 9:1 (1986): 103-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23412904
Melissa Loseby, "That time I entered a contest to win a date with John Stamos," HelloGiggles (13 October 2016). https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/nostalgia/win-a-date-with-john-stamos/
Alison Martino, "KHJ, L.A.'s Coolest AM Radio Station, Is Basically a Background Actor in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"" Los Angeles Magazine (29 July 2019). https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/khj-radio-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/
Checkers:
David Williams, "Inappropriate/d Others or, The Difficulty of Being a Dog," TDR 51:1 (Spring 2007): 92-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4492737
Diana C. Mutz, "The Dog that Didn't Bark: the Role of Canines in the 2008 Campaign," PS: Political Science and Politics 43:4 (October 2010): 707-712. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40927039
Thomas Hauser, Thomas Hauser on Sports: Remembering the Journey (University of Arkansas Press, 2013). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1ffjhwf.21
Aram Goudsouzian, "The Loser," The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America p. 15-28 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469651118_goudsouzian
Joshua M. Glasser, The Eighteen-Day Running Mate: McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis (Yale University Press, 2012). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkqgb.18
Stephen F. Knott, "The Road to Degradation," The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal p.175-205 (University Press of Kansas, 2019). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxbpfcr.12
Ann-Janine Morey, "The Gaze Outside the Frame," Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs p.77-102 (Penn State University Press, 2014). https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp9pj.8
Rick Perlstein (ed.), "The "Checkers Speech" (September 23, 1952)" Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents (Princeton University Press, 2008). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sg9w.12
"Nixon's dogs" picture https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photos/nixons-dogs
"Top Dogs at the White House" https://www.whitehousehistory.org/white-house-pets/top-dogs-at-the-white-house
Laddie Boy picture: https://library.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/cache/5017/Main%20Index/Events/1603.t56d0927d.m1200.tif.pv.xHdx6j-_JGIfu6T1n.jpg
Yuki picture: https://library.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/cache/5017/Main%20Index/Presidents/Lyndon%20B%20Johnson/1198.t578cd2a1.m1200.tif.pv.x6gXmPhumm5B2GOwx.jpg
Timeline of the Watergate Scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The 18 1/2 Minute Gap:
Alison Lynn and Lauren Effron, "The Watergate Tapes' Infamous 18.5 Minute Gap and Nixon Secretary's Unusual Explanation for It." ABC News. Available at https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/watergate-tapes-infamous-185-minute-gap-nixons-secretarys/story?id=47926329
Photo of Rose Mary Woods, The Watergate Files, Gerald R Ford Presidential Library. Available at https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/watergate_files/content.php?section=3&page=a&zoom=2
David Kopel, "The Missing 18 1/2 Minutes: Presidential Destruction of Incriminating Evidence," Washington Post. Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/16/the-missing-18-12-minutes-presidential-destruction-of-incriminating-evidence/
Rose Mary Woods:
Francis Wilkinson, "Nixon's Real Enforcer," New York Times Magazine. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/magazine/nixons-real-enforcer.html
Film Background:
Sharon Waxman, "Generation X's Tricky Dick," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1999/08/01/generation-xs-tricky-dick/b5b70d4d-b50d-453d-b9ef-ea3af28dacac/
Dick, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Woodward and Bernstein:
Todd S. Purdum, "Three Decades Later, "Woodstein" Takes a Victory Lap," New York Times, 2005, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/politics/three-decades-later-woodstein-takes-a-victory-lap.html
This week we travel to early 20th century London (and Colorado) with The Prestige! Join us to learn about twins, Colorado Springs, Tesla, the weird story of Chung Ling Soo, and more!
Sources:
Twins:
Brian Resznick https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17218782/identical-twins-days-bond-science-twinsburg
Drunk History (UK) "How the Kray Twins Were Caught"
The Krays: Myth Behind the Legend Amazon Prime Video
Hilton Als, "We Two Made One," The New Yorker (4 December 2000). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/12/04/we-two-made-one
Rose Eveleth, "Twins Spend Their Whole Lives Trying to be Different From One Another," Smithsonian Magazine (24 January 2014). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-confirms-twins-spend-their-whole-lives-trying-be-different-one-another-180949423/
Erika Hayasaki, "Identical Twins Hint at How Environments Change Gene Expression," The Atlantic (15 May 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/twin-epigenetics/560189/
Lea Winerman, "A double life," American Psychological Association, Monitor 46:1 (January 2015): 30. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/01/double-life
"Twins" Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/twins/lives-and-relationships-twins
Peter Miller, "A Thing or Two About Twins," National Geographic (January 2012). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2012/01/identical-twins-science-dna-portraits/
Lucy Wallis, "Living a conjoined life," BBC News (24 April 2013). https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22181528
Dehryl A. Mason and Paul J. Frick, "The Heritability of Antisocial Behavior: A Meta-Analysis of Twin and Adoption Studies," Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 16:4 (1994): 301-323.
Colorado Springs:
"Colorado Springs" Tesla: Life and Legacy PBS https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_colspr.html ; https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_warcur.html and https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_poevis.html
W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).
Background:
"The Making of "The Prestige"" https://youtu.be/JrTPQU4rJrg
Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/
Roger Ebert, "Now you see him...Now you see him!" https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-prestige-2007
Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prestige
Piper Perabo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Perabo
Chung Ling Soo:
"The Double Life and Death of Chung Ling Soo," Odd Salon. Available at https://youtu.be/RNM6H0Y1ous
William J Turkel and Devon Elliot, "Making and Playing with Models: Using Rabid Prototyping to Explore the History and Technology of Stage Magic," Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology. University of Michigan Press
Christopher Goto-Jones, "Magic, Modernity, and Orientalism: Conjuring Representations of Asia," Modern Asian Studies 48, 6 (2014)
Footage of Chung Ling Soo, available at https://youtu.be/fKAfAKSByVQ
We have a surprise bonus episode this week! Join us on a journey to 1st Century Judea with Life of Brian! We'll discuss stoning, Jesus as a revolutionary, Hava Nagila, and more!
Sources:
Jesus as a Revolutionary:
Josephus, The Jewish War, trans. Martin Hammond, intro and notes by Martin Goodman, e-book (Oxford University Press, 2017).
"Josephus" In Our Time (2015) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05vfdzl
Christopher Klein, "Why did Pontius Pilate Have Jesus Executed?" History https://www.history.com/news/why-pontius-pilate-executed-jesus
Holland Lee Hendrix, L. Michael White, Paula Fredriksen, Eric Meyers "Jews and the Roman Empire," A Portrait of Jesus' World: From Jesus to Christ PBS (April 1998). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/jews.html
L. Michael White, Allen D. Callahan, Shayne I.D. Cohen, John Dominic Crossan, Paula Fredriksen, "Arrest and Execution" From Jesus to Christ PBS (April 1998). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/arrest.html
Jon Wiener, "Jesus the Revolutionary: A Q&A With Reza Aslan," The Nation (25 July 2013). https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/jesus-revolutionary-qa-reza-aslan/
"The Last Days of Jesus" PBS (2017) https://www.pbs.org/show/last-days-jesus/
"From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, Part One" PBS Frontline (1998) https://youtu.be/JN8FM1NCOSk
Tom O'Loughlin and Roland Deines, "Why Study the Pharisees with Professor Roland Deines" University of Nottingham (17 January 2012). https://youtu.be/waWu1ngrxGk
"Matthew 5:1-7:29--The Sermon on the Mount" https://www.enterthebible.org/Controls/feature/tool_etb_resource_display/resourcebox.aspx?selected_rid=783&original_id=2
Luke Chapter 6 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/6?37=#50006037 Matthew Chapter 5 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5
Cast info:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/
You're Nicked!:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/435851/origin-of-youre-nicked-sunshine#:~:text=The%20word%20is%20used%20teasingly,a%20morose%20person.%20...&text=The%201806%20example%20of%20%22nicked,Journals%20for%201805%20(1806).
John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled: Slang and Its Analogues (Routledge & Sons, 1905) Princeton University Collection, Google E-Book. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Dictionary_of_Slang_and_Colloquial_Eng/VR1AAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
"To nick," The English We Speak BBC (26 August 2011). https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theenglishwespeak/2011/08/110816_tews_32_to_nick_page.shtml
Forrest Wickman, "When You've Been Nicked by the Bobbies: How being arrested in the U.K. differs from being arrested in the U.S." Slate (13 March 2012). https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/03/rebekah-brooks-arrested-how-is-being-arrested-different-in-britain.html
Star Signs:
"Constellations and the Calendar" NASA https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder2/en/
Olivia B. Waxman, "Where Do Zodiac Signs Come From? Here's the True History Behind Your Horoscope," Time (21 June 2018). https://time.com/5315377/are-zodiac-signs-real-astrology-history/
Stoning:
The Talmud, Sanhedrin 45a, available at https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.44a.14?lang=bi
NIV Study Bible.
The Tanakh, full searchable text available at https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm
Roy A. Stewart, "Judicial Procedure in Biblical Times," Full text available at https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/eq/1975-2_094.pdf
Hava Nagila:
Harry Belafonte and Danny Kaye Performing Hava Nagila, available at https://youtu.be/t_L1RAVm4js
James Loeffler, "Hava Nagila's Long, Strange Trip." My Jewish Learning. Available at https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/hava-nagilas-long-strange-trip/
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, PBS. Available at https://youtu.be/JN8FM1NCOSk
Background:
"How We Made Monty Python's Life of Brian," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/16/how-we-made-monty-python-life-of-brian-michael-palin-terry-gilliam
Life of Brian Televised Debate, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, 1979. Full debate available at https://youtu.be/ZYMpObbt2rs
This week we travel back to Elizabethan England with Shakespeare in Love! Join us for a discussion of dogs on the stage, John Webster, early modern toothbrushes, the death of Christopher Marlowe, and more!
Sources:
Film Background:
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Love
Rebecca Keegan and Nicole Sperling, "Shakespeare in Love and Harvey Weinstein's Dark Oscar Victory," Vanity Fair (8 December 2017). https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/shakespeare-in-love-and-harvey-weinsteins-dark-oscar-victory
"Entertainment Novelist sues Shakespeare makers," (23 March 1999) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/301620.stm .
Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shakespeare_in_love
Roger Ebert, "Shakespeare in Love" (25 December 1998). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/shakespeare-in-love-1998
Nyay Bhushan, "'Shakespeare in Love' Director on Harvey Weinstein: "It's About an Abuse of Power"" The Hollywood Reporter (16 October 2017). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shakespeare-love-director-harvey-weinstein-an-abuse-power-1049015
William Demastes, The Cambridge Introduction to Tom Stoppard (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
THR Staff, "Recount! Oscar Voters Today Would Make 'Brokeback Mountain' Best Picture Over 'Crash'" The Hollywood Reporter (18 February 2015). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/recount-oscar-voters-today-would-773522
"Harvey Weinstein timeline: How the scandal unfolded," BBC News (29 May 2020). https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41594672
"The Cast Against Harvey Weinstein, Part 1" The Daily Podcast (9 January 2020).
Carolyn Thompson, "Another delay granted for Harvey Weinstein extradition," ABC News (11 December 2020). https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/delay-expected-harvey-weinstein-extradition-74669118
Shakespeare's Signature:
Folger Shakespeare Library staff and Alan H. Nelson, "Shakespeare's signature" https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/highlights/shakespeares-signature and https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/node/1011 https://doi.org/10.37078/1011 and https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/william-shakespeares-last-will-and-testament-original-copy-including-three
Maev Kennedy, "William Shakespeare's will featuring his last signatures goes on show" The Guardian (2 February 2016). https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/02/william-shakespeares-will-featuring-his-last-signatures-goes-on-show
"Shakespeare's Signature at the National Library" https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/gallery/Humanities/Pages/Shakespeare.aspx
"Shakespeare's will" The National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/item.asp?item_id=21
Doug Stewart, "To Be or Not to be Shakespeare," Smithsonian Magazine (September 2006). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/to-be-or-not-to-be-shakespeare-127247606/
Dogs on the Stage:
Louis B. Wright, "Animal Actors on the English Stage before 1642," PMLA 42:3 (September 1927): 656-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/457395
Stephen Dickey, "Shakespeare's Mastiff Comedy," Shakespeare Quarterly 42:3 (Autumn, 1991): 255-75. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2870843
Jason Scott-Warren, "When Theaters Were Bear-Gardens; Or, What's at Stake in the Comedy of Humors," Shakespeare Quarterly 54:1 (Spring, 2003): 63-82. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3844120
Eva Lauenstein, "Exit, pursued by a bear" (29 January 2016) https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2016/01/29/exit-pursued-by-a-bear/
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/gentlemen-of-verona/lance
John Webster:
"Who was John Webster," Royal Shakespeare Company. https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-duchess-of-malfi/about-the-play/who-was-john-webster
"John Webster," British Library https://www.bl.uk/people/john-webster#
Michael Billington, "An introduction to The Duchess of Malfi" British Library (24 April 2017). https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/an-introduction-to-the-duchess-of-malfi
David Coleman, John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b0b7
Timeline of Shakespeare's Plays:
"Timeline of Shakespeare's Plays," The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, available at https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeares-plays/timeline
Toothbrushes:
"Who Invented the Toothbrush and When Was It Invented?" Library of Congress. Available at https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/who-invented-the-toothbrush-and-when-was-it-invented/
Chew Sticks on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/818439482/african-chewing-stick-twig-brush-3-bunch?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=chew+stick&ref=sr_gallery-1-10&organic_search_click=1&frs=1
Victoria Sherrow, For Appearances' Sake: The Historical Encyclopedia of Good Looks, Beauty, and Grooming. Greenwood Publishing, 2011.
