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SYMHC Classics: Jules Cotard and Cotard Syndrome
This 2017 episode covers the work of Jules Cotard, the first psychiatrist to write about the cluster of symptoms that would come to be called Walking…
2 years, 5 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Strikes, Immigration and Weeds
Tracy and Holly talk about the Disney animators' strike of 1941, Angel Island, and Tyrus Wong's Christmas cards. They also discuss the merits of dand…
2 years, 5 months ago
Gertrude Jekyll's Artistic Gardens
Gertrude Jekyll was born into a 19th-century English family of means, but her life took an unconventional path for a woman in her circumstances, and …
2 years, 5 months ago
The Art of Tyrus Wong
Over the course of an extraordinarily long career, Tyrus Wong worked across a range of media in a whole collection of industries – animation, live-ac…
2 years, 5 months ago
SYMHC Classics: San Francisco 1906 - The Great Quake and Fires
This 2019 episode covers the earthquake of April 18, 1906 that changed San Francisco forever. The earthquake and a series of fires devastated much of…
2 years, 5 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Ships and Fences
Tracy and Holly talk about the eerie similarities of the stories of the Andrea Doria and the Empress of Ireland. They also talk about Jacob Haish's p…
2 years, 5 months ago
Joseph F. Glidden and the Contentious Invention of Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden is known as the father of barbed wire, but who actually invented it was a matter of disagreement. As a consequence, Glidden's inventio…
2 years, 5 months ago
The SS Andrea Doria Rescue
The SS Andrea Doria was a luxury cruise liner that sank after colliding with another ship in 1956. Most of the people who were on the Andrea Doria li…
2 years, 5 months ago
SYMHC Classics: The Vanishing of Sister Aimee
This 2014 episode covers Aimee Semple McPherson, an extraordinary figure in the early 20th-century religious landscape. As an evangelist, she rose to…
2 years, 5 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Sophia Stories
Holly and Tracy talk about how to pronounce Sophia, and speculate about why Jex-Blake didn't pursue an education at New England Female Medical Colleg…
2 years, 5 months ago