The 1954 Guatemalan Coup Part 2
United Fruit Company was Guatemala’s largest employer and largest single landowner when the October Revolution took place. It also controlled the railroad, the port and the utilities. And it feared th...
11 Sep 201944min
The 1954 Guatemalan Coup Part 1
The 1954 coup that overthrew the democratically elected president of Guatemala was orchestrated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Part one will outline the various influences leading up to the ...
9 Sep 201933min
SYMHC Classics: The Sinking of the S-5
Today's episode is a classic from November 2014. 1920, the S-5 left the Boston Navy Yard on its first mission, with a crew of 36 officers and enlisted men. While performing a crash dive as part of a p...
7 Sep 201930min
The Impious Philosophy of Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras and his work in unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos crossed the boundaries between philosophy and astronomy.. And it was, in many ways WAY ahead of its time – ahead enough that he was c...
4 Sep 201928min
The Great English Convent Case of 1869
This case fed an already growing anti-Catholic movement in England in the 1860s. Additionally, it played on the shock of women being incredibly cruel to one another – something that was even used by t...
2 Sep 201944min
SYMHC Classics: The Catalpa and the Fremantle Six
Today we revisit a 2015 episode about an international jailbreak! In the 1860s, a crew from the United States mounted a mission to Western Australia to rescue imprisoned members of the Irish Republica...
31 Aug 201924min
Sarah Josepha Hale & Godey’s Lady’s Book
Godey’s Lady’s Book was the most popular magazine in the U.S. in the middle of the 19th century. Although it’s most well-known for its hand-tinted fashion plates, its content included poetry, fiction,...
28 Aug 201935min
John Wilkins and His 1640s Lunar Exploration Plans
In the 1600s, John Wilkins was planning out what he thought it would take for humans to travel to the moon. Wilkins managed to ride out a rocky time in England’s historycomfortably, and was well known...
26 Aug 201929min
