EP 121: The 1996 Mount Everest Disaster

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Japanese Detention Camps, camps that were established here in the United States during World War II following the attack of Pearl Harbor. Under President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, it became policy for the U.S. Government to place HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Japanese in detention camps here on American soil. Of the more than 120,000 people placed in these detention camps, more than 60% of them were American citizens. It was said that someone with as little as 1/16th Japanese lineage could be placed in a detention camp. 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 HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! Finally, you can locate us on 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

20 Apr 202141min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Sacramento Good Guys Hostage situation, an incident that occurred on April 4, 1991, in Sacramento, California where 39 employees and customers of the Good Guys electronics store were held hostage for more than eight hours by four hostage takers. By the time this event ended, more than a dozen of the hostages would be injured and three of the hostages would be killed...as well as three of the four hostage-takers. 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 HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! Finally, you can locate us on 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

13 Apr 202132min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Anna Anderson, probably the most well-known Grand Duchess Anastasia impostor. After the Romanov family was executed by firing squad in 1918, it was widely believed that two of the bodies (more specifically, the body of the Romanov’s only son, Alexei, and the body of the youngest daughter, Anastasia) had not been located which led many to believe that they had survived the massacre. In the following years, dozens of people came forward claiming to be surviving Romanov family members. The most famous of which was a woman named Anna Anderson who, in 1920, was institutionalized in a Berlin mental hospital following a suicide attempt. She was known around the hospital as “Miss Unknown'' because no one could determine her identity. But in March of 1922, she came forward with claims that she was indeed the Grand Duchess Anastasia. 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 HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! Finally, you can locate us on 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

6 Apr 202143min

We're back for Season Seven! And as tradition dictates, the first episode of each season is a Leah Takeover Episode! This week on Hashtag History, Leah takes a deep dive into the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, an infamous disaster that struck the coast of Northern California on an early April morning in 1906 with an estimated magnitude of 7.9. It was felt as far north as Eureka, California (some even say as far north as Oregon) and as far south as Salinas, California, sparking devastating fires and causing over 3,000 deaths. Tune in to hear the legacy of this devastating earthquake...and maybe even pick up a boozy cake recipe along the way! 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 HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! Finally, you can locate us on 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! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

30 Mars 202144min

In a special, bonus, collaboration episode, the ladies of Hashtag History teamed up with the lovely ladies of the Murder History Girls podcast to discuss what is often referred to as the most infamous unsolved murder in American History, the Black Dahlia. Because there was just so much information to cover, we split this episode into two parts! To hear Part Two of our coverage of the Black Dahlia, you will need to hop on over to the Murder History Girls' feed. Part Two will be made available on their feed at the exact same time that Part One is available on ours' so you don't have to wait one second! In our Part One coverage, we discuss the Black Dahlia victim, Elizabeth Short, and her upbringing, the absolutely heinous murder and discovery of the body, the investigation, and the ways in which the media obsessed over this case. For coverage of the suspects and theories surrounding this case, head on over to listen to Part Two on the Murder History Girls podcast! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast and Murder History Girls @murderhistorygirls. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! Finally, you can locate us on 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! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

21 Mars 202148min

This week on Hashtag History, we are so honored and so excited to have the lovely Kaitlin Calogera on the podcast! Kaitlin is the founder and owner of A Tour of Her Own, the first tourism company in Washington, D.C. to focus exclusively on Women's History. Kaitlin shares all about TOHO, the amazing tours and events they put on, how they have pivoted and adjusted business during COVID-times, and what the future looks like for TOHO and Women's History as a whole. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Check out on our website at HashtagHistory-Pod.com where you can find all of our super cute merch! Finally, you can locate us on 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! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

16 Feb 202154min

This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Anita Hill and the infamous event that thrust her into the spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 about accusations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, while in his capacity as her manager at both the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, had sexually harassed her. This event truly changed History. Tune into this week's episode to learn how! 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 HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! Finally, you can locate us on 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! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

9 Feb 202146min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park Bombing, an absolutely tragic incident in which a pipe bomb was placed at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia during the Summer Olympics that would take the life of one person and injure another 111. This bomb was placed by Eric Rudolph, an American terrorist, who would go on to plant three more bombs over the course of the next two years. Perhaps one of the worst things to come from the Centennial Olympic Bombing though is that the blame would be placed on the wrong man. Jewell would be investigated by the FBI and publicly blamed for the bombing - socially ridiculed and isolated - for several months before the FBI shifted their focus to Rudolph. Special thanks goes to this week’s sponsor, Old Timey Crimey. You can check them out here: https://linktr.ee/oldtimeycrimey 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 HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! Finally, you can locate us on 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! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

2 Feb 202137min