Stuff You Missed in History Class

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SYMHC Classics: Butter v. Margarine Apr 11, 2020

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This 2016 episode delves into how industries and governments had a really weird preoccupation with protecting people from margarine way before it was made with the hydrogenated oils that led to its unhealthy reputation in more recent years. There's even bootlegging involved.

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Annie and Rinderpest Apr 10, 2020

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Holly and Tracy talk about Annie Londonderry's cavalier relationship with the truth and the challenges of travel with the wrong clothes and bike. Then talk turns to a strange paper that Tracy read while researching rinderpest.

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The End of Rinderpest Apr 08, 2020

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The declaration that rinderpest had been eradicated was less than 10 years, but rinderpest’s history goes back much farther than that. And the process of eradicating the disease really illustrates how it took a coordinated, international effort to do it.

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Annie Londonderry’s Dubious Bike Trip Around the World Apr 06, 2020

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Annie Londonderry gained fame for being the first woman cyclist to circumnavigate the globe. Sort of. In the 1890s, she DID circle the globe, but there are a LOT of inconsistencies in the details of her story, including why she did it in the first place.

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SYMHC Classics: Ignaz Semmelweis Apr 04, 2020

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We're jumping back just a couple of years to an episode on Ignaz Semmelweis made a connection between hand hygiene and the prevention of childbed fever in the 19th century.

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Strange Times and Ida Lewis Apr 03, 2020

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Holly and Tracy talk about selecting subjects for the show while living in strange times, and venture into talk about Emily Dickinson.

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Ida Lewis, Lighthouse Keeper Apr 01, 2020

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Ida Lewis lived most of her life fairly isolated on a tiny island off the coast Rhode Island. But it was a life she deeply loved. In her words, “I could not be contented elsewhere.”

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Covid-19: Living Through Historically Significant Times Mar 30, 2020

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Tracy and Holly discuss what it feels like, as people who study history, to live through an event that you know will be historically significant. To all of our listeners: Please stay safe, and thank you for being part of the SYMHC family.

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SYMHC Classics: The Flu Epidemic of 1918 Mar 28, 2020

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This 2014 episode coverts he 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, which killed somewhere between 20 million and 50 million people. Nobody cured it, or really successfully treated it. A fifth of the people in the world got the flu during the pandemic.

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Pettenkofer and Poison Mar 27, 2020

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Holly and Tracy discuss the advance casualness of recording entirely from home, as well as Max von Pettenkofer's psyche, and the fairly recent rise of the poison control hotline.

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