History for Halloween XIII
(Hosts: Christine, Ted, Lucy, and Kristin) Thirteen years of haunting, horrors, and hysteria! We are back again with the annual favorite: ou...
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20 of 313 episodesImperial Japan and African American Activism in the early Twentieth Century
(Host: Ben) Beginning in the early 20th century, African American intellectuals and organizers such as W.E.B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey held...
Westward Ho!
(Host: Lucy) A bestselling novel you’ve probably never heard of created pop culture waves and sparked a mid-Victorian tourist industry. West...
More Than Makeup: Red Lipstick from Antiquity to WWII
(Host: Jessica) Red lipstick is one of the oldest cosmetics on earth. From its oldest archaeological documentation in Bronze Age Ira n, to w...
Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery
(Host: Ted) In the fall of 1775, the British and American forces were stuck in a prolonged stalemate around Boston, Massachusetts. Then, a y...
The Origins of the Jury
(Host: Samantha) Have ever had jury duty? Do you dread it or would you like to see what it’s like? The jury – or, rather, the right to a tri...
The Thankful Villages of WWI
(Host: Jessica) The human cost of World War I was extreme; enlisting meant you and the other men in your village went off to serve together....
Christianity in the Ancient Kingdom of Aksum
(Host: Ben) In the mid-4th century CE, the powerful Aksumite civilization officially adopted Christianity as its state religion. Join us on...
The Affair of the Poisons
(Host: Kristin) In 1676, the Marquise de Brinvilliers stood trial in Paris for poisoning. It was a shocking revelation – and result – and, a...
Leon Czolgosz and the Assassination of President McKinley
(Host: Christine) In 1901, a man named Leon Czolgosz decided to attend the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. While there, he att...
Drinking in Medieval England Revisited
(Host: Samantha) Taverns are frequently imagined as bleak, rowdy places occupied exclusively by men but for the occasional buxom serving wen...
Lord Edward's Crusade
(Host: Ted) Before becoming King, the future Edward I of England fulfilled his vow of going on crusade to the Holy Land. Sometimes called th...
James Smithson's Institution
(Host: Christine) In the mid-18th century, the illegitimate son of a British noble was born in France. In the mid-19th century, the Smithson...
“A Forgotten Spot in the Caribbean”: Nevis
(Host: Jessica) On the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, sugar, slavery, and empire shaped the childhood of future Founding Father Alexander H...
Tsianina: Artist, Trailblazer… Princess?
(Host: Lucy) The life of Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone was a remarkable one. It was also a life surrounded by myths, many of which she crea...
The Dog at the Heart of the Corps of Discovery Expedition
(Host: Ben) One of the most famous members of the Corps of Discovery Expedition (aka, the Lewis and Clark Expedition) was a four legged 150-...
The Shots Not Heard Round the World
(Host: Ted) On April 19th, 1775, colonial militia battled the British regulars at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts in what would becom...
The Hidden Treasure of the Cairo Genizah
(Host: Kristin) A hidden storeroom in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo was the repository for old, worn out manuscripts. For centuries, a wid...
Alexander's Worlds
(Host: Lucy) Alexander was heir to a small kingdom, and became ruler of multiple worlds, uniting the Greek archipelago with the territories...
Beer Through the Ages
(Host: Samantha) Over the past nine millennia, people have made beer out of rice, berries, barley, wheat, hops, corn, honey, and even banana...