Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Louis Daguerre and the Daguerreotype
Daguerre comes up almost any time we mention photography, but we’ve never covered his life story. Well before he figured out how to capture images th…
4 years, 5 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Christmas Triple-Feature
This 2018 episode takes a look at three creative works that have become staples of the Christmas season. All three of them have played a huge part in…
4 years, 5 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Irving and Tull
Tracy and Holly discuss Tracy being frightened by Ichabod Crane's fate in the Disney Sleepy Hollow cartoon as a kid, and the letters between Dickens …
4 years, 5 months ago
Jethro Tull’s Horse-hoeing Husbandry
You may recognize the name as that of a band, but Jethro Tull was an 18th-century gentleman farmer often credited with inventing the seed drill.
Lea…
4 years, 5 months ago
Washington Irving’s ‘American’ Christmas
Washington Irving may come to mind more in connection with Halloween, but his writing had a significant influence on the way Christmas is celebrated …
4 years, 6 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Christina of Sweden
This 2014 episode covers the life of a woman who was smart and learned, but not a particularly good ruler. Her entire life was marked by being kind o…
4 years, 6 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Ballet and Anchovies
Tracy and Holly discuss their preferences in ways the Nutcracker should be staged, and their love of it from the audience and performer perspectives.…
4 years, 6 months ago
Two More Eponymous Foods
This eponymous food episode features a(nother) salad that came together improvisationally out of necessity, and a cracker made to align with specific…
4 years, 6 months ago
The Nutcracker
It’s a Russian adaptation of a German story and wasn’t really a Christmas staple in its home country. But music from the Nutcracker has also become a…
4 years, 6 months ago
SYMHC Classics: S.A. Andrée and the 1897 North Pole Balloon Mission
This 2015 episode cover the expedition efforts of Andrée, who hoped to succeed in reaching the North Pole where others had failed by doing it by air.…
4 years, 6 months ago