Zenobia and the Roman Empire

Zenobia and the Roman Empire

Our focus today is on a woman who was actually covered in the podcast several years ago. But she's a figure so mythic and with so many variations to her story that we wanted to give her another look and a little more time.

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SYMHC Classics: Piltdown Man

SYMHC Classics: Piltdown Man

This 2016 episode covers the Piltdown Man, which is one of the world's most infamous instances of scientific fraud. It derailed the study of evolution for decades. How exactly did scientists in 1912 f...

1 Jan 202233min

Behind the Scenes Minis: Photography Innovators

Behind the Scenes Minis: Photography Innovators

Holly and Tracy discuss Daguerre's life, and veer off into VR, and the nature of Daguerre's monetization of photography. Then they talk about the famously handsome Cornelius and the importance of phot...

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Robert Cornelius: More Than a Selfie

Robert Cornelius: More Than a Selfie

Cornelius is famous for having taken what’s often called the world’s first selfie - and he's noted for how handsome he looks in it. But he was smart and inventive in a variety of ways, and he innovate...

29 Des 202131min

Louis Daguerre and the Daguerreotype

Louis Daguerre and the Daguerreotype

Daguerre comes up almost any time we mention photography, but we’ve never covered his life story. Well before he figured out how to capture images through a camera obscura, he was an artist and innova...

27 Des 202138min

SYMHC Classics: Christmas Triple-Feature

SYMHC Classics: Christmas Triple-Feature

This 2018 episode takes a look at three creative works that have become staples of the Christmas season. All three of them have played a huge part in how people observe and celebrate Christmas in part...

25 Des 202135min

Behind the Scenes Minis: Irving and Tull

Behind the Scenes Minis: Irving and Tull

Tracy and Holly discuss Tracy being frightened by Ichabod Crane's fate in the Disney Sleepy Hollow cartoon as a kid, and the letters between Dickens and Irving. They then discuss the trickiness of res...

24 Des 202117min

Jethro Tull’s Horse-hoeing Husbandry

Jethro Tull’s Horse-hoeing Husbandry

You may recognize the name as that of a band, but Jethro Tull was an 18th-century gentleman farmer often credited with inventing the seed drill. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheart...

22 Des 202136min

Washington Irving’s ‘American’ Christmas

Washington Irving’s ‘American’ Christmas

Washington Irving may come to mind more in connection with Halloween, but his writing had a significant influence on the way Christmas is celebrated in the U.S. Learn more about your ad-choices at ht...

20 Des 202138min

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