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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
We close 2020 with one last episode on Fordlandia, a failed experiment in both rubber production and social control.
Links!
- Fordlandia collection from the Henry ford museum
- The Guardain's Fordlandia story from the Lost Cities project
- Michael Palin exploring the remaining structures
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Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
On this episode Grant takes us back 100 years to a fatal robbery at a shoe factory, and the legacy of the men who had the crime pinned on them. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti came to America searching for prosperity, and found the brutality of exploitation and prejudice. The greatest weight of which fell on them when they were executed by a justice system bent on quashing an ideology, rather than seeking either justice or truth.
Links!
- The writings of Luigi Galleani
- "We Submit", from the Boston Herald; October 26th, 1926
- "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti", Atlantic Monthly, March 1927
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Sudden changes in society are reflected in the daily lives of people. This week, Alaina demonstrates that with a selection of stories about the things people wore in the US and UK during the Second World War. Rationing, shifting wworkplace demographics, and new materials all had an immediate effect on what people wore. And, looking at what people wore can reveal stories of bigotry.
Links!
- Luminous Flowers for blackout fashion
- Siren Dress
- 1918 ad for coveralls
- 1937 women's overalls
- 1940 working women's overalls
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Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
As we look back on the year that passed, Grant is reminded of an even more explosive one: 1848. The great powers of Europe had made themselves the center of the world, and then those powers collapsed as a broad coalition of citizens rose up in the name of freedom. But whose freedom counts most? Is this a story of nations or of classes? Why are revolutions graded pass/fail?
Links!
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 92 prompt is: What is your favorite thing from 2019?
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
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Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
About fifty episodes ago Grant made an offhand comment about one of that topic's figures. Now, it's a full episode. Do not test him. The Pullman strike lasted for months, threatened all American commerce, and set precedents that have lasted over a century regarding government involvement in labor disputes. It all started because George Pullman's perfect town didn't consider the lives of the people in it.
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 86 prompt is: What is the last book you read?
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
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Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Alaina treats herself on her birthday episode by talking about a tragic fire in the early 1900s. After the (primarily women and immigrant) workers of the New York garment industry began winning better conditions and pay, one factory lagged behind. Then, it burned down, killing 146 people in under 20 minutes. In the end, the owners made a profit on the insurance as the victims' families were left without their income. Is preparedness a substitute for systemic prevention? How do we focus grief into action? How do you place a value on human life?
Links!
- Cornell University's collection of documents on the fire
- Memorial to the (previously) unnamed victims
- Article on the Centennial observance
- UNITE HERE
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
As people get mythologized, the ideas they had and work they did that go against the dominant narrative are left behind. In this episode, Grant takes a look at the politics of four people cast in other roles since their deaths. Does issue activism in the US lead to anti-capitalism, or the other way around? How can these beliefs create alliances when the details can be so very different? Will the FBI ever just, like, chill out?
Links!
- The Politics of Helen Keller by Keith Rosenthal
- Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
- Showdown for Nonviolence; Look Magazine, April 1968
- The Public Writings and Speeches of Margaret Sanger
- The BPP 10-point program; 1972 revision
- 1969 Huey Newton essay from Ebony Magazine
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Happy New Year! Another New Year's special, another pair of topics. First, Grant takes us back 600 years to resolve the Great Western Schism and make sure we have the proper amount of Popes. Then, Alaina tells the story of a mine disaster in Butte Montana, bookended by the labor disputes that set the stage for it, and were set off by it.
Links!
- The Montana Sedition Project
- Rox in the Box - The Decemberists
- PitWatch.org Berkeley Pit news & Info
- MoonPie Online
- The Ruffians
- the neo-futurists
- The Halifax Explosion
- Littlest Pet Cast
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