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It's October, so it's time for a cannibal horror cult classic set in the 1840s! Join us as we learn about the Wendigo, military prisons, the origins of the term "Eat me", and more! Sources: Green's Dictionary of Slang entry: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/fuhappq Google Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=eat+me&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 Gail de Vos, "The Windigo as Monster: Indigenous Belief, Cultural Appropriation, and Popular Horror," in North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook, edited by David J. Puglia (Utah State University Press, 2022), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv296mnsz.25. Anthony Wonderley, "The Story of Windigo," in At the Font of the Marvelous: Exploring Oral Narrative and Mythic Imagery of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors (Syracuse University Press, 2009). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j5d789.10  Robert A. Brightman, "The Windigo in the Material World," Ethnohistory 35, no. 4 (1988): 337-79, https://www.jstor.org/stable/482140  J. Anthony Paredes, "A Case Study of "Normal" Windigo," Anthropologica 14, no.2 (1972): 97-116. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25604874  Roger Ebert, "Ravenous" (1999), https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ravenous-1999  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenous_(1999_film)  https://www.mcall.com/1999/03/19/ravenous-for-fun-dark-humor-is-lifeblood-of-tale-on-cannibalism/ https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/film-they-all-but-ate-me-alive-1115720.html "Guardhouse-Military Discipline," NPS, available at https://www.nps.gov/fosc/learn/education/guarddiscip.htm . "Military Prisons." In Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities,  edited by Bosworth, Mary, 601-5. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2005. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412952514.n224. Leavenworth Visitors' Center, available at https://www.leavenworthks.gov/visitors/page/old-united-states-disciplinary-barracks Ciera Boyes, "The Realignment of Military Installations for Imprisonment," Available at https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1212f617608d41eaa26130a9f024fe03

This week we're going back to 1930s England with the very silly Fackham Hall! Join us as we learn about wedding music, cousin marriage, domestic worker unions, and more! Sources: Kelly Massicot, "The History of the Wedding March," New Orleans Magazine, available at https://www.myneworleans.com/the-history-of-the-wedding-march/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fackham_Hall Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fackham_hall/reviews/top-critics https://spartacus-educational.com/Domestic_Workers_Union.htm Laura Schwartz, "A Job Like Any Other? Feminist Responses and Challenges to Domestic Worker Organizing in Edwardian Britain," International Labor and Working-Class History 88 (2015): 30-48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43956663   Selina Todd, "Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain 1900-1950," Past & Present 203 (2009): 181-204. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25580932   Anna Clark, "Domestic Servants and the Labour Movement, 1870s-1914" in Labour United and Divided from the 1830s to the Present edited by Emmanuelle Avril and Yann Beliard (Manchester University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5dxr.12  SMITH MT. ESTIMATES OF COUSIN MARRIAGE AND MEAN INBREEDING IN THE UNITEDKINGDOM FROM 'BIRTH BRIEFS.' Journal of Biosocial Science. 2001;33(1):55-66. doi:10.1017/S0021932001000554 Dominic Wilkinson, "Banning first cousin marriage would be eugenic and ineffective," Practical Ethics, available at https://blog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2025/03/banning-first-cousin-marriage-would-be-eugenic-and-ineffective/ https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3907 Amy Cole and Emb Hashmi, "Couple defend first-cousin marriages amid ban call," BBC, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g38l07895o

