Behind the Scenes Minis: Isabella and Wu Lien-Teh
Holly and Tracy discuss the complexities of Isabella Bird's story, as well as the similarities between the pneumonic plague in Wu Lien-Teh's story and what we're living through in 2020. Learn more ab...
7 Aug 202013min
Wu Lien-Teh and the Manchurian Plague
Wu Lien-Teh was a doctor who’s most well known for his public health work and the pneumonic plague epidemic in the early 20th century. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnet...
5 Aug 202040min
Isabella Lucy Bird
Bird is celebrated as a world traveler, though she didn’t really come into her own as a traveler until she was in her 40s. Her books about her journeys were wildly popular. There are also some pretty ...
3 Aug 202041min
SYMHC Classics: Irish Famine, Part 2
The second episode in our revisit of the Irish Famine covers the mid-1800s, when the poorest people in Ireland ate almost nothing but potatoes, saving other crops for selling. So a blight, plus politi...
1 Aug 202019min
Behind the Scenes Minis: Seneca Village and Unearthed!
Holly and Tracy discuss the week's topics, including their own experiences with Central Park, and a segment of the summer edition of Unearthed! that Tracy cut. Learn more about your ad-choices at htt...
31 Juli 202011min
Unearthed! in July 2020
This edition of Unearthed! covers episode updates, science and history discoveries, books and letters, and potpourri. And yes, there's (brief) talk about the Verona, Italy floor mosaics. Learn more a...
29 Juli 202045min
Seneca Village
Seneca Village was a predominantly black community that built itself from the ground up. But its story is fragmented. Even though it existed at a time when it could have been fairly well-documented, t...
27 Juli 202036min
SYMHC Classics: Irish Famine, Part 1
We're revisiting a 2013 two-parter. The history lesson kids often get on the Irish Famine could be summed up as "a blight destroyed the potato crops, and a lot of people starved or moved away." Most k...
25 Juli 202018min
