390.1K
Downloads
123
Episodes
A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Vacation is over, and Alaina takes us back to the land of cubicles and time sheets. There are secret origins, intrigue, and controversy inside every supply closet and catalog. How does an idea go from a novelty to a necessity? Is credit more important than royalties? Who is responsible for paper clips?
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 69 prompt is: What is your favorite extinct creature?
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
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 68 prompt is: What are you looking forward to in 2019?
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 Dec 04, 2018
Tuesday Dec 04, 2018
The Dionne Quints were a miracle and a media sensation. Born to an already large family in Depression-era Ontario, their lives were on display for as long as interest continued. Alaina leads us through their lives and asks "who benefits?".
Links!
- Dionne Quints Heritage Board
- 1935 news story on the Guardianship Act
- Pictures of the ads, crowds, and tourist traps that grew up around the children
- Five of a Kind (1938)
- Million Dollar Babies, Part 1
- The Dionne Quintuplets At Callander, Ontario (1936)
- Dionne Quintuplets - Day At Home
- The Quins Are Growing Up (1940)
- The Quins Listen To Princess Elizabeth (1940)
- Seventh Birthday Newsreel
- Quins In Public (1940-1949)
- Dionne quintuplets graduate from High School 1952
- Newsreel on Emilie's death
- OneFeinCat's Extra Life donor page!
- The Strange Case of Dr. Couney
- Fighting in the Age of Loneliness
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 66 prompt is: Favorite military dictator!
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
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 65 prompt is: tell us something you were surprised your government did!
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
The night grows long, but far away is a place where the sun stays in the sky for six months at a time, drawing lazy circles and never crossing the horizon. Such a place could drive one mad. We talk about disasters, suspicious deaths, and a waterfall of blood in our annual Haunted Honeys episode. This year, Alaina takes us on ice.
Links!
- Mashable article on the Terra Nova expidition
- 360-degree images of Scott's Hut
- The Ship of Ice, by Rosemary Dobson
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 64 prompt is: Favorite treaty!
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Continuing our string of connected episodes, Grant dives into one of the events referenced in our previous topic: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Among the deadliest events in American history, it was a watershed moment. Disaster relief, seismology, and the city itself all changed completely in 1906. Is efficency more valuable than dignity? Is the region prepared for the next one?
Links!
- Eyewitness reports, compiled by the Museum of the city of an Francisco
-
San Francisco Earthquake And Fire - April 18, 1906; a newsreel of footage shot in May, 1906
- Article on temporary "earthquake shacks" still in the housing market
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/
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 63 prompt is: Give us a spooky story! Especially if it happened to you.
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
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.
Tuesday Sep 18, 2018
Tuesday Sep 18, 2018
Grant takes us back to mid-century America to talk about an emblematic episode of the Cold War. During the Second World War, a number of Americans went behind the government's back to aid an ally. Less than ten yers later, two of them were blamed for millions and millions of deaths, and sentenced to death on coerced and extremely tenuous testimony. Can the letter of the law stand against its use as a weapon? Did an act of state cruelty feed further cruelty, and could clemency have reduced fear? Is this just a game of chicken gone wrong?
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 61 prompt is: Share a play everyone should read!
Tuesday Sep 04, 2018
Tuesday Sep 04, 2018
Alaina discusses a less-known Chicago disaster, but first provides some wide-ranging background. We cover the history of airships and the Zeppelin company up until one of their airships crashed through a skylight into a bank, on the first day it flew. It was the largest air crash to date, 18 years before the crash of the hindenberg was broadcast live. Why did anybody think this was a good idea?
Links!
- Chicagology archive on the Wingfoot Express
- The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
- Pictures taken before its final launch
- Airships.net
- White City Amusement Park
- Gextra.Life
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 60 prompt is: Favorite spy!