EP 41: Catherine the Great

In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the Great Emu War of 1932 which was - quite literally - a war that Australia declared on the local emus…and LOST. This story is WILD a...

26 Apr 202210min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Caning of Charles Sumner, also oftentimes referred to as the Brooks-Sumner Affair. On May 22, 1856, during a debate in the Senate chamber regarding ...

19 Apr 202236min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Paul Schäfer, a Nazi who -- following World War II -- had to flee Germany when he was charged with sexually abusing two boys at the orphanage that he ra...

12 Apr 202245min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the racist history of the Masters Tournament. The Masters was systemically white, upper-class men. Despite it beginning in 1934, the first Black golfer ...

5 Apr 202248min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing an incredible and very well-known woman in History, Nellie Bly. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Bly was an American investigative journalist most well-know...

29 Mars 202239min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing hidden presidential illnesses. Between the fact that most people had no idea during Franklin D. Roosevelt's lifetime that he was paralyzed from the wais...

22 Mars 20221h 1min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Chernobyl Disaster. This was an incident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine where a test went disastro...

15 Mars 202247min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Vincent Chin, a twenty-seven year old Chinese-American man that was beaten to death in Detroit, Michigan, on June 19, 1982. He was beaten by two white m...

8 Mars 202235min