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Frankenstein’s Monster: Science, Revolution and Romanticism in the Age of the Enlightenment

To escape what came to be known as The Year Without a Summer, a small group holed up in a Swiss villa and challenged each other to pass the time by telling the best ghost stories. Several notable literary works emerged from this friendly storytelling competition. Lord Byron’s poem Darkness, Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 1 year12 months ago
Death

Amy Robsart, Lady Dudley: The Death that Launched a Thousand Rumors

Today, as a part of our Death series, we are digging into a particular death, one that scandalized the Elizabethan court, provided fodder for decades of court intrigue and propaganda by Catholic exiles, and launched a literary genre of embellished folklore embraced by many, Jacobean players, and novelist Walter Scott Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 1 year1 year ago
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Death

The Black Death: Dancing with Death in the Medieval World

The Black Death raged across Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia in the mid 14th century. Families were thrown into chaos, the Catholic church faced dissension in its ranks, and townships struggled to provide services and control infection. The sheer ubiquity of death even fostered an artistic genre: the Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 1 year1 year ago
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Death

Cult of the Dead: Anglo American Death Practices, Spiritualism, and Speaking with the Dead

Today we delve into the new book, Speaking with the Dead in Early America, by historian and friend-of-the-pod Erik Seeman, where he explores the history of Protestant communication with the dead in the three centuries before the advent of Spiritualism. Scroll down for a full transcript. Related Posts Suit Up: Class, Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 1 year1 year ago
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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, 2 years2 years ago
Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

Forensic Pathology and the History of Death Investigation

This Halloween, take a minute to notice amputated limbs littering haunted houses, scary stories about reanimated corpses that you tell by the fire while you’re camping, all that rubbernecking on the thruway when there’s a horrific accident, the endless tv shows, podcasts, and books dedicated to grisly murders… or even Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 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, 3 years2 years ago
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Crime

Elizabeth Brownrigg: Child Abuse, Murder and Execution in Georgian London

Most societies are fascinated by women murderers. On September 14, 1767, a massive crowd gathered round the road to Tyburn, thronging around the hangman’s cart, throwing vegetable peels and other refuse. They shouted profanity at the occupants of the cart, one of whom was Elizabeth Brownrigg, the most controversial criminal to Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 3 years3 years ago
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Creepy, Occult & Otherworldly

Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Death, Religion, and Euro-Native Encounters

Today we’re going to talk about one very specific encounter around death and death ways that took place in the mid 1600s in what is now Ontario, Canada, and before we even get started, I want to mention our source for this episode. We’re really basing everything here on one Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 3 years3 years ago
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