The Lady Who Turned to Soap
Saponification is the process of turning to soap, and in certain conditions, cadavers do it. The Soap Lady is one of the most famous cases of an adipocere-covered corpse, but there are many like her. ...
13 Apr 201523min
Immigration History: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Part 2
The second half of our interview with Dr. Annie Polland from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum focuses on specific figures in the building's history and ongoing research and expansion projects. Lea...
8 Apr 201528min
Immigration History: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Part 1
The U.S. is, at its heart, a nation of immigrants. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum works to preserve the history of many families who left their home countries to start lives in New York. Read the...
6 Apr 201532min
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 2
As the New York Sun's series of astonishing moon discoveries concluded, most people recognized that it was a hoax. But what made people buy into the tall tale in the first place? Read the show notes h...
1 Apr 201528min
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 1
In August 1835, the New York Sun ran a series about some utterly mind-blowing discoveries made by Sir John Herschel about the lunar surface. The serial had everything: moon poppies, goat-like unicorns...
30 Mar 201525min
P.A.R.C., Mills and Special Education
Until 1975, children with disabilities in the U.S. weren't guaranteed the right to a public education. The ruling in Brown v. Board sparked a series of cases related to children who had been segregate...
25 Mar 201527min
The History of Carousels
Carousels are part of childhood, but they were originally billed as an entertainment for adults and children alike. And even further back than that, it's believed that they were used to train horsemen...
23 Mar 201527min
Dr. Vera Peters
Dr. Peters helped revolutionize the treatment of both breast cancer and Hodgkin's lymphoma. But, at the time, her work was largely dismissed. Read the show notes here. Learn more about your ad-choic...
18 Mar 201527min
