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
SYMHC Classics: The Catalpa and the Fremantle Six
Today we revisit a 2015 episode about an international jailbreak! In the 1860s, a crew from the United States mounted a mission to Western Australia to rescue imprisoned members of the Irish Republica...
31 Aug 201924min
Sarah Josepha Hale & Godey’s Lady’s Book
Godey’s Lady’s Book was the most popular magazine in the U.S. in the middle of the 19th century. Although it’s most well-known for its hand-tinted fashion plates, its content included poetry, fiction,...
28 Aug 201935min
John Wilkins and His 1640s Lunar Exploration Plans
In the 1600s, John Wilkins was planning out what he thought it would take for humans to travel to the moon. Wilkins managed to ride out a rocky time in England’s historycomfortably, and was well known...
26 Aug 201929min
SYMHC Classics: Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Female M.D
Today we revisit a 2014 episode. Dr. Blackwell had no interest in medicine as a child. But she paved the way for women who came after her and changed the face of medicine in the U.S. Learn more about...
24 Aug 201928min
Benjamin Lay, the Quaker Comet
Benjamin Lay was a Quaker and a radical abolitionist who lived in the period between when the Religious Society of Friends began and when it started formally banning slave ownership among its members....
21 Aug 201939min
The Rise of the Traffic Light
There are multiple contenders when it comes to the question of who invented the traffic light. This episode looks at a few of the moments in traffic light history that got us to where we are today, as...
19 Aug 201929min
SYMHC Classics: Diogenes of Sinope
Today we reach back to our 2015 episode on Diogenes of Sinope, the father of the Cynicism school of philosophy. He was also an incredibly eccentric figure who spoke out against pretense, and he used h...
17 Aug 201923min
