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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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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 Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Grant is celebrating by looking back at sainthood itself. The western church has been honoring holy figures since its earliest days, a practice that developed into a relatively new bureaucratic system.
Links!
- The Complete Roman Martyrology in English
- Acta Sanctorum, full digital database
- Congregation for the Causes of Saints
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Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Every few years, a new film or miniseries based on Little Women comes along, and this year is no exception. To prepare for Greta Gerwig's upcoming version, Alaina teaches us about its author, her family, and the circles they moved in. When does writing for commercial gain make lasting art? What about this story makes it so appealing to adapt? Was anyone in the 1800s NOT part of a utopian commune?
Links!
- The Orchard House museum
- A list of all Little Women adaptations, up to 2017
- Boston Women's Heritage Trail
- 14th Annual Benefit 5K / 10K for Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
- Joseph Palmer, the beard man
- Fruitlands Museum
- Little Women (1980) from Toei Animation and Harmony Gold
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Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
The mid-19th century in America was a time of new popular philosophies about the order of the universe and the individual's place in it. One example is the dawn of Spiritualism: the belief that the spirits of the dead can be contacted, and that they have answers to our urgent questions. In this episode, Grant teaches us about two cases: the prototypical founders of movement, and one of its most bizarre figures. Once a popular movement starts, does it ever really end? How much faith should be put in a prophet that makes a profit? What purpose does debunking serve?
Links!
- Smithsonian Magazine on the Fox sisters
- Listener Ciaran on the Fox Sisters
- John Murray Spear's paper, The New Era, May 3rd 1854 edition
- A picture of The New Motive Power
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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 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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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 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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Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Grant combines two of his running themes with an armed rebellion staged by an unusual Christian sect. The mid-1800s were a time of global upheaval, that in China manifested as the deadliest civil war of all time, hastening the end of the Imperial dynasties. Millions died in battle. Millions were executed by armies. Millions more died due to man-made famine. How thin is the line between a silly cult, a tragic disaster, and a new dynasty?
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 40 prompt is: favorite animal fact!