SYMHC Classics: Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy
This episode is from 2017. Whitman is often touted as the best and most important poet in U.S. history, but he also worked as a teacher and a journalist. And his poetry career didn't start out particu...
26 Sep 202032min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Paramount Decrees
Holly and Tracy talk about the business dealings of Hollywood in context with the moral scandals that were playing out in the press at the time, as well as the way films are distributed today versus i...
25 Sep 202011min
The Paramount Decrees: The Court Cases - Pt. 2
Once Adolph Zukor combined his production company, Famous Players-Lasky, with Paramount’s distribution company, he had consolidate two aspects of the industry under one business. His next step was obv...
23 Sep 202033min
The Paramount Decrees: Paramount’s Beginnings - Pt. 1
The development of the Hollywood studio industry features a number of people who drove it forward. Today, we're talking about Adolph Zukor and William Hodkinson, and how their work led to the founding...
21 Sep 202029min
SYMHC Classics: Alexander Selkirk
In this 2011 episode, prior hosts Sarah and Deblina talk about privateer Alexander Selkirk, who became a buccaneer in 1695. In 1704, after a fight with his captain, Selkirk was put ashore on an uninha...
19 Sep 202028min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Forten and the Lawson Murders
Holly and Tracy delve into the unverifiable parts of James Forten's life and the problematic idea of respectability. Tracy also talks about her geographical connection to the Lawson family murders whi...
18 Sep 202010min
Six Impossible Episodes: There’s a Book About That!
These are episodes that we’d love to do as a full-length episode, and we’ve gotten listener quests for most of them. But there’s a book that’s so central to the subject that the book is really the pla...
16 Sep 202035min
James Forten
As a child and young man, James was part of the British colonies that rebelled against rule from the throne. As an adult, he made his fortune in sail making, and turned his influence to the causes of ...
14 Sep 202043min