In this unexpectedly NSFW episode, we're traveling back to 1900 Australia with Picnic at Hanging Rock! Join us as we learn about the curricula and scandals of girls' schools, the history of tourism at Hanging Rock, bananas, the poet Felicia Hemans, and more! Sources: Poem: Casabianca, available at https://allpoetry.com/poem/8471921-Casabianca-by-Felicia-Dorothea-Hemans Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), TAMU, available at https://odp.library.tamu.edu/victorianpoetry/part/felicia-hemans/ Behrendt, S.C. (2001). 'Certainly not a Female Pen': Felicia Hemans's Early Public Reception. In: Sweet, N., Melnyk, J. (eds) Felicia Hemans. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389564_6 "Alex Grammatikos, Carleton University.  "The Nothingness of Fame, At Least to Woman": Felicia Hemans and the Price of . Century Gender Studies. Issue 10.3 (Winter 2014)" "THE HANGING ROCK, NEAR WOODEND." The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil (Melbourne, Vic. : 1873 - 1889) 17 February 1877: 182. Web. 28 Aug 2026 . Larissa Romensky, "No Picnic at Hanging Rock: Campaign to Recognize Aboriginal Past Rather than "White Myth". ABC News, available at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-17/campaign-to-recognise-indigenous-history-hanging-rock/8187942 Marjorie Theobald, "Discourse of Danger: Gender and the History of Elementary Schooling in Australia, 1850-1880," Historical Studies in Education, 29-52.  Marjorie Theobald, "'Mere Accomplishments'?: Melbourne's Early Ladies' School Reconsidered," Women Who Taught: Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching (1991), 71-91. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442683570.7  Shelley Richardson, "Educating Daughters: The Melbourne Girls," Family Experiments: Middle-class, professional families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880-1920 (2016), 259-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1crn1.17  Nicholas Surany, "The Australasian Banana Industry: Chinese, Australian, and Pacific Economic Connections," in Chinese Colonial Entanglements: Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880-1950, edited by Julia T. Martinez, Claire Lowrie, and Gregor Benton (University of Hawai'i Press, 2024), https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.8441685.7  "Picnic at Hanging Rock," National Film and Sound Archive, https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/picnic  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(film)  Vincent Canby, "Picnic at Hanging Rock," https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/40-picnic-at-hanging-rock https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/41-dennis-lehane-s-top-10  https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-picnic-at-hanging-rock-1975

This week we're traveling back to 1820s Oregon Territory with First Cow! Join us as we learn about baked goods, "soft gold", cats, and more! Sources: Washington Irving, The Beauties of Washington Irving, 1825. Excerpt available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Beauties_of_Washington_Irving_Esq/IgdCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=olykoek&pg=PA33&printsec=frontcover Dan Kois, "I Made the Oily Cakes from First Cow,' Slate, available at https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/first-cow-oily-cakes-recipe.html https://inliterature.net/sleepy-hollow/traditional-dutch-1800s-olykoek-recipe/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Cow RogerEbert.com review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/first-cow-movie-review-2020 Preston Lewis, How Feral Cats Fared in the Wild West. Hint: It Usually Didn't End Well. Available at https://historynet.com/feral-cats-wild-west/ Barton Barbour, "Fur Trade in Oregon Country,' in Oregon Encyclopedia (August 2024), https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/fur_trade_in_oregon_country/  "Beaver Trap," Oregon History Project, https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/beaver-trap/  Melinda Jette, "Exploration & Fur Trade" Oregon History Project, 2003, https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/exploration-amp-fur-trade-by-robert-gray/  Jennifer Ott, ""Ruining" the Rivers in the Snake Country: The Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Desert Policy," Oregon Historical Quarterly 104, no. 2 (2003): 166-95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20615318

We don't have a new episode this week, so we're opening the Patreon vault to take you back to 1980s LA with GLOW! Join us as we learn about the wild world of 80s professional wrestling, including Hulk Hogan, the audition process, and more! Sources: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/original-gorgeous-ladies-of-wresting-glow_n_5953ff80e4b02734df2f98f2 https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/06/159777/glow-characters-gorgeous-ladies-of-wrestling-80s-photos#slide-1 Mrspikeshaw "Hulk Hogan - Say Your Prayers, Eat Your Vitamins," https://youtu.be/0-dI4Sl2rzE  Sam Migliore, "Professional Wrestling: Moral Commentary Through Ritual Metaphor," Journal of Ritual Studies 7:1 (1993): 65-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44398889  Conor Heffernan, "Representations of Hulk Hogan in the 1980s: Christianity, Masculinity, Xenophobia," Sport and Modern/Contemporary Visual Culture 12:1 (2023). https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/12/1/22  The Best Wrestling Promos of All Time, "Best Promos - Hulk Hogan "The ultimate sentence of Hulkamania," https://youtu.be/EA8ZAkvRgVo  WWE, "Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage join forces: Saturday Night's," https://youtu.be/rDWalFmERhY  WWE, "FULL MATCH - Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant - WWE Championship Match: WrestleMania III" https://youtu.be/rz8q5ZjboXY  Metacritic, Glow Season 1 https://www.metacritic.com/tv/glow/season-1  Julia Raeside, "GLOW review - a riotous portrayal of the piledriving world of women's wrestling," The Guardian (22 June 2017). https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2017/jun/22/glow-review-a-riotous-portrayal-of-the-piledriving-world-of-womens-wrestling   Rotten Tomatoes, "GLOW" Season 1 (2017); https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/glow/s01  IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5770786/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

