Did That Really Happen? (2024)

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)

NHS Smoking Prevalence Statistics, 2006: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-smoking/statistics-on-smoking-england-2008#:~:text=Among%20adults%20aged%2016%20and,39%20per%20cent%20in%201980

"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/co*cktails/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!

Sources:

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!

Sources:

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!

Sources:

"Advertisem*nt: Maybelline." Seventeen, 07, 1982, 18-19
"Mascara Magic." Seventeen, 05, 1981
"Advertisem*nt: 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 f*ckuyama, "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

Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22holy+roller%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “Holy Roller (n.),” March 2024.

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!

Sources:

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!

Sources:

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!

Sources:

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 hom*osexuality, and more!

Sources:

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 hom*oerotica," 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, "hom*ogenic Love and its Place in a Free Society," 1894, full text available at https://archive.org/details/hom*ogenic-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!

Sources:

"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!

Sources:

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!

Sources:

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&it=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!

Sources:

"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!

Sources:

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 p*rn industry, adult film awards, the history of the San Fernando Valley, and more!

Sources:

Timothy Buzzell, "Demographic Characteristics of Persons Using p*rnography 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_p*rnography_in_three_technological_contexts/links/5627ead608ae518e347b2faa/Demographic-characteristics-of-persons-using-p*rnography-in-three-technological-contexts.pdf
Jonathan Coopersmith, "Sex Vibes and Videotape: Sexuality and Electrical Technology in the 20th Century: The Role of the p*rnography Industry in the Development of Videotape and the Internet," http://owncloud.unsri.ac.id/journal/threat/sex_vibes_21century.pdf
Ingrid Rachel Olson, p*rnography, 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 p*rnographic 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 'p*rn Valley' Became the Adult Entertainment Capital of the World", Insider, available at https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-p*rn-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 p*rn Industry About HIV?" Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-can-we-learn-from-the-p*rn-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 vagin*: https://timelinesofslang.com/vagin*ct.html
"puss*," Green's Dictionary of Slang: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/bl252wa
Online Etymology Dictionary: https://www.etymonline.com/word/puss*
"puss* and Pusillanimous" Penn Language Log: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24012#:~:text=There's%20a%20plausible%20and%20well,development%20of%20puss*%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/ "

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 hom*ophobes Who’ve Had Quite Enough," Autostraddle, (15 August 2022). https://www.autostraddle.com/32-hom*ophobic-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!

Sources:

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!

Sources:

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).
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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.

Sources:

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
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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!

Sources:

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 sad*stic British Officer Who Was Worshipped As a Living God in India," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/john-nicholson-the-sad*stic-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!

Sources:

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
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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
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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).
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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
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RL Rutsky, "Surfing the Other: Ideology on the Beach," Film Quarterly 52, 4 (1999)
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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 hom*osexuality, 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

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"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
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Gyles Brandreth (ed.), "Gossip," in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, 5 ed. (Oxford University Press, 2014).
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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 hom*osexuality 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), duch*ess 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-duch*ess-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)
Sandra Hofferth et al, "Premarital Sexual Activity Among US Teenage Women Over the Past Three Decades," Family Planning Perspectives 19, 2 (1987)
Meredith GF Worthen, Sexual Deviance and Society: A Sociological Examination, Second Edition. Routledge, 2022.

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)
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"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
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Nicholas Orme, "The Culture of Children in Medieval England," Past & Present 148 (1995): 48-88. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651048
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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/

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/

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 .
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Kevin Starr, California: A History (New York: The Modern Library, 2015).
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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

Sources:
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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
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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
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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/

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)
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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, "cnu*t," "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 co*cktail culture, the so-called King of Anatolia, interwar newspaper magnates, American evangelists in the UK, Armistice day poppies, and more!

Sources:

co*cktails:
Harry Craddock, Savoy co*cktail Book, 1930 Edition. Full Text Available at https://euvs-vintage-co*cktail-books.cld.bz/1930-The-Savoy-co*cktail-Book
International Bartenders' Association, Official Website: https://iba-world.com/iba-official-co*cktail-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, duch*ess of Marlborough," The Queens of Society (J.W. Jarvis & Son, 1932). https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sarah_duch*ess_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, duch*ess 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, duch*ess 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 Advertisem*nts, 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, "hom*osexuality 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 hom*osexuality: 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, "hom*ophobia, Vichy France, and the "Crime of hom*osexuality": 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, p*rn 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-duch*ess-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 duch*ess of Malfi" British Library (24 April 2017). https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/an-introduction-to-the-duch*ess-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/

co*ckney Accent:
New York Times, "Michael Caine: An Accent that Broke Through Class Barriers," available at https://youtu.be/XBjp1oEZcwU
"co*ckney Accent," British Library. Available at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/co*ckney-accent-freddie-ridley-road-market
"co*ckney," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/topic/co*ckney
Derek B. Scott, "The Music-Hall co*ckney: 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 p*rnography," 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, p*rnography and law" Policing Desire: p*rnography, 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? hom*osexuality, 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 hom*osexuality," 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-hom*osexuality/
"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 hom*osexuality," 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 p*rnography: 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).