Today we're traveling to Nixon's America with Dick! Join us for a discussion of Checkers and other presidential dogs, Rose Mary Woods, "win a date with. . . " contests, as well as a fun digression into what exactly counts as a "lifetime supply" of tampons.

Sources:

Win a Date With. . . 

Alanna Nash, "My Date WIth Davy Jones," Rolling Stone (8 March 2012). https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/my-date-with-davy-jones-113220/amp/ Sharon Marcus, "Intimacy," The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc772z0.7 Perry Nodelman, "Teaching Girls about Men: Attitudes Toward Maleness in Teen Magazines," Studies in Popular Culture 9:1 (1986): 103-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23412904 Melissa Loseby, "That time I entered a contest to win a date with John Stamos," HelloGiggles (13 October 2016). https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/nostalgia/win-a-date-with-john-stamos/ Alison Martino, "KHJ, L.A.'s Coolest AM Radio Station, Is Basically a Background Actor in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"" Los Angeles Magazine (29 July 2019). https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/khj-radio-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/

Checkers:

David Williams, "Inappropriate/d Others or, The Difficulty of Being a Dog," TDR 51:1 (Spring 2007): 92-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4492737 Diana C. Mutz, "The Dog that Didn't Bark: the Role of Canines in the 2008 Campaign," PS: Political Science and Politics 43:4 (October 2010): 707-712. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40927039 Thomas Hauser, Thomas Hauser on Sports: Remembering the Journey (University of Arkansas Press, 2013). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1ffjhwf.21 Aram Goudsouzian, "The Loser," The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America p. 15-28 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469651118_goudsouzian Joshua M. Glasser, The Eighteen-Day Running Mate: McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis (Yale University Press, 2012). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkqgb.18 Stephen F. Knott, "The Road to Degradation," The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal p.175-205 (University Press of Kansas, 2019). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxbpfcr.12 Ann-Janine Morey, "The Gaze Outside the Frame," Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs p.77-102 (Penn State University Press, 2014). https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp9pj.8 Rick Perlstein (ed.), "The "Checkers Speech" (September 23, 1952)" Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents (Princeton University Press, 2008). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7sg9w.12 "Nixon's dogs" picture https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photos/nixons-dogs "Top Dogs at the White House" https://www.whitehousehistory.org/white-house-pets/top-dogs-at-the-white-house Laddie Boy picture: https://library.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/cache/5017/Main%20Index/Events/1603.t56d0927d.m1200.tif.pv.xHdx6j-_JGIfu6T1n.jpg Yuki picture: https://library.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/cache/5017/Main%20Index/Presidents/Lyndon%20B%20Johnson/1198.t578cd2a1.m1200.tif.pv.x6gXmPhumm5B2GOwx.jpg Timeline of the Watergate Scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The 18 1/2 Minute Gap:

Alison Lynn and Lauren Effron, "The Watergate Tapes' Infamous 18.5 Minute Gap and Nixon Secretary's Unusual Explanation for It." ABC News. Available at https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/watergate-tapes-infamous-185-minute-gap-nixons-secretarys/story?id=47926329 Photo of Rose Mary Woods, The Watergate Files, Gerald R Ford Presidential Library. Available at https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/watergate_files/content.php?section=3&page=a&zoom=2 David Kopel, "The Missing 18 1/2 Minutes: Presidential Destruction of Incriminating Evidence," Washington Post. Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/16/the-missing-18-12-minutes-presidential-destruction-of-incriminating-evidence/

Rose Mary Woods:

Francis Wilkinson, "Nixon's Real Enforcer," New York Times Magazine. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/magazine/nixons-real-enforcer.html

Film Background:

Sharon Waxman, "Generation X's Tricky Dick," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1999/08/01/generation-xs-tricky-dick/b5b70d4d-b50d-453d-b9ef-ea3af28dacac/ Dick, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144168/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Woodward and Bernstein:

Todd S. Purdum, "Three Decades Later, "Woodstein" Takes a Victory Lap," New York Times, 2005, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/politics/three-decades-later-woodstein-takes-a-victory-lap.html

This week we travel to early 20th century London (and Colorado) with The Prestige! Join us to learn about twins, Colorado Springs, Tesla, the weird story of Chung Ling Soo, and more!

