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As the world slowly burns and some of us are just continuing to exist, I decided to go back to podcasting vs doom scrolling social media again. I hope you learn things from these upcoming podcasts I have lined up for you, as well as escape whatever may be happening in your life. 
Yours in historical facts and memes,
Courtney

The Dakota 38 subject is a dark historical part of US history. The execution of 38 East Dakota tribesman on December 26, 1862 is the largest mass execution in this country's history, and was signed off by Lincoln. How did this happen? Like many things, the breaking of a promise, or a treaty. In these treaties, the Eastern Dakota were pressured into ceding large tracts of land to the United States in a series of treaties signed in 1837, 1851 and 1858, in exchange for cash annuities, debt payments, and other provisions. These treaties were overseen by the federal government through Indian Agents that weren't for helping the indigenous people. While the Eastern Dakotans signed over their land, the US government was to pay debts, yearly payments, and supplies. The winter from 1861-862 was harsher than normal, and the crops from 1861 were not as plentiful on this new land for them. When the civil war broke out in 1861, the US government than became late on payments and supply of food, causing those at the reservation to come to drastic decisions. As Trisha and I go through in this episode, the tribesman were pushed to their limits through various means and did fight back by attacking settlers that had moved into their ancestry lands. From August to September, Little Crow led the charges to take land and supplies from settlers and military members, using bloodshed when needed. 
100 US and local military died, 358 civilians/settlers, 150 Dakotans, and 38 executed. 
Eventually, Little Crow and many of the Eastern Dakotan tribesman were captured. Many more innocent Dakotans were imprisoned than those that took part in the raids or fighting. After their capture and relocation, Little Crow and about 150-200 members were able to escape up to the Dakota Territory and Canada. 
On September 27, 1862, Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley ordered the creation of a military commission to conduct trials of the Dakota. One year later, the judge advocate general would determine that Sibley did not have the authority to convene trials of the Dakota, due to his level of prejudice, and that his actions had violated Article 65 of the United States Articles of War. However, by then the executions had already occurred, and the American Civil War continued to distract the U.S. government. Yay civil war! The 400-odd of trials commenced on 28 September 1862 and were completed on 3 November; some lasted less than 5 minutes. No one explained the proceedings to the defendants, nor were the Sioux represented by defense attorneys. It was a sham that was allowed to happen because of the Civil War...which also started the whole ordeal. 
Because of the nature, and it being federal crimes the East Dakotans were charged with, Lincoln did have to review and approve the charges for being hanged. Lincoln did lessen the amounts of those executed, and limited to only those that were to have murdered settlers/civilians. 

If you're looking for more information on this topic, or to read my sources:
https://youtu.be/ZLjzUNXMbhM --Dakota 38 + 2 movie
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/traumatic-true-history-full-list-dakota-38
https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/aftermath/trials-hanging

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But have you heard about H. H. Holmes? He was a serial killer, and fraudster that was active in the late 1800s, and is most widely known for his murder hotel in Chicago that he mostly used during the 1893 World's Fair.  Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist, murderer, and trigamist, the subject of more than 50 lawsuits in Chicago alone. he was born in 1861, and later died by hanging in 1896 (or did he 🤔.) Holmes moved to Chicago in 1886, and started construction on his building in 1887. While there aren't as many reliable accounts of him actually luring strangers to his unfinished hotel to kill them, he did admit while in prison of numerous murders, he was only charged with one--the murder of his business partner.

While talking about Holmes and his many atrocities is pretty fitting to this podcast, it's the conspiracy theory that he was ALSO Jack the Ripper that was the central point of this episode. There are traits and timelines known about Jack the Ripper that line up with Holmes. Holmes and his assistant could have taken time before the completion of his hotel to go to London, take steps to learn about his killing techniques, and Holmes' anatomy education in the states lines up with the precision Jack the Ripper had. The Jack the Ripper murders started in August of 1888, and ended in November. These murders, or the canonical five, could have been committed by Holmes. Want to hear Matt and my take on this? Tune in to this week's episode and let us know your thoughts.

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It's been awhile, did you miss the random history? Hope so!

So if you know what a time ball is, you know it's now new at all. But, it is space, time, ships, and timing a ball. 

Joined by Trisha, we go over what a time ball is, where it originated from, and we discuss the most famous one of them all--the New Year's Eve time-ball in Times Square in New York City.
And also go over some of the history of New Year's Eve in Time Square, because I can't talk about science things without some history, you feel me? 

You can find mostly non operational Time Balls all over the world from Africa, Australia, Europe, and the United States--even the Titanic Memorial in New York City has a Time Ball. 

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Have you ever gone down a rabbit hole? Like, you had intentions to explore topic A (in my case, conservatorship in the US), but then find out about topic B (headrights, oil, and murder in Oklahoma)?

