Berthe Morisot
Morisot primarily worked in oils, watercolors and pastels, and her favorite subjects were the other women in her life, often captured very tenderly in private, domestic moments. Her life is entwined w...
16 Aug 202143min
SYMHC Classics: Thomas Harriot
This 2019 episode covers a man who's story is tied to SO MANY other notable historic things, including a lot of business with Sir Walter Raleigh. He's really not a household name like many of his cont...
14 Aug 202130min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Torricelli and Acadians
Holly and Tracy discuss the many different professional titles that many people in history have and how tricky it can be to select the proper one to use. They then discuss trying to discern when they ...
13 Aug 202113min
Expulsion of the Acadians, or the Great Upheaval
Starting in 1755, the French-speaking Acadians were expelled from what’s now the Maritime provinces of Canada and northern Maine, with many of them eventually winding up in Louisiana. But there's much...
11 Aug 202144min
Evangelista Torricelli
Torricelli was born in the middle of a heady few decades when the lives and work of people like Galileo and Johannes Kepler were changing humankind’s understanding of the world and the heavens. Someti...
9 Aug 202133min
SYMHC Classics: A Handful of Eclipses in History
Back in 2017 with the "Great American Eclipse" everywhere in the news, we walked through some of the famous eclipses in history, all while wearing proper eye shielding. Learn more about your ad-choic...
7 Aug 202125min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Annie and Mildred
Tracy and Holly discuss the surprising lack of biographical writing about Annie Jump Cannon. In contrast, they cover how much effort has been made to uncover and write about the real story of Mildred ...
6 Aug 202116min
Mildred Fish-Harnack
Mildred Fish-Harnack was a woman from Wisconsin who found herself at the center of a resistance group in Germany working to undermine the Nazis. But her secrecy in this work enabled both Germany and t...
4 Aug 202131min