This week we've got a listener-requested episode on Brooklyn! Join us as we travel back to 1950s Ireland and New York and learn about Irish dances, golf, Coney Island, 1950s immigration, and more! Sources: Source Paul Rouse, How Golf Took Root in Ireland, Irish Examiner, available at https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport-columnists/arid-20472471.html John T. Ridge, Dance Halls of Irish New York, available at https://nyirishhistory.us/article/dance-halls-of-irish-new-york/ Linda Dowling Almeida, Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995 (Indiana University Press, 2001), https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20060pn . The Beach in 1954: https://www.britannica.com/place/Coney-Island-amusement-area  Aaron Rose's Coney Island at the Museum of the City of New York: https://collections.mcny.org/asset-management/24UAKVQPB41?&WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP  Marta Gutman, "Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the WPA Swimming Pools in New York City," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no.4 (2008): 532-61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jsah.2008.67.4.532  Carolina Bank Munoz, Penny Lewis, and Emily Tumpson Molina, "Brooklyn," in A People's Guide to New York City (University of California Press), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2j6xfj4.8  https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/brooklyn  Glenn Kenny, "Brooklyn," https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brooklyn-2015

In this definitely NSFW episode, we're traveling back to 17th century Italy with Benedetta! Join us as we learn about the trial of Benedetta Carlini, comets, convent theater, and more! Sources: https://daily.jstor.org/lesbianism-at-the-convent/ Judith C. Brown, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1986, Archive.org) Rudolph M. Bell, "Renaissance Sexuality and the Florentine Archives: An Exchange," Renaissance Quarterly 40, no.3 (1987): 485-511. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2862521  Image of the comet over Heidelberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1618_W1#/media/File:Comet_1618_Heidelberg.jpg Nicholas Kollerstrom, "Galileo vs. 1618's Great Comet: Fly Like an Eagle," DIO 21, 2018 Elisa Neckar, "Sept. 6, 1618: The First Comet Seen Through a Telescope," Astronomy, available at https://www.astronomy.com/today-in-the-history-of-astronomy/sept-6-1618-the-first-comet-seen-through-a-telescope/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetta_(film) Rotten Tomatoes Reviews: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/benedetta Blank Check Podcast (Paul Verhoeven Series) Elissa B. Weaver, Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

This week we're traveling back to Edwardian England with Kind Hearts and Coronets! Join us as we learn about man traps, municipal baths, executing nobility, suffragettes doing awesome stuff like smashing windows and flying hot air balloons, and more! Sources: National Trust Collections: Humane Mantrap with No Teeth: https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/832217 Henry Yau, "Student Spotlight #2: Man Traps," The Museum of English Rural LIfe: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/student-spotlight-2-man-traps/ Keith Fitzpatrick-Mathews, Man Traps and Spring Guns and Burymead, North Hertfordshire Museum, available at https://northhertsmuseum.org/man-traps-and-spring-guns-at-burymead/ https://www.criterion.com/films/357-kind-hearts-and-coronets?srsltid=AfmBOoqI6mqHSaktbVr3VfmjtvrX_EoEHYVpCazVLklhDJtp_Vz21UaE  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_Hearts_and_Coronets Philip Kemp, https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/414-kind-hearts-and-coronets-ealing-s-shadow-side  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kind-Hearts-and-Coronets  David A. Ellis, Conversations with Cinematographers, 15.  https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=kind-hearts-and-coronets   https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/PLA01/03/0063  https://www.victorianturkishbath.org/F0GLOSSARY/SFglossPages/Slipper_w.htm  Dave Day and Margaret Roberts, "Working at the Baths," Swimming Communities in Victorian England (2019), 157-201.  https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/londons-public-executions/ https://capitalpunishmentuk.org/english-hangmen-1850-to-1964/  Colin Rhys Lovell, "The Trial of Peers in Great Britain," The American Historical Review 55, no.1 (1949): 69-81. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1841088  Execution of Lord Lovat (1747), https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/v/object-96988/a-representation-of-the-execution-of-lord-lovat/  https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/the-beheading-of-clan-fraser-chief-watched-by-thousands-859749  Robin Eagles, "The Last Peer Hanged for Murder," https://historyofparliament.com/2022/05/10/the-last-peer-hanged-for-murder/  Andrew Thrush, "The execution of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk," https://historyofparliament.com/2022/04/28/the-execution-of-thomas-howard-4th-duke-of-norfolk/  https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/v/object-547960/glass-smashing-for-votes-suffragettes-as-window-breakers/ https://bowstreetmuseum.org.uk/shattering-suffrage/ https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/suffragettes-on-file/window-smashing-campaign/ https://balloonteam.net/montgolfier/on-this-day-the-suffragette-airship/ https://blogs.loc.gov/families/2022/09/venturesome-ladies-trailblazing-female-fliers/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Matters#/media/File:The_London_Illustrated_News_(7th_November_1908.webp

