Behind the Scenes Minis: Isadora
Holly and Tracy talk about Holly’s childhood perceptions of Isadora Duncan and how the famous dancer broke convention. They also talk about the peccadillos of [Read more]
Holly and Tracy talk about Holly’s childhood perceptions of Isadora Duncan and how the famous dancer broke convention. They also talk about the peccadillos of [Read more]
The comforts afforded by fame were forever clouded for Duncan by an ongoing series of tragedies, leading right up to the famous – and horrifying [Read more]
Duncan, often called the mother of modern dance, had an unconventional upbringing, and a VERY unconventional life. Her early life was full of struggle but [Read more]
This 2012 episode covers the 1936 Berlin Olympics and African-American sprinter Jesse Owens, as well as the games as Nazi propaganda. More nations than ever [Read more]
Tracy and Holly talk about how young everyone had been during the Mississippi Freedom Summer, voter suppression, and Holly’s trick to stop crying when recording. [Read more]
W. Montague Cobb was the first Black person in the U.S. to earn a PhD in physical anthropology, worked to debunk racist theories in the [Read more]
The Mississippi Summer project of 1964, now known as Freedom Summer, was a in part a voter registration project that was met with an extremely [Read more]
This 2018 episode covers Gertrude Stein, an icon in the world of modernist literature. Alice B. Toklas is often described as her partner and assistant, [Read more]
Tracy and Holly talk about Spain’s effort to spread the smallpox vaccine, and how Balmis handled things. They also discuss fear about vaccines, bodily autonomy, [Read more]
With the smallpox vaccine established, Spain’s wanted to deliver it to its colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean. Francisco Xavier de Balmis carried the [Read more]
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