Cassidy Cash, "Did Shakespeare Use a Toothbrush?" Available at https://www.cassidycash.com/did-shakespeare-use-a-toothbrush/
Death of Kit Marlowe:
"Death in Deptford," Marlowe Society. Available at http://www.marlowe-society.org/christopher-marlowe/life/death-in-deptford/
Amelia Hill, "New Twist to Marlowe's Murder Riddle," The Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/01/books.humanities
Travel back to the early-19th century (and your childhood) with Mary Poppins! Join us for a discussion of constables, bank runs, Dick van Dyke's accent, screevers and buskers, and more!
Sources:
Film Background:
"Mary Poppins," IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
Robin Raven, "What the Mary Poppins Author Really Thought of the Original Movie," Readers Digest, available at https://www.rd.com/article/mary-poppins-p-l-travers/
Maane Khatchatourian, "Tom Hanks: PL Travers Would Hate 'Saving Mr Banks'" Variety, available at https://variety.com/2013/scene/news/tom-hanks-p-l-travers-would-hate-saving-mr-banks-1200940630/
Cockney Accent:
New York Times, "Michael Caine: An Accent that Broke Through Class Barriers," available at https://youtu.be/XBjp1oEZcwU
"Cockney Accent," British Library. Available at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/cockney-accent-freddie-ridley-road-market
"Cockney," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cockney
Derek B. Scott, "The Music-Hall Cockney: Flesh, Blood, or Replicant?" Music and Letters 83, 2 (2002)
Dialects Archive: England. Available at https://www.dialectsarchive.com/england
Melissa Hogenboom, "What Does Your Accent Say About You?" BBC. Available at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180307-what-does-your-accent-say-about-you
Bank Runs:
William Dalrymple, "The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders
Richard B. Sheridan, "The British Credit Crisis of 1772 and the American Colonies," Journal of Economic History 20, 2 (1960)
Henry Hamilton, "The Failure of Ayre Bank," Economic History Review 8, 3 (1956)
Christopher Klein, "10 Things You Might Not Know About the Boston Tea Party," History.com, available at https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-boston-tea-party
Constables:
Philip Rawlings, Policing: a short history (Willan, 2002).
Joanne Klein, Invisible Men: The Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, 1900-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2010).
Clive Emsley, Hard men: the English and violence since 1750 (Hambledon and London, 2005).
Buskers and Screevers:
Dr. Paul Simpson, "The History of Street Performance" Gresham College https://youtu.be/Ja9wnrusGdQ
Dr. Paul Simpson, "The History of Street Performance: 'Music by handle' and the Silencing of Street Musicians in the Metropolis," Gresham College https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-history-of-street-performance
Dale Chapman, "The 'one-man band' and entrepreneurial selfhood in neoliberal culture," Popular Music 32:3 (October 2013): 451-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24736784
John M. Picker, "The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professionals, Work Space, and Urban Noise," Victorian Studies 42:3 (Spring 1999- Spring 2000): 427-53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828975
Sam Wollaston, "Where the streets have no change: how buskers are surviving in cashless times," The Guardian (8 November 2018). https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/08/where-the-streets-have-no-change-how-buskers-are-surviving-in-cashless-times
Leslie Gilbert Elman, "Where the sidewalk ends, chalk art begins," CNN Travel (10 September 2013). https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chalk-art-festivals/index.html
"I Madonnari: Italian street artists take over the chicest shopping streets in Europe" https://world.dolcegabbana.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-the-italian-street-artists-called-madonnari/
Daniel South, "David Zinn: Street art that washes away in the rain," BBC (6 June 2020). https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52913521
Sarah Todd, "Sidewalk chalk drawings have a colorful 500-year history" Quartz (22 June 2019). https://qz.com/quartzy/1650194/the-history-of-sidewalk-chalk-drawings/
This week we're traveling to Depression-era Mississippi with O Brother Where Art Thou! Join us for a discussion of Baby Face Nelson, Pappy O'Daniel, Man of Constant Sorrow, selling your soul at the crossroads, and, of course, Dapper Dan pomade.
Sources:
Film Background:
Christopher Orr, "30 Years of Coens: O Brother, Where Art Thou?" The Atlantic (17 September 2014). https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/30-years-of-coens-o-brother-where-art-thou/380289/
Roger Ebert, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (29 December 2000) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/o-brother-where-art-thou-2000 .
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F
"Tim Blake Nelson- Biography" https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625789/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Zack Sharf, "The Coen Brothers and George Clooney Uncover the Magic of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?" at 15th Anniversary Reunion," IndieWire (30 September 2015). https://www.indiewire.com/2015/09/the-coen-brothers-and-george-clooney-uncover-the-magic-of-o-brother-where-art-thou-at-15th-anniversary-reunion-57292/
Baby Face Nelson:
British Pathe, "Farewell Baby Face aka "Baby Face" Nelson Killed (1934)" https://youtu.be/yKmuM7vDdLc
"Baby Face Nelson" Natural Born Outlaws (2016). https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B016YLTDPG/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
"Lester Gillis ("Baby Face" Nelson)" FBI History, Famous Cases & Criminals https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lester-gillis-baby-face-nelson
"Lester Joseph Gillis (Baby Face Nelson)" FBI Records: The Vault https://vault.fbi.gov/George%20%28Baby%20Face%29%20Nelson
"A Byte Out of History: Man on the Run: The Last Hours of "Baby Face" Nelson" https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2004/november/nelson_112904
"Baby Face Nelson" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Face_Nelson
Bryan Burrough, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 (Pengiun, 2009).
John Fox, "Lessons at Little Bohemia," https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/newss-lessons-at-little-bohemia/view
Michael Woodiwiss, "Gangbusting and Propaganda," Double Crossed: The Failure of Organized Crime Control (Pluto Press, 2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1rfsnbn.15
Matthew Cecil, "J. Edgar Hoover's FBI," The Ballad of Ben and Stella mae: Great Plains Outlaws Who became FBI Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2 (University Press of Kansas, 2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g69zw2.8
Cracker:
Gene Demby, "The Secret History of the Word 'Cracker," NPR Code Switch (1 July 2013). https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/07/01/197644761/word-watch-on-crackers
Martha Nelson, "Nativism and Cracker Revival at the Florida Folk Festival," The Florida Folklife Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2012) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvptm.17
Zsolt K. Viragos, ""Celtic Oddities": Patterns of Cracker Culture in the American South," Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 18:1/2 (Spring-Fall, 2012): 101-119. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43488463
Mozell C. Hill and Becode C. McCall, ""Cracker Culture": A Preliminary Definition," Phylon 11:3 (3rd Qtr., 1950): 223-31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/272007
Google Books Ngram Viewer "white of you" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=white+of+you&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cwhite%20of%20you%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cwhite%20of%20you%3B%2Cc1
John Stapler and Faye Goldberg, "The Black and White Symbolic Matrix" (1973) https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED085461.pdf
Mark Liberman, "Ask Language Log: "...white of you" (4 June 2011) https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3179
Man of Constant Sorrow:
John Garst, ""Man of Constant Sorrow": Antecedents and Tradition" Country Music Annual 2002 (University Press of Kentucky, 2002). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130ht6t.6
"Ralph Stanley" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Stanley#Biography
Carl Lindahl, "Thrills and Miracles: Legends of Lloyd Chandler," Special Double Issue: Advocacy Issues in Folklore Journal of Folklore Research Vol. 41, No. 2/3 (May-December, 2004): 133-71. See also Barbara Chandler's work in the same issue. https://www.jstor.org/stable/i291343
Robert Johnson and the Crossroads:
Scanned copy of Robert Johnson's Death Certificate: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305144848/http://blues.jfrewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/cert_back.jpg
Robert Johnson, Essential Mississippi Delta Blues, Full Album: https://youtu.be/fDfPHQux51A
Philip J. Deloria, "Broadway and Main: Crossroads, Ghost Roads, and Paths to American Studies' Future," American Quarterly 61, 1 (2009)
Ayana Smith, "Blues, Criticism, and the Signifying Trickster," Popular Music 24, 2 (2005)
Pappy O'Daniel:
W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel Radio Broadcast, August 1941. Full broadcast available at https://youtu.be/inJQ7swZxuw
Jefferey Jenkins and Justin Peck, "Building Toward Major Policy Change: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1941-1950," Law and History Review 31, 1 (2013)
David Witwer, "The Racketeer Menace and Antiunionism in Mid-Twentieth Century US," International Labor and Working-Class History 74 (2008)
Dapper Dan:
Pomade Shop: https://pomadeshop.com/en/pomades/pomades-for-beginners/832/dapper-dan-men-s-pomade
Rockabilly Rules: https://www.rockabilly-rules.com/en/Dapper-Dan-Mens-Pomade.html
This week we're traveling to 1980s Wales with Pride! Join us for a discussion of Gay's the Word, Mary Whitehouse, age of consent, Bread and Roses, and more!
Sources:
Background:
Pride, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/
Odie Henderson Review, Rogerebert.com: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pride-2014
Mark Kermode's Review, The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/14/pride-film-review-mark-kermode-power-in-unlikely-union
Mary Whitehouse:
Mary Whitehouse Obituary, The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/nov/24/guardianobituaries.obituaries
The Gay Poem that Broke Blasphemy Laws, available at https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2008/01/10/the-gay-poem-that-broke-blasphemy-laws/
Letters from Mary Whitehouse, The National Archives, available at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/sixties-britain/letters-mary-whitehouse/
Gavin Shaffer, "Til Death Do Us Part and the BBC: Racial Politics and the British Working Class, 1965-1975," Journal of Contemporary History 45, 2 (2010)
The Lesbian Tide (March-April 1978)
Barbara Norden, "The Campaign Against Pornography," Feminist Review 35 (1990)
Gay's the Word:
Diarmaid Kelliher, "Solidarity and Sexuality: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners 1984-5," History Workshop Journal 77 (Spring 2014): 240-62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43299555
All Out! Dancing in Dulais https://youtu.be/lHJhbwEcgrA
Kate Kellaway, "When miners and gay activists united: the real story of the film Pride," The Guardian (31 August 2014). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/31/pride-film-gay-activists-miners-strike-interview
IMDB page for Pride: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Maroula Joannou, "'Fill a bag and feed a family': the miners' strike and its supporters," in Labour and the left in the 1980s eds. Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam (Manchester University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvnb7nds.14
June Thomas, "gagging "gay's the word"" Off Our Backs 15:4 (April 1985): 3 and "gay's the word update" Off Our Backs 15:9 (October 1985): 8
Gillian Rodgerson and Linda Semple, "Who Watches the Watchwomen?: Feminists against Censorship" Feminist Review 36 (August 1990): 19-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1395106
Simon Watney, "AIDS, pornography and law" Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS, and the Media (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv4sn.10
Alwyn Collinson, "Hidden Pride: London's LGBT history" Museum of London (2 February 2019) https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/london-pride-london-lgbt-history-gay-rights
Age of Consent:
Paul Bloomfield, "Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties," in Labour and the left in the 1980s eds. Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam (Manchester University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvnb7nds.9
Matthew Waites, "Equality at Last? Homosexuality, Heterosexuality and the Age of Consent in the United Kingdom" Sociology 37:4 (November 2003): 637-55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42856567
David Rayside, "Promoting Heterosexuality in the Thatcher Years," in On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics (Cornell University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5qdh32.7
Michel Bozon and Juliette Rennes, "The history of sexual norms: the hold of age and gender," trans. by Sian Reynolds Clio: Women, Gender, History 42 Age and Sex (2015): 7-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26273655
"Marriage laws" Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/table_marriage#k
Vicky Iglikowski-Broad, "The passing of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act," National Archives Blog (24 July 2017). https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/sexual-offences-act/
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, "The 1967 Sexual Offences Act: a landmark moment in the history of British homosexuality," History Extra; BBC History Magazine (14 July 2018). https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/the-1967-sexual-offences-act-a-landmark-moment-in-the-history-of-british-homosexuality/
"Convictions and Cautions for Gross Indecency" Stonewall https://www.stonewall.org.uk/help-advice/criminal-law/convictions-and-cautions-gross-indecency
Peter Tatchell, "Don't fall for the myth that it's 50 years since we decriminalised homosexuality," The Guardian (23 May 2017) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/fifty-years-gay-liberation-uk-barely-four-1967-act
"Sexual Offences Act 1967" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967
Nicholas Syrett, "Child marriage is still legal in the US" The Conversation (11 December 2017). https://theconversation.com/child-marriage-is-still-legal-in-the-us-88846
Anjali Tsui, "Married Young: The Fight Over Child Marriage in America," Frontline (14 September 2017). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/married-young-the-fight-over-child-marriage-in-america/
"Page 3" Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_3
"Wolfenden Report, 1957" British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/wolfenden-report-conclusion
Bread and Roses:
"Bread and Roses," The Zinn Education Project, available at https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/bread-and-roses-song/
Tea Hvala, "Streetwise Politics: Feminist and Lesbian Grassroots Activism in Ljubljana," in Feminist Media: Participatory Spaces, Networks, and Cultural Citizenship, ed Elke Zobl and Ricarde Drueke, Transcript Publishing: 2012
Desmond King and David Rueda, "Cheap Labor: The New Politics of 'Bread and Roses' in Industrial Democracies," Perspectives on Politics 6, 2 (2008)
Wini Breines, "What's Love Got to Do With It? White Women, Black Women, and Feminism in the Movement Years," Signs 27, 4 (2002)
Joan Baez and Mimi Farina, "Bread and Roses," Availabe at https://youtu.be/LWkVcaAGCi0
"Pan y Rosas: Argentine Women in the Struggle," Left Voice, available at https://www.leftvoice.org/pan-y-rosas-argentine-women-in-the-struggle
We're traveling back to the Middle Ages (kinda?) with The Court Jester! Join us for a discussion of sign language, performance troops, court jesters, kidnapping of women, and more!
