Footnoting History

(Host: Kristin)

On July 19, 1723, Newport, Rhode Island was the site of the largest mass execution for piracy in the American Colonies. Twenty-six men were hanged on what is today Long Wharf and buried near the shores of Goat Island. Learn what historians know – and what we only wish we knew – about a major case of Admiralty Law and Order on this episode of Footnoting History!  

 

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(Hosts: Christine, Ted, Lucy, and Kristin)

Thirteen years of haunting, horrors, and hysteria! We are back again with the annual favorite: our episode packed with Halloween-related stories from the past.

 

Ghost stories from a 1920s edition of The Jackson City Patriot (Michigan); Connecticut Witch Trials, Halloween traditions from the newspaper archives of Jonesboro, Arkansas; and the alleged time travel adventures at Versailles of Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain in 1901.

 

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(Host: Ben)

Beginning in the early 20th century, African American intellectuals and organizers such as W.E.B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey held surprising views of solidarity towards the increasingly powerful Imperial Japanese government. Their views evolved in the years leading up to and during the Second World War, however perceptions of a sympathetic ally from both sides of the Pacific disseminated into many rural African American farming communities in the decades leading up to the Modern Civil Rights Movement. Join us on this episode of Footnoting History as we discuss this lesser known and very complicated relationship in recent history.

 

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(Host: Lucy)

A bestselling novel you’ve probably never heard of created pop culture waves and sparked a mid-Victorian tourist industry. Westward Ho! is full of daring adventures, exciting sea battles, lush landscapes, and romance, but – unlike the novels of Stevenson and Dickens – is mostly forgotten today. Its author, Charles Kingsley, was an Anglican clergyman, amateur historian, and zealous social reformer. Westward Ho! illustrates his passionate engagement with the issues of his time, from evolution and empire to religious practice. This episode explores these Victorian debates as well as the novel’s mythos of Elizabeth seafarers and the Devon coastline. 

 

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(Host: Jessica)

Red lipstick is one of the oldest cosmetics on earth. From its oldest archaeological documentation in Bronze Age Ira n, to women in the military being issued 'Montezuma Red' lipstick to spite Hitler. This episode of Footnoting History explores the history and impact of this famous cosmetic. 

 

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