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Behind the Scenes Minis: Morality and Friction
Holly and Tracy discuss the creepy nature of the Children's Morality Code project. Tracy covers the varied conflicts that Mary Hunter Austin had with…
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Mary Hunter Austin
Mary Hunter Austin was a U.S. writer known for walking throughout the American Southwest. But her life of activism was far more complicated than brie…
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Children’s Morality Code of 1916
In 1916, the National Institution for Moral Instruction had a contest to see who could come up with the best morality code. For kids. Evolving views …
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SYMHC Classics: Dr. Couney's Baby Sideshow
This 2019 episode looks at Couney's incubator sideshows of premature babies. This is complicated; Couney made money from this, and his medical experi…
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Incorrect Lillian and Reading Kids
Tracy notes the wild array of incorrect information that circulates about Lillian Exum Clement. Then she and Holly talk about childhood reading habit…
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Introducing: SNAFU Season 3: Formula 6
Hi, Stuff You Missed In History Class Fans! We want to share a new season of SNAFU with Ed Helms.
About the show: This is the story of Prohibition y…
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Gertrude Chandler Warner: ‘The Boxcar Children’ and Beyond
Gertrude Chandler Warner's most well known writing is "The Boxcar Children." But that series is far from the only professional writing Chandler did –…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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