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Estevanico, aka Mustapha al-Azemmour
Aug 18, 2025Estevanico was a translator and guide, and was probably the first person of any race from outside the Americas to enter what’s now Arizona and New Mexico – which happened in 1539. Research: Birzer,...
SYMHC Classics: Prison Breaks
Aug 16, 2025This 2022 episode covers six highly ingenious and low-violence prison breaks from history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Behind the Scenes Minis: Learned Women and Sharkey
Aug 15, 2025Tracy shares a funny confusion about Unitarians and the University of Utrecht she kept having during research. Holly talks about how often escape stories to claim the escaper was never heard from agai...
William J. Sharkey’s Not-so-great Escape
Aug 13, 2025William J. Sharkey was a pickpocket, a con man, a politician, and a murderer, though whether or not that murder was an accident became the question at the center of a case that gripped New York for mo...
Anna Maria van Schurman, Star of Utrecht
Aug 11, 2025Polymath Anna Maria van Schurman was a very well-educated woman in the 17th century, making her exceptional. She’s described as the most learned woman of her time, and she basically became a celebrity...
SYMHC Classics: Sappho
Aug 09, 2025This 2019 episode covers Sappho, often described as the greatest female poet of ancient Greece. Her reputation as a poet has persisted for more than 2500 years, but the overwhelming majority of her wo...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Fitz Hugh and Sleepytime
Aug 08, 2025Holly talks about gaining compassion for Fitz Hugh Ludlow through reading his work. Tracy discusses her training in massage school. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Paracelsus and the Doctrine of Signatures
Aug 06, 202516th-century Swiss physician Paracelsus was frustrated with established medical practice and academia and he was sometimes on the lam because of his beliefs. He wrote at length about the idea that ite...
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Aug 04, 2025Fitz Hugh Ludlow’s fame as a writer was directly tied to his drug use initially. In his final years, his advocacy for treatment of the illness of addiction was really ahead of its time. Research: “...
SYMHC Classics: James Baldwin
Aug 02, 2025This 2020 episode covers James Baldwin, who was a brilliant essayist, one of the chroniclers of the Civil Rights Movement, and a powerful voice against racism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...