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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday May 14, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 2019
This week, Alaina follows through on her promise to talk about the history of ice cream. Or at least, the probable history of ice cream. It's a full hour of navigating shifting definitions, and weighing competing claims. And everything, eventually, comes close to home.
Links!
- Ice Cream: A Global History
- Contemporary sharbat recipe
- Sanders Candy
- "The Last Howard Johnson's in the Universe"
- "World's First Dairy Queen Gets Landmark Status"
- Garbage Day 2019: 24 hours of The FPlus, raising money for the SPLC
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 77 prompt is: What is your favorite mistake?
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Grant wants us to get some culture, so he shines a light on the roots of theater in the West. Hrotsvitha was inspired to use the language of a playwright who lived a millennium before her to impart moral lessons to those who followed her. Hildegard of Bingen steered liturgical drama toward a form much more recognizable as theater, and invented a genre that would become dominant hundreds of years later.
Links
- Gandersheim Abbey
- The Plays of Roswitha (Translated by Christopher St John)
- International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies
- Digitized images of Scivias, Hildegard's first volume on her visions
- Ordo Virtutm
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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 Nov 20, 2018
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
We've been spending a lot of time with US history and it's time to head abroad. Grant gets meta with an episode that does just that! Japan spent hundreds of years isolating itself (from a certain point of view) until an American fleet gave them the opportunity (from a certain point of view) to open their society to the colonial powers. What's the difference between diplomacy and coercion? How can you maintain tradition in a changing world? Is an equal exchange even possible?
Links!
- Fillmore and Perry's letters to the Emperor, and Perry's letter enclosed with the white flag
- Japanese depictions of Commodore Perry (center) and his fleet
- A thread of images from a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861
- Pacific Overtures, a 1970s musical dramatizing the events discussed
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Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
The night grows long, but far away is a place where the sun stays in the sky for six months at a time, drawing lazy circles and never crossing the horizon. Such a place could drive one mad. We talk about disasters, suspicious deaths, and a waterfall of blood in our annual Haunted Honeys episode. This year, Alaina takes us on ice.
Links!
- Mashable article on the Terra Nova expidition
- 360-degree images of Scott's Hut
- The Ship of Ice, by Rosemary Dobson
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Tuesday Sep 18, 2018
Tuesday Sep 18, 2018
Grant takes us back to mid-century America to talk about an emblematic episode of the Cold War. During the Second World War, a number of Americans went behind the government's back to aid an ally. Less than ten yers later, two of them were blamed for millions and millions of deaths, and sentenced to death on coerced and extremely tenuous testimony. Can the letter of the law stand against its use as a weapon? Did an act of state cruelty feed further cruelty, and could clemency have reduced fear? Is this just a game of chicken gone wrong?
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 61 prompt is: Share a play everyone should read!
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Grant tells us the story of the MS St Louis's cruise in the spring of 1939. A cruise ship filled with 937 passengers left Nai Germany to escape persecution. In the end, most of them returned to it. How do you recognize a genocide before active extermination begins? What is stopping us from caring for those in danger? What does this have to do with 2018 America?
Links!
- Voyage of the Damned (1976 film)
- US Holocaust Museum page on the MS St Louis
- Canada's "Wheel of Conscience" memorial
- Twitter account listing those passengers who were killed
- The US State Department's formal apology
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Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
When you want to learn the best, the biggest, the most, there's one resource that stands above the rest. Alaina teaches us the origin and developmentof the Guinness World Records, with a look at the lives of the founders and some large-scale failed attempts. How do you balance accuracy, reliability, and responsibility? What drives people to be the best at something? Are all our episodes this sumer going to be about people who hate the Irish?
Links!
- Guinness World Records
- The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86
- Balloons cluttering Lake Erie
- Gif of the net realeasing the balloons over Celveland
- Balloons over Cleveland
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Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
In the last days of the English empire, the people of Iran wanted to shake off the economic imperialism of British Petroluem. The movement spread, and the Americans got involved to defend the status quo. Grant teaches us about the factions in play, the tactics used, and the beginning of the US's policy of regime change. When has imperialism improved the lives of people living under it? How can we accept the narrative that inciting chaos creates stability? Who's next?
Links!
- Declassified CIA documents
- Confession of a SAVAK torturer
- 1953 British news report
- Support Final Bid on Kickstarter now!
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Tuesday May 22, 2018
Tuesday May 22, 2018
As Dada began to burn itself out in the 1920s, a splinter movement rose from within: Surrealism. What we know now as an art movement began as a mode of thought, a philosophy, a practice. In this episode Grant teaches us about their goals, their political program, and where they all went once the band broke up. Can you exercize control over a movement meant to break boundaries and hierarchies? Is the most famous surrealist the worst at Surrealism? Which art movement would win in a fight?
Links!
- The Gas Heart script
- Breton's (first) Surrealist Manifesto
- Images of the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
- Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art
- Un Chien Andalou
- Le Violon d'Ingres
- Artaud in Ireland
- Destino
- The Theater of Cruelty
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