Advertise on podcast: Did That Really Happen?

This week we're traveling back to the 1950s with Hedda! Join us as we learn about pretty little things, 1950s fashion, sparklers, women working as professors, and more! Sources: "Celebrating the Legacy of England's First Female Professor," King's College, available at https://www.kcl.ac.uk/celebrating-legacy-of-englands-first-female-professor "Gender Breakdown for Teachers in History," Making History, available at https://archives.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/statistics/gender.html Peter West, "Five Lessons on Bringing Truth Back to Politics from Britain's First Female Philosophy Professor," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/five-lessons-on-bringing-truth-back-to-politics-from-britains-first-female-philosophy-professor-164191 https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/reinventing-hedda-nia-dacosta-tessa-thompson-and-nina-hoss-redefine-the-ibsen-classic-for-a-new-era/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedda_(2025_film) Google Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22pretty+little+thing%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Ellen Glasgow, The Romantic Comedians, (1926), 38. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Romantic_Comedians/c6FAAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pretty%20little%20thing%22&pg=PA39&printsec=frontcover  Martin Holt, Out of Bondage (1905), 80. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Out_of_Bondage/IvBEAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pretty%20little%20thing%22&pg=PA80&printsec=frontcover  James Stephens, Light for Little Lanterns, (1886), 5. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Light_for_little_lanterns_a_series_of_mi/nZO4d4Up9ggC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22pretty%20little%20thing%22&pg=PA5&printsec=frontcover  https://www.directsparklers.com/inspiration/the-history-of-sparklers/ https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/technology-you-asked-general-science/how-do-sparklers-work http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/11/98/e-cyclopedia/207791.stm https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1993/07/04/the-sparkling-history-of-a-fireworks-favorite/ https://www.si.edu/object/archives/sova-nmah-ac-0533 See "Custodial History" and "Provenance" Ogata Gekko 尾形月耕, Lighting Sparklers Over River, painting, 1891. https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S2003.8.1699/  Image of Vintage Dress Pattern: https://thevintagepatternshop.com/shop/vintage-sewing-patterns/1950s-sewing-patterns/dresses-all-types-1950s-sewing-patterns/1950s-vintage-sewing-pattern-b34-halterneck-dress-bolero-r381/ Hedda For Your Consideration Flipbook: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/950039259/4-5/ Vintage Dancer, 10 1950s Dress Styles: https://vintagedancer.com/1950s/1950s-dress-styles/

This week we're traveling back to first-century Jerusalem with The Book of Clarence! Join us as we learn about Mary Magdalene, Barabbas, Biblical sick burns, and more! Sources: Martínez-Cruz, B., Mendizabal, I., Harmant, C. et al. Origins, admixture and founder lineages in European Roma. Eur J Hum Genet 24, 937–943 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2015.201 Gresham D, Morar B, Underhill PA, Passarino G, Lin AA, Wise C, Angelicheva D, Calafell F, Oefner PJ, Shen P, Tournev I, de Pablo R, Kuĉinskas V, Perez-Lezaun A, Marushiakova E, Popov V, Kalaydjieva L. Origins and divergence of the Roma (gypsies). Am J Hum Genet. 2001 Dec;69(6):1314-31. doi: 10.1086/324681. Epub 2001 Nov 9. PMID: 11704928; PMCID: PMC1235543. James Carroll, "Who Was Mary Magdalene?" Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-mary-magdalene-119565482/   Cornelis Bennema, "Mary Magdalene: Recognizing the Shepherd's Voice," Encountering Jesus (2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9m0t70.27  Meggan Watterson, Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet (audiobook).  Y'all Translation Bible, https://www.bible.com/bible/4108/JHN.20.YALL  NIV Study Bible Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_book_of_clarence_2024  Robert Daniels, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-book-of-clarence-film-review-2024  Alissa Wilkinson, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/movies/the-book-of-clarence-review.html  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-book-of-clarence-review-lakeith-stanfield-1235780399/ 

