SYMHC Classics: The Race to the South Pole
This 2010 episode from previous hosts Katie and Sarah covers Scott and Amundsen launching rival expeditions to the South Pole. knowing only one group could be the first to reach the pole. Each believe...
19 Mar 202221min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Guillotine
Holly and Tracy talk about Eugen Weidmann's executioner, public fixation on the case, and the availability of the images and footage of most gruesome details of the murders and beheading. See omnystud...
18 Mar 202213min
De Koven, Weidmann, and Public Execution in France (Pt. 2)
Once Eugen Weidmann was in police custody, he confessed to Jean's murder as well as several others. As the trial and execution played out, public interest grew to such a frenzied state that authoritie...
16 Mar 202229min
De Koven, Weidmann, and Public Execution in France (Pt. 1)
In July 1937, 22-year-old Jean De Koven vanished while visiting Paris with her aunt. It seemed doomed to be an unsolved missing person case, until an accidental connection revealed a series of murders...
14 Mar 202233min
SYMHC Classics: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention
This 2019 episode is about the man often described as the person who coined the term genocide. He was also the driving force behind the existence of the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishmen...
12 Mar 202235min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Mary Sidney and Holodomor
Holly and Tracy discuss Mary Sidney Herbert and the debate about whether she wrote works attributed to Shakespeare, as well as her late-in-life party period. On a more serious note, they talk about Ho...
11 Mar 202212min
Holodomor
“Holodomor” is a name that was coined in the 1980s to describe a famine that struck Ukraine in the early 1930s. There were food shortages taking place in other parts of the Soviet Union at the same ti...
9 Mar 202235min
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
She was a patron of the arts, the first woman to publish an English-language play, and the first woman to publish pastoral poetry. Mary Sidney Herbert was also incredibly wily when it came to navigati...
7 Mar 202231min
