Podcast Episodes

SYMHC Classics: The Color Blue

This 2019 episode covers the color blue, the most popular color in many parts of the world. But many ancient languages didn’t have a word for blue, a…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Behind the Scenes Minis: Dicey Sources

Tracy shares struggles that she encountered pulling together this edition of Unearthed. She and Holly have a tangential discussion about AI.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Unearthed! In Spring 2026, Part 2

Part one of this quarter's edition of Unearthed! includes animals, artwork, edibles and potables, shipwrecks, potpourri.

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Unearthed! In Spring 2026, Part 1

Part one of this quarter's edition of Unearthed! features updates, medical things, books and letters, oldest known things, and smells.

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

SYMHC Classics: Gustave Courbet

This 2022 episode covers how Courbet was iconic even in his own lifetime. He flew in the face of artistic convention, ushered in a new movement of Re…

2 months ago

Behind the Scenes Minis: Oh, Kropotkin!

Tracy shares her intentions to cover Peter Kropotkin years ago, and also unpacks some of the positive and negative aspects of his life.

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2 months ago

Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, Part 2

After returning to Russia, Kropotkin was captured and imprisoned. But his life took many turns from there, and in 1902 he published his book book “Mu…

2 months ago

Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, Part 1

Peter Kropotkin was incredibly influential in the development of anarchism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Part one of this subject focuses on …

2 months ago

SYMHC Classics: Haymarket Riot

This 2021 episode examines the Haymarket Riot, one of the many interconnected events and people and movements that are all integral to defining the b…

2 months, 1 week ago

Behind the Scenes Minis: Serving Lip and Ethics

Holly talks about Gladys Bentley's gender presentation, and the trouble with Maceo Sheffield. She and Tracy also discuss James Braid's ethics in both…

2 months, 1 week ago