It's a new year, so it's time for our New Year's tradition of taking a look at movies that tried to predict the future. This year, we're traveling to the year 2019 with Akira! Join us as we learn about the Tokyo Olympics, biker gangs, technical schools, riots, and more! Sources: 2020 Host City Election Announcement: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/2020-host-city-election Image of the Stadium: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1087204/olympic-stadium-for-tokyo-2020-completed' January 2019 image, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kokuritsu_Kasumigaoka_Rikujo_Kyogijo-23a.jpg Education Senmon Gakko: Japanese Vocational Education. Available at https://cordmagazine.com/education/education-senmon-gakko-japanese-vocational-education/ A Complete Guide to Senmon Gakkou in Japan: https://studyinjapan.org/a-complete-guide-to-senmon-gakkou-in-japan/ Rikkyo University Institute of Peace and Community Studies, "Local Responses to Prime Minister Abe's Attack on Article Nine and the Constitution," translated by Saito Yuriko,The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol. 14, issue 3, no. 5 (2016).  David Slater, Robin O'Day, Satsuki Uno, Love Kindstrand and Chiharu Takano, "SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy): Research Note on Contemporary Youth Politics in Japan," The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 37, No. 1, September 14, 2015. Obe Mitsuro, "World News: Students Protest Japan Military Shift," The Wall Street Journal (2015).  Simon Denyer, "Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka speaks out for Black Lives Matter, faces backlash: Protests in Japan have reignited a debate over racism and policing. Osaka has also won support for speaking out," Washington Post (June 8, 2020).  Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida, "In Japan, the Message of Anti-Racism Protests Fails to Hit Home," New York Times (July 1, 2020).  Anna Fifield, "Fierce opponent of U.S. military bases in Okinawa detained for three months: A protest leader's continued detention without trial has triggered accusations that Japanese authorities are trying to silence him." Washington Post (2017).  "1969: Student Protestors Paralyze Tokyo in Anti-War Demonstrations," New York Times (reprinted October 22, 2019) Alastair Gale, "Japan Pushes Ahead with Antiterrorism Bill; Government says legislation is needed as part of counterterrorism preparations for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo," Wall Street Journal (May 23, 2017).  Mariko Tamura, "Flower Demo: Fighting Sexual Violence in Japan," https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/16387  Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(1988_film) Tom Usher, "How Akira has Influenced All of Your Favorite Film, TV, and Music," Vice, available at https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-akira-has-influenced-modern-culture/ https://akira.fandom.com/wiki/Akira_(anime) https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/bosozoku-biker-gangs-of-japan https://medium.com/@essie.angelica/the-rise-and-fall-of-japans-notorious-motorcycle-gang-ee31464c2406 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251017/p2a/00m/0na/053000c https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/30-years-akira-teenage-kicks-anime-style  Christopher Gerteis, "Cold War Warriors," in Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (Cornell University Press, 2021), 100-120. 

This week we're traveling back to the 19th century with Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein! Join us as we learn about syphilis, big-ass blunderbusses, the Evelyn Tables, Arctic expeditions, and more! Sources: An account of divers schemes of arteries and veins, dissected from adult human bodies, and given to the repository of the Royal Society by John Evelyn, Esq; F. R. S. To which are subjoyn'd a description of the extremities of those vessels, and the manner the blood is seen, by the microscope, to pass from the arteries to the veins in quadrupeds when living: with some chirurgical observations, and figures after the life, by William Cowper, F. R. S. Richard K Aspin, "John Evelyn's Tables of Veins and Arteries: An Undiscovered Letter," Medical History 39 (1995) Photos: Hunterian Museum, Evelyn Tables: https://hunterianmuseum.org/whats-on/hunterian-museum-displays/surgery-and-anatomy-from-ancient-times-to-the-1700s-room-1 Erling Kagge, "Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole," Literary Hub (2025), https://lithub.com/arctic-rush-inside-the-19th-century-craze-to-reach-the-north-pole/  https://guides.loc.gov/polar-exploration/timeline Javier Cacho, "Arctic Obsession Drove Explorers to Seek the North Pole," National Geographic (2020), https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/expedition-to-the-north-pole  Roald Amundsen, "Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole," (1902), http://www.jstor.org/stable/1775167  Myths of the Blunderbuss https://americanrevolutioninstitute.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/46F42011-5A24-4754-86A9-630691208800   https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_469432  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(2025_film)  Pop Culture Happy Hour, 'Frankenstein' https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5600702  https://youtu.be/qIXsN-Z3UBE?si=bTQ3GigvOIWAO3_u Film School, "How Guillermo del Toro Made Frankenstein," https://youtu.be/tThIpKCXfJI?si=vKel6PTL08Z1Y_lI The History of Syphilis, Part II: Treatment, Cures, and Legislation. Science Museum. Available at https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/history-syphilis-part-two-treatments-cures-and-legislation' Szu Shen Wong, "Syphilis and the Use of Mercury," Pharmaceutical Journal, available at https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/opinion/syphilis-and-the-use-of-mercury Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics, and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800, Third Edition

