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De Koven, Weidmann, and Public Execution in France (Pt. 1)
In July 1937, 22-year-old Jean De Koven vanished while visiting Paris with her aunt. It seemed doomed to be an unsolved missing person case, until an…
4 years, 6 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention
This 2019 episode is about the man often described as the person who coined the term genocide. He was also the driving force behind the existence of …
4 years, 6 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Mary Sidney and Holodomor
Holly and Tracy discuss Mary Sidney Herbert and the debate about whether she wrote works attributed to Shakespeare, as well as her late-in-life party…
4 years, 7 months ago
Holodomor
“Holodomor” is a name that was coined in the 1980s to describe a famine that struck Ukraine in the early 1930s. There were food shortages taking plac…
4 years, 7 months ago
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
She was a patron of the arts, the first woman to publish an English-language play, and the first woman to publish pastoral poetry. Mary Sidney Herber…
4 years, 7 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Aphra Behn
This 2017 episode covers the life of Aphra Behn, but there's really not a lot concretely known about the her. In addition to being a spy, was a drama…
4 years, 7 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: William Apess
Tracy and Holly talk about Tracy’s research process for the William Apess episodes, and how much of his writing she wanted to include in the episode.…
4 years, 7 months ago
William Apess and the Mashpee Revolt (Pt. 2)
Apess’s religious work and writing consistently stressed the inherent humanity and worth of Indigenous people, but in the later years of his career h…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Autobiography of William Apess (Pt. 1)
Minister William Apess is often described as the first Native American to publish their own, book-length autobiography. But that is a reductive way t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Cyrano the Movie
Holly and Tracy share interviews with some of the cast and crew behind the new film "Cyrano" to talk about their thoughts on history and historical s…
4 years, 7 months ago