Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
She was the Spanish empire’s most widely published poet of her time, and her work has survived until today, but not her own thoughts about much of her life. Consequently, her life, and her very comple...
18 Sep 201939min
The Success of Pastellist Rosalba Carriera
Venetian portraitist Carriera achieved a surprising level of success in the male-dominated European art world of the early 1700s. Her work helped popularize pastels and her portraits were commissioned...
16 Sep 201926min
SYMHC Classics: John Harvey Kellogg
We're revisiting a 2013 episode about John Harvey Kellogg. His last name is famous for breakfast cereal, but was a 19th-century doctor with some unique (and groundbreaking) beliefs about health and we...
14 Sep 201931min
The 1954 Guatemalan Coup Part 2
United Fruit Company was Guatemala’s largest employer and largest single landowner when the October Revolution took place. It also controlled the railroad, the port and the utilities. And it feared th...
11 Sep 201944min
The 1954 Guatemalan Coup Part 1
The 1954 coup that overthrew the democratically elected president of Guatemala was orchestrated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Part one will outline the various influences leading up to the ...
9 Sep 201933min
SYMHC Classics: The Sinking of the S-5
Today's episode is a classic from November 2014. 1920, the S-5 left the Boston Navy Yard on its first mission, with a crew of 36 officers and enlisted men. While performing a crash dive as part of a p...
7 Sep 201930min
The Impious Philosophy of Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras and his work in unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos crossed the boundaries between philosophy and astronomy.. And it was, in many ways WAY ahead of its time – ahead enough that he was c...
4 Sep 201928min
The Great English Convent Case of 1869
This case fed an already growing anti-Catholic movement in England in the 1860s. Additionally, it played on the shock of women being incredibly cruel to one another – something that was even used by t...
2 Sep 201944min