Sources:
Background:
"Danny Kaye Arriving in 'The Court Jester'..." The Christian Science Monitor 29 February 1956, p.5
"Memo to my Husband from Sylvia (Mrs. Danny Kaye) Fine" Photoplay Jan-Jun 1955, p.57.
"Comic Knighthood for Kaye" LIFE 30 January 1956, p.93-6.
Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Court_Jester ; https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291035/?ref_=tt_ov_dr https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659085/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1
Al Steen, "Review: The Court Jester," Motion Picture Daily 27 January 1956 p.1, 6.
Bosley Crowther, "Burlesque With a Lance; Danny Kaye Is Starred as 'The Court Jester' Knighthood Movies Are Spoofed at Paramount," The New York Times 2 February 1956.
Angela Lansbury talks about her career: https://youtu.be/QOma6cinvZ8
Hermine's Midgets:
Classified Ad 8--No Title, Chicago Daily Tribune 8 March 1947, p. 15. "Burlesque: Old Howard," Daily Boston Globe, 11 January 1947, D7. "BURLESQUE: OLD HOWARD "Toyland"," Daily Boston Globe 30 December 1941, p.8; Display Ad 58--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 21 April 1940, C6. Display Ad 110--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 14 April 1940, C6. Display Ad 11--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 31 December 1941, p.5. "Hermine's Midgets to Play 9 M. & P. Suburban Theatres," Daily Boston Globe 10 April 1940, p.12. "Burlesque: GLOBE THEATRE Renee and Girls" Daily Boston Globe 13 January 1942, p. 17.
Deborah Petersen, "Tiny Elves Big Hit at Area Mall," The Hartford Courant 22 November 1982, B2a.
Bob Kowalchyk, "Family Fun in Adirondacks," The Hartford Courant 11 September 1977, p. 11F.
Sunny Stalter-Pace, Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffman's Life in Vaudeville and Dance (Northwestern University Press, 2020) 9.
Timothy G. Turner, ""We Midgets are People Like You!"" Los Angeles Times 19 May 1935, p.SM9.
H.I. Phillips, "The Once Over: The Summer Vacationists' Relief Fund," Daily Boston Globe 4 August 1928, p.14.
"FAMOUS DWARFS AT THE HARTFORD: Royal Lilliputians Heads Entertaining Bill First Three Days." The Hartford Courant 31 October 1915, p.17.
"Union Collects $1,000 Salary Claim for Midgets," Variety 1 October 1947, p.43.
"Keith's, Indpls." Variety 11 April 1945, p. 65.
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev, "The dwarves of Auschwitz," The Guardian 23 March 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/23/the-dwarves-of-auschwitz .
Bob Hermines Magazine of Midgets Robert (Hermine) Rebernigg, Flushing, NY, 1945. http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/vaudeville/wp-content/uploads/azu_ms421_b4_f10_004_w.pdf
Kidnapping Elite Women:
Caroline Dunn, Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500, (Cambridge University Press, 2012). https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1017/CBO9781139061919
Kiera Lindsey, "'The Absolute Distress of Females': Irish Abduction and the British Newspapers, 1800 to 1850," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 42:4 (2014): 625-44.
Court Jesters:
Beatrice K Otto, Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World. University of Chicago Press.
Jean Fouquet, Portrait of the Ferrara Court Jester, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester#/media/File:Jean_Fouquet-_Portrait_of_the_Ferrara_Court_Jester_Gonella.JPG
Magda Romanska, "The History of the Court Jester," Available at http://blog.blo.org/the-history-of-court-jester-by-magda
Sign Language:
"The Origins of Cistercian Sign Language," https://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/the-origins-of-cistercian-sign-language/
"The Development of Education for Deaf People," https://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/the-development-of-education-for-deaf-people/
RJ Salter, "Only Half Healed," Selected Readings from the Proceedings of the 'Maladies, Miracles, and Medicine of the Middle Ages,' University of Reading.
Marina Radic-Sestic, "The Beginnings of Education for Deaf Persons: Renaissance Europe," Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation (2012)
It's our Christmas episode (about a week late): A Lion in Winter! Join us for a discussion of medieval Christmas, dogs, King Lear, and more!
Sources:
"The Lion in Winter" Roger Ebert 4 November 1968 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lion-in-winter-1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_in_Winter_(1968_film)
Mental Floss https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/514198/10-dramatic-facts-about-king-lear#:~:text=KING%20LEAR%20WAS%20INSPIRED%20BY,12th%2Dcentury%20Historia%20Regum%20Britanniae.
Legend of King Lear:
"Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of King Lear in History of the Kings of Britain" https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/geoffrey-of-monmouths-account-of-king-lear-in-history-of-the-kings-of-britain
"Dates and Sources: Find out what inspired Shakespeare's King Lear and when it was written," Royal Shakespeare Company https://www.rsc.org.uk/king-lear/about-the-play/dates-and-sources
"Geoffrey of Monmouth," PBS, 1 May 2009, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/king-lear-geoffrey-of-monmouth/638/ .
Six Old English Chronicles https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Six_Old_English_Chronicles/Geoffrey%27s_British_History/Book_2
Dogs
Kathleen Walker-Meikle, "Dogs: Medieval Man's Best Friend," British Library https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/dogs-medieval-mans-best-friend.html
Diane Lee, "Dogs at the Medieval Banquet," the iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/dogs-at-the-medieval-banquet/
"Nothin' but a Hound Dog" Medieval manuscripts blog, British Library, 4 february 2013 https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/02/nothin-but-a-hound-dog.html?_ga=2.178439524.1765360649.1603983305-769267029.1603983305
Eleanor and Her Sons:
Helen Castor, "Why Richard I shared his bed with the king of France," The Guardian 18 March 2008 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/mar/19/monarchy.france
"Richard I (1157-1199)" BBC History http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/richard_i_king.shtml
Henric Bagerius and Christine Ekholst, "Kings and favourites: politics and sexuality in late medieval Europe," Journal of Medieval History 43:3 (2017): 298-319. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1080/03044181.2017.1322999
Ralph V. Turner, Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England (Yale University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vm2g7.18
John Gillingham, Richard I (Yale University Press, 1999). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkzqv.6
David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain, 1066-1284 (London: Penguin, 2004).
"Eleanor of Aquitaine" You're Dead to Me BBC Radio4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087r8kb
Rosamund Clifford:
Lyrics to Queen Elanor's Confession, Available at https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch156.htm
The Woman in the Bower, Sexual Fables, available at http://sexualfables.com/the_woman_in_the_bower.php
Robert L. Chapman, "A Note on the Demon Queen Eleanor," Modern Language Notes 70, 6 (1955)
Sally Jefferey, "The Formal Gardens at Moor Park in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries," Garden History 42, 2 (2014)
Medieval Christmas:
Professor Sarah Peverley, "Christmas at the Medieval Court," available at https://sarahpeverley.com/2012/12/22/christmas-at-the-medieval-court/
University of Liverpool Podcast, "Sarah Peverley": https://sarahpeverley.com/tag/medieval-christmas/
"Christmas in the Middle Ages," Medievalists.net, available at https://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/christmas-in-the-middle-ages/
We don't have a full episode this week, so enjoy one of our Patreon bonus episodes on the pilot of Marvelous Mrs Maisel! Join us to learn about Central Park, black and white cookies, and more!
BTS featurettes: https://youtu.be/atdI3-vlOi0 https://youtu.be/u5HgyNMHQ7k
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/marvelous-mrs-maisel-finale-rachel-brosnahan-interview-michael-zegen
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/how-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-got-made-69966/
https://ny.eater.com/2014/6/2/6214949/the-black-and-white-cookies-curious-history
Joanne Spataro, "The Real History of Black and White Cookies," Vice 4 May 2018. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pax7gg/the-real-history-of-black-and-white-cookies
Zabar's cookie selection https://www.zabars.com/cookies/
Liz Logan, "How Pyrex Reinvented Glass for a New Age," Smithsonian Magazine 5 June 2015 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-pyrex-reinvented-glass-new-age-180955513/
"'Button-Down Mind' Changed Modern Comedy" NPR 23 December 2007.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/17561805
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Newhart#Early_career
https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-
board/documents/BobNewhart.pdf
Seneca Village and Central Park. Available at
https://www.centralparknyc.org/articles/seneca-village
Anne C. Schenderlein, Germany on Their Minds: German-Jewish Refugees and Their Relationships With Germany, 1938-1988. Berghan Books.
Morrison H. Heckscher, "Creating Central Park," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65, 3 (2008)
This week we're doing a whole lot of hiking with The Lost City of Z! Join us for a discussion of Nina Fawcett, colonialism, the rubber trade, cannibalism, and more!
Sources:
Film Background:
Featurette: https://youtu.be/l_hU-6psK04 Fox interview w/actors: https://youtu.be/J8_ZozoEo2Q
Lauren Turner, "Sienna Miller on why her new role is not 'just a wife,' BBC 25 March 2017 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39371863
Katie Berrington, "Sienna's Latest Role: "She Wasn't Just A Wife," Vogue UK 27 March 2017, https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/sienna-miller-on-new-role-not-being-just-a-wife
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lost_city_of_z
wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)
John Hemming, "Lost city of fantasy," The Spectator 1 April 2017, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lost-city-of-fantasy .
Nina Fawcett:
Bio British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG123259
"United Kingdom: Long lost letter reveals new details of wifes search for missing explorer" Mena Report 9 Nov. 2016 https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A469783244/EAIM?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=EAIM&xid=3babb494
"Letter reveals how missing explorer's wife turned to clairvoyant for help," Belfast Telegraph 7 November 2016 https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/letter-reveals-how-missing-explorers-wife-turned-to-clairvoyant-for-help-35194673.html
George K. Behlmer, "Grave Doubts: Victorian Medicine, Moral Panic, and the Signs of Death," Journal of British Studies 42:2 (April 2003): 206-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345608
Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Lionel Gossman, "Michelet and Natural History: The Alibi of Nature," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145:3 (September 2001): 283-333.
David Grann, "The Lost City of Z," The New Yorker (19 September 2005), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/the-lost-city-of-z and The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Doubleday, 2009).
Bruna Franchetto, "Autobiographies of a Memorable Man and Other Memorable Persons (Southern Amazonia, Brazil)" in Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America eds. Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course (University of Nebraska Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d9nkk2.15
Rubber:
John Tully, The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber (NYU Press, 2011) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfjqp.8
Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (Duke University Press, 2006).
Gary Van Valen, Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842-1932 (University of Arizona Press, 2013).