We don't have a new episode this week, so we're releasing a Patreon episode from the vault: 2022's canceled-too-soon series, A League of Their Own. Join us as we learn about the AAGPBL's weird code of conduct, WWII-era mail censorship, and more! Sources: Full text available at https://www.aagpbl.org/history/rules-of-conduct https://www.aagpbl.org/teams/rockford-peaches/1944  Lisa Taylor/Justina Moloney, "Passed Censor," Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project, Library of Congress (28 August 2017). https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/08/passed-censor/  "Victory Mail," National Postal Museum, Smithsonian. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/victory-mail and https://youtu.be/tj_LoG7wStY  Myron Fox, "Censorship!" American Experience, PBS (2000). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/warletters-censorship/  "Letters Home: Wartime Correspondence from the Natale Bellantoni Papers," Hoover Institution Library & Archives https://histories.hoover.org/letters-home/#:~:text=Throughout%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,hands%20should%20mail%20be%20intercepted. Devan Coggan, "Abbi Jacobson responds to angry reactions to A League of Their Own: 'Representation matters so much'" Entertainment Weekly (15 August 2022). https://ew.com/tv/a-league-of-their-own-reactions-abbi-jacobson-responds/  Rebecca Nicholson, "A League of Their Own review-- this gorgeous baseball drama is about something far bigger than sport," The Guardian (12 August 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/12/a-league-of-their-own-review-baseball-drama-abbi-jacobson-madonna-movie-remake  Jenna Scherer, "A League Of Their Own serves up a whole new crop of Peaches," AV Club (10 August 2022). https://www.avclub.com/a-league-of-their-own-season-1-review-1849391265  Linda Holmes, "New Peaches, new problems: 'A League of Their Own' makes a successful move to TV," NPR (11 August 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/08/11/1116855780/a-league-of-their-own-2022-amazon-prime-review  Riese, "32 Excerpts From Really Special "League Of Their Own" Reviews Written By Homophobes Who've Had Quite Enough," Autostraddle, (15 August 2022). https://www.autostraddle.com/32-homophobic-league-of-their-own-reviews/  https://youtu.be/1OvULWYcSjQ

