Offbeat History: The Crash at Crush and Other Train Wreck Spectacles

Offbeat History: The Crash at Crush and Other Train Wreck Spectacles

In fall 2017, we talked about a strange cultural phenomenon. For a brief window from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, people in the United States were watching train wrecks for fun.

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SYMHC Classics: Gertrude Bell, The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, Part 2

SYMHC Classics: Gertrude Bell, The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, Part 2

The second installment of this Sarah and Deblina classic two-parter follows Gertrude Bell on her adventures after World War I begins. The British army asked her to help them retain their influence in ...

21 Heinä 201822min

 Dred Scott vs. Sandford part 2

Dred Scott vs. Sandford part 2

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18 Heinä 201828min

Dred Scott vs. Sandford part 1

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Dred Scott v. Sandford is one of the most notorious Supreme Court cases of all time. It wasn’t just about Dred Scott. It was also about his wife Harriet and their daughters Eliza and Lizzy. This episo...

16 Heinä 201830min

SYMHC Classics: Gertrude Bell, The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq

SYMHC Classics: Gertrude Bell, The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq

This classic revisits an episode from Sarah and Deblina, talking about Gertrude Bell, the first woman to graduate with a First in Modern History from Oxford. Instead of marrying young, she went to Per...

14 Heinä 201819min

Libertalia: Legendary Pirate Utopia

Libertalia: Legendary Pirate Utopia

Libertalia, which, in truth, may be completely fictional, is called a pirate settlement, though the man who spearheaded it claimed he wasn't actually a pirate. And it was set up as a sort of utopia, w...

11 Heinä 201834min

Annie Edson Taylor, Niagara Daredevil

Annie Edson Taylor, Niagara Daredevil

Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Taylor’s whole barrel trip was part of a much bigger story of daredevils at this natural wonder, which is tied to its indu...

9 Heinä 201832min

SYMHC Classics: How the New York Draft Riots Worked

SYMHC Classics: How the New York Draft Riots Worked

We're revisiting an episode from 2011 featuring previous hosts Sarah and Deblina. To recruit troops for the U.S. Civil War, the Federal Congress passed the Union Conscription Act in 1863, which drafte...

7 Heinä 201825min

Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus became one of the United States’ first successful Jewish American writers, moving in the New York literary scene of the late 1800s. She also wrote one of the most famous poems of ALL TIME...

4 Heinä 201829min

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