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Anne Marie and Bob are coming to you from York in the UK. They recount their favorite histories during their week-long stay in this historical cathedral city with Roman origins.

York, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York
Yorkshire Museum, website: https://www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk
Jorvik Viking Centre, website: https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk
York City Wall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_city_walls

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In this episode, we share Anne Marie's appearance spot on Ye Olde Crime Podcast in which podcast host, Lindsey, challenges her to crack the cramp word. Can she do it? Listen to find out!

Ye Olde Crime Podcast, website: https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com
Lindsey Valenty appearance on Armchair Historians: https://armchairhistorians.buzzsprout.com/1020073/9483164-deadly-victoriana-lindsay-valenty-ye-olde-crime-podcast

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Anne Marie and Bob are coming to you from Bankside in this first UK mini episode. They recount their favorite history of the day at Borough Market and Mudlarking along the Thames.

River Thames: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames
Southwark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Southwark Borough Market: https://boroughmarket.org.uk
Borough Market, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_Market
Foreshore Permits: https://www.pla.co.uk/Environment/Thames-foreshore-permits
Beachcombing Magazine, The Art of Smoking: https://www.beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/mudlarking-the-art-of-smoking
Nicola White, Mudlark, Tideline Art: https://www.youtube.com/c/nicolawhitemudlarkTidelineArt
Si-Finds: https://www.youtube.com/c/Sifinds/videos

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In this episode, Anne Marie interviews Airforce Veteran and Buffalo Soldiers of Seattle member Nick Brooks. Nick talks about the new documentary Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts and the almost erased history of the first African American Soldiers who earned the nickname "buffalo soldiers" most likely from the Cheyenne people. The name stuck and followed the segregated black military until desegregation in 1947.

About the documentary: In 1866, six all-black cavalry and infantry regiments were created after Congress passed the Army Organization Act. They came to be known as Buffalo Soldiers.

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts explores the often-contradictory role played by the Black soldiers throughout American history, emphasizing the settling of the American West and colonialism abroad.

Director Dru Holley is a Northwest-based filmmaker, and the documentary features interviews with Quintard Taylor (Ph.D. Historian at UW), Ryan Booth (Ph.D. Candidate, WSU), and members of the Buffalo Soldiers of Seattle, among many others.

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts: https://buffalosoldiersmovie.com

Buffalo Soldiers of Seattle: https://buffalosoldiersofseattle.com

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Anne Marie talks to Dr. Rod Tanchanco about his new book, First Patients. This timely narrative looks at how far we’ve come; what we’ve learned from past pandemics and the real-life patient stories behind our most important medical advancements.

Often marked by the desperate need to save human lives, important developments in medicine have invariably started with patients—people whose ordeals fostered the advancement of medical knowledge. This book is a collection of such stories, each chapter an enthralling view into the history of medicine, revealing the extent of human inventiveness, resilience, and compassion.

Rod Tanchanco is an internist, Fellow in the American College of Physicians, and has three decades of experience. Rod has worked as a primary care physician, hospitalist, research doctor, and medical director for global healthcare organizations. He writes medically-themed non-fiction focused on historical events and their human narratives.

Resources
Website: First Patients: https://first-patients.com/author/piximdoc/
First Patients, the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q1X9CZW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Twitter: @rodtmd
Instagram: @rtanch22

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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to Gregory Smithers about his new book, Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America. Two Spirits is a sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.

Gregory Smithers is a professor of American history and Eminent Scholar (2019-2024) in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Davis, and has taught in California, Hawaii, Scotland, and Ohio. Smithers is currently a British Academy Global Professor, based in the Treatied Spaces research cluster at the University of Hull.

His research and writing focus on the histories of Indigenous people and African Americans from the eighteenth century to the present. Smithers is particularly interested in the rich history of the Cherokee people, Indigenous history from the Mountain South to California and the Southwest Pacific, and environmental history. His work is devoted to narrating the past in ways that are publicly accessible and connect with issues of social justice, environmental sustainability, and racial and gender equity.

Resources
Gregory D Smithers: Website: https://www.gregorysmithers.com

Reclaiming Two Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America: Penguin Random House

Twitter: @GD_Smithers
Facebook: Gregory Smithers
Tumbler: Gregory Smithers
VCU: Faculty Page
Books: Amazon

Two Spirits, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit
Randy Burns: https://www.ebar.com/news///245430
Barbara May Cameron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_May_Cameron
We'wha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27wha

Documentaries
Two Spirits: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/two-spirits/
Coming In: https://player.vimeo.com/video/188398870?h=c4667868d1

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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to the co-hosts of Women of Herstory Podcast about the history of body hair (its removal, its inconvenience in battle, designated gender norms on "appropriate" lengths and styles...) so many things to know about body hair! Who knew?