This week we're traveling back to 1940s Germany (yup, this is a heavy one, folks) with Nuremberg! Join us as we learn about real-life figures like Douglas Kelley, Emmy Goering, Howie Triest, and more! Sources: James Wylie, "The Battle to Be 'First Lady of the Third Reich.'" Daily Telegraph (London), November 14, 2019, 22,23. EBSCOhost. Richard J. Evans. 2015. The Third Reich in History and Memory. Oxford University Press. EBSCOhost. George Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality. New York: Howard Fertig, 1985 "Frau Goering Gets Year, but is Freed," New York Times, 22 July 1948, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/22/archives/frau-goering-gets-year-but-is-freed-court-also-confiscates-30-of.html https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/the-err-and-the-nazi-partys-systematic-looting-of-europe-xmbqkk/8289/ https://www.errproject.org/jeudepaume/about/err.php Douglas Kelley, 22 Cells in Nuremberg, https://archive.org/details/22-cells-in-nuremberg-douglas-m-kelley-z-library/page/n7/mode/2up  Jack El-Hai, "The Psychiatrist and the Nazi," World War II 28, no. 5 (2014): 38-45.  Jack El-Hai, "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist," Scientific American, (2011), https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-nazi-and-the-psychiatrist/  Martin Levinson, "General Semantics and PTSD in the Military," ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 72, no.3 (2015): 258-64, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24762164 . Meilan Solly, "The True Story Behind 'Nuremberg,' a WWII Drama About Hermann Goring's Cat-and-Mouse Game With an American Psychiatrist," Smithsonian Magazine (2025) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-story-behind-nuremberg-a-wwii-drama-about-hermann-gorings-cat-and-mouse-game-with-an-american-psychiatrist-180987621/  José Brunner, ""Oh Those Crazy Cards Again": A History of the Debate on the Nazi Rorschachs, 1946-2001," Political Psychology 22, no.2 (2001): 233-61, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3791925  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_(2025_film) Interview with James Vanderbilt, NPR: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/11/nx-s1-5487719/nuremberg-james-vanderbilt https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/nuremberg-james-vanderbilt-interview Mario Cacciotollo, "Jewish Army Translator Who Got Close to the Nazis," BBC, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14706309

This week we're traveling back to 18th century Manchester (and America!) with The Testament of Ann Lee! Join us as we learn about Ann Lee's life with her awful husband Abraham and fellow spiritual leader Jane Wardley, shaker spirituals, pacifism, and more! Sources: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pacifism/ Ngram for Pacifism: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pacifism&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 George Fox on peace: https://quaker.org/legacy/minnfm/peace/fox_1651.htm Tolstoy, "The Law of Violence and the Law of Love", 1908, available at https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1908/the-law-of-violence-and-the-law-of-love/chapter-8.html https://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/pop-religion-hunger-and-thirst-embodied-religion-testament-ann-lee https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_testament_of_ann_lee Guy Lodge, https://variety.com/2025/film/news/the-testament-of-ann-lee-review-amanda-seyfried-1236503769/ Peter Bradshaw, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/01/the-testament-of-ann-lee-review-shaker-venice-film-festival-amanda-seyfried-mona-fastvold  Peyton Robinson, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-testament-of-ann-lee-amanda-seyfried-film-review-2025  https://shakermuseum.org/learn/school-programs/shaker-music/ Nardi Reeder Campion, Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers (Brandeis University Press, 2026). https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.37730392  Linda Fujie, ""Draw the Chords of Union Stronger": The Musical Life of the American Shakers," The World of Music 35: 3 (1993): 51-79.  Daniel Patterson, The Shaker Spiritual (Dover, 1979, 2000) https://archive.org/details/shakerspiritual0000patt/page/2/mode/2up . https://www.shakermuseum.us/tis-gift-simple-things-arent-simple-seem/?nocache=1  https://home.shakerheritage.org/let-us-labor-the-evolution-of-shaker-dance/ https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-shaker-dance-and-worship-18th-century-photo-researchers.html   https://daily.jstor.org/the-rhythms-of-shaker-dance-marked-the-shakers-as-other/  EP Thompson, Making of the English Working Class BS Youngs, "The Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing," 1823, Full text available on Google Books Nardi Reeder Campion, Mother Ann Lee (2026) https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.37730392.11  A summary view of the Millennial Church, or United Society of Believers (commonly called Shakers) : comprising the rise, progress, and practical order of the society, together with the general principles of their faith and testimony (1823), https://archive.org/details/asummaryviewmil02wellgoog/page/n4/mode/2up

