Zenobia and the Roman Empire

Zenobia and the Roman Empire

Our focus today is on a woman who was actually covered in the podcast several years ago. But she's a figure so mythic and with so many variations to her story that we wanted to give her another look and a little more time.

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Interview: Rosenwald Schools with Andrew Feiler

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 Schools that Changed America.” Andrew shares stories o...

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Berthe Morisot

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 in private, domestic moments. Her life is entwined w...

16 Elo 202143min

SYMHC Classics: Thomas Harriot

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's really not a household name like many of his cont...

14 Elo 202130min

Behind the Scenes Minis: Torricelli and Acadians

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 use. They then discuss trying to discern when they ...

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Expulsion of the Acadians, or the Great Upheaval

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 eventually winding up in Louisiana. But there's much...

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Evangelista Torricelli

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 understanding of the world and the heavens. Someti...

9 Elo 202133min

SYMHC Classics: A Handful of Eclipses in History

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 proper eye shielding. Learn more about your ad-choic...

7 Elo 202125min

Behind the Scenes Minis: Annie and Mildred

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 uncover and write about the real story of Mildred ...

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