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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to Jeffrey H. Jackson, historian and author of the book Paper Bullets which captures the riveting and courageous story of Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, two gender norm-defying artists better known as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who undertook a dangerous years-long anti-propaganda campaign, which used art to demoralize the Nazis. Paper Bullets was named a 2020 Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction and Best Book of 2020 by Booklist, as well as longlisted for the Carnegie Medal For Excellence in Nonfiction.


Jeffrey H. Jackson website: https://jeffreyhjackson.com/about

Rhodes website: https://www.rhodes.edu/bio/jeffrey-jackson

Twitter: @JeffreyHJackson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Paris-Under-Water-143128271359

Paper Bullets: book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HLjNSzvakw

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It's literally sickening. In this episode Lindsay Valenty talks to Anne Marie about how deadly it was to live during the Victorian era. From toxic Scheele's Green to ballerinas on fire...literally, find out some of the many ways the Victorians were hell bent on destroying themselves on this 

Lindsay Valenty is the host of "Ye Olde Crime" podcast, where she and her sister Madison discuss the funny, strange, and obscure crimes that took place before the 1900's. She's also one of the co-hosts of "Pineapple Pizza Podcast," which shares the myths, cryptids, and urban legends of different countries around the world.

Resources

Website: Ye Olde Crime Podcast: https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com
Twitter: @yeoldecrimepod
Instagram: @yeoldecrimepodcast

Scheele's Green: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/scheeles-green-the-color-of-fake-foliage-and-death/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_Green

Episodes Mentioned in the Show
Ye Olde Crime Podcast
Wig Snatching Episode:
Ching Shih Episode: Terror of South China: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ye-olde-crime/id1514461061?i=1000486533552
Elizabeth Báthory Episode: Forever Young Episode: https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com/episodes/36-elisabeth-bathory

Armchair Historians:
Loving Episode: Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, Loving...: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/armchair-historians/id1510128761?i=1000501937814



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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to DC By Foot tour guide Melissa Gilbert. Melissa specializes in the Ghosts of Georgetown and shares some of the DC neighborhood's scary tales with us today.

Originally from Bullhead City, Arizona, the unceded lands of the Pipa Aha Macav, Melissa Leigh Gilbert has spent her career working in Theater Arts and Education but a lifetime of pursuing the arts as they relate to the human experience. Her work as designer, artisan, and educator has spanned numerous genres, disciplines, and locations. 

With Theatre as her primary medium, Costume Design had been the dominant focus of her career. The arc of her work and her design philosophies reflect her Liberal Arts education at Randolph-Macon Woman's College where she received her BFA. While completing her MFA at the University of Iowa she was able to expand her repertoire to include Scenic Art and Design. Both institutions allowed her the opportunity to work abroad in England. In undergrad Melissa studied at the University of Reading as part of the 'World in Britain' program. While in graduate school she returned for a research project which included a tailoring course at the Arts University Bournemouth and worked with Mahogany on costumes for Notting Hill Carnival. 

With a personal and pedagogical emphasis on process and analysis Melissa casts a wide net in regards to her research and influences but relishes the opportunity to edit with collaborators. Melissa maintains a firm belief that one's first idea is never one's best and can always be improved through collaboration, critique, and experimentation. As an educator she encourages experiential learning and is an avid proponent of the Liz Lerman Critical Response Technique, not only in her curriculum but throughout her own creative process. 

Melissa is currently the Wardrobe Supervisor and Costume Associate at the Olney Theatre Center, on the unceded lands of the Piscataway Conoy. She is the Co-Chair of the Social Committee.

 She enjoys baking bread, making pickles, hiking, water aerobics, and spending time with her Cat, Blake The Shake-Gilbert. Melissa also moonlights as a DC Tour Guide. She specializes in Ghosts, Murder, and the historically underrepresented.

