The East India Company's Theft of China’s Tea Secrets
Great Britain's relationship with tea is part of its cultural identity. But before the mid-1800s, China was the only source of tea, which was a problem in the eyes of the East India Company. Learn m...
2 Apr 201830min
SYMHC Classics: April Calahan on France's Fashionable Resistance
Today we're revisiting a talk with fashion historian April Calahan about the surprising ways that women of France protested German occupation during WWII. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://...
31 Mar 201836min
The Highland Clearances
The Highland Clearances were a long, complicated, messy series of evictions in the Highlands and western Islands of Scotland, when tenant farmers were forced from their homes to make way for sheep pas...
28 Mar 201838min
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie was a child of poverty who became one of the richest men on Earth. But his life, while largely charmed, had a massive scar of bad judgment on it. He also decided that the most important thing...
26 Mar 201840min
SYMHC Classics: Marian Anderson
Today's show returns to Marian Anderson. An acclaimed contralto, Marian Anderson was barred from singing in Constitution Hall because of her race. The concert she sang at the Lincoln Memorial instead ...
24 Mar 201830min
Ignaz Semmelweis and the War on Handwashing
Ignaz Semmelweis made a connection between hand hygiene and the prevention of childbed fever in the 19th century. He wasn’t taken seriously then, but today he’s known as everything from the father of ...
21 Mar 201836min
Constance Markievicz
Born Constance Georgine Gore-Booth to a wealthy Protestant family, Constance Markievicz made a somewhat surprising transition to become a leader in the Irish Nationalist movement. Learn more about yo...
19 Mar 201836min
SYMHC Classics: The Easter Rising of 1916
Today's show revisits one of the most pivotal events in modern Irish history. It was a precursor to a number of other events that have happened since then, both within and outside of Ireland. Learn m...
17 Mar 201825min
