Unearthed! in Spring 2023, Part 2
To wrap up Unearthed! for spring 2023, we've got potpourri, jewelry and adornments, edibles and potables, mistaken identity stories, repatriations, and the always popular shipwrecks. Research: Agence...
26 Huhti 202342min
Unearthed! in Spring 2023, Part 1
The first part of our spring 2023 edition of Unearthed! features updates, books and letters, fabric, mummies, and a whole bunch of stuff involving skulls or bones. Research: Agence France-Presse. “N...
24 Huhti 202334min
SYMHC Classics: Air Conditioning
This 2018 episode covers the many ways people have dealt with heat and humidity in history. As mechanical cooling became more ubiquitous, some of the cultural practices for keeping cool were made obso...
22 Huhti 202333min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Drinks and Dyer
Holly and Tracy talk about their relationships with Shirley Temples and Negronis. Tracy then shares her attempt to chase down the location of Mary Dyer's execution.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...
21 Huhti 202326min
Mary Dyer and the Boston Martyrs
Mary Dyer endured religious persecution and personal tragedy. Then, she was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for her religious activities. Research: Bremer, Francis J. "Dissenting Puritans: An...
19 Huhti 202340min
Eponymous Drinks
This edition of eponymous consumables features a drink named after a child star, a cocktail with a much-debated origin, and a brand of soda that may or may not have been named for a doctor. Research: ...
17 Huhti 202334min
SYMHC Classics: Crash at Crush
This 2017 episode covers a window from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, people in the United States were watching train wrecks for fun. These staged spectacles would draw thousands and thousands of ...
15 Huhti 202328min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Joplin and Ockham
Tracy talks about how long she's wanted to cover Scott Joplin, and the way his cause of death is often omitted from accounts. Holly then mentions the long reaching tendrils of the papacy in 14th centu...
14 Huhti 202321min