City of Z/Kuhikugu:
Douglas Preston, "An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rainforest," New Yorker. Available at https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/an-ancient-city-emerges-in-a-remote-rain-forest
Michael J Heckenberger, "Lost Cities of the Amazon," Scientific American 301, 4 (2009)
Michael J Heckenberger et al, "Village Size and Permanence in Amazonia: Two Archaeological Examples from Brazil," Latin American Antiquity 10, 4 (1999)
Anna T. Browne-Ribeiro et al, "Results from Pilot Archaeological Fieldwork at the Carrezado Site, Lower Xingu, Amazonia," Latin American Antiquity 27, 3 (2016)
Cannibalism:
Beth Conklin, "Consuming Images: Representations of Cannibalism on the Amazonian Frontier," Anthropological Quarterly 70, 2 (1997)
Beth Conklin, "'Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom': Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society," American Ethnologist 22, 1 (1995)
Shirley Lindenbaum, "Thinking About Cannibalism," Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004)
Get ready to feel flames. . . on the side of your face. . . because we're talking about Clue! Join us to learn more about gay men in the State Department, FBI phone taps, French maids, and more!
Sources:
Film Production Background:
Adam Vary, "The Crazy Story of How 'Clue' Went From Forgotten Flop to Cult Film Triumph," Buzzfeed, Available at https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/something-terrible-has-happened-here-the-crazy-story-of-how
imdb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 \
Ironing Board Cupboards:
https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/stowed-away-a-peek-into-closets-of-the-past_o
Best Ironing Board Today https://www.bestironingboardtoday.com
Slapping Hysterical Women:
Patent history: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8671598B2/en
Sheila Peace, Martin Maguire, Colette Nicolle, Russ Marshall, John Percival, Rachel Scicluna, Ruth Sims, Leonie Kellaher and Clare Lawton, "Transitions in kitchen living: past experiences and present use," The New Dynamics of Aging, Vol. 1 ed. Alan Walker (Bristol University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21216v3.18
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/slap-history-hysteria-treatment-films-ahed-tamim-israel-soldiers-women-groundhog-day-a8189896.html%3famp
Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Tapetti, Mauro Giovanni Carta, and Bianca Fadda, " Women and Hysteria in the History of Mental Health," Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health 8 (2012): 110-119. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.2174%2F1745017901208010110
TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GetAHoldOfYourselfMan
Sobering slap: Mythbusters https://youtu.be/9mmJMIwsaDQ
"The History of Hysteria" https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteria
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/06/hysteria-sex-toy-history-timeline/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/11/mel-gibson-slapped-his-girlfriend-to-bring-her-back-to-reality-is-that-a-good-idea.html
Wiretapping:
Athan G. Theoharis, "A History of FBI Wiretapping Authority," Abuse of Power: How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11 (Temple University Press: 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14bt7ht.6
David Cunningham, "Counterintelligence Activities and the FBI," There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence (University of California Press, 2004). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp0dx.6
William R. Casto, "Wiretapping," Advising the President: Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (University of Kansas Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv80cd5b.6
Neal Katyal and Richard Caplan, "The Surprisingly Stronger Case for the Legality of the NSA Surveillance Program: The FDR Precedent," Stanford Law Review 60:4 (February 2008): 1023-1077. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40040407
Colin Agur, "Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878-1968," Information & Culture 48:4 (2013): 419-447. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43737371
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, "anachronism as myth and reality: 1945-1972" The FBI: A History (Yale University Press, 2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vm6tv.12
Lavender Scare:
Excerpt from the Congressional Record 96, 4 (1950). Available at https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/gays-in-govt.html
David K Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in Government. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Judith Adkins, "'These People Are Frightened to Death': Congressional Investigations and the Lavender Scare." Prologue Magazine 48, 2 (2016). Available at https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/summer/lavender.html
Charles M. Douglas, Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's 'Sex Deviates' Program. University Press of Kansas, 2015.
French Maids:
Lynn Hunt, ed. The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800. Zone Books, 1996
Emily Apter, Feminizing the Fetish: Master Narratives/Servant Texts: Representing the Maid from Flaubert to Freud. Cornell University Press.
Leonore Davidoff, "Class and Gender in Victorian England: The Diaries of Arthur J. Munby and Hannah Cullwick," Feminist Studies 5, 1 (1979).
This week we're talking about Steven Spielberg's Amistad! Join us for a discussion of John Quincey Adams, Lomboko, Poro, and more!
Sources:
Poro:
Lydia Polgreen, "A Master Plan Drawn in Blood," New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/weekinreview/a-master-plan-drawn-in-blood.html
Caroline Bledsoe, "The Political Uses of Sande Ideology and Symbolism," American Ethnologist 11, 3 (1984)
Richard M. Fulton, "The Political Structures and Functions of Poro in Kpelle Society," American Anthropologist 74, 5 (1972)
Kenneth Little, "The Political Function of the Poro, Part II," Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 36, 1 (1966)
Sasha Newell, "Brands as Masks: Public Secrecy and the Counterfeit in the Cote d'Ivoire," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19, 1 (2013)
Christine Whyte, "Freedom But Nothing Else: The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 48, 2 (2015)
James Covey:
Steve Thornton, "A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped Save the Mende Captives," available at https://connecticuthistory.org/a-different-look-at-the-amistad-trial-the-teenager-who-helped-save-the-mende-captives/
Letter from James Covey to Lewis Tappan, available at https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A54180/datastream/PDF/view
Letter from James Covey to Lewis Tappan, December 14th 1840, available at https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A54176/datastream/PDF/view
Richard Anderson, "The Diaspora of Sierra Leone's Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and "Liberation" at Freetown, 1808-1863," African Economic History 41 (2013)
Charles Alan Dinsmore, "Interesting Sketches of the Amistad Captives," Yale University Library Gazette 9, 3 (1935)
Film Background:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/amistad
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amistad-1997
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/12/14/amistad-through-a-different-lens/aaf8318e-93ab-44f9-93ce-2a6d92e08191/
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-11-30-1997334068-story.html
John Quincey Adams:
Oral Arguments for the Supreme Court: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/amistad_002.asp
Louisa Catherine Adams, A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams eds. Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Joseph Wheelan, Mr. Adam's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress (PublicAffairs, 2009).
Lomboko:
Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: an Atlantic Oddyssey of Slavery and Freedom (New York: Penguin, 2012)
Daniel Domingues da Silva, David Eltis, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo, "The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century," The Journal of African History 55:3 (November 2014): 347-369. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1017/S0021853714000371
Donald Dale Jackson, "Mutiny on the Amistad: in 1839, African freemen seized as slaves, struck a daring blow for freedom," Smithsonian 28:9 (December 1997). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A20078601/AONE?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=AONE&xid=995b0aac
https://archive.org/details/amistad0000gray/page/6/mode/2up?q=Lomboko
Today we travel back to the Middle Ages with A Knight's Tale! Join us for a discussion of The Black Prince, jousting tournaments, the extreme awfulness of the central love story, free companies, Chaucer, and more!
Sources:
Free Companies:
Maurice Keen, "The Hundred Years War," BBC 17 February 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/hundred_years_war_01.shtml
Percy, Sarah V. "This Gun's for Hire: A New Look at an Old Issue." International Journal 58, no. 4 (2003): 721-36. Accessed September 29, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40203894.
Marvin, Laurence W. "Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle Ages." In Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History, edited by Dwyer Philip G. and Ryan Lyndall, 50-62. Berghahn Books, 2012. Accessed September 29, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qcw1p.10.
Justine Firnhaber-Baker, "Techniques of Seigneurial War in the Fourteenth Century," Journal of Medieval History 36:1 (March 2010): 90-103. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2009.10.001
Cuvelier, and Nigel Bryant. "War in Normandy." In The Song of Bertrand Du Guesclin, 85-130. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY, USA: Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvd58s78.10.
Beauregard, Erving Edward, "The Free Companies in the hundred years' war," Masters Thesis (1944). https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1306
Jousting Audiences:
Murray, Alan V., and Karen Watts, eds. The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'Armes, 1100-1600. Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv105bbwd.
BARBER, RICHARD. "Chivalry in the Tournament and Pas D’Armes." In A Companion to Chivalry, edited by JONES ROBERT W. and COSS PETER, 119-38. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvb937g7.12.
BENNETT, MATTHEW. "Manuals of Warfare and Chivalry." In A Companion to Chivalry, edited by JONES ROBERT W. and COSS PETER, 263-80. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Accessed September 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvb937g7.18.
David Balfour, "The origins of the joust," Renaissance Magazine 18:1 (February-March 2013).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knight%27s_Tale
Mario Damen, "The town as a stage? Urban space and tournaments in late medieval Brussels," Urban History 43:1 (February 2016): 47-71. DOI:10.1017/S0963926814000790
Stephen H. Hardy, "The Medieval Tournament: A Functional Sport of the Upper Class," Journal of Sport History 1:2 (Fall 1974): 91-105.
Müller, Ulrich, and Franz Viktor Spechtler. "Ulrich Von Liechtenstein." In German Literature of the High Middle Ages, edited by Hasty Will, 235-41. Rochester, NY; Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2006. Accessed October 1, 2020. doi:10.7722/j.ctt81pf5.19.
ULRICH VON LICHTENSTEIN https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Liechtenstein.jpg/800px-Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Liechtenstein.jpg
JOAN OF ARC; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/17/france.alexduvalsmith
Edward the Black Prince:
"Was Edward the Black Prince Really a Nasty Piece of Work?" BBC News Magazine, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28161434
Ivan Peter Shaw, "Edward the Black Prince," Brittanica, available at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-the-Black-Prince
The British Museum, Artifacts of Edward the Black Prince, available at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG26213
Chaucer:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale. Translation available at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/knights-tale-0
Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website, available at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/brief-chronology-chaucers-life-and-times-0
Deposition of Geoffrey Chaucer, available at https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/deposition-geoffrey-chaucer-esquire-1386
Film Background:
IMDB Page, Knight's Tale: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Roger Ebert's Review of A Knight's Tale, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-knights-tale-2001
It's our first episode on an animated film! Join us for a discussion of the El Dorado myth, dice, wanted posters, and more!
Sources:
Background:
Making The Road to El Dorado, pt. 1 https://youtu.be/Rk0Qmfr1Q4o
Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_El_Dorado
Ebert review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-road-to-el-dorado-2000
Hernan Cortes at Sea:
Reynolds, Winston A. "The Burning Ships of Hernán Cortés." Hispania 42, no. 3 (1959): 317-24. Accessed September 22, 2020. doi:10.2307/335707.
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Accessed September 21, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central.
J.H. Elliott, Imperial Spain: 1469-1716
Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America 6th edition
Wanted Posters:
Seth Ferranti, "The History of the Most Wanted Poster," Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-history-of-the-most-wanted-poster_b_5851ba70e4b0865ab9d4e8d7
Dane Schiller, "The Evolution of the Wanted Poster," SF Gate https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-evolution-of-the-wanted-poster-6110088.php
James Casey, Early Modern Spain: A Social History (New York: Routledge, 1999).
Wanted poster for Angela Davis: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2012.60.8
Danny Lewis, "An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories," Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archive-fugitive-slave-ads-could-shed-new-light-lost-histories-180959194/
Simon Middleton, "Runaways, Rewards, and the Social History of Money," Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 15:3 (Summer 2017): 617-647. 10.1353/eam.2017.0022
Miriam Muller, "Social control and the hue and cry in two fourteenth-century villages," Journal of Medieval History 31:1 (March 2005): 29-53.
Dice:
Veronique Greenwood, "The Shape of Ancient Dice Suggests Shifting Beliefs in Fate and Chance," The Atlantic (20 February 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/dice-dice-baby/553742/
Christine Dell'Amore, "Prehistoric Dice Boards Found--Oldest Games in Americas?" National Geographic (14 December 2010). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101210-dice-gaming-gambling-native-american-indian-casinos-science/
https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/the-royal-game-of-cupid-a-17th-century-board-game
loaded dice: https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/collections/show/92#:~:text=%5B1%5D%20The%20owner%20of%20the,into%20the%20later%20Middle%20Ages. and Museum of London https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/41609.html
The El Dorado Myth:
Willie Drye, "El Dorado," National Geographic. Available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/archaeology/el-dorado/
Jago Cooper, "El Dorado: The Truth Behind the Myth," BBC News. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20964114#:~:text=The%20European%20myth%20that%20arose,lands%20for%20their%20monetary%20value.
The "Europeans Mistaken for Gods" Myth
American Historical Association, "What the Textbooks Have to Say About the Conquest of Mexico." Available at https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/the-history-of-the-americas/the-conquest-of-mexico/for-students/what-the-textbooks-have-to-say-about-the-conquest-of-mexico
Camilla Townsend, "Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico," American Historical Review (2003)
Bernardino de Sahagun, The Florentine Codex. Full text available at https://www.wdl.org/en/item/10096/
Camilla Townsend, "Inventing a God," Lapham's Quarterly. Available at https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/inventing-god#:~:text=It%20would%20become%20an%20accepted,and%20quickly%20despaired%20of%20victory.
