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19th century

The Lakota performing the Ghost Dance at Pine Ridge
Radical Religion

Dancing Toward Wounded Knee: The Hope and Tragedy of the Ghost Dance Religion

In the 1880s, when the buffalo were all but extinct, droughts and over-grazing meant famines, and the promised rations from the government shrank, a new religion spread rapidly through the tribes of the Great Basin and Plains west. It was called the Ghost Dance religion, preached by the Paiute prophet Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years10 months ago
Radical Religion

Wound Worship, “Enthusiasts” and “Sodomites”: A History of Radical Moravians

They stoked rebellion in enslaved Africans in Suriname, they possessed an unhealthy obsession with blood, gore, and the genitals of Jesus Christ, they allowed their women to preach (against the Pauline prescriptions) and they indulged in all kinds of wicked behavior. Worst of all, to their many enemies, people liked Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 3 years10 months ago
Manhood

Papa Can You Hear Me? Fatherhood in 19th century US and Britain

Like all things, “fatherhood” has a history. From the enslaved men of the Anglo-American Atlantic to the middling sort to working class daddies and “their chairs,” ideas about fatherhood across socio-economic status in the nineteenth century shared one common trope: fathers were supposed to be providers. This wasn’t always the Read more…

By Averill Earls, 3 years10 months ago
Manhood

Patriarchs, Brawlers, and Gentlemen: Manhood in the Civil War Era

In 1864, young Daniel Folsom was institutionalized for something that we might consider PTSD. In a letter home to his sister, he promised her, “I shall try and be a man.” Why was Daniel so concerned with his manhood? What did it mean to be a man during the Civil Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years10 months ago
Clubs

Fragile Masculinity, Playing Indian, and Mechanical Goats: Fraternal Orders in the 19th Century US

The Odd Fellows, the Masons, the Knights of Pythias: all ancient, secret, solemn orders full of the pillars of the community, right? Then what do we make of some of the super weird stuff they did, like pushing each other around on mechanical goats or pretending to be Iroquois sachems? Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years10 months ago
14th century painting of the assassination of Nizam al-Mulk
Clubs

Order of Assassins: Myth & Memory of the Nizari in Medieval Iran and Syria

Deadpool, Boba Fett, James Bond, Jason Bourne, Winter Soldier and Kill Bill… from the Assassin’s Creed video games to the John Wick series, professional assassins are vilified and valorized in equal measure. Why do some assassins earn our admiration, even affection, while others remain defamed and deviant in the popular Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 3 years10 months ago
A cartoon depicting several men, representing European nations, holding down a woman, representing America
Sex

Rape and Race in Early America

In the age of #MeToo, rape and sexual assault have been consistently in the news. Debates abound about what counts as rape, whose testimony we should believe, and too often, men with power and privilege get away with it. But though it feels pressing right now, none of those debates Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years10 months ago
ink sketches of several skulls of varying shapes/sizes
Bodies

Skull Collectors: Race, Pseudoscience, and Native American Bodies

In 1996, two college students stumbled upon some skeletal remains in the Columbia River in Washington. The body, it turns out, was the oldest ever found in North America. In order to understand the story and controversy of the Kennewick Man, also known as The Ancient One, we need to Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 4 years10 months ago
A color photograph of the Milky Way from the Hubble Telescope
Frontiers

The Final Frontier: History, Science, and Space Exploration

Is space the new frontier? What are the links between the so-called “age of exploration,” and the conquering of the American West, and the United States space program? We will be covering those questions and others in today’s podcast, The Final Frontier: History, Science, and Space Exploration. Listen, download, watch Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 4 years10 months ago
A sepia toned photograph of two sailing ships frozen in polar ice
Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

Cannibalism, Frostbite, and The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Today we are discussing the bone-chilling fear that comes from knowing that all hope is gone, and your death – from the cold, or from a slow moving disease, or from starvation – is only a matter of time. We’re talking about the quest to explore the Arctic. Listen, download, Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 4 years10 months ago

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