This week we're traveling back to a full century of American history with The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman! Join us as we learn about naming of enslaved people, "paddy rollers", Black communities in East Texas, and more! Sources: Sparks, Elmer E, and Celia Black. Interview with Celia Black, Tyler, Texas. Tyler, Texas, November , 10, 1974. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1975009_afs17476/. Sparks, Elmer E, and Charlie Smith. Interview with Charlie Smith, Bartow, Florida. Bartow, Florida, None , 3, 1975. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1975023_afs17510/. Jennifer Davis, "A Voice from the South: Dr. Anna Julia Cooper," LOC, available at https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2025/02/a-voice-from-the-south-dr-anna-julia-cooper/ Sean Coughlan, "Last Survivor of Transatlantic Slave Trade Discovered," BBC, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/education-52010859 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Miss_Jane_Pittman_(film) Creating the Emmy-Winning Old Age Makeup for The Autobiography of Miss Jane PIttman, available at https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/creating-the-emmy-winning-makeup-for-the-autobiography-of-miss-jane-pittman Interview with Thomas Moore on Producing Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, available at https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/shows/autobiography-of-miss-jane-pittman-the?chapter=9&clip=68703 African-American Cowboys with their Mounts Saddled Up, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.9862669  Ronald Wendell II, MA Thesis, https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/92b088d1-1108-4044-8219-c7a03d5f87e5/content  Scott L. Matthews, "Documenting SNCC and the Rural South: Danny Lyon and the Cultural Politics of Civil Rights Movement Photography" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469646473_matthews.8  Keith Rice, "The Civil Rights Movement and Steiner-Lobman Polly Brand Work Clothes," 2 September 2022, https://bradleycenterliberated.substack.com/p/denim-and-civil-rights  Sally E. Hadden, "Slave Patrols," https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469616742_ely.57  Lisa Cook, John Parman, and Trevon Logan, "The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 55, 1 (2021) Recall Their Names: The Personal Identity of Enslaved South Carolinians, Charleston Time Machine, available at https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/recall-their-names-personal-identity-enslaved-south-carolinians Laura Alvarez Lopez, "Who Named Slaves and Their Children? Names and Naming Practices Among Enslaved Africans Brought to the Americas and Their Descendants With a Focus on Brazil," Journal of African Cultural Studies 27, 2 (2015)

This week we're traveling back to 18th-century France with Perfume: The Story of a Murderer! Join us as we learn about tanneries, the town of Grasse, infanticide, perfumers' guilds, and more! Sources: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-2007 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/perfume_the_story_of_a_murderer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume:_The_Story_of_a_Murderer_%28film%29 A.O. Scott, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/movies/27perf.html  Tracey Rizzo (2004) Between dishonor and death: infanticides in the causes célèbres of eighteenth-century France, Women's History Review, 13:1, 5-22, DOI: 10.1080/09612020400200380 Arhoune, Ilham@, Impact of Chemicals and Working Conditions on Tannery Workers' Health and Recommendations for Improving the Situation. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5347318 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5347318 "     1. Rabbani G, Billah B, Giri A, et al. Factors Associated With Health Complaints Among Leather Tannery Workers in Bangladesh. Workplace Health & Safety. 2020;69(1):22-31. doi:10.1177/2165079920936222   " https://montecristomagazine.com/beauty/medieval-tannery-town-french-riviera-became-perfume-capital-world#gsc.tab=0 https://www.tfcg.ca/old-occupation-tanner Kirsten James, The Science of Scent and Business of Perfume in Paris and London, 1650-1815, PhD thesis, University of Toronto (2019).  Eleanor Beardsley, "Sick Of Tanneries' Stench Centuries Ago, A French Town Began Making Perfume. It Stuck." NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039393853/sick-of-tanneries-stench-centuries-ago-a-french-town-began-making-perfume-it-stu Luxus Magazine, Grasse: World Capital of Perfume: https://magazine.luxus-plus.com/en/brief-history-of-luxury-grasse-world-capital-of-perfume/

