Six Impossible Episodes: Evacuating Children
All six of today’s topics are mass evacuations of children and youth because of a war or other unrest, and include Kindertransport, Operation Pedro Pan, and Operation Babylift. Learn more about your...
20 Jun 201839min
The Tunguska Event
On June 30, 1908 at approximately 7:15am, the sky over Siberia lit up with what was described by witnesses as a massive fireball, or the sky engulfed in fire. For the last century, scientists have bee...
18 Jun 201827min
SYMHC Classics: Alan Turing, Codebreaker
This is a revisit of a Sarah and Deblina episode on Alan Turing, who conceived of computers decades before anyone was building one. He also acted as a top-secret code breaker during World War II. Desp...
16 Jun 201820min
Hurricane San Ciriaco
Hurricane San Ciriaco struck Puerto Rico at a precarious point in its history. The United States had just taken possession of the island, and the 40 or so years leading up to the Spanish-American War ...
13 Jun 201832min
Julian Eltinge, Greatest of All Impersonators of Women
Eltinge was one of the highest-paid and most famous actors of the early 20th century, and acted alongside Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino. What made him famous was his skill at ...
11 Jun 201838min
SYMHC Classics: The Mystic Margery Kempe
We're traveling back to a 2013 episode about Margery Kempe. Born in the 1300s, Margery had 14 children with her husband before dedicating her life to God. In her 40s, she began a vision-inspired pilgr...
9 Jun 201843min
The Colorful Life of Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda is one of those historical figures who remains hugely iconic – we STILL see her image, or some derivative of it, on a regular basis. She was luminous on camera and an excellent singer, ...
6 Jun 201836min
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells-Barnett connects to a lot of episodes in our archive. She fought against lynching for decades, at a time when it wasn’t common at all for a woman, especially a woman of color, to become s...
4 Jun 201837min
