EP 2: The Lost Colony of Roanoke

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Olga of Kiev, the first recorded female ruler of Russia who, in an effort to avenge her husband’s murder by the Drevilian, quite literally slaughtered the Drevlian people and burned their capital to the ground. Later in life, she would convert to Christianity and, some 600 years after her death, the Russian Orthodox Church would formally ordain her as a Saint. We will find in this episode a lot of Girl Power and badassery. But also the internal conflict of not glorifying murder and destruction. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

21 Dec 202131min

CONTENT WARNING: This week's episode contains mentions of child abuse, animal mutilation, suicide, and more. This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Satanic Panic, which spanned the 1980s and into the 1990s here in the United States. It was a phenomenon that alleged that mass child abuse across the United States all had ties back to satanic cults. This phenomenon originated with the 1980 publication of a book titled Michelle Remembers in which a woman wrote of her journey of undergoing memory therapy and alleging that she had discovered repressed memories of years of satanic ritualistic abuse. This moral panic was exacerbated a few years later in 1983 when a woman here in California accused her son’s preschool, the McMartin Preschool, of abusing him. The McMartin Preschool trial would become the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American History. Over the course of the Satanic Panic, these satanic ritual abuse theories would extend to alleging that teachers were engaging in human sacrifices, that McDonald’s was funding the Church of Satan, that listening to rock music was a sure sign that you were a devil worshipper, and so much more. People would serve time behind bars for the unsubstantiated, alleged crimes, and families would be torn apart forever. At the end of the day, there would be more than 12,000 accusations made across the country with not a single one of them containing verifiable, supporting evidence. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

14 Dec 202145min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Ford Pinto’s Explosive History. The 1971 Ford Pinto was rushed into production for a myriad of reasons that we will be getting into in this episode. Because of this rushed turnaround time, Ford had to cut a lot of corners. And these corners included selling a car with a fuel tank that Ford KNEW carried a high risk of setting on fire during rear-end collisions. When Ford conducted a cost-benefit analysis, they found that it would cost them more to fix the car than it would to just pay off all the legal fees that came along with all of the wrongful death suits they received. Ford would continue to manufacture this same, dangerous model for years, leading to the deaths of approximately twenty-seven people. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

7 Dec 202137min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Patty Hearst who -- in 1974 at only nineteen-years-old -- was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California. A few days after her kidnapping, a tape was received by a Berkeley radio station from the Symbionese Liberation Army that stated that they were holding Hearst as a prisoner of war and demanded that the Hearst family give millions of dollars worth of food to needy Californians in exchange for their daughter. Dissatisfied with the family’s response to this demand, the group continued to hold Hearst, seemingly against her will. Everything changed though when, two months after her kidnapping, surveillance footage at a San Francisco bank captured Hearst participating in an armed robbery alongside the group and later personally declared in tape recordings that she had officially joined the Symbionese Liberation Army of her own free will. Patty Hearst instantly became one of the most hated people in America. When she was eventually arrested nearly two years after her capture, the country stood divided on their beliefs about her involvement. Was she a traitor? Had she really joined the SLA of her own volition? Or had she been brainwashed? Does Patty Hearst represent one of the most classic cases of Stockholm Syndrome in History? Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

30 Nov 202144min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Selena Quintanilla Perez, an American singer, businesswoman, and fashion designer that would be credited as one of the most influential Latin artists of all time at a time when the Tejano music industry was largely dominated by male artists. She would break through this glass ceiling and become by far one of the most well-known Mexican-American entertainers to ever exist. Tragically, on March 31, 1995, when Selena was only twenty-three years old, she would be shot and murdered by a friend of hers’ that had managed her fan club. Following her tragic death, her English crossover record, titled Dreaming of You, would reach the top of the Billboard 200, the first Latin artist to ever do so. Since then, nearly 18 million Selena records have been sold and several movies and shows have been made to document Selena’s life, namely the 1997 film that starred Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla that would propel Lopez, also a Latin American artist, into the spotlight in a major way. This episode touches on all of our favorite things: A badass woman in History shrouded in controversy and corruption and tragedy. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

23 Nov 20211h 5min

Welcome back for Season Nine! This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Andree de Jongh, a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II. She organized and led the Comet Line (or Le Réseau Comète, as it was called by it’s French-speaking members) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium. Between August 1941 and December 1942, she escorted an estimated 118 people, including more than 80 airmen, from Belgium to “neutral” Spain, where they were transported to the United Kingdom. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

16 Nov 202140min

This week on Hashtag History, we are joined by Caitlin and Sarah of Luminol Podcast as we discuss the disappearance of Etan Patz and the legacy of the Missing Children Milk Carton Campaign. Etan Patz was a six-year-old boy who went missing in 1979 as he was walking to his school bus. It wouldn’t be until several decades later that his murderer would be apprehended and tried for his crimes. What many people don’t realize is that it was this case - the disappearance of Etan Patz - that launched the Milk Carton Campaigns of the early 1980s in which images of missing persons were placed on the sides of milk cartons. It was also this case that led to the establishment of National Missing Children’s Day and even laid the foundation for Amber Alerts which we are all very familiar with today. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. And don't forget to follow the wonderful Luminol Podcast on Instagram as well @luminolpod. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

8 Okt 20211h 10min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the murder of Gianni Versace, a world-renowned fashion designer that would go on to quite literally revolutionize the fashion industry. He was shot and killed on the steps of his mansion in Miami Beach when he was only fifty years old by what is known as a spree killer, Andrew Cunanan. In the spring and summer of 1997, Cunanan, who had never had a criminal record before, would go on a killing spree, killing five people over the course of only three months. But why would Versace be one of Cunanan’s unfortunate targets, you might ask? Well, despite the fact that the Versace family has denied for nearly twenty-five years that there was any connection between Versace and Cunanan and that it was just a random murder, there may be evidence that shows that the two had met before Versace’s tragic death. We will be doing a deep dive into Versace, Cunanan, and the overwhelming mark they each left on the world, this week on Hashtag History. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

28 Sep 202154min