Sources:

Twins: Brian Resznick https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17218782/identical-twins-days-bond-science-twinsburg Drunk History (UK) "How the Kray Twins Were Caught" The Krays: Myth Behind the Legend Amazon Prime Video Hilton Als, "We Two Made One," The New Yorker (4 December 2000). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/12/04/we-two-made-one Rose Eveleth, "Twins Spend Their Whole Lives Trying to be Different From One Another," Smithsonian Magazine (24 January 2014). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-confirms-twins-spend-their-whole-lives-trying-be-different-one-another-180949423/ Erika Hayasaki, "Identical Twins Hint at How Environments Change Gene Expression," The Atlantic (15 May 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/twin-epigenetics/560189/ Lea Winerman, "A double life," American Psychological Association, Monitor 46:1 (January 2015): 30. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/01/double-life "Twins" Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/twins/lives-and-relationships-twins Peter Miller, "A Thing or Two About Twins," National Geographic (January 2012). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2012/01/identical-twins-science-dna-portraits/ Lucy Wallis, "Living a conjoined life," BBC News (24 April 2013). https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22181528 Dehryl A. Mason and Paul J. Frick, "The Heritability of Antisocial Behavior: A Meta-Analysis of Twin and Adoption Studies," Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 16:4 (1994): 301-323.

Colorado Springs: "Colorado Springs" Tesla: Life and Legacy PBS https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_colspr.html ; https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_warcur.html and https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_poevis.html W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).

Background: "The Making of "The Prestige"" https://youtu.be/JrTPQU4rJrg Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film) IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/ Roger Ebert, "Now you see him...Now you see him!" https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-prestige-2007 Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prestige Piper Perabo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Perabo

Chung Ling Soo: "The Double Life and Death of Chung Ling Soo," Odd Salon. Available at https://youtu.be/RNM6H0Y1ous William J Turkel and Devon Elliot, "Making and Playing with Models: Using Rabid Prototyping to Explore the History and Technology of Stage Magic," Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology. University of Michigan Press Christopher Goto-Jones, "Magic, Modernity, and Orientalism: Conjuring Representations of Asia," Modern Asian Studies 48, 6 (2014) Footage of Chung Ling Soo, available at https://youtu.be/fKAfAKSByVQ

We have a surprise bonus episode this week! Join us on a journey to 1st Century Judea with Life of Brian! We'll discuss stoning, Jesus as a revolutionary, Hava Nagila, and more!

Sources:

Jesus as a Revolutionary:

Josephus, The Jewish War, trans. Martin Hammond, intro and notes by Martin Goodman, e-book (Oxford University Press, 2017). "Josephus" In Our Time (2015) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05vfdzl Christopher Klein, "Why did Pontius Pilate Have Jesus Executed?" History https://www.history.com/news/why-pontius-pilate-executed-jesus Holland Lee Hendrix, L. Michael White, Paula Fredriksen, Eric Meyers "Jews and the Roman Empire," A Portrait of Jesus' World: From Jesus to Christ PBS (April 1998). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/jews.html L. Michael White, Allen D. Callahan, Shayne I.D. Cohen, John Dominic Crossan, Paula Fredriksen, "Arrest and Execution" From Jesus to Christ PBS (April 1998). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/arrest.html Jon Wiener, "Jesus the Revolutionary: A Q&A With Reza Aslan," The Nation (25 July 2013). https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/jesus-revolutionary-qa-reza-aslan/ "The Last Days of Jesus" PBS (2017) https://www.pbs.org/show/last-days-jesus/ "From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, Part One" PBS Frontline (1998) https://youtu.be/JN8FM1NCOSk Tom O'Loughlin and Roland Deines, "Why Study the Pharisees with Professor Roland Deines" University of Nottingham (17 January 2012). https://youtu.be/waWu1ngrxGk "Matthew 5:1-7:29--The Sermon on the Mount" https://www.enterthebible.org/Controls/feature/tool_etb_resource_display/resourcebox.aspx?selected_rid=783&original_id=2 Luke Chapter 6 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/6?37=#50006037 Matthew Chapter 5 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5

Cast info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/

You're Nicked!: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/435851/origin-of-youre-nicked-sunshine#:~:text=The%20word%20is%20used%20teasingly,a%20morose%20person.%20...&text=The%201806%20example%20of%20%22nicked,Journals%20for%201805%20(1806). John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled: Slang and Its Analogues (Routledge & Sons, 1905) Princeton University Collection, Google E-Book. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Dictionary_of_Slang_and_Colloquial_Eng/VR1AAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 "To nick," The English We Speak BBC (26 August 2011). https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theenglishwespeak/2011/08/110816_tews_32_to_nick_page.shtml Forrest Wickman, "When You've Been Nicked by the Bobbies: How being arrested in the U.K. differs from being arrested in the U.S." Slate (13 March 2012). https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/03/rebekah-brooks-arrested-how-is-being-arrested-different-in-britain.html

Star Signs:

"Constellations and the Calendar" NASA https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder2/en/ Olivia B. Waxman, "Where Do Zodiac Signs Come From? Here's the True History Behind Your Horoscope," Time (21 June 2018). https://time.com/5315377/are-zodiac-signs-real-astrology-history/

Stoning:

The Talmud, Sanhedrin 45a, available at https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.44a.14?lang=bi NIV Study Bible. The Tanakh, full searchable text available at https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm Roy A. Stewart, "Judicial Procedure in Biblical Times," Full text available at https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/eq/1975-2_094.pdf

