Ep 94: Captain Robert Smalls - Broken Chains and Broken Barriers
What glass ceilings have you broken? Our Person of Interest this week is Robert Smalls, a formerly-enslaved Civil War Hero who went on to serve in the South Carolinian House and Senate then US Congres...
7 Jul 202158min
Ep 93: History Wormhole - Pride
This week! Henry and Josh recap and elaborate on things discussed this month as well as in months prior, touching on people/subjects as Martha P. Johnson, the persecution of homosexuals during the Hol...
3 Jul 202138min
Ep 91: Sappho of Lesbos - Lady with the Lyre
What kinda sick jams did they bop in Ancient Greece? This week our subject is Sappho, a Grecian poet, bard and lyricist who is widely acknowledged as one of the earliest and most prolific female poets...
24 Jun 202137min
Ep 90: The Lavender Scare - The Purge within the Purge
How did the atmosphere of conspiracy and paranoia unleashed by Senator McCarthy affect the homosexual community of Washington DC? This week we cover the Lavender Scare, a branch of the Red Scare that ...
17 Jun 202155min
Ep 89: Harvey Milk - "The American Dream Starts With the Neighborhoods."
How did San Francisco's property values get so high? This week we cover the life and times of the eclectic Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, progressive ...
10 Jun 202153min
Ep 88: Stonewall Riots/Rebellion/Uprising - Dawn of Gay Liberation
Have you ever been pushed too far? This week we discuss the Stonewall Inn, an otherwise obscure mob-run hole-in-the-wall dance bar that, in late June of 1969, became the center of a series of protests...
2 Jun 202151min
Ep 87: Jeff Fort - Chief of El Rukn
How much government cheddar can you misappropriate before you have to go to prison? This week we discuss this question through the eyes of notorious Chicago criminal Jeff Fort, one of the founders and...
27 Mai 202155min
Ep 86: The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising
What do you get when place 'law-and-order' politics at the intersection of a struggle for prisoner rights? Unfortunately, a recipe for disaster. This week we discuss the efforts of inmates in upstate ...
20 Mai 202159min