This week we travel to 1950s Italy with The Talented Mr. Ripley! Join us for a discussion of Italian jazz, the male gaze, passports, gay men in 1950s Italy, Madonna festivals, and more!
Sources:
Film Background:
IMDB, Talented Mr Ripley: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
Interview with Matt Damon, Urban Cinephile, available at https://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=3320&s=Interviews
Roger Ebert's Revew of The Talented Mr Ripley: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-talented-mr-ripley-1999
Philadelphia Inquirer on Goop: https://www.inquirer.com/health/goop-gwyneth-paltrow-pseudoscience-netflix-jade-egg-20200204.html
Mardonna Festivals:
Marialus Cultus, available at http://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19740202_marialis-cultus.html
University of Dayton, List of Mary Shrines in Italy: https://udayton.edu/imri/mary/s/shrines-in-italy.php
Marianism in Campania: http://www.naplesldm.com/sevenmad.php
Festival of the Madonna di Pietraquaria Official Website: http://www.madonnadipietraquaria.org/festa-della-madonna/
Augusto Ferraiulo, "Boston's North End: Negotiating Identity in an Italian-American Neighborhood," Western Folklore 65, 3 (2006)
Nancy Frey Breuner, "The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Southern Italy and Spain," Ethos 20, 1 (1992)
Robert A. Ventresca, "The Virgin and the Bear: Religion, Society, and the Cold War in Italy," Journal of Social History 37, 2 (2003)
Passports:
Smithsonian Magazine, "How the Passport Became an Improbable Symbol of American Identity," available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-passport-became-improbable-symbol-american-identity-180962064/
Jessica Puckett, "How US Passports Evolved from Status Symbol to Essential Travel Document," Conde Nast Traveler, available at https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-the-us-passport-evolved-from-status-symbol-to-essential-travel-document
Christine Quinan, "Gender (in)securities: Surveillance and Transgender Bodies in a Post-9/11 Age of Neoliberalism," in Security/Mobility: Politics of Movement, ed Mattias Leese and Step Wittendorp. Manchester University Press
Images of 1950s American passports: https://www.passport-collector.com/the-passport-of-a-young-african-american-issued-in-germany/
Daniel A. Farber, "National Security, the Right to Travel, and the Court," Supreme Court Review (1981)
Homosexuality in Italy:
Adamczyk, Amy. "The Relatively Liberal Views of People from Catholic-Majority Countries: An Examination of Spain, Italy, and Brazil." In Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes across the Globe, 127-48.
Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2017. Accessed September 16, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1jd947w.9.
Aldrich, Robert. "Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview." Urban Studies 41, no. 9 (2004): 1719-737. Accessed September 17, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43201476.
Friedlander, Ari. "Introduction: Desiring History and Historicizing Desire." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16, no. 2 (2016): 1-20. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/jearlmodcultstud.16.2.1.
Mosse, George L., and Mary Louise Roberts. "Fascism and Sexuality." In Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe, 158-83. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv15pjz4h.13.
Ponzanesi, Sandra. "Queering European Sexualities Through Italy’s Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities." In What's Queer about Europe?: Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms, edited by Rosello Mireille and Dasgupta Sudeep, 81-90. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0783.8.
Ross, Charlotte, Heim, Julia, and Smythe, SA. "Queer Italian Studies: Critical Reflections from the Field." Italian Studies: Cultural Studies 74, no. 4 (2019): 397-412.
Dupont, Wannes. "The Two-Faced Fifties: Homosexuality and Penal Policy in the International Forensic Community, 1945–1965." Journal of the History of Sexuality 28, no. 3 (2019): 357-395. muse.jhu.edu/article/734235.
Tu Vuo Fa L'Americano
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/24/who-really-killed-pier-paolo-pasolini-venice-film-festival-biennale-abel-ferrara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Vu%C3%B2_F%C3%A0_L%27Americano
SCUDERI, ANTONIO. "Okay Napulitan!: Social Change and Cultural Identity in the Songs of Renato Carosone." Italica 87, no. 4 (2010): 619-36. Accessed September 17, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23070816.
Renato Carosone film performance https://youtu.be/BqlJwMFtMCs w/translated lyrics https://youtu.be/yL_amiWnqFQ (and some typos)
WYNN, NEIL A. "“Why I Sing the Blues”: AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE TRANSATLANTIC WORLD." In Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe, edited by Wynn Neil A., by Bakriges Christopher G., et al, 3-22. JACKSON: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tvbm7.4.
Adinolfi, Francesco. "Lounge Italia." In Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation, edited by Pinkus Karen and Vivrette Jason, 226-34. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2008. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv11smnxp.19.
Another translation of the lyrics: https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-renato-carosone-tu-vuo-fa-lamericano-english-translation-lyrics
This week we're talking about Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl! Join us for a discussion of rum, Port Royal, and, most importantly, an in-depth exploration of just when the heck this movie is supposed to be taking place.
Sources:
Background:
Making of: https://youtu.be/X6s9jQbM9N4
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1640229/apparently-keira-knightley-had-no-faith-in-pirates-of-the-caribbean
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pirates_of_the_caribbean_the_curse_of_the_black_pearl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl
Bios: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Verbinski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Bruckheimer#Filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Elliott_(screenwriter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Rossio
Hollywood Reporter review, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/pirates-caribbean-curse-black-pearl-thrs-2003-review-1005193
Roger Ebert review, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-curse-of-the-black-pearl-2003
Port Royal:
Matlock, Julie Yates. "The Process of Colonial Adaptation: English Responses to the 1692 Earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica." 2012. (dissertation)
Drain the Sunken Pirate City (NatGeo)
Simon P. Newman, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Late Eighteenth-and Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica," William and Mary Quarterly (June 2018): 1-53. https://oieahc.wm.edu/digital-projects/oi-reader/simon-p-newman-hidden-in-plain-sight/
Carla Gardina Pestana, "Early English Jamaica Without Pirates," The William and Mary Quarterly 71:3 (July 2014): 321-360. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.71.3.0321
Nuala Zahedieh, "The Merchants of Port Royal, Jamaica, and the Spanish Contraband Trade, 1655-1692," The William and Mary Quarterly 43:4 (Oct., 1986): 570-593. http://www.jstor.com/stable/1923683
Jack P. Greene, "Jamaica at Midcentury: A Social and Economic Profile," Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait (University of Virginia Press). http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt1dgn5qd.5
Denver Brunsman, "The Knowles Atlantic Impressment Riots of the 1740s," Early American Studies 5:2 (Fall 2007): 324-366.
Christine Walker, "Port Royal," Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469655284_walker.6
Vincent Brown, "The Eighteenth Century: Growth, Crisis, and Revolution," in The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History eds. Joseph C. Miller, Vincent Brown, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Laurent Dubois, and Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Princeton University Press). http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt18s30x4.11
James Robertson, "Making Jamaica English: Priorities and Processes," The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century ed. L.H. Roper (University of South Carolina Press). http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctv6sj7vv.11
Guy Chet, "Atlantic Frontier: Continued Piracy through the Long Eighteenth Century" The Ocean Is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856 (University of Massachusetts Press). http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt5vk2s5.6
Cordingly, David. "Pirates and Port Royal." History Today 42, (5/1992): 62.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/
Henry Morgan bios: Zahedieh, Nuala. "Morgan, Sir Henry (c. 1635–1688), privateer and colonial governor." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 3 Sep. 2020.
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-19224.
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgan
"Remembrance of the Great Earthquake" http://www.jnht.com/documents/remembrance-of-the-great-earthquake.pdf Jamaica National Heritage Trust
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-18601357 and
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-destroys-jamaican-pirate-haven#:~:text=On%20June%207%2C%201692%2C%20a,to%20destroy%20the%20entire%20town.
Trevor Burnard, "European Migration to Jamaica, 1655-1780," The William and Mary Quarterly 53:4 (Oct., 1996): 769-796.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O100708/doll-with-dress-unknown/
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O116924/gown-unknown/
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O318880/gown-unknown/
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp00741/john-vaughan-3rd-earl-of-carbery
https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1690-1699/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Jamaica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Knowles,_1st_Baronet Gov. of Jamaica
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw05823
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/an-officer-and-a-gentleman-naval-uniform-and-male-fashion-in-the-eighteenth-century
sword, 1750
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/78785.html
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14293.html
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/71222.html 1748 hat (not part of regulated uniform until 1795, though)
https://www.rmg.co.uk/sites/default/files/import/4_captainjamescook.pdf
1820! https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/128354.html Uniforms introduced 1850s
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101208175701/http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/training-and-people/rn-life/uniforms-and-badges-of-rank/index.htm
Typically hand sewn, rather than printed! https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/941.html
Pirate Crews:
Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2004).
Guy Chet, "Atlantic Frontier: Continued Piracy through the Long Eighteenth Century," The Ocean is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authoirty, 1688-1856 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014).
fourth-rate c.1685
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/141835.html first-rate 1794
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/111624.html undated (Union Jack--later?)
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/152570.html Lady Washington
https://historicalseaport.org/lady-washington-history/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/03/firearms-technology-and-the-original-meaning-of-the-second-amendment/
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/technique/gun-timeline/ Firing matchlock and flintlock muskets
https://youtu.be/zpzIb3XjyyY (still need gunpowder in pan for flint to strike in later 18th c. weapons)
http://www.jnht.com/site_spanish_town.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Jamaica
https://www.nmrn.org.uk/research/piracy
Marcus Rediker, Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2004).
Arne Bialuschewski, "Pirates, Black Sailors and Seafaring Slaves in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1716-1726," The Journal of Caribbean History 45:2 (2011): 143-158.
Rum:
The Crafty Cask, Four Part Series on Rum: https://thecraftycask.com/spirits-liqueurs/history-rum/
"Rum," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/topic/rum-liquor
F. Paul Pacult, "Mapping Rum by Region," available at https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204124/http://www.winemag.com/July-2002/PROOF-POSITIVE/
David Wondrich, "The Rum-Soaked History of Pirates and Sailors," The Daily Beast. Available at https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rum-soaked-history-of-pirates-and-sailors
Tortuga:
Violet Barbour, "Privateers and Pirates of the West Indies," American Historical Review 16, 3 (1911)
W. Frank Craven, "The Early of Warwick: Speculator in Piracy," The Hispanic American Historical Review, 10, 4 (1930)
Erin Mackie, "Welcome the Outlaw: Maroons, Pirates, and Caribbean Countercultures," Cultural Critique 59 (2005)
Carla Pestana, "Early English Jamaica Without Pirates," William and Mary Quarterly 71, 3 (2014)
Colin Woodard, The Republic of Pirates (Mariner Books, 2007)
It's our second official NSFW Episode, and we're talking about The Little Hours! Join us for a discussion of penis trees, punishments for adultery, nuns and politics in the Middle Ages, and more!
Sources:
Penis Trees:
Massa Marittima Mural, available at http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/massa_marittima-mural.png
Jeanne de Montbaston, "Nun Harvesting Phalluses from Phallus Tree and a Monk and Nun Embracing." Available at https://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/DetailsPage.aspx?Feminae_ID=31987
"Medieval Woman Artist Unmasked by Her Teeth," National Geographic. Available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/01/female-medieval-master-artist-revealed-dental-calculus/#close
Johan Mattelaer, "The Phallus Tree: A Medieval and Renaissance Phenomenon," Journal of Sexual Medicine (2010)
Moira Smith, "The Flying Phallus and the Laughing Inquisitor: Penis Theft in the "Malleus Mallificarum," Journal of Folklore Research 39, 1 (2002)
THE TOAST https://the-toast.net/2015/10/06/two-monks/
Adrian S. Hoch, "Duocento Fertility Imagery for Females at Massa Marittima's Public Fountain," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte 69, 4 (2006)
Guelphs and Ghibellines:
"Guelf and Ghibelline," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/event/Guelf-and-Ghibelline
"Return of Dante: The Guelphs and the Ghibellines," The Independent, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/return-of-dante-the-guelphs-and-the-ghibellines-850012.html
Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe (Harvard University Press, 2020)
Marvin E. Wolfgang, "Political Crimes and Punishments in Renaissance Florence," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Political Science, 44, 5 (1954)The Little Hours, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/
Film Background:
Sheila O'Malley, Review on Rogerebert.com. Available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-little-hours-2017
Michael Philips, Review in the Chicago Tribune. Available at https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-little-hours-mov-rev-0710-20170710-column.html
Rules for Nuns:
Elizabeth Makowski, Apostate Nuns in the Later Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer, 2019) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Hours
Moshe Sluhovsky, "The Devil in the Convent," The American Historical Review 107:5 (December 2002): 1379-1411.
