Buddy Bolden and the Birth of Jazz
Bolden is often referred to as the first jazz performer, and his playing is legendary. But his life story, cluttered by lack of documentation and misinformation, played out tragically after his ascens...
19 Dec 201831min
The Trial of Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart is one of history’s most memorable figures, with myriad compelling chapters in her life. The Babington Plot was a convoluted bit of intrigue that she’s tied to, and it ultimately led to he...
17 Dec 201834min
SYMHC Classics: Rival Queens -- Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I
Today we revisit an episode from 2009 in preparation for a new episode coming this week about the Babington Plot. Although they were cousins, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart had little in the way of famil...
15 Dec 201829min
Interview: Hayley Milliman of Museum Hack
Museum Hack writer Hayley Milliman joins Holly to talk about the company's irreverent approach to getting people excited about history, and discusses the new book "Museum Hack's Guide To History's Fie...
12 Dec 201832min
Six Impossible Episodes: Deja Vu in the U.S. and Canada
Several times over the past few years, we’ve done an episode on something from U.S. history, and afterward we’ve gotten notes from listeners about the same thing happening in Canada – although this ep...
10 Dec 201838min
SYMHC Classics: Les Filles du Roi
We're revisiting an episode from 2014: the Filles du Roi, or King's Daughters. While the building of a population in a new colony seems like a tricky endeavor, France's King Louis XIV launched a schem...
8 Dec 201825min
Nell Donnelly Reed
Nell Donnelly Reed built a successful business starting before women even had the right to vote in the U.S. Her story combines fashion, education, workers’ health and safety, kidnapping, and marital s...
5 Dec 201835min
The Rise of the Straw Hat and the Riot of 1922
The Straw Hat Riot of 1922 is a strange piece of history, and it all centered around the boater hat. How did how the boater become so important to men’s fashion in the early 20th century? And how did ...
3 Dec 201829min