This week we're going back to a weird, weird version of 19th-century Nicaragua with Walker! Join us as we learn about William Walker's ill-fated efforts in Sonora, the Filibuster War, the El Nicaraguense newspaper, and more!  Sources: Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketch: "Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days'": https://youtu.be/XL54pji1nfA?si=o0UbrhVH1ewe3p3J Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_(film) Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/walker Roger Ebert's Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/walker-1987 Craig J Clark, "Alex Cox Says Goodbye--and Good Riddance--To Hollywood," Crooked Marquee, available at https://crookedmarquee.com/alex-cox-says-goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-hollywood/ Rufus Kay Wyllys, "William Walker's Invasion Of Sonora, 1854" Arizona Historical Review, http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623744  Rufus Kay Wyllys, "The Republic of Lower California, 1853-1854," Pacific Historical Review 2:2 (1933): 194-213. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3633829  Robert G. Cleland, "Bandini's Account of William Walker's Invasion of Lower California," Huntington Library Quarterly 7:2 (1944): 153-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3815990  The Sierra citizen. (Downieville, CA), Feb. 11 1854. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86058097/1854-02-11/ed-1/. The Nevada journal. (Nevada City, CA), Apr. 14 1854. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84026884/1854-04-14/ed-1/ Joseph Bilby, "Through Hades with his Hat Off: The strange career of A.J. Morrison," Military Images 11:5 (1990): 14-15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44032253  Walter Johnson, "The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny," in River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjsf5q7.17  Michel Gobat, Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America (Harvard University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24w64hk.7  Issue of El Nicaraguense from 3/12/1856, UT Austin Archives: available at https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:c81aa1b7-44bd-444c-b097-de95dd810392 Issues of El Nicaraguense, Volume 1: https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/nicaragua/El_Nicaraguense-Aug-Nov-1856.pdf James Carson Jamison, With Walker in Nicaragua. First Battle of Rivas excerpt available at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=GYpnAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA28&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en

This week we're traveling back to 1987 Oakland with Freaky Tales! Join us as we learn about punk v. skinhead battles, Sleepy Floyd, Operation Ivy, and more! Sources: Southern Poverty Law Center, Timeline of the Racist Skinhead Movement: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/timeline-racist-skinhead-movement/ Christopher Phelps, "Skinheads: The New Nazism," Marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/10048.html Steve Knopper, "Nazi Punks Fuck Off: How Black Flag, Bad Brains, and More Took Back Their Scene from White Supremacists," https://www.gq.com/story/punks-and-nazis-oral-history Gabe Meline, "The Realy Life Freaky Tales Behind Freaky Tales," available at https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland Singh SP. Sakshi and Dhyana: the origin of mindfulness-based therapies. BJPsych Bull. 2023 Apr;47(2):94-97. doi: 10.1192/bjb.2022.39. PMID: 35796539; PMCID: PMC10063990. Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mindfulness&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Jessie Sun, "Mindfulness in Context: A Historical Discourse Analysis," available at https://jessiesun.me/publication/sun-2014/sun-2014.pdf Aaron Carnes, In Defense of Ska, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/operation-ivy-energy-in-defense-of-ska-book-aaron-carnes-1162048/  https://cmagazine.org/2018/03/22/924-gilman/ https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/rancid-rice-the-rudiments-bumblescrump-the-aborted?photo=392323  https://www.924gilman.org/about   https://eastbayexpress.com/twenty-five-years-of-924-gilman-1/  https://eastbaypunk.com/about/ https://www.kqed.org/arts/11333286/green-day-dookie-924-gilman Liam O'Donoghue, https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/berkeley-nazi-brawl-bay-area-movie-freaky-tales-20250563.php  RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/freaky_tales  Christy Lemire, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/freaky-tales-pedro-pascal-movie-review-2025 The Hollywood Reporter, https://youtu.be/DhgFbs2QPbo?si=sLuHMtMzF3xh_Ket  CBS Mornings, https://youtu.be/BRYTyYOLQEk?si=9k8aWh0GNErBWvJg  https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973907/freaky-tales-true-stories-pedro-pascal-too-short-924-gilman-oakland https://www.espn.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/3703/sleepy-floyd  https://www.espn.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/3703/type/nba/seasontype/3 

