Ferdinand and Barbara, Married Mad Royals
Despite ascending to power in a court filled with intrigue, juggling relations with Britain and France, and both likely having mental health conditions, the reign of Ferdinand VI of Spain and his wife...
15 Heinä 201928min
SYMHC Classics: Ibn Battuta, the Traveler of Islam
Today we revisit an episode from 2017 about Ibn Battuta, whose 14th-century travels were extensive. He was away from home for roughly 24 years and during that time traveled through virtually every Mus...
13 Heinä 201932min
Fearless, Feisty and Unflagging: The Women of Gettysburg
Military history rarely focuses on the women who lived through conflict and worked on recovery efforts. This episode covers women who assisted troops, buried the dead, nursed the wounded, and managed ...
10 Heinä 201937min
Thomas Cook, John Cook, and the Rise of the Tourism Industry
Thomas Cook and his son John Mason Cook were pioneers of the idea of a travel agency to manage tourist holidays. But Thomas Cook was initially motivated by his support of the temperance movement and h...
8 Heinä 201928min
SYMHC Classics: Hartford Circus Fire
This 2015 episode covers an event in 1944, when one of the most disastrous fires in U.S. history broke out during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performance. Dozens of lives were lost and...
6 Heinä 201923min
Hatshepsut and the Expeditions to Punt
One of our biggest sources of information on Punt comes from Hatshepsut, who sent a huge expedition there in the 15th century B.C.E. The expedition to Punt is also an important and illustrative part o...
3 Heinä 201939min
Sylvia of Hollywood – Beauty Consultant to the Stars
In the 1920s and 1930s, Sylvia was famous for shaping up starlets, cementing the idea that Hollywood’s beauties were aspirational figures for the average woman. Many of Sylvia's ideas about fitness we...
1 Heinä 201938min
SYMHC Classics: The Compton's Cafeteria Riot
This episode reached back to 2015 for some LGBTQ history. In 1966, a restaurant in San Francisco's Tenderloin district was the site of a violent incident in LGBT history. After the riot, a grassroots ...
29 Kesä 201921min
