This is a revisit of our 2013 episode on the often avante-garde French designer Paul Poiret. He got rid of corsets,...
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This is a revisit of our 2013 episode on the often avante-garde French designer Paul Poiret. He got rid of corsets,...
31:15
Behind the Scenes Minis: Grand Central and Zoe and Theodora
Holly and Tracy talk about what a jerk Cornelius Vanderbilt was, trivia about the Grand Central story, and...
13:46
Zoë & Theodora, Byzantine Empresses
Over almost 30 years in 11th-century Constantinople, sometimes Zoë ruled alongside one of her husbands, sometimes she...
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Grand Central's story starts with one of the wealthiest names in U.S. history, but it also is in many ways the story...
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SYMHC Classics: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
This 2014 episode covers the incident in 1959, in which nine students ventured into the Ural mountains for a ski...
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Isadora
Holly and Tracy talk about Holly's childhood perceptions of Isadora Duncan and how the famous dancer broke...
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The comforts afforded by fame were forever clouded for Duncan by an ongoing series of tragedies, leading right up to...
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Duncan, often called the mother of modern dance, had an unconventional upbringing, and a VERY unconventional life....
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SYMHC Classics: The Nazi Games and Jesse Owens
This 2012 episode covers the 1936 Berlin Olympics and African-American sprinter Jesse Owens, as well as the games as...
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Freedom Summer and Cobb
Tracy and Holly talk about how young everyone had been during the Mississippi Freedom Summer, voter suppression, and...
12:46
W. Montague Cobb was the first Black person in the U.S. to earn a PhD in physical anthropology, worked to debunk...
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Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
The Mississippi Summer project of 1964, now known as Freedom Summer, was a in part a voter registration project that...
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SYMHC Classics: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
This 2018 episode covers Gertrude Stein, an icon in the world of modernist literature. Alice B. Toklas is often...
38:20
Behind the Scenes Minis: Smallpox and Cowpox
Tracy and Holly talk about Spain's effort to spread the smallpox vaccine, and how Balmis handled things. They also...
11:14
The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition, Part 2
With the smallpox vaccine established, Spain’s wanted to deliver it to its colonies in the Americas and the...
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The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition, Part 1
Once Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine, it spread from England, where he lived, to other parts of the...
42:46
SYMHC Classics: The Nazca Lines
This 2013 episode covered the Nazca lines in the desert about 200 miles southeast of Lima, Peru, between the Andes...
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Tello and Du Châtelet
Holly and Tracy talk about how many things don't make it into episodes, sometimes due to cutting for narrative...
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Du Châtelet challenged the philosophic and scientific world of her time, but she's often eclipsed by her far more...
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Julio Tello, Peru’s Archaeological Trail Blazer
Tello is often called some variation of the father of Peruvian archaeology or the first indigenous Peruvian...
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