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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday May 08, 2018
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA has become "the world's preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls". As a lifetime member, Alaina tells us about Juliette Gordon Low's life, the development of the program, and the current challenges they face. Also, cookies. When does an organization develop past its roots? How do two very similar programs take such different stances to the changing times?
Links!
- Girl Scouts
- Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of some preceding events
- Julette Gordon Low Birthplace
- The Golden Eaglet
- Juliette Gordon Low's gravesite
- Josephine Groves Holloway
- Girl Scout Cookie from 1917
- 50 years ago, a piano was dropped from a helicopter near Seattle: Here's what happened
- Iconic podcast
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Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
In 1881, a man killed the President of the United States. In 1901, another man killed another President of the United States. Grant teaches us about these two: their motivations, their preparations, their trials, and the effects of their acts. Is assassination a part of American politics? How do such different people meet at the same conclusion?
Links!
- Charles Guiteau’s reasons for assassinating President Garfield, 1882
- Guiteau's brain at the Mutter Museum
- I am Going to the Lordy
- The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo
- University of Buffalo page on Leon Czolgosz
- The Emma Goldman Papers Project
- Mokey's Instagram
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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
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 48 prompt is: favorite Australian!
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 16, 2018
Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
Alaina launches another series as we look at the fiasco that was the 1904 World's Fair in St Louis, Missouri! The fiar contained many notable firsts, but was also a center of scientific racism and mismanagement. What horrors has Judy Garland been disguising all these years?
Links!
- Official Guide to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition
- Official Daily Program, June 16
- Interactive map of the fairgrounds
- St Louis Art Museum
- The Jain Center of Southern California
- Philippene Exposition guide booklet
- Stereoviews of Anthorpological Exhibits
- Olympic-Sized Racism, via Slate
- Rat Poison and Brandy: the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon
- Meet Me in St Louis, Louis; performed by Billy Murray
- Running 'Round Riverdale on the OneShotRPG Twitch stream
- OneShot NeoYear Charity Drive
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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 Dec 05, 2017
Tuesday Dec 05, 2017
Hollywood's Golden Age was built on a particular set of conditions. Studios owned the entire chain of production, distribution, and exhibition; and what they couldn't own, they used their influence to control. The dream factory made miracles, but it had a terrible appetite. Why are B-movies emulated, when their original purpose was to provide cheap thrills and fill holes in the schedule? What is the real price of stardom? What happens when you make art, and sell it like hog feed?
Links!
- Supreme Court decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures Inc
- Hollywood Renegades Archive, a site anout the SIMPP
- HollywoodsGoldenAge.com
- Shush Ninjas Movie Montage; We Bare Bears
Please remember: Our next episode is in 4 weeks time, instead of the usual two. Thank you for understanding, and we'll see you in January!
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 42 prompt is: favorite thing in 2017!
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Grant takes us back to the 1800s to talk about the end of all things. William Miller believed he had concrete evidence that the end was nigh, and his friends built a movement that grew to reinterpret all kinds of orthodoxy. Despite their specific predictions having no clear result, the faith continues. Is the truest faith that which survives evidence to the contrary? What holds a community together, the good times or the tough? Can we be trusted to ever speak on this topic respectfully?
Links!
- Archives of The signs of the Times
- The 1843 and 1850 charts
- The Ellen G. White Estate
- Ellen and James White's graves
- The official site of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
- Sunday School Dropouts on Daniel
- Ross and Carrie Await the End Times (Part 1): Amazing Facts Edition
- Gextra Life 2 donation page
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Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
In the depths of the Depression, and the shadow of an earlier event, Chicago staged the A Century of Progress International Exposition, better known as the 1933 World's Fair. Alaina takes us through an overview of the Fair's conception, some notable exhibits, and the surviving remains. How much success comes down to blind luck? How much should seeing babies cost? How do you solve a problem like Mussolini?
Links!
- Grant's video on the 1893 World's Fair
- 1934 Technicolor short on the Fair
- Pre-Opening brochure
- The Kodak brochure
- Map of the Fair
- Pictures from the "The World a Million Years Ago" exhibit
- Sinclair Oil's dinosaurs
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Tuesday Apr 11, 2017
Tuesday Apr 11, 2017
In 1899 two newspaper giants were fighting for control of the New York readership, and tried to squeeze their distributors for an extra advantage. Those distributors were self-employed child laborers, who organized themselves and halted the entire distribution system until their demands were met. This drama, a nearly forgotten footnote in US labor history, was dramatized in a commercial flop of a film, and re-dramatized in a successful Broadway musical. Can a success set a precedent if it's forgotten? Does an adaptation have a duty to be accurate; and what if the facts are lost? How can an unpopular work become more sucessful after being changed for the worse?
Links!
- Newsies (1992)
- Newsies the Musical
- Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance Painter, by listener Ciaran
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
- Warcraft on Alcohollywood
- Mouse Guard by Six Feats Under