This week we're cracking open the Patreon vault to deliver unto you a bonus episode on Season 1 of The Terror! Join us as we learn about the horrors of the Franklin expedition, including lead poisoning, proof of death, and creepy old diving gear.  Sources: https://www.divingheritage.com/deanekern.htm https://www.whitstablemuseum.org/exhibit/diving/ https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~cmi/dive/diveHist.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologists-get-eerie-first-look-inside-arctic-shipwreck-franklin-hms-terror-180973011/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(TV_series) Indiewire: https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-terror-location-cgi-not-shot-outside-1201945793/ Keith Millar, Adrian W. Bowman, and William Battersby, "A re-analysis of the supposed role of lead poisoning in Sir John Franklin's last expedition, 1845-1848," Polar Record 51, no. 258 (2015): 224-38.  Anne Keenleyside, Margaret Bertuli, and Henry C. Fricke, "The Final Days of the Franklin Expedition: New Skeletal Evidence," Arctic 50, no.1 (1997): 36-46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40512040  Douglas R. Stenton, "Finding the dead: bodies, bones and burials from the 1845 Franklin northwest passage Expedition," Polar Record (2018): 197-212.  Brian D. Powell, "The memorials on Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada: an historical and pictorial survey," Polar Record 2, no.223 (2006): 325-33. https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks  Soup tin: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-2033  Peglar Papers: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-2113  https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/did-lead-poisoning-finish-off-a-doomed-arctic-expedition/

This week we're traveling back to 1970s Brazil with The Secret Agent! Join us as we learn about deaths at Carnival, the legend of the Hairy Leg, indigenous servants, and more! Sources: Da-Silva, Elidiomar. (2025). A PERNA CABELUDA, DE RECIFE, PERNAMBUCO: POSSÍVEIS DIÁLOGOS COM A ZOOLOGIA CULTURAL - Barbante - Revista Literária (ISSN 2338-1414) (Da-Silva, Elidiomar. 2025). 13. 20-27. 10.5281/zenodo.17655754.  Diario de Pernambuco, Issue from 10 December 1975: https://memoria.bn.gov.br/docreader/DocReader.aspx?bib=029033_15&pagfis=78246 Diario de Pernambuco, Issue from 11 December 1975: https://memoria.bn.gov.br/docreader/DocReader.aspx?bib=029033_15&pagfis=78266 Wilson Chapman, Watch 'The Secret Agent' Director Kleber Mendonça Filho Tell Guillermo del Toro the Story Behind the Film's Hairy Leg," Indiewire: https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/the-secret-agent-hairy-leg-making-of-1235182134/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent_(2025_film) Andy Crump, "How The Secret Agent Appeals to Brazilian Collective Memory," Time, available at https://time.com/7336528/the-secret-agent-brazilian-history-interview/ Erik Luers Interview with Kleber Mendonca Filho, Filmmaker, available at https://filmmakermagazine.com/132652-interview-kleber-mendonca-filho-the-secret-agent/ Christopher Dunn, "Afro-Bahian Carnival: A Stage for Protest," Afro-Hispanic Review 11, no. 1/3 (1992): 11-20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41417220  Victoria Baena, "Favelas in the Spotlight: Transforming the Slums of Rio de Janeiro," Harvard International Review 33, no. 1 (2011): 34-37. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42763442  "AROUND THE WORLD Rio Celebrates 'Quiet' Carnival." 1979., Feb 28 The Globe and Mail. "March 3, 1976 (Page 4 of 56)." 1976., Mar 03 Detroit Free Press, General edition, 4.  "180 die in Brazil's carnival," (1971)  https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/25/archives/180-die-in-brazils-carnival.html  Tom Murphy, "92 deaths reported as Rio Carnival ends," UPI Archives (Feb. 20, 1985). https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/02/20/92-deaths-reported-as-Rio-Carnival-ends/5635477723600/  "164 Die in Rio During Carnival," Los Angeles Times (March 1, 1990), https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-01-mn-2198-story.html  US and Brazil: https://www.statista.com/statistics/187592/death-rate-from-homicide-in-the-us-since-1950/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24027422/#&gid=article-figures&pid=fig-2-uid-1  Henrique Espada Lima, "Wages of Intimacy: Domestic Workers Disputing Wages in the Higher Courts of Nineteenth-Century Brazil," International Labor and Working-Class History 88 (2015): 11-29. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43956662  Peter Wade, "Blacks and Indigenous People in Latin America," Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, 24-40 (2010). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183p73f.7  Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Indigenous International Relations," Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics (2018): 97-125. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt20krzcq.11  Merike Blofield, "Feudal Enclaves and Political Reforms: Domestic Workers in Latin America," Latin American Research Review 44, no.1 (2009): 158-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20488173

