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Isabella Lucy Bird
August 3, 2024 • 44 min
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 big questions about the persona she presented publicly.
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SYMHC Classics: Irish Famine, Part 2
August 1, 2024 • 25 min
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 politics, led to tragedy.
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Seneca Village and Unearthed!
July 31, 2024 • 13 min
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.
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Unearthed! in July 2024
July 29, 2024 • 51 min
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.
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Seneca Village
July 27, 2024 • 42 min
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, there was a vested interest in erasing it.
Holly's Research:
“Seneca Village, New York City.” National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/articles/seneca-village-new-york-city.htm
Alexander, Leslie M. “African or American?” Univ...
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SYMHC Classics: Irish Famine, Part 1
July 25, 2024 • 24 min
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 kids ask, "Why didn't they eat something else?" Good question.
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Behind the Scenes Minis: COINTELPRO
July 24, 2024 • 15 min
Tracy and Holly talk about this week's two-parter on COINTELPRO, and how they both think about those initiatives.
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FBI surveillance of people associated with the civil rights movement has come up on the show many times. Today, we’re going to talk about the history of the FBI, especially as it related to communism and “subversive threats,” and how that fed directly into COINTELPRO.
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Tracy shares how she landed at the topic of Ignatius Sancho, and she and Holly discuss his writing style. Free Frank's unique story, and how it involves some contradictory situations, is also discussed.
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Free Frank McWorter
July 15, 2024 • 40 min
Free Frank McWorter was the first black man in the U.S. to design a town and establish a multi-racial community. He did this despite having been born into slavery.
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Holly and Tracy talk about the soothing nature of bonsai as well as the places in popular culture it pops up. They also unpack the complex nature of talking about Flexner's legacy.
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Abraham Flexner and the Flexner Report
July 8, 2024 • 46 min
The Flexner Report in the early 20th century is often credited with changing the medical field and shaping what medical education looks like today. But this document negatively impacted medicine in the black community.
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The second of our 2016 episodes on Robert Smalls. After his daring and impressive escape from slavery, Smalls was considered to be contraband, which was a term used for formerly enslaved people who joined the Union. But this was the beginning of an impressive career as a free man.
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Q&A and the Myth of Irish Slaves
This whole idea of Irish slaves distorts some things that really did happen. So today we’re going to talk about that history, and how it’s being twisted and misused today.
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