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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Welcome to 2021! We bring in the year with the 900th anniversary of a shipwreck that threw England into chaos, and the 200th anniversary of a piece of culinary folk history. The White Ship sank, and people of every social station drowned the same. Tomatoes came to New Jersey through the same unexciting means as any crop, but a striking story will kep alive regardless.
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Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Happy New Year! We're starting off 2020 by catching up on two centennials, the Molasses Flood and the Black Sox scandal of 1919. First, Alaina looks at the sudden death and long-term disruption of an industrial accident that covered a Boston neighborhood for months. Then, Grant tries to cut through the legends of the greatest scandal in baseball to find what we can really know, and what that means.
Links!
- The Fluid Dynamics of the Molasses Flood
- http://www.northendboston.com/
- Court Documents of the Black Sox trial
- Recovered newsreel footage of games 3 and 1
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Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
The New Deal was a sweeping suite of programs and policies to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s. Several of those programs provided for artists in exchange for their labor producing new art. What kind of art sprouted from this system? How did society benefit from a boom in freely available art and performance? Why hasn't this level of investment continued?
Links!
- WPAmurals.com
- WPA Posters at the Library of Congress
- PBS Crash Course on the FTP
- The Slave Narrative Project on Project Gutenberg
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 90 prompt is: What is your favorite thing from the '90s?
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
It's that time of year again, when Alaina teaches us about the haunted and spooky spots of a certain place, and we do the intro in silly Dracula voices! This year we're getting sub-tropical and talking about the Florida Keys. An island chain once rich from shipping and now a vacation destination, the Keys have been shaken by natural disasters and disease, as well as a few notably creepy individuals. Have these events left a psychic and spiritual stain on the land, or is that just a way to sell more t-shirts? Let's explore!
Links!
- FloridaKeys.com
- Historic and contemporary pictures of the Oversea Railroad
- "The Keys’ most treacherous reef is a scenic delight"
- Picture of the Carysfort Light
- Key West Cemetery at Atlas Obscura
- Florida Keys History & Discovery Center, home to Robert the Doll
- Picture of Robert the Doll
- Gene Otto, wearing the sailor suit he passed on to Robert
- Fort Jefferson, National Park Service
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 89 prompt is: What is your favorite piece of public art?
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
We've mentioned our weekend trip to Milwaukee before, but now it's time to share all we learned! In this episode, Grant talks about the history of the places we went, and some of the history they taught us.
Links!
- Mars Cheese Castle
- Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom
- Pabst-ett Cheese radio commercial
- Milwaukee Public Museum
- Making of the Streets of Old Milwaukee
- Milwaukee Boat Line sightseeing tours
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 84 prompt is: What is your favorite thing that did not go as planned?
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Alaina returns to her most recent topic to make good on her promise. This episode is about a third great train wreck in the summer of 1918, one that destroyed a circus train. We cover the history of that particular circus, its founder's previous attractions, the wreck itself, and what remains to commemorate it.
Links!
- People displayed in Hagenbeck's "human zoo"
- The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab
- First Zoo Without Bars Celebrates its Centenary
- Group Photo of Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Performers
- Supreme Court opinions on Bleistein v Donaldson Lithographing Company
- Pictures of wreckage
- Lake County Times coverage of wreck
- Picture of mass burial
- Pictures of Showmen's Rest
- "Unknown Male" Gravestone
- International Circus Hall of Fame
- ABC 7 Chicago's coverage of the 100th anniversary
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Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Alaina continues marking anniversaries, and also talking about travel disasters. 1918 was in the middle of the Golden Age of Rail Travel, but behind the march of technology and luxury there were millions of travelers trying to get to work on time. Unfortunately, not all of them did. The day this episode goes live marks the 101st anniversary of the worst rail accident in American history, and the end of the year the worst accident in American urban transit history. What counts as "acceptable odds" for mass death and mayhem? Who bears responsibility for a systemic failure? How does the atomization of car travel affect our perception of train death tolls?
Links!
- Google Earth View of the Nashville wreck site
- Contemporary news report of the crash at Dutchman's Curve
- David Allan Coe - The Great Nashville Railroad Disaster
- Diagram of the Malbone Street wreck
- Death in the Subway by David Rapp
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 81 prompt is: What is your favorite fringe group?
Tuesday Jan 01, 2019
Tuesday Jan 01, 2019
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019, full of promise and hope. We send off the year that was with a pair of remembrances. First, Alaina teaches us about the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, the deadliest disease known to mankind. Then, Grant tells the story of the Second Defenestration of Prague, and how a 1618 disagreement over building a pair of churches sparked the Thirty Years War.
Links!
- Smithsonian magazine on the spread of the epidemic
- CDC guide to finding a flu shot near you
- The window through which they were defenestrated
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Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Continuing our string of connected episodes, Grant dives into one of the events referenced in our previous topic: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Among the deadliest events in American history, it was a watershed moment. Disaster relief, seismology, and the city itself all changed completely in 1906. Is efficency more valuable than dignity? Is the region prepared for the next one?
Links!
- Eyewitness reports, compiled by the Museum of the city of an Francisco
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San Francisco Earthquake And Fire - April 18, 1906; a newsreel of footage shot in May, 1906
- Article on temporary "earthquake shacks" still in the housing market
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/
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 63 prompt is: Give us a spooky story! Especially if it happened to you.