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Behind the Scenes Minis: Pope Riot
Jun 13, 2025Holly and Tracy talk about Tracy growing up in a mostly Protestant community with little exposure to Catholicism. They also talk about the Gorsuch family's ties to John Wilkes Booth. See omnystudio.c...
Christiana Incident of 1851
Jun 11, 2025The Christiana Incident offers a snapshot of the U.S. when the country was sorting into states where slavery was upheld and states that had abolished it, and what racist tension looked like at border ...
Pope Leo XIII
Jun 09, 2025Pope Leo XIII sought to find a way forward for the Catholic church at a time when the world was rapidly changing and the church was often at odds with those changes. Research: Aubert, Roger-Françoi...
SYMHC Classics: Griswold v. Connecticut
Jun 07, 2025This 2022 episode covers Griswold v. Connecticut, the U.S. supreme court decision that overturned laws banning contraception – at least, for married couples. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Parks and Roads
Jun 06, 2025Tracy talks about her experiences with the Blue Ridge Parkway growing up, including her mixed feelings about it. Holly talks about the theft of the Mona Lisa. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
Blue Ridge Parkway
Jun 04, 2025The Blue Ridge Parkway is the longest roadway in the U.S. that was planned as a single unit. Its origin is connected to government efforts to provide relief from the Great Depression, and conservation...
Skyline Drive & Shenandoah National Park
Jun 02, 2025Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park is a scenic road tied to the “See America First” movement of the early 20th century. The acquisition of land for the project was difficult, and displaced many...
SYMHC Classics: Palmer Raids Pt. 2
May 31, 2025This 2016 continuation of our coverage of the Palmer Raids covers a series of raids on perceived threats to national security by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Thousands of people were rounded u...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Science and Library Love
May 30, 2025Tracy outlines all the way RFK Jr.'s claims regarding disease history make no sense. Holly talks about the section of her career that was spent working in a university library. See omnystudio.com/list...
Library of Congress
May 28, 2025The Library of Congress has a lot of responsibilities. It’s massive in both physical scale and in scale of services. So how did it start, and how did it evolve to be the largest library in the world? ...