Episodes

Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Felix Yusupov
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
The assassination of Rasputin catapulted his unusual life into legend. So we're looking at the man that wrote the legend: his killer, Prince Felix Yusupov. A young wealthy man with no apparent interest in affairs of state, what pushed him to lead the conspiracy of assassins? And how much faith can be put in the story as he told it? The picture becomes clearer if you look at who else may have been in his home that day.
Links!
- Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
- Yusupov Palace
- Case Summary: Youssoupoff V Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Limited (1934)
- Hammer House of Podcast Episode 35 Rasputin: The Mad Monk
- SEX ARCHIE
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Logo by Marah
Music by Thylacinus
Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
The Tylenol Murders
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
In 1982, seven people in the greater Chicago area died from taking Tylenol capsules that had been filled with cyanide. No clear evidence was found pointing to a culprit, and no motive has been determined. What remains is a story of consumer safety, and how law enforcement acts when they have no leads.
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Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
A Look at ‘20
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 Sep 01, 2020
Sacco & Vanzetti
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 Jul 21, 2020
The Benin Bronzes
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
In this episode Grant teaches us about the Benin Bronzes, thousands of exquisite pieces of art that are not made of bronze, and not in Benin. And to talk about this specific crime of colonialism, we have to talk about the empire it came from, and the shifting dynamic between Europe and the world as capitalism and white supremacy developed side-by-side.
Links!
- Imperial Looting and the Case of Benin
- 7 Museums that Hold over 2000 of the Benin Bronzes
- This Art Was Looted 123 Years Ago. Will It Ever Be Returned?
- Coronation of Oba Ewuare II
- Last Shooting on Itch.io and on DriveThruRPG
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Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Deaf Education
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
We have returned! After a brief hiatus, History Honeys is back. This week, Alaina is teaching us about the history of deaf education, and the development of contemporary sign languages. How are sign languages linguistically dynamic and unique? Why are divisions in US deaf culture generational? How are contentious claims laundered as the default, even at the cost of future harm?
Links!
- National Association of the Deaf
- American School for the Deaf
- Galludet University
- The Life and Death of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
- William Stokoe's obituary at Galludet University
- Unlocking the Curriculum
- How "Deaf President Now" Changed America
- Trailer for Deaf West's production of Spring Awakening
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Fashion in World War II
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 Apr 14, 2020
ACT UP
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
In the 1980s America's health infrastructure failed to adequately respond to an epidemic, which showed in greater contrast failures across society. This week, Grant is teaching us about one group's commitment to correct that failure through civil disobedience. By prioritizing disruption over image, and relentlessly claiming the moral high ground, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power drastically improved the lives of people living with HIV and reduced its spread.
Links!
- ACT UP NY
- The ACT UP Historical Archive
- June 5, 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Pneumocystis Pneumonia, the first published report on what would be named AIDS
- Larry Kramer 1982 Interview On AIDS with NBC News
- Don Francis' Frontline interview
- 1,112 and Counting
- Gran Fury
- Six Feats Under's Monsterhearts 2 campaign
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
The Hays Code
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Ninety years ago today, the code of standards known as the Hays Code was put into effect, shaping the form and content off all mainstream film for decades to come. In this episode, Alaina teaches us where it came from, what purpose it served, and how it fell out of use. Is self-regulation a matter of morality or profit? Does power lie in the rules or their enforcer? Did people in the 1940s actually share beds?
Links!
- The MPAA
- The Sins of Hollywood by Ed Roberts
- Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
- The 1927 "Dont's" and "Be Carefuls"
- The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930
- Betty Boop's pre- and post-enforcement designs
- Sex Archie bonus 15: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Valencrimes: Selling the Iraq War
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Happy Valencrimes Day! This year Grant wants to talk about a fraud perpetrated on a global scale, which in turn led to corruption, war crimes, and generally made everyone's life worse over the lat 17 years: the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For more than a year, the Bush administration pushed the most extreme interpretation of raw intelligence, without regard for its accuracy or reliability, to justify a war. Meanwhile, anyone presenting a correct assessment of the facts was attacked and deplatformed.
Links!
- The Selling of the Iraq War: The First Casualty on Global Policy Forum
- Hubris: Selling the Iraq War
- H.J.Res. 114 (107th): Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
- Ciaran's article on George Psalamanzar
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