Judith C. Brown, "Everyday Life, Longevity, and Nuns in Early Modern Florence," in Renaissance Culture and the Everyday eds. Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania Press). http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt6wr9h7.8
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Sex and the Singlewoman," and Maryanne Kowaleski, "Singlewomen in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The Demographic Perspective," in Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 eds. Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide (University of Pennsylvania Press). http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt3fhbvn.8 and http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctt3fhbvn.5
Sharon T. Strocchia, "Taken into custody: girls and convent guardianship in Renaissance Florence," Renaissance Studies 17:2 (June 2003): 177-200. http://www.jstor.com/stable/24413345
Maristella Botticini, "A Loveless Economy? Intergenerational Altruism and the Marriage Market in Tuscan Town, 1415-1436," The Journal of Economic History 59:1 (Mar., 1999): 104-121. http://www.jstor.com/stable/2566498
Duane J. Osheim, "Conversion, Conversi, and the Christian Life in Late Medieval Tuscany," Speculum 58:2 (Apr., 1983): 368-390.
Saundra Weddle, "Women's Place in the Family and the Convent: A Reconsideration of Public and Private in Renaissance Florence," Journal of Architectural Education 55:2 (Nov., 2001): 64-72
Punishments for Adultery:
April Harper, "Punishing Adultery: Private Violence, Public Honor, Literature, and the Law" The Haskins Society Journal 28 (2016) http://www.jstor.com/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1wx936w.14
Melissa Mowry, "Sex and the Archives: Current Work on Subordinate Identities and Early Modern Cultural Formation," Journal of British Studies 44:1 (January 2005): 178-186.
Vern L. Bullough, "Medieval Conceps of Adultery," Arthuriana 7:4 (Winter 1997): 5-15.
Sara McDougall, "The Opposite of the Double Standard: Gender, Marriage, and Adultery Prosecution in Late Medieval France," Journal of the History of Sexuality 23:2 (May 2014): 206-225. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24616490
Trevor Dean, "Domestic Violence in late-Medieval Bologna," Renaissance Studies 18:4 (December 2004): 527-543.
K.J. Kesselring, "No Greater Provocation? Adultery and the Mitigation of Murder in English Law," Law and History Review 34:1 (February 2016): 199-225.
Karen Jones, "Sexual Misbehaviour" Gender and Petty Crime in Late Medieval England: The Local Courts in Kent, 1460-1560 (Boydell & Brewer). http://www.jstor.com/stable/10.7722/j.ctt14brth4.11
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/09/ingredients-lipstick-makeup-cosmetics-science-history/
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1339217 https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2019/10/18/viking-eyeliner-from-sea-to-sea/ Udry, Susan. "Robert de Blois and Geoffroy de la Tour Landry on feminine beauty: two late medieval French conduct books for women." Essays in Medieval Studies 19, no. 1 (2002): 90-102.
Da Soller, Claudio. "The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution." PhD diss., University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005.
Cavallo, P, Proto, M. C, Patruno, C, Sorbo, A. Del, and Bifulco, M. "The First Cosmetic Treatise of History. A Female Point of View." International Journal of Cosmetic Science 30, no. 2 (2008): 79-86.
It's the second half of our Wonder Woman episode! Join us for a discussion of suffragettes, women warriors, and more!
Sources:
Suffragettes:
Camila Ruz & Justin Parkinson, "'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts," BBC News Magazine (October, 2015) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34425615
Karen Abbott, ""The Hatpin Peril" Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman" Smithsonian Magazine (24 April 2014) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/
Tao Tao Holmes, "The Suffragettes Who Learned Martial Arts to Fight for Votes," Atlas Obscura (3 November 2015) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/suffrajitsu
Drunk History "Suffragettes Learn to Fight with "Suffrajitsu"" https://youtu.be/n38bf7c82Pc
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/keydates/
Vicky Iglikowski-Broad, "Suffragettes and the Black Friday protests: 18 November 1910" The National Archives https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/suffragettes-and-the-black-friday-protests-18-november-1910/
Bios: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/garrett_anderson_elizabeth.shtml
http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item124196.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ger-harding-womens-suffrage-1.3425155
http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/sophia-duleep-singh
Alwyn Collinson, "How Black Friday changed the Suffragette struggle" Museum of London (14 November 2018) https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/black-friday
Hints to the Ladies on Jiu-Jitsu (1926) British Film Institute National Archive https://youtu.be/tpDmcxOSuas
Women Warriors:
Alexandra Kralick, "Skeletal Studies Show That Sex, Like Gender, Exists Along a Spectrum," Discover Magazine, available at https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/skeletal-studies-show-sex-like-gender-exists-along-a-spectrum
Holly Norton, "How the Viking Female Warrior Was Written Out of History," The Guardian, Available at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/15/how-the-female-viking-warrior-was-written-out-of-history
Meilan Solly, "Researchers Reaffirm that Remains in Viking Warrior Tomb Belonged to a Woman," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-reaffirm-famed-ancient-viking-warrior-was-biologically-female-180971541/
Valeri Guliaev, "Amazons in the Scythia: New Finds at the Middle Don, Southern Russia," World Archaeology 35, 1 (2003)
Adrienne Mayor, The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World. Princeton University Press, 2016
This week we're talking about Wonder Woman! Join us for a discussion of Belgium in WWI, chemical weapons, and more!
Sources:
Film Production and Background:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wonder_woman_2017
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451279/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman_(2017_film)
Behind the scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPX3sNrdps
https://ew.com/events/comic-con/wonder-woman-behind-the-scenes-secrets/
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/movies/a9953525/wonder-woman-behind-the-scenes-facts/
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/06/08/news/blood-tribe-actor-alberta-bringing-his-language-wonder-woman
Bonus scene: https://youtu.be/wIKLRHWwf5o (a.k.a. Etta deserved more!)
Belgium in WWI:
"The 'Rape of Belgium' Revisited" http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/the-rape-of-belgium-revisited/ Women at War 1914-1918 (Netflix)Bryce Report https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bryce-report-committee-alleged-german-outrages
Horne, John. "Blinded to atrocity." The Times Literary Supplement, February 6, 2004, 4. The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2014 (accessed August 19, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200517219/TLSH?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=TLSH&xid=23da4ed9.
Hart, Peter. Voices from the Front : An Oral History of the Great War. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Stibbe, Matthew. "The internment of civilians by belligerent states during the first world war and the response of the International Committee of the Red Cross." Journal of Contemporary History 41, no. 1 (2006): 5-19.
https://www.gvsd.org/cms/lib02/pa01001045/centricity/domain/610/internmentarticle.pdf
Proctor, Tammy M. "Missing in action: Belgian civilians and the First World War." Belgisch Tijdschrift voor de Nieuwste Tijd35 (2005): 547-572. https://www.journalbelgianhistory.be/nl/system/files/article_pdf/BTNG-RBHC,%2035,%202005,%204,%20pp%20547-572.pdf
https://youtu.be/Yb5As7xS85k --multicultural war (in Dutch/French)
Commonwealth troops in WWI: The Empire Called to Arms, Imperial War Museum https://youtu.be/5L34pFNpawU
Imperial War Museum, Passcendaele https://youtu.be/AiZcRzsabXM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres
Chemical Weapons:
James Patton, "Gas in the Great War," Available at http://www.kumc.edu/wwi/medicine/gas-in-the-great-war.html
Leo P Brophy, "Origins of the Chemical Corps," Military Affairs 20, 4 (1956)
Gerard J Fitzgerald, "Chemical Warfare and Medical Response During WWI," American Journal of Public Health 98, 4 (2008)
This week we're making our first foray into Soviet history with the Death of Stalin! Join us for a discussion of Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's rise to power, Stalin's tomb, Maria Veriaminovna, and the Moscow Doctor's Plot.
Content Warning: This episode features discussions of sexual assault.
Sources:
Film Background:
Manohla Dargis's Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/movies/the-death-of-stalin-armando-iannucci-steve-buscemi.html
Death of Stalin IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
Richard Overy, "Carry on up the Kremlin: How the Death of Stalin Plays Russian Roulette with the Truth," The Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/18/death-of-stalin-russian-roulette-with-truth-armando-iannucci
Stalin's Tomb:
"Stalin's Body to Be Removed From Tomb in Red Square," New York Times, October 31st 1961."Keeping the Russian Revolution Alive," NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124901338
Footage of Stalin's Funeral. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjrQOnN4kY
Vladimir A. Kozlov, ed. Sedition: Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Yale University Press, 2011.
Christine Quigley, Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century. McFarland, 2006.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "The Heirs of Stalin," available at https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heirs-of-stalin/
Stalin's Rise to Power:
Robert V. Daniels, The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia. Yale University Press.
Robert Tucker, "The Rise of Stalin's Personality Cult," American Historical Review 84, 2 (April 1979)
William Zimmerman, Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin. Princeton University Press.
Khrushchev:
Bio https://www.pbs.org/redfiles/bios/all_bio_nikita_khrushchev.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/khrushchev_nikita.shtml NINA KHRUSHCHEV IS DEAD AT 84; WIDPW OF FORMER SOVIET LEADER https://nyti.ms/29DUqBC .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Petrovna_Khrushcheva
William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era (Kindle edition)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/01/03/issue.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/27/314961287/how-soviet-kitchens-became-hotbeds-of-dissent-and-culture
Malenkov: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1988/02/02/904688.html?pageNumber=1
Buscemi pronuniation: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000114/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_trv_sm#trivia
Molotov's quote: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/quotes/qt4134101
Beria's trial https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-29-mn-231-story.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/caesar-10.pdf
Moscow Doctors:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-46797678/hundreds-of-soviet-doctors-were-imprisoned-or-shot https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/caesar-01.pdf
https://apnews.com/f4916e2e06bb274c8ccc599ea0a607d4
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bomb-russian-officials/ Lenin and Stalin (health)
https://www.history.com/news/lenin-stalin-differences-soviet-union Dr. Vladimir Vinogradov
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1964/07/31/97343336.html?pageNumber=23
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/maria-yudina-stalin/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stalin-180965119/
Mrówczyński-Van Allen, Artur. Apology of Culture: Religion and Culture in Russian Thought. United States: Pickwick Publications, 2015.
Allen B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov, The Shostakovich Wars, quoting extensively from Shostakovich's memoir, Testimony
Vulture tries to do our job for us! https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/vulture-fact-check-death-of-stalin.html
Today we're traveling to Australia and Vietnam with The Sapphires! Join us for a discussion of MLK as a global figure, the Stolen Generations, segregation in Australia, and more!
Sources:
Martin Luther King, Jr:
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision Was More Global Than We Remember. The World Mourned Him Accordingly. Time. Available at https://time.com/5224787/martin-luther-king-global-vision/
Martin Luther King, Jr. "Beyond Vietnam: Time to Break the Silence." Available at https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
Vicki L Crawford and Lewis Baldwin, Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr. University of Georgia Press, 2019.
Jennifer Clark, "'The Winds of Change' in Australia: Aborigines and the International Politics of Race, 1960-1972. International History Review 20, 1 (1998)National Geographic: "Martin Luther King Streets Worldwide". Available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/martin-luther-king-streets-worldwide/
The USO:
Ann-Mari Jordens, "Not 'Apocalypse Now': Government-Sponsored Australian Entertainers in Vietnam, 1965-1971," Labour History 58 (1990).
Meghan K Winchell, Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses During WWII. University of North Carolina Press.
USO. "USO Camp Shows, D-Day, and Entertaining Troops on the European Front Lines in WWII," Available at https://www.uso.org/stories/2368-uso-camp-shows-d-day-and-entertaining-troops-on-the-european-front-lines-in-wwii
Production Background:
Behind the scenes: https://youtu.be/vb1VfqPM4QA
Nell Minow Review https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-sapphires-2013 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_sapphires_2012
BTS: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sapphires-featurette-goes-behind-scenes-595519 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sapphires_(film) https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/people-became-famous-using-backstage-7384/
Segregation in Australia:
Hogg, Russell. "Penality and modes of regulating Indigenous peoples in Australia." Punishment & Society 3, no. 3 (2001): 355-379.
Nugent, Maria. "Sites of segregation/sites of memory: remembrance and ‘race’in Australia." Memory Studies 6, no. 3 (2013): 299-309.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-10/how-racial-segregation-was-exposed-at-an-australian-hotel/10887128 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummeragunja_Reserve Parliament: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1718/Quick_Guides/IndigenousParliamentarians#_ftn1
Nauru detention: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45327058
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/23/racism-pervades-australian-society-and-the-effects-can-be-lethal
The Stolen Generations:
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) (1997) Bringing them
home - report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children and their families. Sydney: Commonwealth of Australia. https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/bringing-them-home-report-1997
Dudgeon, Pat, Michael Wright, Yin Paradies, Darren Garvey, and Iain Walker. "The social, cultural and historical context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians."
Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice (2010): 25-42. https://www.academia.edu/download/45867982/paradies-socialculturalhistorical-2010.pdf
Cassidy, Julie. "The Stolen Generations-Canada and Australia: The Legacy of Assimilation." (2006): 131.
It's our first official NSFW episode!!! Join us for a discussion of The Handmaiden, and learn about tentacle porn, Japanese imperialism, women in service in Korea, and more!
Sources:
Dream of the Fisherman's Wife:
Biography of Katsushika Hokusai: https://www.katsushikahokusai.org/biography.html
Complete Works of Katsushika Hokusai: https://www.katsushikahokusai.org/
Paul Berry, "Rethinking 'Shunga': The Interpretation of Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period," Archives of Asian Art 54 (2004)
Yoko Kawaguchi, Butterfly's Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture. Yale University Press, 2010.
Cady Drell, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tentacle Porn," Glamour. Available at https://www.glamour.com/story/everything-to-know-about-tentacle-porn
Sofia Barrett-Ibarria, "The Women Making Feminist Tentacle Porn," Vice. Available at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne7nax/the-women-making-feminist-tentacle-porn
Women's Rights in Colonial Korea:
Sharon Nolte, "Women's Rights and Society's Needs: Japan's 1931 Suffrage Bill," Comparative Studies in Society and History 28, 4 (1986)
Marie Seong-Hak Kim, "Customary Law and Colonial Jurisprudence in Korea," The American Journal of Comparative Law 57, 1 (2009)
EP Thompson, Customs in Common, The New Press, 1993.
Marie Seong-Hak Kim, "Law and Custom Under the Choson Dynasty and Colonial Korea: A Comparative Perspective," Journal of Asian Studies 66, 4 (2007)
Sungyn Lim, Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea. University of California Press, 2018.
Japanese Imperialism:
Louise Young, "Introduction: Japan's New International History," The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 4, October 2014, Pages 1117–1128, https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1093/ahr/119.4.1117
KIM, JINWUNG. "THE PERIOD OF JAPANESE COLONIAL RULE: (1910–1945)." In A History of Korea: From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict, 321-66. Indiana University Press, 2012. Accessed July 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gh5vd.12.
Kazuko Suzuki, "The State and Racialization: The Case of Koreans in Japan," https://ccis.ucsd.edu/_files/wp69.pdf Iyenaga, Toyokichi.
"Japan's Annexation of Korea." The Journal of Race Development 3, no. 2 (1912): 201-23. Accessed July 29, 2020. doi:10.2307/29737953.
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/kpct/kp_koreaimperialism.htm
https://www.history.com/news/japan-colonization-korea
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/28/japan.worlddispatch
https://www.ft.com/content/13a3ff9a-f3ed-11e9-a79c-bc9acae3b654
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/15/751354135/japans-emperor-and-prime-minister-mark-wwii-surrender-in-contrasting-annual-ritu
Kang, Hildi. Under the Black Umbrella : Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 /. Ithaca, N.Y. :: Cornell University Press.
Film Background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingersmith_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Waters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaiden
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_handmaiden
https://youtu.be/pUQ5H_bF1Ck
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/08/sarah-waters-the-handmaiden-turns-pornography-into-a-spectacle-but-its-true-to-my-novel-
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/movies/the-handmaiden-review.html
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190304-why-the-grand-guignol-was-so-shocking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Award
Adoption and Service in Korea:
Kim, Jung‐Woo, and Terry Henderson. "History of the care of displaced children in Korea." Asian Social Work and Policy Review 2, no. 1 (2008): 13-29.
Nicole Cohen, Children of Empire (2006)
Stanley, Amy. "Maidservants’ Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600–1900." The American Historical Review 121, no. 2 (2016): 437-460.
KWEON, Sug-In. "Japanese Female Settlers in Colonial Korea: Between the 'Benefits' and 'Constraints' of Colonial Society." Social Science Japan Journal 17, no. 2 (2014): 169-88. Accessed July 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/43920442.
KIM, JANICE C. H. "Modernization and the Rise of Women’s Wage Work." In To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, 50-74. STANFORD, CALIFORNIA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Accessed July 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvr0qrqh.9
Jun Yoo, Theodore. "Introduction." In The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945, 1-14. University of California Press, 2008. Accessed July 29, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnbrt.5
CHOI, Hyaeweol. "Translated Modernity and Gender Politics in Colonial Korea." In Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, edited by Wong Lawrence Wang-chi, 31-70. Sha Tin, N.T., Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2017. Accessed July 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2n7p6w.7
Choi, Hyaeweol. New Women in Colonial Korea a Sourcebook. ASAA Women in Asia Series. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Jun Yoo, Theodore. "The Colonized Body: Korean Women’s Sexuality and Health." In The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945, 161-92. University of California Press, 2008. Accessed July 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnbrt.10.
Yayori, Matsui, and Lora Sharnoff. "Sexual Slavery in Korea." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 2, no. 1 (1977): 22-30. Accessed July 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/3346104
" Janice C. H. Kim, ""The Pacific War and Working Women in Late Colonial Korea,"" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 33, no. 1 (Autumn 2007): 81-103.
https://doi.org/10.1086/518392"
NOTE: I may have made it sound like Samuel Pepys had a vast collection of pornography--rather, we know that he read pornography because he wrote about it in his diary (https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1668/02/09/ )--a work called L'Escholle des Filles, where two female cousins discuss sex ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99%C3%89cole_des_filles ). Pepys later burned the book after reading it. (https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1668/02/09/ )
It's the second half of our Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves episode! Join us for a discussion of medieval childbirth, sheriffs, and our grades for the history and the movie!
Sources:
Medieval Obstetrics:
Jeffrey Boss, "The Antiquity of Caesarean Section with Maternal Survival: The Jewish Tradition."
Hossam E. Fadel, "Obstetrics in Islamic Medicine: An Historical Perspective." JIMA 28 (1996)
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. Cornell University Press, 1990.
Monica Green, "Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe," Signs 14, 2 (Winter 1989)
Sara Verskin, "Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World," in Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550, ed. Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia. Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Sheriffs:
Veach, Colin. "Sheriff of Herefordshire: 1216–22." In Lordship in Four Realms: The Lacy Family, 1166–1241, 167-90. Manchester University Press, 2014. Accessed July 20, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18mbfk9.13.
PALMER, ROBERT C. "The Sheriff and His Staff." In The County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350, 28-55. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982. Accessed July 20, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvckq7zt.7. Jenkinson, C. Hilary, and Mabel H. Mills. "Rolls from a Sheriff's Office of the Fourteenth Century." The English Historical Review 43, no. 169 (1928): 21-32. Accessed July 21, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/551764.
Wilkinson, Louise J. Women in thirteenth-century Lincolnshire. Vol. 54. Boydell & Brewer, 2007. Wilkinson, Louise J. "Women in English Local Government: Sheriffs, Castellans and Foresters." In The Growth of Royal Government under Henry III, edited by Wilkinson Louise J. and Crook David, 212-26. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY, USA: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. Accessed July 21, 2020. doi:10.7722/j.ctt17mvjrp.20.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/significant-people-collection/nicola-de-la-haye/
Carpenter, D. A. "The Decline of the Curial Sheriff in England 1194-1258." The English Historical Review 91, no. 358 (1976): 1-32. Accessed July 21, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/565189.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/education/magna-carta/magna-carta-lesson3-sources1-8.pdf
This week, we take our first trip to the Middle Ages with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves! Join us for a discussion of the extremely troubled production of this film, the "real" Robin Hood, POWs in the Crusades, and more!
Sources:
Film Production:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Roger Ebert Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/robin-hood-prince-of-thieves-1991
The "Real" Robin Hood:
In Our Time, "Robin Hood" (2003) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005492h
Holt, James. "Ye have broken the charm." The Times Literary Supplement, April 24, 1998, 18+. The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2014 (accessed July 19, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200490920/TLSH?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=TLSH&xid=13168e10.
http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/langland/pp-pass5.html and here https://robinhoodlegend.com/piers-plowman/
Seal, Graham. "The Robin Hood principle: Folklore, history, and the social bandit." Journal of Folklore Research (2009): 67-89. Hobsbawm, Eric. "Social bandits: reply." Comparative studies in Society and History 14, no. 4 (1972): 503-505.
Holt, J. C. "The Origins and Audience of the Ballads of Robin Hood." Past & Present, no. 18 (1960): 89-110. Accessed July 21, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/649889.
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode
POWs in the Crusades:
John J Robinson, Dungeon, Fire, and Sword: The Knights Templar During the Crusades. M. Evans and Co, 2009.
Sean Anthony, "The Domestic Origins of Imprisonment: An Inquiry Into An Early Islamic Institution," Journal of the American Oriental Society 129, 4 (2009).
Malcolm Barber, The Crusader States. Yale University Press, 2012.
Aharon Ben-Ami, Social Change in a Hostile Environment: The Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem. Princeton University Press. 1969.
Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives. Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
This week, we venture into the weird, weird world of 2004's Alexander. Join us for a discussion of mystery cults, Roxana, eunuchs, Jamie's sincere apology for choosing this movie, Aristotle, and more!
Sources:
Production and Background:
Scott Tobias review: https://film.avclub.com/alexander-1798200224
Rotten Tomatoes Box Office: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alexander
BBC Review: http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/12/14/alexander_review_2004_review.shtml
Robin Lane Fox, Making of Alexander, available at https://www.amazon.com/Making-Alexander-Official-Guide-Epic/dp/0951139215
"I Have Let Alexander Down," available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3634344/I-have-let-Alexander-down.html
AO Scott Review, NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/movies/a-territory-alexander-couldnt-conquer.html
Interview with Rosario Dawson, Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a1351/esq0406rosario-152/
Mystery Cults:
The Met: Mystery Cults in the Greek and Roman World, available at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/myst/hd_myst.htm
Livy, History of Rome, Book 1: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0166%3Abook%3D39%3Achapter%3D14
Albert Henrichs, "Greek Maenadism from Olympias to Messalina," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 82 (1978)
Plutarch, Alexander, available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0243%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D5
Lowell Edmunds, "The Religiosity of Alexander"
Eric Csapo, "Riding the Phallus for Dionysus" Phoenix 51, 3-4 (1997)
Ross Kraemer, "Ecstasy and Possession: The Attraction of Women to the Cult of Dionysus," Harvard Theological Review 72, 1-2 (1978)
Roxane:
Cilliers & Retief, "The death of Alexander the Great," Acta Academica 31(3), (1991), 63-76. https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11660/10263/academ_v31_n1_a3.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Alexander the Great, In Our Time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06d9bkx
History of the World in 100 Objects: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00sbryz
Worthington, Ian, ed. 2012. Alexander the Great : A Reader. Florence: Taylor & Francis Group. Accessed July 12, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Thomas, Carol G. Alexander the Great in His World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Blackwell Ancient Lives. Web.
Plutarch, Moralia: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Fortuna_Alexandri*/1.html
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46976/46976-h/46976-h.htm#Page_241
Eunuchs:
Pierre Briant, Darius in the Shadow of Alexander. Harvard University Press, 2015.
Michael Charles, "The Chiliarchs of Achaemenid Persia," Phoenix 69, 3-4 (2015)
Judith Herrin, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Princeton University Press, 2008.
Walter Stevenson, "The Rise of Eunuchs in Greco-Roman Antiquity," Journal of the History of Sexuality 5, 4 (1995)
Aristotle and Barbarians:
Sarah Pruitt, "Where Did the Word Barbarian Come From?" Available at https://www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-barbarian-come-from
Mark, Joshua J. "Aristotle." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified May 22, 2019. https://www.ancient.eu/aristotle/. Also, Dictionary of the Social Sciences entry (ed. Craig Calhoun)
"These Were History's Deadliest Events," National Geographic, available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/06/graphic-wwii-and-the-100-deadliest-events-in-history-feature/
"The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (1 ed.)
Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth ALSO https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/alexander-great/ "
This week, we get into the American Revolution with The Patriot! Join us for a discussion about South Carolina, free people of color during the Revolution, bundling, and the answer to the question "Just how revolutionary was the American Revolution, anyway?"
Sources:
Film Background:
"The Patriot". IMDB. Available at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Gary Dretzka, "'The Patriot' Writer Always Combat Ready," Chicago Tribune. Available at https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-07-02-0007020278-story.html
"Spike Lee Slams Patriot," The Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jul/06/news.spikelee
Constance Grady, "Mel Gibson Set the Blueprint for a #MeToo Comeback. Expect Other Men to Follow It." Available at https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/24/17460392/mel-gibson-comeback-metoo-times-up
Roger Ebert's Review of "The Patriot". Available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-patriot-2000
South Carolina in the Revolution:
"The Patriot: More Flag-waving Rot with Mel Gibson," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/22/the-patriot-mel-gibson-reel-history
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-swamp-fox-157330429/ "[M]." In The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina, edited by Edgar Walter, 69-80. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Accessed July 6, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv6wgc8r.17.
