During the Lavender Scare, the US government fired hundreds (but possibly thousands) of civil servants for being gay or lesbian, ostensibly because of a Communist-panic in which Americans were convinced a homosexual could be blackmailed into giving up state secrets to Read more
In this episode, we uncover the extraordinary story of John Scott, a twenty-year-old American idealist who abandoned the University of Wisconsin during the Great Depression, taught himself to weld, and boarded a train for the Soviet Union. He would spend Read more
Rachel Carson is often touted as inspiring the modern global environmental movement. In 1962, when Carson’s book Silent Spring was published, she was a fifty-five-year-old former government employee and an award-winning writer of oceanography books. She did not hold a university position, Read more
In the mid-1970s, parents in Niagara Falls, New York were struggling to figure out why their children were getting mysteriously ill. For two years, officials from the state had been investigating the environment in Niagara Falls For years, residents had Read more
Since the 1970s, oil and gas companies have been trying to stick their drills in the Arctic coastal plain. Resistance has been persistent and multi-faceted. Environmental conservationist organizations like Sierra Club have testified before Congress and organized letter-writing campaigns, filmmakers Read more
In 1851, a journalist named Henry Mayhew set out to document the lives of London’s working poor. What he found was astonishing. In the richest city in the world, thousands of people made their living by picking through other people’s Read more
This year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the moment when American patriots pledged their lives and their sacred honor to declare the American colonies independent of the British crown. By the time the Continental Congress Read more
This year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the moment when American patriots pledged their lives and their sacred honor to declare the American colonies independent of the British crown. By the time the Continental Congress Read more
Yule logs, dried orange slices strung across your windows, decorated trees and simmer pots – all the marks of a neopagan holiday season! Wait, that’s Christmas, you say? Well, can’t it be both? A brief history of modern witchcraft, just Read more
Over an eight-month period in 1896-1897, thousands of people across North America reported seeing mysterious ships in the air or lights in the sky. There were over 12,000 newspaper accounts published about the phenomenon in 408 different newspapers in 41 Read more
Associate Professor of History at St. Olaf College. Layout Editor at Nursing Clio. Writes about sex, gender, and policing in modern Ireland. Love in the Lav available now. Will tell you about maple creemees, just ask.
Associate Teaching Professor of History at University at Buffalo. Author of Bodies in Blue. Executive Editor at Nursing Clio. Writes about disability and the American Civil War. Has participated in Civil War reenactments, and still has the petticoats to prove it.
Assistant Professor of History at St. Leo University, former ACLS Fellow/Project Lead of ASU's Journal of the Plague Year. Studies lactating women for hire in the Atlantic world during the Revolutionary era. Unhealthy obsession with true crime podcasts.
Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Brockport. Inaugural Dr. Virginia Radley SUNY Fellow. Writes about Progressive Era women and the formation of the welfare state in the US. Author of Sentimental State. Texas native who married her tattoo artist (not just for the free tattoos).
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