We don't have a new episode this week, so we're cracking open the Patreon vault and releasing one of our bonus episodes on The Ghost Bride! Join us on our journey to 1890s Malacca, and learn about the ghost bride custom, clothing, currency, and more! Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37103447 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-07/ghost-marriages-in-rural-china-continue-to-thrive/9608624 Wenzhang Zhou and Yang Feng, "When Religious Folk Practice Meets Karl Marx: Courts' Response to Ghost Marriage in Modern China," Religions, 14 (2023) Myron L. Cohen, "Souls and Salvation: Conflicting Themes in Chinese Popular Religion," in Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, ed. James L. Watson and Evelyn S. Rawski. University of California Press, 1990 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Bride_(TV_series)  Patrick Brzeski, "Netflix Unveils Launch Dates for First Trio of Chinese-Language Originals," The Hollywood Reporter, 26 August 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-sets-launch-dates-first-chinese-language-originals-1234398/  Mathew Scott, "Netflix Launches Mobile-Only Plan for Malysia," The Hollywood Reporter, 24 October 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-launches-mobile-plan-malaysia-1249730/  https://decider.com/2020/01/23/the-ghost-bride-netflix-stream-it-or-skip-it/ Chiang Hai Ding, "The Origins of the Malaysian Currency System (1867-1906)," Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39, no.1 (1966): 1-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41491873  The Kebaya: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230302-the-asian-blouse-that-tells-a-tale-of-many-cultures  Peranakan fashion: https://www.roots.gov.sg/stories-landing/stories/peranakan-fashion-and-its-international-sources/story  Singapore, Sarong Kebaya and Style: Peranakan Fashion (National Heritage Board), https://artsandculture.google.com/story/6AVxGAwa3F7DJA?hl=en

**Note: Due to technical difficulties, there were issues affecting Jamie's audio quality this week. We apologize and promise it will be fixed on our next episode.** This week we're traveling back to 1950s America with Good Night, and Good Luck! Join us as we learn about Red Scare-Era figurse like Annie Lee Moss, Joe and Shirley Wershba, Milo Radulovich, Don Hollenbeck, and more! Sources: Loren Ghiglione, Why Don Hollenbeck Fascinated Me Enough to Write His Biography. History News Network. Available at https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-don-hollenbeck-fascinated-me-enough-to-write-h Loren Ghiglione, Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism. New York: Columbian University Press CBS News: February 2nd 1951: https://youtu.be/F8DsMDzUpe4?si=2GNdaXsGlyIStfwI Interview with Loren Ghiglione: https://cupblog.org/2008/10/03/interview-with-loren-ghiglione-author-of-cbss-don-hollenbeck/ https://www.michbar.org/programs/milestone/milestones_miloradulovich "Joseph Wershba on the Milo Radulovich Story" https://youtu.be/MEBNxrIT8r0?si=EqheG_CZKDzzDvQP  https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-bhl-2008173  "The Wisconsin Magazine; 1329; Joe McCarty," 1987-05-08, PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed February 27, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-42n5tgg7 Martin, Douglas, "OBITUARIES: MILO RADULOVICH, 81, DIES; SYMBOL OF '50S RED SCARE." New York Times (November 21, 2007), 1. THE RADULOVICH CASE. 1953. New York Times (1923-);30. ELAINE WOO "M. Radulovich, 81; airman's case played key role in helping to end McCarthy era." Los Angeles Times (2007);1. Holley J. "Milo radulovich; cast out of air force, he put face on 'ravages of McCarthyism'." The Washington Post (2007);1. Matthew Wills, "How Annie Lee Moss Survived McCarthyism," JSTOR Daily, https://daily.jstor.org/how-annie-lee-moss-survived-mccarthyism/  "Mrs. Moss is Sorry," NY Times (1957), https://nyti.ms/4kXSwf3  Andrea Friedman, "The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and McCarthyism," JAH 94:2 (2007): 445-68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25094960  Joseph Wershba, Remembered. WNYC Studios, available at https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/140064-joseph-wershba-remembered?tab=transcript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Night,_and_Good_Luck https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/good-night-and-good-luck-2005