If you haven't heard about the Reign of Terror associated with the Osage people, you aren't alone. This is definitely part of America's dark history; a story of greed, corruption, oil, and money in the early 20th century. Coined "The Reign of Terror" by news outlets, this is sadly one of many stories about the mistreatment of Indigenous people by whites, but more so because of the murder that also transpired. Why would anyone target a subsect of Indigenous people in Oklahoma? Because they were rich. Oil money rich; and they were birth rights and inherited. However, that means you could designate someone to take your headrights, right? Well, kinda. The US government declared that many of those Indigenous people could NOT  make sound decisions, and needed someone watching over them...that was a white lawyer or business man. What could go wrong? Oh, you know, deception, greed, corruption, and obviously MURDER. 

Starting in May of 1921, local hunters discovered the decomposing body of 36-year-old Anna Brown in a remote ravine of Osage County. Because there was no apparent killer, police declared the death alcohol poisoning because, why not?  Well, that's just where this story begins. Tune in to hear more about The Reign of Terror, and how the murders stopped...ish. 

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This is probably the most recently developed conspiracy theory we've covered on this show, and it's honestly just ableism. 

The vast majority of people know about Helen Keller and how she learned to communicate with Anne Sullivan after becoming blind and deaf. However, there was a weird trend on TikTok saying how Helen Keller was faking it. Like... What?
What most likely started out as a joke video has turned into Gen Z and younger saying she was faking her disability. 

Matt and I explore this incredibly bizarre and baseless claim and give our 2 cents and then some. 

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I've been asked a few times now to do an episode over the Uyghurs or Uighurs. Because my knowledge of Chinese history a part from overall world history and interactions on the international stage is so limited, I was hesitant. But, I did research, and still cannot pronounce a thing. 
In this solo episode, I go over the history of the Uighurs--where are they located, their ethnicity, religion, their overall culture--and then their history of interactions with China starting in the early 20th century. Because of how China is with concealing information, it is a consistent conflict over gathering information from that region or China about the long standing history of the Uighurs in the Xinjiang region. 

To read more:
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/religion-china 
https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-weekend-reads-china-health-269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/uighurs/

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In this new episode, I sit down with Tyler to talk about the history of the German Beer Purity Law. What is it, why does it exist, and does it even matter anymore? All great questions that I hope we actually covered. 

Alcohol and religion seem to have an interesting relationship; during the Middle Ages and then some, monks would unknowingly brew beer and hand it out to travelers because drinking water from a river could legitimately give you a disease that would kill you. While brewers didn't know about yeast and its impact in beer making until much later, brewers throughout history would continue to make alcohol. 

Tune for some interesting stories, and beer. Because God and beer are good. 

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Have you ever thought something seemed maybe a bit...off?  Do you swear movies existed that maybe never did? Well, have we got a podcast for you!

What exactly is the Mandela Effect? The Mandela Effect is a conspiracy theory term used for false memories; many believe that these slight different memories in mass amounts of the population can indicate that glitch in the Matrix idea, or that we're in a simulation. "In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility, activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinformation, and source misattribution have been suggested to be several mechanisms underlying a variety of types of false memory phenomena." 

On this episode I am joined by Erika, Cassidy, Sobia, and of course Matt, to talk about multiple Mandela Effects and to see who actually was "Mandela'ed."
Theories covered:
Nelson Mandela's Death
The Berenstein Bears vs. The Berenstain Bears
Looney Tunes vs. Looney Toons
Bologna Centrale railway station clock
Shazaam movie
Star Wars--C3PO and “Luke, I am your father”
Fruit of the Loom Logo

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Yes, you read that right the first time. Reverse underground railroad was a thing. I mentioned it briefly on a previous solo podcast talking about slave patrols to modern policing, but I wanted to take a dive into an individual I uncovered during that dig: Patty Cannon

The Cannon-Johnson gang was not just involved in the selling of free or kidnapped Black Americans to slave plantations in areas like Alabama and Mississippi, but they also murdered other slave traders in the process. In this episode I go over Patty Cannon's life, how she started her life of crime, why she was a horrible prostitute, tactics used by the Cannon-Johnson gang, and how she was caught. She wasn't an anomaly though; there were MANY women that participated in illegal practices like the recapture of freed slaves, or even children that were born in free cities, and this was one of the few ways women could provide for themselves after the death of their spouse or father that provided for them financially. But don't have sympathy for Patty when her husband died; she was horrible and while interesting...she's still the literal worst.

It's also weird her skull is on display. Like, is that an honor, or fitting? 

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Have you heard about all of the different types of traditions that came about during the Victorian Era?

Not only were they holiday traditions that still occur today, like Christmas Trees, but the whole idea of mourning for someone's death. Whether it be a funeral, what to wear to grieve the loss of a best friend or cousin, or the creation of the whole funeral home business--it all came about during the Victorian Era. Join Anna and I as we talk about not just these traditions, but some of the incredibly bizarre ones, and how/why it died out.