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The Sleepy Lagoon Trial and Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles’s Season of Violence During WWII
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Transcript for: The Sleepy Lagoon Trial and Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles’s Season of Violence During WWII Researched and written by Elizabeth Garner Masarik, PhD Recorded by Marissa Rhodes, P…
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on Feb 17
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The Section 504 Sit-In: The Protest that Demanded Civil Rights for Disabled Americans
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In 1973, Richard Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act, a bill intended to increasing hiring, extend rehabilitation services and increase assistance programs for Americans with disabilities. In the w…
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How and when scientists, doctors, and society started conceiving of the physical and emotional components of same-sex desire as a psychiatric condition of the mind? This was neither an ancient beli…
on Apr 14
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Clean for Teaching: The Lavender Scare
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In the late 1940s and 1950s, alongside the better known “Red Scare” that targeted alleged internal political enemies – American Communists – the US government led a crusade against gay …
on Feb 24
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I’m So Sick of History Rhymes: Executive Orders, Dog Whistles, and the Lavender Scare
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on Feb 24
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The Unjust Execution of the Dakota 38
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In 1862, as the Civil War raged across the fields of the south, another American war was coming to an end: the Dakota War, a conflict between the Dakota people and American settlers in Minnesota. T…
on Feb 10
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Teaser: In 1850, a bright-eyed eight-year-old girl walked across London Bridge in her carefully maintained school uniform. Her teachers called her promising; her siblings found her delightful. No o…
on Feb 3
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Friends, we published a book! Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Seances in Lily Dale is now available from Cornell University Press. The official launch date was October 15, 2024,…
on Nov 25
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Kitsune and Kitsunetsuki: A History of Japanese Fox-Witches and Fox Possession
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TEASER: This episode tells the story of one of Japanese folklore’s most infamous yokai (supernatural beings). The kitsune, “fox-spirit” or “fox-witch” has deep roots, millennias-old, in central Jap…
on Sep 30
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
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The Salem witch trials lasted from late February 1692 to May 1693 in eastern Massachusetts Bay Province. This event resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of at least 155 individuals. Of these peo…
on Sep 23
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Spectral Evidence, Floating Witches, and Angry Neighbors: The Other Witch Panic of 1692
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Teaser: In 1692, the unusual behavior of a young girl was explained as the result of the evil trickery of a witch. Soon, people were naming culprits, and those accused were on trial for their very …
on Sep 17
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Upcoming Book Events: Thursday October 10, 2024 12:15pm ET: “Pushing Boundaries: Radical Women, Reform, and Religion in Progressive-Era Lily Dale, New York,” New York State Library [ONL…
on Aug 30
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The modern history of the body is marked by the coinciding pathologization of fatness AND the elevation of a new thin ideal. But one can make the argument that even after fatness was pathologized (…
on Jul 29
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Sarah: In the mid-nineteenth century, a feud erupted between two camps of prominent public intellectuals and thought-leaders in the United States. The results of this feud affected the education, c…
on Jul 22
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One-Sex, Two-Sex, or …?: Thinking About the Sexed Body in History
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Historian Thomas Lacquer’s 1992 Making Sex argues that the one sex model dominated ancient and medieval medicine and popular ideas of sex, until, approximately, the Enlightenment, which gradually d…
on Jul 15
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We’re diving into the biography and the life and times of a woman named Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a household name in the mid- nineteenth century. She was a journalist,…
on Jul 8
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La Mutine: Gender and France’s Forced Migration Schemes
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In this episode, Marissa and Averill uncover the harrowing real story behind a wave of forced migration from early 18th century Paris to the struggling French territories along the Gulf Coast. Driv…
on May 27
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Red Power Progressivism: A Biography of American Indian Rights Activist Zitkala Ša
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In 1923, Zitkala-Ša, a Dakota woman, wrote an unpublished essay titled “Our Sioux People,” tracing the U.S. government’s relationship with the tribe. She described a scene where d…
on May 20
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“Came home in our droves for you”: Abortion in Ireland
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A content warning… more feelings content than gory content, but nonetheless: We’re talking about abortion and Ireland today. It’s hard for a lot of reasons. People shouldn’t have to fight so hard t…
on May 13
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The Sentimental State: Book Talk
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Dear listener, we’ve got a special episode for you today. Our producer, Elizabeth Garner Masarik, just published her first book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welf…
on May 6
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The Leaky Body: Fluids, Disease, and the Millennias-Long Endurance of Humoral Medicine
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Pretend it’s 500 BCE and you know nothing about modern, scientific medicine. You know nothing about anatomy or biochemistry or microbes. How would you approach the art of healing your loved ones wh…
on Mar 25, 2024
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Continuity & the Gender Wage Gap: Or, How Patriarchy Ruins Everything Part II
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Starting in the late 1990s, historians like Deborah Simonton and Judith Bennett argued that if we take a step back a look at the longue duree of women’s history, the evidence suggests that even as …
on Mar 18, 2024
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From Slave Patrol to Street Patrol: Police Brutality in America
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Please be aware that this episode contains references to racism and violence. Marissa: In 1937, a man named Page Harris was interviewed at his home for an oral history project. The interview was pa…
on Mar 11, 2024
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The Invisible Engine: Capitalism’s Reliance on Reproductive Labor and a Gendered Wage
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Reproductive labor is the labor or work of creating and maintaining the next generation of workers. This is the work of birth, breastfeeding or bottle feeding, washing dirty butts and wiping runny …
on Mar 4, 2024