This week we're traveling back to the Soviet Union of the 1980s with Citizen X! Join us as we learn about the people who hunted Andrei Chikatilo, the myth of eyes retaining the last image they see before they die, blood typing tests, leather jackets, and more! Sources: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_X Monday Morning Critic Interview with Chris Gerolmo: https://youtu.be/OTgt3qA8bE4?si=KPSXouQ0xBQoTONS Rare Historical Photos: 1980s Soviet Fashion: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/soviet-fashion-from-1980s/ Ebay, Vintage NKVD Coat: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1693160699/vintage-military-leather-coat-nkvd-ussr?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=ussr+leather+coat&ref=sr_gallery-1-3&pro=1&frs=1&sts=1&content_source=ea92b9d4-aade-40d3-b4f5-76303f343729%253A173171afec9899d2d1a7aae295e34fbd6f5b6db7&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=ea92b9d4-aade-40d3-b4f5-76303f343729%3A173171afec9899d2d1a7aae295e34fbd6f5b6db7 Photo: Two Young Women in Gorky Park, 1990: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/two-young-women-wearing-black-leather-and-heavy-make-up-news-photo/635964153?adppopup=true Photo: Eduard Shevardnaze Surrounded by Body Guards, 1991: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/soviet-foreign-minister-eduard-on-his-way-to-the-parliament-news-photo/635967087?adppopup=true "Body-wide chimerism and mosaicism are predominant causes of naturally occurring ABO discrepancies Eva-Maria Dauber, Oskar A. Haas, Karin Nebral, Christoph Gassner, Sabrina Haslinger, René Geyeregger, Hein Hustinx, Sofia Lejon Crottet, Erwin A. Scharberg, Michael Müller-Steinhardt … See all authors  First published: 07 July 2024 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.19618" Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrei-Romanovich-Chikatilo https://www.themoscowtimes.com/archive/a-killers-confidante-in-a-murderous-town  Priscilla L. Walton, "If You Love Someone, Hunt Them Down and Kill Them," in Our Cannibals, Ourselves (University of Illinois Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcgrz.10 David E. Powell, "Social Problems in Russia," Current History 92, no. 576 (1993): 325030. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45316885  https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/andrei-chikatilo Charlotte Houghteling, "Capital Offense: Reducing Crime in the Former Soviet Union," Harvard International Review 21, no.3 (1999): 15-6. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42762546  Veronique Campion-Vincent, "The Tell-Tale Eye," Folklore 110 (1999): 13-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1261063  Arthur B. Evans, "Optograms and Fiction: Photo in a Dead Man's Eye," Science Fiction Studies 20, no.3 (1993): 341-61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4240276 Alexander, Rustam. "Soviet Legal and Criminological Debates on the Decriminalization of Homosexuality (1965–75)." Slavic Review 77, no. 1 (2018): 30–52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26565348. Rustam Alexander, The Queer Life of Lieutenant Petrenko: The KGB and Male Homosexuality in the Ukrainian SSR of the 1960s. Europe-Asia Studies. Jun2023, Vol. 75 Issue 5, p721-741. Eremin, Arkadiy, and Oleg Konstantinovich Petrovich-Belkin. "State Policies Regarding Sexual Minorities in Russia: From Russian Empire to Modern Day Russian Federation." Sexuality & Culture 26, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 289–311. doi:10.1007/s12119-021-09891-0.

NOTE: Due to a technical mishap, there are some issues with Jamie's audio quality in this episode. We apologize and promise the issue will be fixed in our next episode. This week we're traveling back to the Middle Ages with Catherine Called Birdy! Join us as we talk about medieval birthing practices, book ownership, citrus, farts, why "butt trumpet" should become a widely used phrase, and more! Sources: Butt trumpet marginalia in the Rothschild Canticles, c. 1300, MS 404, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, https://www.flickr.com/photos/beinecke_library/4382703456/in/set-72157623494993704  https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-a-butt-tuba-and-why-is-it-in-medieval-art-michelle-brown  "Foreign Names and Flatulence: Dodging Censorship in the Book Trade," Untold Lives blog 26 September 2016, https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/09/foreign-names-and-flatulence-dodging-censorship-in-the-book-trade.html  Hunter Oatman-Stanford, "Naughty Nuns, Flatulent Monks, and Other Surprises of Sacred Medieval Manuscripts," Collectors Weekly 24 July 2014, https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/naughty-nuns-flatulent-monks-and-other-surprises-of-sacred-medieval-manuscripts/  Jody Enders, "The Farce of the Fart" in "The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries (University of Pennsylvania Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fhctm.9  Anatoly Liberman, "Gone with the Wind: More Thoughts on Medieval Farting," Scandinavian Studies 68, no.1 (1996): 98-104. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40919835  Variety, "Lena Dunhamand the Cast of of 'Catherine Called Birdy' at TIFF 2022| Variety Studio" https://youtu.be/kJTzy63FA-4?si=9u4oC42ZsBvelUSx  People, "Catherine Called Birdy } People + Entertainment Weekly TIFF Studio 2022," https://youtu.be/6RDVfofW6NM?si=ZGPxIH7z4ZBNcZwZ  The Hollywood Reporter, "Bella Ramsey Praises Lena Dunham's Writing in Catherine Called Birdy," https://youtu.be/7JClNeIU7kI?si=YWXRkVbWyD781YjW RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/catherine_called_birdy https://www.teenvogue.com/story/catherine-called-birdy-bella-ramsey-interview-first-look-exclusive Variety, https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/catherine-called-birdy-review-lena-dunham-1235366493/ https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/catherine-called-birdy-review-lena-dunham-b2172806.html Lindsey Bahr, https://apnews.com/article/film-reviews-entertainment-mel-brooks-8b9cb0885592f58b34353cf2c39591bb  Tacuinum Sanitatis: Medieval Horticulture and Health - Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tropical-fruits-Vienna-2644-A-lemon-Citrus-limon-folio-19r-B-pomegranate_fig6_267278636 [accessed 20 Aug 2025] "The history of Citrus in the Low Countries during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, available at https://books.openedition.org/pcjb/2197 Wouter van der Meer" Tudor History Q and A blog: https://queryblog.tudorhistory.org/2010/04/question-from-jacob-oranges-in-tudor.html?m=0 Susan Cavanaugh, "A Study of Books Privately Owned in England: 1300-1450," available at https://www.proquest.com/openview/cdf761684489fc60d4b2b93e0df09b04/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Isis Davis-Marks, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-study-shows-medieval-women-used-birthing-belts-180977207/  Andrew Curry, https://www.science.org/content/article/medieval-birthing-girdle-contains-delivery-fluid-milk-and-honey  https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2025/01/permission-to-practise-medicine.html Karen Smith Adams, "From 'The Help of Grave and Modest Women' to 'The Care of Men of Sense': The Transition from Female Midwifery to Male Obstetrics in Early Modern England" MA Thesis, Portland State University (1988). https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4802&context=open_access_etds  Becky Lawton, "Call the Medieval Midwife," https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/03/call-the-medieval-midwife.html 

