Witch Hunts

How much is a college degree really worth? Is higher education still considered a vehicle for social mobility in the modern era? What barriers to accessing college still have legacies that extend into modern admissions and education? Join us as we educate ourselves on the answers to all of these questions and more in order to discover who wins and loses in the game of higher education.


Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/education/Lay-education-and-the-lower-schools#ref47520
https://www.mastersavenue.com/articles-guides/good-to-know/the-10-oldest-universities-in-the-world
https://dailyhistory.org/How_did_higher_education_develop_in_the_United_States
https://scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/files/the_shaping_of_higher_education_the_formative_years_in_the_united_states_1890-1940.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2014/03/18/290868013/how-the-cost-of-college-went-from-affordable-to-sky-high
www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/11-lessons-history-higher-ed
https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/20/2/review_the_chosen_the_hidden_history_of_admission_and_exclusion_by_jerome_karabel 

After a break, we are back with a new episode about one of the most prevalent modern day issues: abortion. Our conversation isn't meant to change opinions or force beliefs- we simply seek to explore to broader history behind reproductive healthcare through a lens that many of us don't often look through. Join us on this journey as we uncover a piece of the history that may be the key to our futures.


As always, check out the following links for more information:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10297561/

https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/abortion-central-history-reproductive-health-care-america 

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/health/abortion-history-in-united-states/index.html 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12340403/ 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/roe-v-wade-the-tumultuous-history-that-led-to-the-landmark-ruling 

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/scarlet-letters-getting-the-history-of-abortion-and-contraception-right/ 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/roe-v-wade-the-tumultuous-history-that-led-to-the-landmark-ruling 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8274866/ 

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097514184/how-abortion-became-a-mobilizing-issue-among-the-religious-right 

https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/state-policies-later-abortions 

We kick off the new year by discussing the very topic that inspired us to start this podcast: school curricula in the US. The history of the history we teach is in schools is intriguing, surprising, and occasionally hilarious. Join as as we look back on it from the losers' point of view!


Check out the following links for more information:
https://time.com/5889051/history-curriculum-politics/

https://oxfordre.com/education/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264093-e-1037 

https://www.leaderinme.org/blog/history-of-education-the-united-states-in-a-nutshell/ 

https://readingpartners.org/blog/history-banned-books-week/ 

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05 

Join us for our November episode as we break down misconceptions about Native Americans-- from Central and South America. The Aztecs and Incas had incredibly complex cultures, but most of that has been lost in the narrative written by those who took their land. We'll piece together everything we do know about these empires to trace their true histories.


Check out the following links for more information:
https://time.com/5715476/aztec-history-myths/

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/unearthing-the-secrets-of-the-aztecs/ 

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-fall-of-the-aztec-empire-what-really-happened-in-the-battle-of 

https://www.history.com/topics/south-america/inca 

https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/show/episode2.html 

https://www.livescience.com/41346-the-incas-history-of-andean-empire.html 

https://www.npr.org/2013/04/13/176783269/enshrined-and-oft-invoked-simon-bolivar-lives-on 

https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/565410514/an-american-secret-the-untold-story-of-native-american-enslavement 

Join us for a spooky episode and Season 3 opener as we discuss witch trials throughout history. Starting in the Middle Ages and continuing into present day, witch hunts have been shrouded in mystery for many. We discuss all of the hideen details and finally discover why witches are much more than just a Halloween costume.


Check out the following links for more information:
https://qz.com/1183992/why-europe-was-overrun-by-witch-hunts-in-early-modern-history/

https://www.history.com/news/beyond-salem-6-lesser-known-witch-trials 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/

https://daily.jstor.org/caused-salem-witch-trials/ 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-brutal-history-of-witch-hunts-11614877614

https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-10-23/most-witches-are-women-because-witch-hunts-were-all-about-persecuting-powerless

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/witch-trials-21st-century/ 

Thank you for all of your support on Season 2! We hope you enjoy hearing the history of this season through our bloopers!

As a thank you for all of your support on Season 2, we're releasing some extra content that never made our final cuts. From Season 2- Episode 9, here's our conversation on frontier genocide.

 
Check out the following link for more information:
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-2/imperialism-conquest-and-mass-murder 

We're currently living through one of the deadliest pandemics in history. But what can previous outbreaks teach us about handling the coronavirus? Join us as we travel back to the earliest epidemics and move through time to learn about plagues that wiped out entire populations (and pick up some tips for how to handle ours).
 

Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/pandemics-timeline

https://www.publichealthonline.org/worst-global-pandemics-in-history/ 

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/black-death-fatal-flu-past-pandemics-show-why-people-margins-suffer-most  

https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/disease-has-never-been-just-disease-native-americans/610852/ 

https://www.history.com/news/1918-pandemic-spanish-flu-censorship 

https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-history/developments-by-year

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines

The U. S. Civil Rights Movement, anti-apartheid protests, fight for Indian independence, and women's suffrage campaigns are all generally characterized by the nonviolent change they enacted. But if we look a little deeper, we can find bloody battle scars that have been buried beneath the rest of the history. Join us as we learn about Gandhi's violent counterparts, feminist bombers, the Black Panthers (not the ones from Wakanda), and some of the most notable violent resistance movements around the world.

 
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/black-panthers 

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/986561396 

https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party 

https://www.facinghistory.org/confronting-apartheid/chapter-3/introduction 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/armed-struggle-anti-apartheid-struggle-accelerates-1984-1990 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/magazine/the-forgotten-colonial-forces-of-world-war-ii.html 

https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/give-me-blood-and-i-will-give-you-freedom-bhagat-singh-subhas-chandra-bose-and-the-uses-of-violence-in-indias-independence-movement/ 

https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/suffragettes-violence-and-militancy# 

https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/ 

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/ 

To celebrate June as Pride Month, we delve into the history of the LGBTQ+ community and the advances they have made in spite of oppression throughout large portions of history. We do our best to answer why Pride Month is so important by going through history from the very first queer figures all they way to modern issues faced by the community.

 
Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.glaad.org/publications/pridekit 

https://www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/sexuality#lgbtq-general-works 

https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/queer-coins?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OSayCanYouSee+%28O+Say+Can+You+See%3F-+National+Museum+of+American+History+Blog%29 

https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/history 

https://www.lgbtqhistory.org/lgbt-rights-timeline-in-american-history/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/black-history-month-17-lgbtq-black-pioneers-who-made-history-n1130856 

https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-social-issues/homophobia

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/