Some Civil Words: Recent Episodes
Mischief Tales
A podcast where we connect historical events with current headlines by looking at letters, memoirs, speeches, song and even poetry of the people living in those times.
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Dr. Joseph Williams returns to discuss the health & hygiene (or lack thereof) behind the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 and the search for a vaccine. We read a letter from Lutiant Lavoye, an Ojibwe field nurse who treated soldiers in the army barracks of Washington, D.C. that year.
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people, including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson, "Happy Happy Gameshow" by Kevin MacLeod and "Someone New" by Nick Nani. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts.
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The SCW Pop Quiz continues! Cut for time, we grill Dr. Williams just a little more on antiquated medical jargon from 18th century Colonial America.
Then listen to the whole episode for more pop quizzes and historical discussion on the Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1722.
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people, including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson and "Happy Happy Gameshow" from Kevin MacLeod. Please follow, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts.
Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film. If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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Time to shift gears! Dr. Joseph Williams joins the pod to discuss the history of vaccines in the United States. Part I explores the use of variolation in the colonies, focusing on the infamous Boston smallpox epidemic of 1722. Letters and newspaper articles will be read from Rev. Cotton Mather, his slave Onesimus and noted physician Zabdiel Boylston. Plus, Dr. Williams plays for his life on the Some Civil Words Quiz Show - ring a ding, baby!
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people, including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson and "Happy Happy Gameshow" from Kevin MacLeod. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts.
Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film. If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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Civil War statues are not just a Southern thang. We talk a little more about how today's memorials in the North and South reflect the shared - yet culturally unique - reverence of Civil War figures from each side.
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people, including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts.
Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film. If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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Craig Johnson is back and we discuss religion during the Civil War and how it was viewed and utilized by North and South. We'll be reading "To Canaan!" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and "Under the Shade of the Trees" by Margaret Junkin Preston; a poem regarding her deep personal affection for General Stonewall Jackson.
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people, including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts.
Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film. If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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With historian Craig Johnson. We discuss poems by Walt Whitman and Confederate writer William Gordon McCabe, along with the ideas of Southern chivalry, shell shock/PTSD, trench warfare, onomatopoeia and so much more. Happy Valentine's Day?
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people, including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts.
Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film. If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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With historian Craig Johnson. We discuss his visit to Charleston, SC and experiences at Fort Sumter and the Mother Emanuel AME Church where nine Black church members lost their lives to white supremacy in 2015. Plus, living in Minneapolis during the George Floyd protests, growing up in the South and what Oscar Wilde has to say about history.
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people, including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts. Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film. If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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Minnesota historian, Craig Johnson, joins the pod to discuss poetry from the beginning of the Civil War. We'll connect the racial strife of 1861 to both the founding of the United States and to the modern fight for racial equality. This episode was recorded in late summer of 2020, in the wake of George Floyd's murder by the Minneapolis Police Department. We steadfastly believe that Black lives matter and that ""no one is free until we are all free."
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people, including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts. Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film. If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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"Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline"by Oliver Wendell Holmes:
https://www.bartleby.com/360/8/162.html
"Farewell to Brother Jonathan"by Caroline
https://www.civilwarpoetry.org/confederate/thebreak/jonathan.html
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Actor Terrance Jackson joins me to read and discuss "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes and "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman, following her standout performance at the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the traditional, ancestral and contemporary land of many indigenous people including the Wahpeton Dakota tribe. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts. Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film. If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
Langston Hughes resources:
"Let America Be America Again" - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again
Bio - https://www.biography.com/writer/langston-hughes
Amanda Gorman resources:
"The Hill We Climb" - https://thehill.com/homenews/news/535052-read-transcript-of-amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem
Bio - www.amandascgorman.com
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With guest host Michael Dritto, from "Sit Still, Look Opinionated". We'll look at President Lincoln's first Inauguration Day in 1861, comparing and contrasting with Joe Biden's in 2021.
Quotes, accounts and comments from Frederick Douglass,
Lincoln family friend Julia Taft, newspaper editor Horace Greeley, The New York Times and alt-right forum thedonald.win. Seriously. Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Researched, written and hosted by Vincent S. Hannam. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please subscribe, rate and review Some Civil Words wherever you get your podcasts. Please also follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film.
If you have any ideas on topics to discuss, or want to say hi, reach out on social media or email us at mischieftales@gmail.com. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy. www.mischieftales.com Sources and show notes: https://stevenwakefield.wordpress.com/2021/01/17/some-civil-words-ep-3-inauguration-day-1861-2021/
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We'll look at the violent events at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 and connect it to the tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, 2017. Quotes, tweets and speeches from Charlottesville attendees, white nationalist David Duke and President Donald Trump.
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film, as well as this podcast, of course. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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Sources, show notes and transcript here: https://stevenwakefield.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/some-civil-words-ep-1-violence-at-the-capitol-parts-i-ii/
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We'll look at the political events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and connect them to the electoral crisis of 1876, and the subsequent Compromise of 1877. Speeches and essays from Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina as well as 19th century statesmen, Jeremiah S. Black and William Maxwell Evarts.
Some Civil Words is produced by Mischief Tales in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Original music by Terrance Jackson. Please follow @mischieftales on FB, Instagram and YouTube for original dramatic work in theatre and film, as well as this podcast, of course. Thank you for your support and until we meet again, take it easy.
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Sources, show notes and transcript here: https://stevenwakefield.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/some-civil-words-ep-1-violence-at-the-capitol-parts-i-ii/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
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