This week we're traveling back to the 1960s with Nickel Boys! Join us as we learn about the horrific excavations of the Dozier School, the circulation of MLK speeches, Mexican-American identity in the South, and more! Sources: David Canfield Interview with RaMell Ross and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/nickel-boys-telluride-exclusive-awards-insider?srsltid=AfmBOor0GmWj9WdElwUsFDSFjin9iJFcXiJGYeKF1ZkLFVGHvogkPHAI How Nickel Boys Was Filmed in First-Person POV: https://www.theverge.com/24318489/nickel-boys-ramell-ross-interview-first-person-cinematography Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_Boys https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/ 1968 records, https://www.ebay.com/itm/256940070706?itmmeta=01K2N47HV7MRK73AZVCR13RX76&hash=item3bd2d25732:g:8r0AAOSwBGtoLQ7T&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4MHg7L1Zz0LA5DYYmRTS30mP1%2Bszy%2Bf6oVsASGa76%2BT6T7uHacf7Cm%2FjdA%2ByTSvnvFH9qx4MXJebysIfG0bnMzw%2Frg1%2Fj2ZpEvbyaNVVJL8v8uA6ZDH637qT9DBURWwR5AP6X2UyjS84oaicywqrtGRJFmTDHiPdM3AOcdz6K1n9Sg9tqBwFtSjNZN087eDcc2UAPoK1nDJR1pEwKU43A5kTdTzxyUhfWrR84X1Wvn%2F5wP%2Fy%2FZvE88xfgNhiiK%2BHFWS9IiOayG2pBLCwn7ToT1GMXB8COAbYKcPx4%2B%2FF7pie%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-SfnqSVZg,  https://www.ebay.com/itm/387262357112?itmmeta=01K2N47HV6C6JWENTA1FTVXKMD&hash=item5a2aa29e78:g:n2oAAOSwhKNmrrU-&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4MHg7L1Zz0LA5DYYmRTS30m7rHgwCXW5OKCOZBpIuqTDUa8e4Fr6cjGgrnFXY1aiv3R98Ks0x7IkOcBlGJLQthx%2F6C9%2FiHxMFXf5Eu6o0Zyx73WrPpLQ23k2CC1sXLZLjxlzxqNofeY77UCrEUpDt07MjmRwneQ7hfCYySVT%2FHnEqbYH80QduZE01AADrpxFU19AXRUVL4OZpq7uKVG5%2F75WwJbYkvQpU04GmdY1wQgNuF3vEB7kdkDm5o4CeHpXtCZI%2FUMg1Jv1cpG6MKAoWypcYkmc9TmbkVgDdQEHvd6T%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-KfnqSVZg Jarrod Hanson and Ruben Donato, "The Braceros: Mexican Workers in the Jim Crow South, 1949-1951," Social Education 83, no.1 (2019): 51-57.  Julie M. Weise, "Mexican Nationalisms, Southern Racisms: Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South, 1908-1939," American Quarterly 60, no.3 (2008): 749-77.  Tyina Steptoe, ""Blaxicans" and Black Creoles," in Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (University of California Press, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt19633hq.10   Erin Kimmerle et al, Report, Documentation of the Boot Hill Cemetery (8JA1860) at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys: Interim Report, 2012  https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=dozier_school  Erin Kimmerle, "Forensic Anthropology in Long-Term Investigations: 100 Cold Years," Annals of Anthropological Practice 38, 1

