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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017
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?
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 30 prompt is: favorite summer event/festival/tradition!
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Bolivia, just like most of the developing world, spent the end of the 20th century pursuing a neoliberal agenda to gain the benefits promised by wealthier nations. In 1999 that meant privatizing a city's water supply, and the people revolted. By mid-April 2000 the country's trajectory had changed. Why weren't Americans interested in the involvement of American interests? What is the path for improving the lives of Cochabamba residents? Is Tank Girl worth a rewatch?
Links!
- Leasing the Rain, PBS Frontline
- Timeline: Cochabamba Water Revolt
- ¡Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia by Oscar Olivera
- Jim Shultz's reports from Cochabamba
- "Leasing the Rain" by William Finnegan for the New Yorker
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 28 prompt is: favorite History Honeys episode!
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017
The Space Race was contested by governments and scientists, but the first explorers were a cadre of stray dogs from the streets of Moscow. These dogs sit at the intersection of mid-century optimism, political posturing, and questionable ethics.
Links!
- A Chapter on Laika's pop culture memory
- Soviet Space Dogs, a book of merchandise and tributes to the dogs.
- Gallery of images from Soviet Space Dogs
Tuesday Mar 28, 2017
Tuesday Mar 28, 2017
Fine art has been carefully curated with standard and expectations passed down through the generations with change coming at a glacial pace. Then, in the 1860s, a set of conditions and a cadre of artists combined to make new art and more. How can a movement be defined without any set membership, ideology, or aesthetic? Is there a place for hierarchy in paining? What the heck is Degas' whole deal?
Links!
- Musée d'Orsay: The Impressionist Gallery
- The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections of the Art Institute of Chicago
- The Marmottan Monet Museum
- Exhibition of the Impressionists by Louis Leroy
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
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 24 prompt is: favorite play (or musical) based on a historical event!
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
On Christmas Eve, 1913, in the city of Calumet, 73 people died in a panicked stampede, crushed under each other's weight in a narrow staircase. It remains the largest mass murder in Michigan history. But, this is only one episode inside a greater story about the fight for collective action. How much money is it worth to maintain power? Are wins counted in the short term, or the long term? Will Alaina get a puppy for her birthday?
Links!
- General Abbey's telegram to Governor Ferris
- Keewanau National Historical Park; Historic Resource Study
- Italian Hall Memorial Park
- Death's Door: The Truth Behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder; by Steve Lehto
- Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre
- Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913
- Copper Country on Board Game Geek
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Face front, True Believers! Grant takes us through the life and career of every nerd's grandpa, Stan Lee! From humble beginnings as a teenage office assistant, to luminary of the field, to midlife crisis, to global celebrity! His talent, bluster, and talent for bluster carried him through it all. Who deserves credit for a collaboration? Which characters were really being sold? What is the value of a figurehead that has no contact with the rest of the ship? Excelsior!
Links!
- Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee
- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
- The Bullpen Bulletins Index
- Merry Marvel Marching Society record skit
- More on Funky Flashman
- Ads and press from A Marvel-ous Evening with Stan Lee, the Carnegie Hall event
- Footage of the Spider-Wedding
- Stan ripping on Liefeld and McFarlane
- Walk of Fame star
- The Stan Lee Foundation
- POW! Entertainment
- Mad Fuzz; Proceeds from purchases made before Februaey 11th will go to the ACLU. Please mention ACLU in the "notes to seller" area when ordering.
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Happy New Year! Our New Year's special has two topics for you. First, Grant takes us back to 1816, the Year Without a Summer, to tell the story behind the story of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Next, Alaina pops into 1916 to share the foundations and highlights of Dada. How does a geological event on one small island shape all of Western culture? If art is created by war, can art go to war?
Links!
- Frankensten; or, the Modern Prometheus at Project Gutenberg
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology and Resource Site
- Villa Dilotati, where the group summered
- Fuseli’s The Nightmare
- The Cabaret Voltaire (website in French)
- Hugo Ball's Dada manifesto
- Tristan Tzara's Dada manifesto
- Duchamp's Fountain
- Ballet "Parade"
- http://www.chumba.com/
- Copy Kitty on Steam Early Access
Tuesday Dec 20, 2016
Tuesday Dec 20, 2016
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.
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016
Tuesday Nov 22, 2016
Sometimes, when you're talking about history, it happens right in front of you. Grant takes hold of the one good thing to happen in this God-forsaken year and goes back to the 1870s to see how it all began. Alaina does her best to feign interest. How does a legacy push a team forward; how can it hold them back? What arcane might lies inside goats?
Links!
- Cubs' Website
- Wrigley Field
- Goats? GOATS!
- (Someday We'll Go) All the Way by Eddie Vedder
- Ernie Banks' 500th career home run
- Harry Caray's final 7th inning stretch
- Catching Hell, Inside the Bartman Debacle
- The final out of the 2016 World Series
- RAT POISON AND BRANDY: THE 1904 ST. LOUIS OLYMPIC MARATHON.
- The Dollop: episode 150; James Sullivan and the 1904 Olympic Games (Live)
- The MadFuzz store; use coupon code "hh2016" before 12/31 for 16% off.
Tuesday Oct 11, 2016
Tuesday Oct 11, 2016
America's founders have been immortalized, lionized, and mythologized; but one seems to have fallen through the cracks. Grant shares what he's learned about John Jay, the forgotten father. Was he instrumental to the birth of the United States, or did he just happen to be in the right place at the right time? Is he forgotten because he left things half done in his career, or because he used his retirement to rest? Why on Earth is this episode mostly about a horse Alaina made up?
- Jay's Federalist Papers
- Portrait by Gilbert Stuart
- The Selected Papers of John Jay, blog
- African Burial Ground Monument
- Mr Ed gets contact lenses
- Gextra Life donations page, Stream archive
