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Behind the Scenes Minis: Morisot and Rosenwald
Tracy shares a story of hunting for a Berthe Morisot exhibit and her favorite painting by the artist. She and Holly also talk about scheduling guests…
4 years, 7 months ago
Interview: Rosenwald Schools with Andrew Feiler
Holly is joined by photographer Andrew Feiler, author of “A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Sch…
4 years, 8 months ago
Berthe Morisot
Morisot primarily worked in oils, watercolors and pastels, and her favorite subjects were the other women in her life, often captured very tenderly i…
4 years, 8 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Thomas Harriot
This 2019 episode covers a man who's story is tied to SO MANY other notable historic things, including a lot of business with Sir Walter Raleigh. He'…
4 years, 8 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Torricelli and Acadians
Holly and Tracy discuss the many different professional titles that many people in history have and how tricky it can be to select the proper one to …
4 years, 8 months ago
Expulsion of the Acadians, or the Great Upheaval
Starting in 1755, the French-speaking Acadians were expelled from what’s now the Maritime provinces of Canada and northern Maine, with many of them e…
4 years, 8 months ago
Evangelista Torricelli
Torricelli was born in the middle of a heady few decades when the lives and work of people like Galileo and Johannes Kepler were changing humankind’s…
4 years, 8 months ago
SYMHC Classics: A Handful of Eclipses in History
Back in 2017 with the "Great American Eclipse" everywhere in the news, we walked through some of the famous eclipses in history, all while wearing pr…
4 years, 8 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Annie and Mildred
Tracy and Holly discuss the surprising lack of biographical writing about Annie Jump Cannon. In contrast, they cover how much effort has been made to…
4 years, 8 months ago
Mildred Fish-Harnack
Mildred Fish-Harnack was a woman from Wisconsin who found herself at the center of a resistance group in Germany working to undermine the Nazis. But …
4 years, 8 months ago