This week we're going back to 18th century France with Marie Antoinette! Join us as we learn about Marie' and Louis' not great sex life, giving birth in public, Marie's journey to France, scandalous pamphlets, and more! Sources: Cara Mia DiMassa, "That Austrian Woman," Los Angeles Times (2001). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-21-bk-59630-story.html  Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (audiobook) John Hardman, Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen (Yale University Press, 2019) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvnwbx1c  Charlotte Hodgman, "16 things you (probably) didn't know about the rituals behind royal births, from the medieval era to the present day," History Extra, available at https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/royal-births-rituals-queens-lying-in-audiences-holy-girdle/ Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. First Anchor Books, 2001 Leah Price, "Vies Privees et Scadaleuses: Marie-Antoinette and the Public Eye," The Eighteenth Century 33, no.2 (1992): 176-92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41467542  Pierre Saint-Amand, "Terrorizing Marie Antoinette," translated by Jennifer Curtiss Gage, Critical Inquiry 20, no.3 (1994): 379-400. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343862  Nancy Barker, ""Let Them Eat Cake": The Mythical Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution," The Historian 55, no.4 (1993): 709-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24448793  Jill H. Casid, "Queer(y)ing Georgic: Utility, Pleasure, and Marie-Antoinette's Ornamented Farm," Eighteenth-Century Studies 30, no.3 (1997): 304-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30054251 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1993-1212-21?selectedImageId=97366001  Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. First Anchor Books, 2001 https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/first-visit-holy-roman-emperor-joseph-ii-1777 Fogg RN, Boorjian SA. 1122 THE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION OF LOUIS XVI: A CONSEQUENCE OF ANATOMY, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, OR NAÏVETÉ? Journal of Urology [Internet]. 2010 Apr 1 [cited 2025 Aug 1];183(4S):e434. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2010.02.2319 The Making of Marie Antoinette  Roger Ebert, "Pretty in Pink" (2006) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/marie-antoinette-2006  Rotten Tomatoes, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1158195-marie_antoinette/reviews  Anthony Quinn, The Independent, https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/marie-antoinette-12a-420757.html  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_(2006_film)  Kirsten Dunst Breaks Down Her Career, from 'Bring It On' to 'Spider-Man'| Vanity Fair; https://youtu.be/SOzoNKWrsKU?si=pHS4NRPCft0dpLI5  Kirsten Dunst Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Characters; https://youtu.be/pev4mrWUatA?si=NFS4hXZ6JJrLHgWE  Sofia Coppola Shares Her Rich Film Archival | W Magazine; https://youtu.be/u6p_PuXq9hE?si=KjyXP2U_xVb8hOZt 

This week we're traveling back to 1970s Britain with Joy! Join us as we learn about the real people who invented IVF, including Patrick Steptoe, Jean Purdy, and Matron Muriel, as well as how papers like the Daily Mirror covered the whole thing.  Sources https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/10/screenwriter-jack-thorne-ivf-joy-film-netflix https://deadline.com/2024/10/joy-movie-thomasin-mckenzie-shines-as-test-tube-baby-pioneer-in-joy-1236115393/ https://time.com/7178799/joy-true-story-jean-purdy-netflix/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(2024_film) Litynski GS. Patrick C. Steptoe: laparoscopy, sterilization, the test-tube baby, and mass media. JSLS. 1998 Jan-Mar;2(1):99-101. PMID: 9876723; PMCID: PMC3015256. Edwards Robert Geoffrey 1996Patrick Christopher Steptoe, C. B. E., 9 June 1913 - 22 March 1988Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc.42433–452 Daily Mirror articles from 21 January 1960 to 14 December 1979, accessed through the British Newspaper Archive Bourn Hall Fertility Clinic: https://www.bournhall.co.uk/fertilityblog/international-nurses-day-12-may-recognising-the-dedication-of-fertility-nurses/ John Webster, "Muriel Harris: Nursing IVF to Success," Science Museum Blog, available at https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/muriel-harris-nursing-ivf-to-success/ https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7101718324  Web of Science Josh Halliday, "Female nurse who played crucial role in IVF ignored on plaque," The Guardian (2019), https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/10/jean-purdy-female-nurse-who-played-crucial-role-in-ivf-ignored-on-plaque  Johnson, Martin H. "Edwards, Sir Robert Geoffrey (Bob) (1925–2013), physiologist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

