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Exum Clement, Attorney at Law
Lillian Exum Clement Stafford was one of the first women in North Carolina to practice law, and the first woman in the South to be elected to a state…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
SYMHC Classics: Lost Cause of the Confederacy
This 2020 episode covers the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The Lost Cause was a distortion of the history of the U.S. Civil War that’s s…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Tracy’s Frustration
Tracy shares issues she has with overly reductive internet videos that misrepresent the story of nixtamalization. She and Holly also discuss the vari…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Pellagra, Part 2
This episode on the pellagra epidemic focuses on its prevalence in the U.S. in the early 20th century. Some of the scientific work done to understand…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Pellagra, Part 1
The pellagra epidemic of the early 20th century may have been the deadliest epidemic of a specific nutrient deficiency in U.S. history. Part one cove…
1 year ago
SYMHC Classics: Coxey's Army
This 2020 episode covers the first protest march on Washington, D.C., led by Jacob Sechler Coxey in the 1890s. His plan was job creation for the nati…
1 year ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Spiteful Robert
Holly talks about how impossible it is to build a spite house now, thanks to municipal building codes. She also shares some uncertain stories of the …
1 year ago
Robert Morris, War Finance, and Early Bankruptcy Law in the U.S.
Robert Morris is one of the lesser-mentioned founding fathers of the U.S. When he is mentioned, he is called the financier of the Revolutionary War. …
1 year ago
Spite Houses
A spite house is a structure that is built by one party to irritate another, or to cause some sort of difficulty or even damage. And there have been …
1 year ago
SYMHC Classics: Six Impossible Episodes - Other Ins
This 2020 episode covers direct action demonstrations and protests that have some similarities to the sit-in movement.
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1 year ago