#223Re-Release: A Ghost Story for Christmas!We're on a little break, getting our stocking stuffers and Yule logs together, so to tide ... more07 Dec 202543 MINS43:5407 Dec 2025
#222Martian Visitors in the Gilded AgeSpooky Series, Episode #4 of 4. Over an eight-month period in 1896-1897, thousands of peop... more10 Nov 202543 MINS43:2910 Nov 2025
#221Beasts and Believers: A History of Werewolf Trials in Early Modern EuropeSpooky Series. Episode #3 of 4. In 1220 CE, St. Francis of Assisi tamed a ferocious werewo... more27 Oct 202558 MINS58:5627 Oct 2025
#220You're Bound to Die: The Long History of the American Murder BalladSpooky Series. Episode # 2 of 4. If you look through recordings of country, western, and f... more12 Oct 20251 HR 24 MINS1:24:2812 Oct 2025
#219Suffer 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... more29 Sep 202554 MINS54:1729 Sep 2025
#218Yellow Rose of Texas: Myth-making and Race in the 19th CenturyWomen's History, Episode #4 of 4. Today we're exploring one of Texas's most enduring legen... more15 Sep 202549 MINS49:2515 Sep 2025
#217Whispers and Wives' Tales: A History of Women & Gossip in Premodern SocietyWomen Series. Episode #3 of 4. Dale Spender, a feminist literary scholar, wrote in 1980: “... more01 Sep 202558 MINS58:3001 Sep 2025
#216Women and Slavery: How Harriet Jacobs Revealed Women's Experience of American EnslavementWomen Series. Episode #2 of 4. In 1861, one of the most powerful slave narratives in Ameri... more18 Aug 20251 HR 19 MINS1:19:3418 Aug 2025
#215Sati: 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 ... more04 Aug 202555 MINS55:5504 Aug 2025
#214The Pansy CrazeLove in the Lav series. Episode #4 of 4. The late 1920s birthed what would become a defini... more21 Jul 202540 MINS40:0021 Jul 2025
#213Anne Lister's Search for a "Great Love": Reading the Diaries of the First Modern LesbianLove in the Lav Series. Episode #4 of 4. Today, we’re telling the story of Anne Lister’s l... more07 Jul 20251 HR 12 MINS1:12:0507 Jul 2025
#212Female Husbands, or People Have Always Transed GenderAverill's Book, [Love in the Lav] (https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-in-the-lav-a-social-b... more22 Jun 20251 HR 01 MINS1:01:2522 Jun 2025
#211Just Friends: The Ladies of Llangollen[Love in the Lav] (https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-in-the-lav-a-social-biography-of-same... more08 Jun 202551 MINS51:5908 Jun 2025
#210The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Ethics & RaceDisability Series, #4 of 4. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was an ethically problematic, to s... more05 May 202549 MINS49:1205 May 2025
#209Cripping Contagion: A Long History of Epidemics as Mass-Disabling EventsDisability Series. Episode #3 of 4. Since the advent of epidemiology (the study of infecti... more28 Apr 20251 HR 01 MINS1:01:2028 Apr 2025
#208The Section 504 Sit-In: The Protest that Demanded Civil Rights for Disabled AmericansDisability Series. Episode #2 of 4. In 1973, Richard Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act, ... more21 Apr 20251 HR 12 MINS1:12:3321 Apr 2025
#207Sexuality and PsychiatryDisability Series, Episode #1 of 4. How and when scientists, doctors, and society started ... more14 Apr 202557 MINS57:3414 Apr 2025
#206Executive Orders, Dog Whistles, and the Lavender ScareCrime & Punishment Episode #4 of 4. In the late 1940s and 1950s, alongside the better kno... more24 Feb 20251 HR 04 MINS1:04:1024 Feb 2025
#205The Sleepy Lagoon Trial and Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles's Season of Violence During WWIICrime and Punishment Series. Episode #3 of 4. In the summer of 1943 the city of Los Angele... more17 Feb 202543 MINS43:2517 Feb 2025
#204The Unjust Execution of the Dakota 38Crime & Punishment, Episode #2 of 4. In 1862, as the Civil War raged across the fields of ... more10 Feb 202558 MINS58:3510 Feb 2025
#203From 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... more03 Feb 202558 MINS58:0103 Feb 2025
#202Ghosting the Patriarchy: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rights MovementSpiritualism's Place. Episode #4 of 4. In honor of our new book, [Spiritualism's Place] (h... more25 Nov 202448 MINS48:4525 Nov 2024
#201Plastic 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... more18 Nov 20241 HR 12 MINS1:12:1118 Nov 2024