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Dig: A History Podcast

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Recorded History Podcast Network

Four women historians, a world of history to unearth. Can you dig it?

#223

Re-Release: A Ghost Story for Christmas!

We're on a little break, getting our stocking stuffers and Yule logs together, so to tide ... more

07 Dec 2025

43 MINS

43:54

07 Dec 2025

#222

Martian Visitors in the Gilded Age

Spooky Series, Episode #4 of 4. Over an eight-month period in 1896-1897, thousands of peop... more

10 Nov 2025

43 MINS

43:29

10 Nov 2025

#221

Beasts and Believers: A History of Werewolf Trials in Early Modern Europe

Spooky Series. Episode #3 of 4. In 1220 CE, St. Francis of Assisi tamed a ferocious werewo... more

27 Oct 2025

58 MINS

58:56

27 Oct 2025

#220

You're Bound to Die: The Long History of the American Murder Ballad

Spooky Series. Episode # 2 of 4. If you look through recordings of country, western, and f... more

12 Oct 2025

1 HR 24 MINS

1:24:28

12 Oct 2025

#219

Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inqui...

Spooky Szn Episode #1 of 4. How would you expect the Spanish Inquisition to treat a confes... more

29 Sep 2025

54 MINS

54:17

29 Sep 2025

#218

Yellow Rose of Texas: Myth-making and Race in the 19th Century

Women's History, Episode #4 of 4. Today we're exploring one of Texas's most enduring legen... more

15 Sep 2025

49 MINS

49:25

15 Sep 2025

#217

Whispers and Wives' Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society

Women Series. Episode #3 of 4. Dale Spender, a feminist literary scholar, wrote in 1980: “... more

01 Sep 2025

58 MINS

58:30

01 Sep 2025

#216

Women and Slavery: How Harriet Jacobs Revealed Women's Experience of American Enslavement

Women Series. Episode #2 of 4. In 1861, one of the most powerful slave narratives in Ameri... more

18 Aug 2025

1 HR 19 MINS

1:19:34

18 Aug 2025

#215

Sati: The Virtuous Woman, the Chaste Wife, and the Immolated Widow in Colonial and Postcolonial Indi...

Women's History, Episode #1 of 4. In 1987, the last reported instance of sati threw India ... more

04 Aug 2025

55 MINS

55:55

04 Aug 2025

#214

The Pansy Craze

Love in the Lav series. Episode #4 of 4. The late 1920s birthed what would become a defini... more

21 Jul 2025

40 MINS

40:00

21 Jul 2025

#213

Anne Lister's Search for a "Great Love": Reading the Diaries of the First Modern Lesbian

Love in the Lav Series. Episode #4 of 4. Today, we’re telling the story of Anne Lister’s l... more

07 Jul 2025

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:05

07 Jul 2025

#212

Female Husbands, or People Have Always Transed Gender

Averill's Book, [Love in the Lav] (https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-in-the-lav-a-social-b... more

22 Jun 2025

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:25

22 Jun 2025

#211

Just Friends: The Ladies of Llangollen

[Love in the Lav] (https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-in-the-lav-a-social-biography-of-same... more

08 Jun 2025

51 MINS

51:59

08 Jun 2025

#210

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Ethics & Race

Disability Series, #4 of 4. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was an ethically problematic, to s... more

05 May 2025

49 MINS

49:12

05 May 2025

#209

Cripping Contagion: A Long History of Epidemics as Mass-Disabling Events

Disability Series. Episode #3 of 4. Since the advent of epidemiology (the study of infecti... more

28 Apr 2025

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:20

28 Apr 2025

#208

The Section 504 Sit-In: The Protest that Demanded Civil Rights for Disabled Americans

Disability Series. Episode #2 of 4. In 1973, Richard Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act, ... more

21 Apr 2025

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:33

21 Apr 2025

#207

Sexuality and Psychiatry

Disability Series, Episode #1 of 4. How and when scientists, doctors, and society started ... more

14 Apr 2025

57 MINS

57:34

14 Apr 2025

#206

Executive Orders, Dog Whistles, and the Lavender Scare

Crime & Punishment Episode #4 of 4. In the late 1940s and 1950s, alongside the better kno... more

24 Feb 2025

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:10

24 Feb 2025

#205

The Sleepy Lagoon Trial and Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles's Season of Violence During WWII

Crime and Punishment Series. Episode #3 of 4. In the summer of 1943 the city of Los Angele... more

17 Feb 2025

43 MINS

43:25

17 Feb 2025

#204

The Unjust Execution of the Dakota 38

Crime & Punishment, Episode #2 of 4. In 1862, as the Civil War raged across the fields of ... more

10 Feb 2025

58 MINS

58:35

10 Feb 2025

#203

From Respectability to Ruin to Ripper Victim: The Whitechapel Murders and the Precarity of Poverty i...

FIXED! Crime and Punishment Series. Episode #1 of 4. In 1850, a bright-eyed eight-year-old... more

03 Feb 2025

58 MINS

58:01

03 Feb 2025

#202

Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movement

Spiritualism's Place. Episode #4 of 4. In honor of our new book, [Spiritualism's Place] (h... more

25 Nov 2024

48 MINS

48:45

25 Nov 2024

#201

Plastic Shamans and Spiritual Hucksters: A History of Peddling and Protecting Native American Spirit...

Spiritualism's Place. Episode #3 of 4. In honor of our new book, [Spiritualism's Place] (h... more

18 Nov 2024

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:11

18 Nov 2024

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#223

Re-Release: A Ghost Story for Christmas!

#222

Martian Visitors in the Gilded Age

#221

Beasts and Believers: A History of Werewolf Trials in Early Modern Europe

#220

You're Bound to Die: The Long History of the American Murder Ballad

#219

Suffer a Witch to Live? Religious Conflict and Witchcraft Persecutions; or, No One Expects the Inqui...

#218

Yellow Rose of Texas: Myth-making and Race in the 19th Century

#217

Whispers and Wives' Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern Society

#216

Women and Slavery: How Harriet Jacobs Revealed Women's Experience of American Enslavement

#215

Sati: The Virtuous Woman, the Chaste Wife, and the Immolated Widow in Colonial and Postcolonial Indi...

#214

The Pansy Craze

#213

Anne Lister's Search for a "Great Love": Reading the Diaries of the First Modern Lesbian

#212

Female Husbands, or People Have Always Transed Gender

#211

Just Friends: The Ladies of Llangollen

#210

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Ethics & Race

#209

Cripping Contagion: A Long History of Epidemics as Mass-Disabling Events

#208

The Section 504 Sit-In: The Protest that Demanded Civil Rights for Disabled Americans

#207

Sexuality and Psychiatry

#206

Executive Orders, Dog Whistles, and the Lavender Scare

#205

The Sleepy Lagoon Trial and Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles's Season of Violence During WWII

#204

The Unjust Execution of the Dakota 38

#203

From Respectability to Ruin to Ripper Victim: The Whitechapel Murders and the Precarity of Poverty i...

#202

Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights Movement

#201

Plastic Shamans and Spiritual Hucksters: A History of Peddling and Protecting Native American Spirit...