We're traveling back to the 1930s Mississippi Delta with Sinners! Join us as we learn about fake plantation money, "Rocky Road to Dublin", Chinese-American communities in Mississippi, hoodoo, and more! Sources: John Jung, "Chinese for the South: Mississippi Delta Chinese Migration Chains," in Zhang, Wenxian, et al. Far East, Down South: Asians in the American South. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/49183. "Shaolu Yu, ""Placing Racial Triangulation, Triangulating Place and Race: Chinese Grocery Stores in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow Era,"" Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(1) 2022, pp. 97–122" Karin Lurvink, "Strapped for Cash: Non-cash Payments on Louisiana Cotton Plantations, 1865-1908," TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR SOCIALE EN ECONOMISCHE GESCHIEDENIS 11, 3 (2014) Sonny Albarado, "The violent and racist fight against laborers' basic rights in the South," Arkansas Advocate, 2023 Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Mojo Workin': The Old African-American Hoodoo System (University of Illinois Press, 2013).  Cierra Black, "Sinners Hoodoo Consultant Talks Working with Ryan Coogler & Protecting Black Spirituality On-Screen: 'Blues Is the Music of Hoodoo'" Teen Vogue 3 May 2025.  Marcelitte Failla, ""You Deserve, Baby!": Spiritual Co-creation, Black Witches, and Feminism," The Witch Studies Reader 75-89 (Duke University Press, 2025). https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.25003747.9  Kinitra D. Brooks, "Haints, Hollers, and Hoodoo," Southern Cultures 29:4 (2023): 2-7. Zora Hurston, "Hoodoo in America," The Journal of American Folklore 44:174 (1931): 317-417. https://www.jstor.org/stable/535394  "The Rocky Road to Dublin" in Will Carleton, Will Carleton's "Dandy Pat Songster (1866). https://www.google.com/books/edition/Will_Carleton_s_Dandy_Pat_Songster/ULo-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Rocky%20Road%20to%20Dublin%22&pg=PA59&printsec=frontcover  The Citizen (1842), https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Citizen/VYdPAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Rocky%20Road%20to%20Dublin%22&pg=PA262&printsec=frontcover  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Diprose_s_Standard_Song_Book_and_Reciter/jzJYAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rocky%20Road%20to%20Dublin&pg=PA24&printsec=frontcover "The Rocky Road to Dublin," in The New Singer's Journal (1871) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Henry_De_Marsan_s_New_Comic_and_Sentimen/3Lk_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Rocky%20Road%20to%20Dublin%22&pg=PA175&printsec=frontcover  The rocky road to Dublin. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/amss-as111860/  "Along the Rocky Road to Dublin" (1915) https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sharris_c/92/  D Taylor, "'Champagne Charlie is my name': The swell, the Irish and the cockney," in From Mummers to Madness (2021).  Michael Pierse, ""A Pole of Differentiation": Pasts and Futures in Irish Working-Class Writing," Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives (2020).  "The Schools' Collection" folklore collected by students in Ireland from 1937-1939 https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/stories?SearchText=blackthorn&SearchLanguage=ga&Page=1&PerPage=20 https://www.myirishjeweler.com/blog/irish-folklore-the-blackthorn-and-fairies-fighting-and-harry-potter/?srsltid=AfmBOoqlYcrE-xW106rf2XlffXUu-8oyNtkuISgfqsRmUOsNFEh0g9RU  RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sinners_2025  Richard Brody, ""Sinners" is a Virtuosic Fusion of Historical Realism and Horror," April 17, 2025 The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/sinners-movie-review  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_(2025_film) \ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-dollar_gross 

This week we're going back to the 19th century American West with Strange Way of Life (Our first episode on a short film)! Join us as we learn about facial hair, wineskins, and plenty of other cowboy stuff! Sources: https://lastreszzz.com/en/history/?srsltid=AfmBOoojnNidxyQUlHy6ROfjs2IvEFdIFplsf640inYm1hGcpgOSP9teChristopher Oldstone-Moore, "Mustaches and Masculine Codes in Early Twentieth-Century America," Journal of Social History 45:1 (2011): 47-60. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41678816  F. Gercher, Man with mustache and goatee, facing left, half-length portrait, platinum print, c.1900 Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004676300/   R.A. Lewis, Unidentified man with goatee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, cartes de visite, between 1865 and 1886, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022677719/  Artist once known, Unidentified man with moustache and goatee, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, cartes de visite, between 1865 and 1886, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022677725/  Artist once known, William Mills, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, identification photograph (counterfeiting, Columbus, Ohio), 1875, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022677454/  Courtney Campbell, "14 Famous Cowboys, Gunslingers, & Lawmen of the Wild West," https://www.wideopencountry.com/famous-cowboys-wild-west/ Interview with Pedro Almodovar: https://newsletter.oscars.org/news/post/pedro-almodovar-strange-way-of-life-interview Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/strange_way_of_life Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Way_of_Life