Hava Nagila:

Harry Belafonte and Danny Kaye Performing Hava Nagila, available at https://youtu.be/t_L1RAVm4js James Loeffler, "Hava Nagila's Long, Strange Trip." My Jewish Learning. Available at https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/hava-nagilas-long-strange-trip/

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, PBS. Available at https://youtu.be/JN8FM1NCOSk

Background: "How We Made Monty Python's Life of Brian," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/16/how-we-made-monty-python-life-of-brian-michael-palin-terry-gilliam Life of Brian Televised Debate, Friday Night, Saturday Morning, 1979. Full debate available at https://youtu.be/ZYMpObbt2rs

This week we travel back to Elizabethan England with Shakespeare in Love! Join us for a discussion of dogs on the stage, John Webster, early modern toothbrushes, the death of Christopher Marlowe, and more!

Sources:

Film Background:

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Love Rebecca Keegan and Nicole Sperling, "Shakespeare in Love and Harvey Weinstein's Dark Oscar Victory," Vanity Fair (8 December 2017). https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/shakespeare-in-love-and-harvey-weinsteins-dark-oscar-victory "Entertainment Novelist sues Shakespeare makers," (23 March 1999) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/301620.stm . Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shakespeare_in_love Roger Ebert, "Shakespeare in Love" (25 December 1998). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/shakespeare-in-love-1998 Nyay Bhushan, "'Shakespeare in Love' Director on Harvey Weinstein: "It's About an Abuse of Power"" The Hollywood Reporter (16 October 2017). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shakespeare-love-director-harvey-weinstein-an-abuse-power-1049015 William Demastes, The Cambridge Introduction to Tom Stoppard (Cambridge University Press, 2012). THR Staff, "Recount! Oscar Voters Today Would Make 'Brokeback Mountain' Best Picture Over 'Crash'" The Hollywood Reporter (18 February 2015). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/recount-oscar-voters-today-would-773522 "Harvey Weinstein timeline: How the scandal unfolded," BBC News (29 May 2020). https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41594672 "The Cast Against Harvey Weinstein, Part 1" The Daily Podcast (9 January 2020). Carolyn Thompson, "Another delay granted for Harvey Weinstein extradition," ABC News (11 December 2020). https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/delay-expected-harvey-weinstein-extradition-74669118

Shakespeare's Signature: Folger Shakespeare Library staff and Alan H. Nelson, "Shakespeare's signature" https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/highlights/shakespeares-signature and https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/node/1011 https://doi.org/10.37078/1011 and https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/william-shakespeares-last-will-and-testament-original-copy-including-three Maev Kennedy, "William Shakespeare's will featuring his last signatures goes on show" The Guardian (2 February 2016). https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/02/william-shakespeares-will-featuring-his-last-signatures-goes-on-show "Shakespeare's Signature at the National Library" https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/gallery/Humanities/Pages/Shakespeare.aspx "Shakespeare's will" The National Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/item.asp?item_id=21 Doug Stewart, "To Be or Not to be Shakespeare," Smithsonian Magazine (September 2006). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/to-be-or-not-to-be-shakespeare-127247606/

Dogs on the Stage: Louis B. Wright, "Animal Actors on the English Stage before 1642," PMLA 42:3 (September 1927): 656-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/457395 Stephen Dickey, "Shakespeare's Mastiff Comedy," Shakespeare Quarterly 42:3 (Autumn, 1991): 255-75. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2870843 Jason Scott-Warren, "When Theaters Were Bear-Gardens; Or, What's at Stake in the Comedy of Humors," Shakespeare Quarterly 54:1 (Spring, 2003): 63-82. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3844120 Eva Lauenstein, "Exit, pursued by a bear" (29 January 2016) https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2016/01/29/exit-pursued-by-a-bear/ https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/gentlemen-of-verona/lance

John Webster: "Who was John Webster," Royal Shakespeare Company. https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-duchess-of-malfi/about-the-play/who-was-john-webster "John Webster," British Library https://www.bl.uk/people/john-webster# Michael Billington, "An introduction to The Duchess of Malfi" British Library (24 April 2017). https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/an-introduction-to-the-duchess-of-malfi David Coleman, John Webster, Renaissance Dramatist (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b0b7

Timeline of Shakespeare's Plays: "Timeline of Shakespeare's Plays," The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, available at https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeares-plays/timeline

Toothbrushes: "Who Invented the Toothbrush and When Was It Invented?" Library of Congress. Available at https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/who-invented-the-toothbrush-and-when-was-it-invented/ Chew Sticks on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/818439482/african-chewing-stick-twig-brush-3-bunch?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=chew+stick&ref=sr_gallery-1-10&organic_search_click=1&frs=1 Victoria Sherrow, For Appearances' Sake: The Historical Encyclopedia of Good Looks, Beauty, and Grooming. Greenwood Publishing, 2011. Cassidy Cash, "Did Shakespeare Use a Toothbrush?" Available at https://www.cassidycash.com/did-shakespeare-use-a-toothbrush/

