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152. Kate Warne - America's First Female Detective
Jul 16, 2025Kate Warne, a woman in history we should know more about. The first "lady" detective in the USA, she solved crimes, performed subtrefuge and even thwarted an assassination attempt on President-elect, ...
151 . John Brown - Part II: Heroism is Treason
Jul 07, 2025In the second half of the John Brown tale, we get to hear about Brown's FAFO era, from Bleeding Kansas to the guerilla warfare at Osawatomie, the Battle at Black Creek and of course the rai on Harper'...
150. John Brown - Part I: American Abolitionist
Jul 03, 2025Happy Independence Day! It's July 4th which means that it's the perfect time to talk about some classic American history. I was hoping to get this into one epidoe but alas, there's too much to tell. s...
149. Mary Astor - Hollywood and Scandal
Jun 30, 2025A film noir femme fatale, actress Mary Astor found herself embroiled in a custody battle and "crime of the century!" A scandal so inticing that it knocked the news of fascists off of the front page of...
148. King Edward II - Bisexual Chaos Monarch
Jun 24, 2025King Edward II had everything he needed in life, a great education, a throne to sit upon, huge tracts of land and a beautiful face... unfortunately his greatest achievement as King was having a pirate...
147. Alan Turing - The Codebreaker
Jun 17, 2025Alan Turing is a man who deserved to be celebrated, a cryptanalyst, mathematician and codebreaker who helped win the Second World War, A man who was possibly neurodivergent and definitely homosexual. ...
146. Billy Tipton - Trans Jazz Icon
Jun 09, 2025It's Pride month and so it's the perfect time to tack about trans cultural icon, Billy Lee Tipton - a transgender jazz musician, who performed all over the country, had five dogs, five wives and a gre...
145. Louisa May Alcott
Jun 03, 2025This Pride Month, let us tell a tale of one of the best-known authors and least-known asexuals in history - Miss Louisa May Alcott. You may know her as the writer of the classic novel, Little Women, b...
144. The Marchioness Disaster
May 26, 20251989 in London, England, 130 partygoers boarded a small pleasure boat - The Marchioness - for a birthday bash cruise down the Thames river. Less than an hour later, over a third of these people would ...
143. When MIT & Quaker Oats Tested Radiation on Children
May 20, 2025Massachusetts has a shadow on its history, that of the Fernald School in South Boston, an institution designed to provide children with intellectual disabilities skills that they would be able to have...