Resources
Tour Guide Website: freetoursbyfoot.com/washington-dc-ghost-tours/
Instagram: @melissa.on.foot
Website: https://melissaleighgilbert.com
Cat: @blaketheshake
E.D.E.N. Southworth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._E._N._Southworth
River Front Times article, by Chad Garrison, The True Story of the Exorcist H

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Welcome to episode five of our 2021 Halloween Season Series! This one promises to scare the living daylights out of you.  In this episode,  Anne Marie talks to fellow history podcaster Craig Baird who tells us the tail of the Valley of the Headless Men. Steeped in lore and legend, this isolated valley is situated in Nahani National Park Reserve along the Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. 

Craig is the host of several podcasts, including Canadian History Ehx and From John to Justin.

He loves Canadian history and has ever since he was a child. Craig says "too often our history is not known because we are overshadowed by American, British or world history. Canada has a history that is interesting and deep and it is my goal with my videos and podcast to spread that history."

Resources

Canadian History Ehx: website: https://canadaehx.com

CHE episodes mentioned
Mary Two-Axe Earley: https://canadaehx.com/2021/09/11/mary-two-axe-earley/
The Shawinigan Handshake: https://canadaehx.com/2021/02/06/the-shawinigan-handshake/
Mr. Dressup: https://canadaehx.com/2020/11/28/mr-dressup/
The Beachcombers: https://canadaehx.com/2020/09/26/the-beachcombers/
History of Picture Butte: https://canadaehx.com/2021/09/13/the-history-of-picture-butte/

On Twitter: @CraigBaird

From John to Justin podcast

On Instagram: @bairdo37


Pierre Berton:  Author of Canadian History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berton

Maclean's Magazine Article: Valley of Mystery by Pierre Berton, March 15, 1947: https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1947/3/15/valley-of-mystery

McLeod Brothers: https://nahanni.com/blog/river-stories-the-mcleod-brothers-three/

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This is the fourth episode of our 2021 Halloween Season series 👻🧛‍♀️ In this episode, Lauren McDonough, cohost of Operation History,  tells us about the nineteenth-century vampire scare of Rhode Island. Yep, you heard me right, vampire scare!

Lauren describes herself as a 20-something corn miller with a master's in colonial American history. She is one of four cohosts of the podcast Operation History, a podcast where four history majors come together to discuss, debate, and educate all matters of history. Topics range from the dawn of time to the end of the 20th century (and everywhere in between).

Resources

Operation History

Twitter: @OperationHist

Website: https://operationhistorypodcast.wordpress.com

Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires, by Michael E. Bell

Episodes mentioned:

Spooky New England Folklore and History:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/5aPtErUDKXJLAKePcyagsR

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This episode has it all! Several weeks back we put out a call for spooky stories on Twitter. The response was incredible!! This is one of the Halloween season episodes that resulted. Brenda Ganske has crafted a truly horrifying history that has everything, horse hauntings, successful squatters, angry town's people, murders, and much more. Sit back fellow Armchair Historians and buckle up while the host of the Horrifying History podcast enchants you with the true story of the Black Donnellys.

Brenda Ganske is the creator and host of the podcast Horrifying History which she released in October of 2019, and History Coles Notes which was released exclusively on the Horrifying History YouTube Channel in July of 2021. Brenda is a spookstorian who loves everything to do with history and the supernatural.  She was born and raised in Alberta, Canada with the dream of becoming a detective, but ultimately decided to work in healthcare.  She has worked in frontline healthcare and later moved into healthcare analysis, which is why today she is able to tell stories that you likely never heard before. 

In her free time, Brenda loves spending time with her partner and her beloved dog Gizmo who acts as her very lazy co-host.  She loves being outdoors and researching the spooky stories that she brings to her audience each week.  You can find Horrifying History at either www.horrifyinghistory.podbean.com or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. You can also find it along with History Coles Notes on the Horrifying History channel on YouTube.

