Archaeology Interview: Harvard Indian College
Holly chats with archaeologists Patricia Capone and Diana Loren about Harvard’s Indian College, the school’s importance to Colonial history and the ongoing archaeology of Harvard [Read more]
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Henry Gerber and Chicago’s Society for Human Rights
In the 1920s, the Society for Human Rights was founded in Chicago with the intent to decriminalize homosexuality. The society’s founder was inspired by Germany’s [Read more]
The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
In 1966, a restaurant in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district was the site of a violent incident in LGBT history. After the riot, a grassroots effort [Read more]
Hokusai
Hokusai lived during a time when there wasn’t a lot of contact between Japan and the West. But even so, he drew influence form Western [Read more]
Nate DiMeo’s Memory Palace
Tracy and Holly talk with fellow podcaster Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace about his research and writing process. You’ll also get to listen to [Read more]
Charles IX of France
Much like many of the other mad royals that have been discussed on the podcast through the years, Charles IX of France was prone to [Read more]
The American Hippo Ranch Plan, Part 2
Once the effort to import hippos to the U.S. got the backing of a politician, two men with wild and intertwined histories, Frederick Russel Burnham [Read more]
The American Hippo Ranch Plan, Part 1
In 1910, the U.S. had a meat shortage and a water hyacinth overgrowth problem. The obvious solution to the double dilemma: Import hippos from Africa. [Read more]
An Interview With Dr. Elizabeth P. Archibald: Ask the Past
Dr. Elizabeth P. Archibald of Ask the Past has delved deep into old manuscripts to find pertinent and impertinent advice from the past. In this [Read more]
A Brief History of Time Capsules
People feel very strongly about time capsules, even though the contents are often a little underwhelming. What actually qualifies as a time capsule, and what [Read more]