History Honeys

The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Fair

Alaina returns to another small piece of 1893's Columbian Exposition, and look at the Woman's Building. Designed and decorated by trailblazing women, and filled with work and exhibits by women from around the world, it was one of the most popular buildings at the fair. The fair also hosted the World’s Congress of Representative Women, a week-long convention on women's issues and a landmerk in early feminist history. Did it fulfill its purpose? Who benefited the most? What can women's movements today learn from the successes and mistakes of 1893?

[Note: The murals were 58x12 feet, not inches]

Links!

• Transcribed speeches from The World's Congress of Representative Women
• Festival Jubilate, Op.17 sheet music
• The Woman's Building, Interior
• Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building, Cover
• Mary Cassatt's "Modern Woman" mural
• Pearl Hart, The Last Lady Outlaw
• Final Bid: The Cinematic Auction Game

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Logo by Marah

Intro and outro by Thylacinus

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

Girl Scouts of the USA

Founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA has become "the world's preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls". As a lifetime member, Alaina tells us about Juliette Gordon Low's life, the development of the program, and the current challenges they face. Also, cookies. When does an organization develop past its roots? How do two very similar programs take such different stances to the changing times? 

Links!

• Girl Scouts
• Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of some preceding events
• Julette Gordon Low Birthplace
• The Golden Eaglet
• Juliette Gordon Low's gravesite
• Josephine Groves Holloway
• Girl Scout Cookie from 1917
• 50 years ago, a piano was dropped from a helicopter near Seattle: Here's what happened
• Iconic podcast

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

Bonus! C2E2 2018

Our annual trip to our local comic (and etc.) convention was a great time, and we'd like to share it with you! Here's what we saw, did, and bought at 2018's Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo. Below are links to just about everything we mention:

• Tom King
• Katie Cook
• The One Shot Podcast Network
• Guardians Of The Galaxy's Dave Bautista & Sean Gunn: Full Panel | C2E2
• The Twelve Colors
• Lindsay Ishihirio
• Travis McElroy And Friends - Full Panel
• McElroy Shows
• Symphony Sanders
• Anne Wheaton
• Hello From the Magic Tavern
• The Lost Path
• Knights Club: The Bands of Bravery
• Power of the Dark Crystal
• Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle
• Low
• The Storyteller: Witches
• Lost at Sea
• No Small Plans
• The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
• American Gods With Yetide Badaki And Ricky Whittle Full Panel
• Twisted Toonz Read Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Earworm (sorry this didn't get out until after funding ended)
• Improvised Star Trek
• Karen Hallion
• David Petersen
• Charles Thurston
• Josh Adams
• Chris Jones
• Amy Mebberson
• Sanya Anwar
• Women of Marvel
• NeoScum

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

HH Holmes

Happy Valencrimes Day! Alaina teaches us about Chicago's famed serial killer: HH Holmes. A career swindler and criminal, Holmes left a trail of wives, properties, and bodies in his wake. The question is, how reliable are these stories, and how can we be sure when so much evidence was destroyed or lost?

Links!

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
• Posts tagged "HH Holmes" at Mysterious Chicago
• Photos of Holmes' exhumed remains

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

The Prairie Avenue District

Alaina brings the show close to home. In fact, withing walking distance of our home! The Prairie Avenue District is a small part of Chicago's Near South Side neighborhood that was the hottest piece of real estate around at the end of the 19th century. We learn about the history of the neighborhood, some buildings that survive from the period, and some of the misadventures of their residents. 

Links!

• Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance
• Glessner House Museum
• The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
• The Harriet F. Rees House standing alone on the block
• Gextra Life video playlist; Donation page
• The FPlus Live 6
• Alcohollywood: Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• Mokey on Instagram
• The Silent Scream of Melania Trump on Inkshares
• Toontown Public Works

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

The 1933 World's Fair

In the depths of the Depression, and the shadow of an earlier event, Chicago staged the A Century of Progress International Exposition, better known as the 1933 World's Fair. Alaina takes us through an overview of the Fair's conception, some notable exhibits, and the surviving remains. How much success comes down to blind luck? How much should seeing babies cost? How do you solve a problem like Mussolini?

Links!

• Grant's video on the 1893 World's Fair
• 1934 Technicolor short on the Fair
• Pre-Opening brochure
• The Kodak brochure
• Map of the Fair
• Pictures from the "The World a Million Years Ago" exhibit
• Sinclair Oil's dinosaurs

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

Richard J Daley

Six months ago, Grant mentioned he'd come back to talk more about a significant person, and now he's making good! Hizzoner, Richard J Daley, was Da Mare for over 20 years. Last and perhaps greatest of the big city bosses, he wielded unchallenged power in the city which came with national influence. Even so, he was always the South Side altar boy, diligently studying the financials. Where there is power, must there be ambition? If everybody's getting a piece, is it still corruption? Who doesn't love the Sox?

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

"South Side Irish" by The Irish Choir

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

Bonus! C2E2 2017

As we mentioned in the last episode, we spent the weekend at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo! Here's an account of what we did, what we bought, and who we met during the show! Don't forget to look at the links below for a bunch of stuff we talk about:

• Album of pictures we took
• Gextra Life 2016 playlist
• Adam Fotos
• Roboism
• Friendshipping
• Unlearned
• The Chicago Podcast Cooperative
• Sex Criminals Leggings
• Mouse Guard on Six Feats Under
• Sparkle Designs
• ChipAndIronicus.com Chipod Ironicast on iTunes
• Our friend's absent friend's art tumblr
• Twisted Toonz' Youtube channel
• SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter

Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Happy Valentine's Day! In this holiday special, Alaina talks about the most romantic thing she knows: gruesome murder. How are movie gangsters different from the real guys? Why can't rival operations just get along? Who actually did the dang thing, anyway?

 

Links:

• Historical image of the site
• The Mob Museum
• Our Sexual History episode #4: A Short History of Syphilis, featuring listener Ciaran! Bonus episode on the Tuskeegee Experiment
• Alcohollywood presents: Indiana Jones and the Monkey King, part 1
• The Breakfast Cult visual novel on Kickstarter; and the free alpha demo on itch.io

 

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Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

The Battle of Michigan Avenue

In 1968, the Democratic Party nominated a loyal member of the party leadership that did not reflect their members' views and could not present a compelling vision of the future. Meanwhile, prophesies of civil unrest became self-fulfilling as protests provoked a police riot miles away from the convention itself. What sort of protest makes the most change? How do you make leaders listen? Does democracy end on election day?

Links!

• Footage of Wednesday's Police Riot
• Photos of the week's events: Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine
• The Yippies' nomination newsreel for Pigasus
• Dan Rather's report from the floor after being punched
• Excerpts of Ribicoff's nomination speech, and Daley's reaction
• The Walker Report (An excerpted summary)
• Famous American Trials: The Chicago 8 including transcripts and audio of the trial and its participants
• The Whole World was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
• Bobby Seale's website
• The MadFuzz store; use coupon code "hh2016" before 12/31 for 16% off.

Please help our show succeed by sharing it. Send a link to someone you know and tell them what you enjoy about History Honeys. Rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, or whatever other platform you use to hear us. It helps so very much and we do appreciate it. You can connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or by emailing us at historyhoneyspodcast at gmail. The episode 17 prompt is: positive 2016 history!

 

Logo by Marah

Music by Thylacinus

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

"Prologue, August 29, 1968" by Chicago

"I'll be There" by Phil Ochs