Resources

Horrifying History website: https://horrifyinghistory.podbean.com

Twitter: @HorrifyingHist1

Instagram: @horrifying_history

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horrifyinghistory

HH episodes mentioned: From Russia with Love
The Power of Voodoo
Who Do Some Voodoo
Horrifying History Coles Notes, Who Really Discovered America?

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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to Amanda Woods, cohost of Encounters: A Paranormal Experience. You guessed it, a podcast about the paranormal. Amanda chose to talk about a haunting in the United States that began a movie franchise, but more than that, it is the haunting that helped to launch the paranormal into the mainstream. Whether you believe in ghosts or not this episode has some fun facts and campfire-worthy stories that may stray off course, but will ultimately lead back to the spooky factor.

The Encounters: A Paranormal Experience is a Paranormal / Supernatural discussion between Amanda and Dakota who seek to unravel the unexplained and unknown.

Encounters: A Paranormal Experience Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/EncountersAParanormalExperienceThePodcast

Instagram: @encountersaparanormal

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/encountersthepodcast/

Armchair Historians episodes mentioned:

Eric Walter: My Amityville Horror: https://bit.ly/3kVwNap 

My Amityville Horror Trailer: https://youtu.be/iyZqxv0eWog

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In this episode, Anne Marie chats with Ethan Healey about Mary Todd Lincoln and her desire to connect with the spirits of her loved ones, including two children who died in childhood, through seances and spiritualism.

Ethan Healey is a BA History student at New England College in Henniker, NH. His thesis is on John Adams during retirement and how Adams views the legacy he left behind. Ethan's work has been featured in The Henniker Review, a local college publication. He is currently in the process of graduate school applications and hopes to be studying for a Ph.D. in History next Fall.

Resources:
Ethan's Blog:  https://ethanhealey.home.blog/
Twitter:  @EthanHealey

Wikipedia
Mary Todd Lincoln: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln
Spiritualism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism
Seance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Séance
William H. Mumler, Spirit Photographer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Mumler

LIncoln, Movie Trailer: https://youtu.be/lTA5rdz51XI

Episodes Mentioned: Caroline Welling Van Deusen, Elizabeth Dixon: https://bit.ly/3miVXAu

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In this episode Anne Marie is doing something a little bit different. You may recall that she  interviewed her great nephew Finley for Armchair Historian's New Year’s 2021 episode. If you haven’t done so we highly recommend listening to that episode (it’s one of our favorites) Well Finley and Anne Marie talked about a lot of things, some of which did not make into the final cut. In this installment of Armchair Historians we share one of the sidebar conversations they had from that interview about Finley’s favorite history in the form of a mini episode. 

One of the reasons we love to interview kids about history is the very unique way in which they relate to the historical characters and events. Who does the child cast as the hero and who does he cast as the villain? We believe the way we view the world and ourselves are evident in the way we tell the story of our history, children are no exception.

Resources for Blackfoot Tribe

Blackfeet Nation Website: https://blackfeetnation.com
Blackfoot Confederacy Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfoot_Confederacy
Little Blaze: This is all I could find on Little Blaze: https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5444896

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In this episode, Anne Marie talks to history geek, storyteller, and tour operator, Chris Albrecht about Golden Colorado's history, The town that almost became the capital of Colorado.

Chris says, "there’s no better way to get to know a city than having a local teach you about it through stories.  You can also get great recommendations for things to do, when to do them, and the places to avoid." So when he moved to Golden, Colorado, and realized there wasn't a guided history tour available in the historic wild west town at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, he decided to start his own tour company, Golden History Tours.

Chris tells some well-crafted stories about Golden, its early days as a town during the second half of the nineteenth century, and some of the historical characters and events that helped make the town what it is today.

Find out more about Chris Albrecht and Golden History Tours:
https://www.goldenhistorytours.com/more

Golden Colorado, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden,_Colorado

Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave: https://www.buffalobill.org

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