SYMHC Classics: Here, Kitty Kitty, the Domestication of the Cat
Today, we're going back to an episode about kitties in history! The human culture shift to an agricultural lifestyle started the domestication of animals. Cats naturally moved in to help with rodents...
14 Huhti 201821min
Elbridge Gerry’s Monstrous Salamander
Elbridge Gerry signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. Gerrymandering is the drawing of political districts to give a particular party or group an advantage or d...
11 Huhti 201831min
The Life and Magic of Henry 'Box' Brown
Brown was born into slavery and escaped in an astonishing way. His story of gaining his freedom was so sensational that he basically spent the rest of his life making a living talking about it in one ...
9 Huhti 201829min
SYMHC Classics: Nellie Bly & Stunt Journalism
Today we're revisiting an episode from Sarah and Katie. Born in 1864, Nellie Bly wasn't your average journalist. She feigned insanity to gain entry into a mental institution. Join Sarah and Katie as t...
7 Huhti 201823min
Cajamarca and the End of the Inka Empire
The Battle of Cajamarca, also known as the Massacre of Cajamarca, ultimately led to the end of the Inka Empire. But it might have gone much differently had the Inka not just been through a massive epi...
5 Huhti 201834min
The East India Company's Theft of China’s Tea Secrets
Great Britain's relationship with tea is part of its cultural identity. But before the mid-1800s, China was the only source of tea, which was a problem in the eyes of the East India Company. Learn m...
2 Huhti 201830min
SYMHC Classics: April Calahan on France's Fashionable Resistance
Today we're revisiting a talk with fashion historian April Calahan about the surprising ways that women of France protested German occupation during WWII. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://...
31 Maalis 201836min
The Highland Clearances
The Highland Clearances were a long, complicated, messy series of evictions in the Highlands and western Islands of Scotland, when tenant farmers were forced from their homes to make way for sheep pas...
28 Maalis 201838min