Heather Ashley:
Born in Japan, raised in Texas, and currently residing in New York, Heather is no stranger to adventure. She is a dancer, singer, actor, activist. She was most recently seen in a site-specific bilingual play in Kagoshima, Japan, and the seasonal tour of the 3 Redneck Tenor's Spec-tac-YULE-ar, as Edna Mae. It is important to Heather to provide a safe space for thought-provoking conversations that can give a greater understanding of the different experiences of the people around us.

Joe Ortiz:
Born and raised in New York, Joe is a Queens kid through and through.  As an actor, he acquired his B.A. in Theatre at CUNY City College in Manhattan, New York, and performed in a supporting role as "Juan" for the 2017 feature film, "The Devil's Restaurant." He's appeared in marketing campaigns for Bud Light and Dior and has worked on commercials for Samsung, Van Heusen, and Stella Artois.  He is passionate about advocating for positive change in our society.

Women of Herstory: website: https://ofherstory.com
Twitter: @theherstorypod
Instagram: @womenofherstorypodcast
Heather Ashley: website: www.heatherashore.com

Podcast Episodes Mentioned:

Rachel Balkovec: Hitting Coach with the Yankees: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-rachel-balkovec/id1506437497?i=1000471099460

Artemisia Gentileschi:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artemisia-gentileschi-italian-baroque-painter/id1506437497?i=1000544966492

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In this Women's History Month episode of Armchair Historians, Anne Marie talks to Wendy Rouse about the suffrage movement, specifically about the all but erased queer history of the movement.

Wendy Rouse is a historian whose research focuses on the history of gender and sexuality in the Progressive Era. Her most recent book, Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (NYU Press), challenges the heteronormative framing of the traditional narrative of the campaign for the vote. Her previous two books explored the history of women and children in the Progressive Era: The Children of Chinatown: Growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850 to 1920 (UNC Press) and Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement (NYU Press). Rouse is presently Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University where she teaches LGBTQ+ and women’s history.

Resources:
Wendy L. Rouse: https://wendylrouse.com
San Jose University: https://www.sjsu.edu/people/wendy.rouse/
Iron Jawed Angels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Jawed_Angels
Suffrage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffrage
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Edwards_Walker
Alice Dunbar Nelson: AH episode: https://bit.ly/3sap2kf
Alice Dunbar Nelson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Dunbar_Nelson
Gail Laughlan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Laughlin
Dr. Mary Sperry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sperry

Books:
Public Faces Secret LIves: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement: https://wendylrouse.com/queer-suffragists/
Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement: https://wendylrouse.com/research/
Children of Chinatown: Growing up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920: https://wendylrouse.com/children-of-chinatown/

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Dana Rubin is single-handedly giving voice to women throughout history. Dana's passion project, Speaking While Female, showcases female speakers across time and around the world, from antiquity to the present. Historically, women have not been silent, but their words have scarcely been noted in the history books. What they said was seldom valued, recorded, or remembered.

Donna is a consultant and speaker, committed to women's speech, voice, and thought leadership. She created the Speaking While Female Speech Bank to set the record straight on who actually spoke in history (hint: not just men) and because representation matters.

Her credentials are impressive. She's an award-winning journalist who graduated from Yale with honors. She's also a judge for the annual Cicero Speechwriting Awards, which recognizes outstanding contemporary speeches and speechwriters from around the world.

Speaking While Female: website: https://speakingwhilefemale.co
Linkedin: Speaking While Female: https://www.linkedin.com/company/35530892/
Instagram: @speakingwhilefemale
Twitter: @SpeakingWFemale
Linkedin: Dana Rubin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danarubin/

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/speakingwhilefemale/celebrating-womens-speech

Clara Shortridge Foltz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Shortridge_Foltz
Elizabeth I: https://speakingwhilefemale.co/war-elizabeth-1/
                         http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizaspeech1563.htm

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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to Yeshiva University professor emerita Ellen Schrecker about the history leading up to today's anti-intellectualism.

Ellen has been involved with the politics of higher education and academic freedom for decades. According to Ellen, the current right-wing campaign against teaching critical race theory and other so-called “divisive concepts” is by far the most serious threat to academic freedom (as well as K-12 education) the United States has ever experienced. 

Schrecker’s research and experience enable her to speak about the impact of these issues, as well as explain why today’s anti-intellectualism is more dangerous than that of the McCarthy era. She believes that if the repressive measures now coursing through state legislatures and other political bodies are to be repulsed, the academic community and engaged citizens must offer a stronger response than they have until now. 

Resources

Wikipedia: Ellen Schrecker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Schrecker

Books by Ellen Schrecker:
No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization
Assault on Academic Freedom
End of the American University
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s

PEN America: https://pen.org
Historians for Peace and Democracy: https://www.historiansforpeace.org
AAUP: American Association of University Professors: https://www.aaup.org
AAPF: The African American Policy Forum: https://www.aapf.org

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