Wendy Smith book review of Holger Hoock's book Scars of Independence https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2017/05/18/dark-violence-and-atrocities-revolutionary-war/X4Kr4EzUUrNeVmnrNeSh2N/story.html
Jane Kamensky, NY Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/books/review/scars-of-independence-americas-violent-birth-holger-hoock.html
Holger Hoock, "Mangled Bodies: Atrocity in the American Revolutionary War"
"[T]." In The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina, edited by Edgar Walter, 112-14. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Accessed July 6, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv6wgc8r.22. National Parks Bio, https://www.nps.gov/cowp/learn/historyculture/lieutenant-colonel-banastre-tarleton.htm
Cherokee War: https://web.archive.org/web/20021012214056/http://www.ricehope.com/history/CherokeeWar1760.htm
Daniel Morgan: https://www.nps.gov/cowp/learn/historyculture/daniel-morgan.htm
Bundling:
Yochi Fischer-Yinon, "The Original Bundlers: Boaz and Ruth, and Seventeenth-Century English Courtship Practices," Journal of Social History 35, 3 (Spring 2002)
Ellen K. Rothman, "Sex and Self Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770-1870," Journal of Social History 15, 3 (Spring 1982)
Richard Godbeer, "Courtship and Sexual Freedom in Eighteenth-Century America," OAH Magazine of History 18, 4 (July 2004)
Samantha Pugsley, "I Waited Until My Wedding Night to Lose My Virginity and I Wish I Hadn't." Available at https://thoughtcatalog.com/samantha-pugsley/2014/08/i-waited-until-my-wedding-night-to-lose-my-virginity-and-i-wish-i-hadnt/
African Americans in the Revolution:
Michael Lee Lanning, "African Americans in the Revolutionary War," available at https://media.lanecc.edu/users/escobarj/transfer/PDF_collection/African%20Americans%20in%20the%20Revolutionary%20War.pdf
Elizabeth Brabec and Sharon Richardson, "A Clash of Cultures: The Landscape of the Sea Island Gullah" Landscape Journal 26, 2007
Philip D. Morgan (ed.), African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee (University of Georgia Press, 2010)
"[A]." In The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the American Revolution in South Carolina, edited by Edgar Walter, 7-9. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Accessed July 6, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv6wgc8r.5.
Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record. United States: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.
"Heads of Families in the First Census," available at https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1790/heads_of_families/south_carolina/1790k-02.pdf#
Amy Catherine Green, Dance Dance Revolution: The Function of Dance in American Politics, 1763-1800. Available at https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6015&context=etd
Social Revolutions:
Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Alfred Young, "American Historians Confront the 'Transforming Hand of Revolution'" in Whose Revolution Was It? Historians Interpret the Founding. New York: NYU Press, 2001.
Robin Blackburn, "Haiti, Slavery, and the Age of Democratic Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly 63, 4 (Oct. 2006)
In this week's episode, we finish our discussion of Possession. We get into wedding rings, straw feminism, Boston Marriages, and our grades of the history and the movie.
Sources:
Straw Feminists:
Kate Beaton, "Straw Feminists" Hark! A Vagrant. Available at http://www.harkavagrant.com/?id=341
Wedding Rings:
Zoe Gahan, "Band for Life: The History of Wedding Rings," Vanity Fair. Available at https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2018/07/band-for-life-the-history-of-wedding-rings
Margaret F. Brinig, "Rings and Promises," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 6, 1 (Spring 1990) 203-215.
Justin Parkinson, "Why is Cecil Rhodes Such a Controversial Figure?" BBC News. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32131829
Richard Dowden, "Apartheid: Made in Britain," The Independent. Available at https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/apartheid-made-in-britain-richard-dowden-explains-how-churchill-rhodes-and-smuts-caused-black-south-1370856.html
Human Rights Watch Statement on the Kimberley Process: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/06/human-rights-watch-statement-kimberley-process#
John Plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Boston Marriages:
Radclyffe Hall, The Guardian, Available at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/10/it-has-made-me-want-to-live-public-support-for-lesbian-novelist-radclyffe-hall-over-banned-book-revealed
Martha Gever, Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention (Psychology Press, 2003)
Emily Hamer, Britannia's Glory: A History of Twentieth Century Lesbians (Bloomsbury, 1996)
George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 (Basic Books, 1995)
Jane Addams, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, available at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/addams-jane/
Jane Addams, WBEZ, available at https://www.wbez.org/stories/should-we-use-the-l-word-for-jane-addams/2157704a-3738-4b8f-a879-b5aed91bb8f8
Jane Addams, National Women's History Museum. Available at https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/jane-addams
This week, Jamie and Sofia mix it up with Possession, a dual timeline story about 19th-century poets and the baffling behavior of the 21st-century academics who research them. Join them in this first part and hear about stolen historical sources, the unspeakable horror of 19th-century dolls, and more!
Sources:
Film Background:
Roger Ebert's Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/possession-2002
Jamie Russell's Review: http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/10/08/possession_2002_review.shtml
Todd McCarthy's Review: https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/possession-3-1200546884/
Wikipedia Page, Possession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(2002_film)
Stealing Sources:
Philip P. Mason, "Archival Security: New Solutions to an Old Problem" The American Archivist (October 1975)
"Historian Pleads Guilty to Stealing Items from the National Archives," Available at https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2018/01/historian-pleads-guilty-stealing-items-national-archives-site-md/
"Britain Destroyed Records of Colonial Crimes," Available at https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes#:~:text=Thousands%20of%20documents%20detailing%20some,an%20official%20review%20has%20concluded.
"Erasing History: The National Archives is Destroying Records About Victims of Trump's ICE Policies," Available at https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/6/national_archives_record_retention_matthew_connelly
"Notable Thefts from the National Archives," Available at https://www.archives.gov/research/recover/notable-thefts.html
"Sandy Berger, Former National Security Advisor, Dies," Available at https://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sandy-berger-national-security-adviser-216344
"The Photo Book That Captured the Truth of How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear," Available at https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photo-book-that-captured-how-the-soviet-regime-made-the-truth-disappear
"Meet the Guys Who Tape Trump's Papers Back Together," Available at https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164
"Why You May Never Learn the Truth About ICE," Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/opinion/archives-document-destruction.html
Dolls:
John Plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Miriam Formanek-Brunell, Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
Image: Creeping Baby Doll Patent Model, Smithsonian Institute. Available at https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_856663
In Part II of From Hell, Jamie and Sofia talk about the myth of the grapes, the Cleveland Street Scandal, how royal succession works, and their grades of the history and the movie.
Sources:
Food in Whitechapel and Myth of the Grapes:
Cost of Living in 1888, VictorianWeb: http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wages4.html
"How to Eat Like a Victorian," BBC News. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/magazine-37654373
"Jack the Ripper and the Grapes." Available at https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/jack-and-the-grapes/
Matthew Packer, Wiki Casebook, Available at https://wiki.casebook.org/matthew_packer.html
"Elizabeth Stride's Postmortem," Wikipedia. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stride#Post-mortem
Cleveland Street Scandal:
Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics, and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800, Third Edition (Harlow: Pearson, 2012)
Katie Hindmarch-Watson, "Male Prostitution and the London GPO: Telegraph Boys' 'Immorality' from Nationalization to the Cleveland Street Scandal," Journal of British Studies 51, 3 (July 2012) pp. 594-617
Craig Kaczorowski, "Cleveland Street Scandal," GLBTQ Archive, 2015.
This week, Jamie and Sofia talk about the 2001 adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, From Hell. Join us for a discussion of Jack the Ripper, Alan Moore's famous hatred of filmed adaptations of his work, living conditions in Whitechapel, pea soup fogs, and more!
Sources:
Movie Production Background:
From Hell, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120681/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Tor.com, The Great Alan Moore Re-read
Living Conditions in Whitechapel:
BBC America, "Whitechapel".
Virtually London: Whitechapel
National Geographic, "Who Was Jack the Ripper?"
Charles Booth, Poverty Map
Charles Booth's Notebooks
Pea Soup Fogs:
Peter Thorsheim, "Interpreting the London Fog Disaster of 1952," in Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution, ed. E. Melanie DuPuis (New York: NYU Press, 2004)
Christine L. Corton, London Fog: The Biography (Harvard University Press, 2017)
The Guardian, "Sixty Years Since the Great Smog of London, In Pictures."
This week, Sofia and Jamie tackle the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers. Join them for a discussion of snipers, headsmen, royal assassination, and ladies-in-waiting.
Sources
Movie Background:
Roger Ebert's Review
The New York Times Review
The Variety Review
The Three Musketeers, IMDB
Three Musketeers, Wikipedia
Snipers:
STEPLYK, JONATHAN M. "Hunters of Men: Sharpshooters and Killing." In Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat, 119-41. University Press of Kansas, 2018. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvnfz0.10.
Video of Matchlock Musket
Wired: Brown Bess vs. AR-15
Royal Armouries Matchlock Loading Demonstration
Hans Halberstadt and Gregory Mast, To Be a Military Sniper (United States: Voyageur Press, 2007).
Headsmen:
Edward White, “The Bloody Family History of the Guillotine,” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/06/the-bloody-family-history-of-the-guillotine/
Gene E. Ogle, “Slaves of Justice,” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 29, No. 2, Interpreting the Death Penalty: Spectacles and Debates (Summer 2003), pp. 275-293 (19 pages)
Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/executioners-who-inherited-their-jobs-180967947/
Assassination:
Assassination Attempt on King Louis XV
Eisner, Manuel. "KILLING KINGS: Patterns of Regicide in Europe, Ad 600—1800." The British Journal of Criminology 51, no. 3 (2011): 556-77. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/23640326.
Parker, Richard. "Some Additional Sources of Dumas's "Les Trois Mousquetaires"." Modern Philology 42, no. 1 (1944): 34-40. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/434465.
The Earl of Moray and James Stewart
MOOTE, A. LLOYD. "PARTNERSHIP OF KING AND CARDINAL." In Louis XIII, the Just, 155-74. University of California Press, 1989. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp5sg.13
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIII
Ladies-in-waiting
Sharon Kettering, “The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen,” The Historical Journal 32, 4 (Dec. 1989) pp. 817-841.
The Bedchamber Crisis: https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/the-year-of-queen-victoria-2019/the-year-of-queen-victoria-the-bedchamber-crisis/
Anne Walthall, Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (University of California Press, 2008).
Caroline zum Kolk, "The Household of the Queen of France in the Sixteenth Century", The Court Historian, volume 14, number 1, june 2009 (http://cour-de-france.fr/article2336.html).
In Part II of Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Jamie and Sofia talk about chocolate, rock-paper-scissors, royal mistresses, and their grading of the history and the movie.
Sources:
Chocolate:
The Field Museum, Chocolate Exhibit.
JM Blaut, The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. Guilford Press, 1993
Kate Loveman, “The Introduction of Chocolate Into England: Retailers, Researchers, and Consumers, 1640-1730,” Journal of Social History 47, 1 (Fall 2013) pp. 27-46.
Rock-Paper-Scissors:
"Rock Paper Scissors". TeachingHistory.org.
Peter Erdi. Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
1927 description of Chi-Fou-Mi
1966 French intro video on Chi-Fou-Mi made by ORTF (National Audiovisual Institute, France)
Royal Mistresses:
Kathleen Wellman, Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press, 2013.
Excerpts from Rictor Norton, My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries.
In Part I of their first episode, Jamie and Sofia discuss the very sparkly 1999 film Ever After: A Cinderella Story. Join them to learn new and exciting things about Leonardo da Vinci, codpieces, and selling servants to pay debts.
Sources:
Ever After. IMDB.
Susannah Grant, "Success Feels Better, But It Doesn't Necessarily Make You Better," Medium.
Leonardo da Vinci:
Mona Lisa, The Met.
Mona Lisa, The Louvre.
The Codex Atlanticus.
"Flying Machine," LeonardodaVinci.net
Leonardo da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds. Smithsonian.
Leonardo da Vinci, Head of a Woman, The Met.
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance. PBS.
Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life. trans. Maurice Baring, 1906.
Jonathan Jones, "And the Winner Is," The Guardian.
"The Other Vitruvian Man," Smithsonian Magazine.
Codpieces:
Grace Q. Vicary, “Visual Art as Social Data: The Renaissance Codpiece,” Cultural Anthropology 4, 1 (February 1989) pp. 3-25.
“What Goes Up Must Come Down: A Brief History of the Codpiece.”
Selling People to Pay Debts:
Henry Heller, "Bodin on Slavery and Primitive Accumulation," The Sixteenth-Century Journal
Robert Kalas, "Noble Widows and Estate Management during the French Wars of Religion"
Hoffman, "The Economic Theory of Sharecropping in Early Modern France"