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Anti-Mexican Mob Violence in the Borderlands: A Lynching in Rocksprings, Texas

In November 1910 two tragic events occurred in Rocksprings, Texas, a tiny rural community almost 200 miles west of Austin and San Antonio. Within the span of a few days, two individuals were violently murdered, one killed point blank by a shotgun blast to the back and to the head, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 10 months5 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, 1 year1 year ago
Manhood

What’s In a Name? : North American Naming Conventions and the “Death” of Patrilineal Lines

Imagine a piece of furniture, part cupboard, part chest of drawers — decorated with patterns of hearts, pinwheels, and intricate floral imagery — emblazoned on the front in large, bold letters the name H-A-N-N-A-H  B-A-R-N-A-R-D. This chest belonged to somebody, it’s ownership screaming out from the colorful images around it, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 1 year1 year ago
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Episode

Anthony Comstock: Sex, Censorship, and the Power of Policing the Subjective

Today’s episode is part of our sex series 2.0 and a continuation of one of our earliest episodes, Selling Sex: 19th Century New York City Prostitution and Brothels. In that episode, Sarah and I discussed the vibrant sexual culture in New York City during the Gilded Age, roughly 1870 to Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years1 year ago
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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, 2 years2 years ago
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Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

Haunted Slavery: The Lalaurie Mansion, New Orleans

The Lalaurie Mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana, is said to be one of the most haunted houses in the French Quarter. The extreme and shocking stories that are told about the Lalaurie house are egregiously exaggerated and overwhelmingly gloss over the real issues of race, gender, and violence prevalent with Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years8 months ago
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Original Research

The Age of Crime! Civil War Veterans and Crime in America

The nation first had to truly grapple with the extraordinary expenses of war was after the American Civil War. As part of our series highlighting our own research fields, today we’re talking about Civil War veterans and disability, trauma, gore, crime, and extraordinary federal expenditures. Listen, download, watch on YouTube, or Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years2 years ago
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Original Research

The United States Children’s Bureau: An Attempt to Curb Infant Mortality

The death of a young child was a very real and emotional experience for many families during the American Progressive Era. However, at the dawn of the twentieth century many Americans came to expect a better outcome in the life expectancy of their children. In the new age of industrial Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years2 years ago
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Environment

The Rise of Natural History Museums

Today we will be discussing the history of natural history museums in America and the Western World. Many natural history museums, in America and in the western world, were developed during the nineteenth century. These museums are both places to view and understand nature, they are also places that have Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 3 years3 years ago
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Womyn

Victoria Woodhull: Free Love, Feminism & Finance

Victoria Woodhull was an advocate of free love, an outspoken advocate for women’s rights and suffrage, a Spiritualist medium, a stockbroker, maybe a sex worker, an all-around force of nature. She might be one of the most controversial women in American history, which means she is one of our favorites. Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years7 months ago

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