SYMHC Live: Gin Cocktails and Jerry Thomas
This episode was recorded (mostly) live at the AC Hotel Los Angeles South Bay, where we talked...
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SYMHC Classics: Mirabal Sisters
This 2018 episode covers the four Mirabal sisters, who are national heroes in the Dominican...
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Bertillon and Rebecca
Holly and Tracy discuss Bertillon's influence in the practice of people carrying ID cards. Tracy...
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The Rebecca Riots took place in Wales in the 1830s and 1840s. While these events are often...
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Bertillon developed a system of identification via body measurements that was designed to...
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SYMHC Classics: Sarah Josepha Hale
This 2019 episode covers Sarah Josepha Hale's well-known poetry, and her publication Godey's...
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Mourning Dove in Context
Tracy and Holly discuss elementary school experiences with Mourning Dove's work, and Tracy...
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Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket, Pt. 2
In 1916, Mourning Dove gave an interview that described the book she had written as soon to be...
50:53
Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket, Pt. 1
Mourning Dove was an activist, ethnographer and novelist, and one of the first, if not the first,...
45:21
SYMHC Classics: Diving Technology
This 2015 episode examines that humans have always longed to explore underwater, but need to...
35:41
Behind the Scenes Minis: The Empress and the Queen
Tracy shares her cat’s input on the Empress of Ireland outline. She and Holly also discuss the...
27:21
Mary Somerville was dubbed the Queen of Science, a title earned through a lifetime of learning...
46:35
The shipwreck of the Empress of Ireland happened just before the start of World War I and was the...
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SYMHC Classics: The King’s Evil
This 2017 episode examines the practice of British and French monarchs laying on hands to cure...
44:37
Behind the Scenes Minis: Murder and Home Decor
Holly discusses the strange reassurance she finds in examining historical crime stories. Tracy...
35:19
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand, The Empress’s Oracle
Lenormand was a fortune-teller in France in the 19th century. She was hugely influential, because...
52:08
The story of what happened to Pearl Bryan is horrifying and frightening. The scandalous...
53:53
SYMHC Classics: Paris Catacombs
This 2019 episode notes that the Catacombs contain the bones of an estimated 6 to 7 million...
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Jack and Pearl and Patience
Holly and Tracy talk about pumpkin carving traditions and techniques. They also discuss Pearl...
36:08
Patience Worth and Pearl Curran
Patience Worth was a popular writer in the early 20th century. But she was a 17th-century ghost,...
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