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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 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?
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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
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 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 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 Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
We're sure the world is about to be bombarded by retrospectives of Apollo 11, and for good reason, but there's so much more to explore. Grant takes us through the history of Mars exploration, from the first looks from afar, to the first mobile science platforms to rove its surface.
Links!
- Mars Exploration Project
- Marspedia
- The "Canali" and the first Martians
- 1965: Discovery at Mars
- Soviet Space Probes Mars-2 and -3 (In Russian)
- FBC Task Final Report
- Sojourner postage stamp
- MGSV Let's Play playlist
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Tuesday May 28, 2019
Tuesday May 28, 2019
In this episode, Grant tells a familiar story from a less-popular angle. Venezuelan oil interests, for-profit media, and a right-wing coalition launched a coup against the early years of Hugo Chavez' presidency. It also had all the hallmarks of 21st Century American Imperialism, but with a veneer of deniability. Who planted the seeds of today's unrest? How can you see true intent through rhetoric? Why hasn't Elliott Abrams been tried for war crimes?
Links!
- Text of the 1999 Constitution
- Al Jazeera mini-documentary on the events of 2002
- 50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
- Venezuela coup linked to Bush team - The Guardian
- SEX ARCHIE
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Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
The early 1990s gave rise to many fads, trends, and subcultures. Riot Grrrl has been dismissed as just another of them, but had far greater ambitions and achieved far greater things. Motivation, inspiration, and cooperation led a group of activists to change the conversation, until the structures they railed against stepped in to change it back. What's the difference between having a message and controlling the narrative? Can the information we're giving you, filtered through the years, be trusted to make an accurate picture of an underground scene that was unfairly covered in the media? How can digital spaces replicate the conditions that fostered Riot Grrrl?
Links!
- Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
- Girl Germs, a podcast about Bratmobile's first album, Pottymouth
- Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
- Jigsaw
- The Riot Grrrl Collection
- Gallery of Zine covers
- Newsweek's infamous Riot Grrrl story
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2018
Tuesday Dec 18, 2018
Brazil's 20th century was turbulent. The rules of government were rewritten often, and coups seized and transferred power regularly. Grant talks about a 20-year period where the military ruled directly, through hand-picked presidents taken from their own top ranks. How can you define "democracy" to defend the suspension of representative government? What responsibility does the United States have to deal with the aftermath of Cold War policy? Why do we keep going back to ideas that were a disaster the first time?
Links!
- Ambassador Gordon's March 31 cable to Washington
- CIA memo on Institutional Act 5
- Grupo Tortura Nunco Mais (Torture Never Again) A Brazilian Human Rights Organization
- Exposing the Legacy of Operation Condor (2014, New York Times)
- Burning Bluebeard at the Neofuturarium
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 67 prompt is: Favorite part of 2018!
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 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
In the 1980s a plague struck America, and because of who it hit hardest, America was happy to let it run its course and let them die. The arts are how we make sense of that, and point toward what comes next. Alaina takes us through the conception and reception of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, perhaps the most highly-regarded play of the 20th Century. We also learn more about the real person depicted in it, and share our personal connections to the work. Is it possible to separate the personal from the political, or the path of history from faith? Can a work revitalize its medium, or should credit go to the historical moment that produced it? Can something still be too long even if every part of it is brilliant?
Links!
- Angels in America
- HBO Miniseries
- Angels in America: The Complete Oral History
- Behind the Scenes on a Two-Play Day
- Avert.org
- New York Times review of the opera adaptation
- Vanity Fair article on Roy Cohn's mentorship of Donald Trump
- The Purple Pamphlet
- Gextra Life donation page
- Gextra Life YouTube playlist
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