EP 110: Let the Women Do the Work (with Gillian Pensavalle of True Crime Obsessed and The Hamilcast)

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon. When she did this in 1967, let’s just say that men were not ready for women to ...

19 Jul 202241min

This week on Hashtag History, Leah is taking over the episode to discuss an infamous and mysterious character from History, Lola Montez. Montez was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous in the...

12 Jul 202239min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing historic torture techniques. We have all of course heard of some of these historic torture techniques before; think back to Medieval Europe and the stor...

5 Jul 202239min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Little Rock Nine. Little Rock Nine is the name given to the nine students that were the first Black students to attend Central High School in Little...

28 Jun 202229min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Enron Scandal, a major accounting fraud that took place in late-2001 when Enron Corporation - who, only the year prior, was considered to be one of ...

21 Jun 202253min

Welcome back for Season Eleven! This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing War of the Worlds. And not necessarily the novel, The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells, which is about aliens fr...

14 Jun 202246min

This week on Hashtag History, we are continuing to revisit our coverage of the Chappaquiddick incident. If you have been with us for some time now, you will recall that we covered Chappaquiddick in ou...

24 Mai 202256min

This week on Hashtag History, we are revisiting our coverage of the Chappaquiddick incident. If you have been with us for some time now, you will recall that we covered Chappaquiddick in our first eve...

17 Mai 202234min