Death of Kit Marlowe: "Death in Deptford," Marlowe Society. Available at http://www.marlowe-society.org/christopher-marlowe/life/death-in-deptford/ Amelia Hill, "New Twist to Marlowe's Murder Riddle," The Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/01/books.humanities

Travel back to the early-19th century (and your childhood) with Mary Poppins! Join us for a discussion of constables, bank runs, Dick van Dyke's accent, screevers and buskers, and more!

Sources:

Film Background: "Mary Poppins," IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Robin Raven, "What the Mary Poppins Author Really Thought of the Original Movie," Readers Digest, available at https://www.rd.com/article/mary-poppins-p-l-travers/ Maane Khatchatourian, "Tom Hanks: PL Travers Would Hate 'Saving Mr Banks'" Variety, available at https://variety.com/2013/scene/news/tom-hanks-p-l-travers-would-hate-saving-mr-banks-1200940630/

Cockney Accent: New York Times, "Michael Caine: An Accent that Broke Through Class Barriers," available at https://youtu.be/XBjp1oEZcwU "Cockney Accent," British Library. Available at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/cockney-accent-freddie-ridley-road-market "Cockney," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cockney Derek B. Scott, "The Music-Hall Cockney: Flesh, Blood, or Replicant?" Music and Letters 83, 2 (2002) Dialects Archive: England. Available at https://www.dialectsarchive.com/england Melissa Hogenboom, "What Does Your Accent Say About You?" BBC. Available at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180307-what-does-your-accent-say-about-you

Bank Runs: William Dalrymple, "The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders Richard B. Sheridan, "The British Credit Crisis of 1772 and the American Colonies," Journal of Economic History 20, 2 (1960) Henry Hamilton, "The Failure of Ayre Bank," Economic History Review 8, 3 (1956) Christopher Klein, "10 Things You Might Not Know About the Boston Tea Party," History.com, available at https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-boston-tea-party

Constables: Philip Rawlings, Policing: a short history (Willan, 2002). Joanne Klein, Invisible Men: The Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, 1900-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2010). Clive Emsley, Hard men: the English and violence since 1750 (Hambledon and London, 2005).

Buskers and Screevers: Dr. Paul Simpson, "The History of Street Performance" Gresham College https://youtu.be/Ja9wnrusGdQ Dr. Paul Simpson, "The History of Street Performance: 'Music by handle' and the Silencing of Street Musicians in the Metropolis," Gresham College https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-history-of-street-performance Dale Chapman, "The 'one-man band' and entrepreneurial selfhood in neoliberal culture," Popular Music 32:3 (October 2013): 451-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24736784 John M. Picker, "The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professionals, Work Space, and Urban Noise," Victorian Studies 42:3 (Spring 1999- Spring 2000): 427-53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828975 Sam Wollaston, "Where the streets have no change: how buskers are surviving in cashless times," The Guardian (8 November 2018). https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/08/where-the-streets-have-no-change-how-buskers-are-surviving-in-cashless-times Leslie Gilbert Elman, "Where the sidewalk ends, chalk art begins," CNN Travel (10 September 2013). https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chalk-art-festivals/index.html "I Madonnari: Italian street artists take over the chicest shopping streets in Europe" https://world.dolcegabbana.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-the-italian-street-artists-called-madonnari/ Daniel South, "David Zinn: Street art that washes away in the rain," BBC (6 June 2020). https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52913521 Sarah Todd, "Sidewalk chalk drawings have a colorful 500-year history" Quartz (22 June 2019). https://qz.com/quartzy/1650194/the-history-of-sidewalk-chalk-drawings/

This week we're traveling to Depression-era Mississippi with O Brother Where Art Thou! Join us for a discussion of Baby Face Nelson, Pappy O'Daniel, Man of Constant Sorrow, selling your soul at the crossroads, and, of course, Dapper Dan pomade.

Sources:

Film Background:

Christopher Orr, "30 Years of Coens: O Brother, Where Art Thou?" The Atlantic (17 September 2014). https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/30-years-of-coens-o-brother-where-art-thou/380289/ Roger Ebert, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (29 December 2000) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/o-brother-where-art-thou-2000 . Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F "Tim Blake Nelson- Biography" https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625789/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm Zack Sharf, "The Coen Brothers and George Clooney Uncover the Magic of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?" at 15th Anniversary Reunion," IndieWire (30 September 2015). https://www.indiewire.com/2015/09/the-coen-brothers-and-george-clooney-uncover-the-magic-of-o-brother-where-art-thou-at-15th-anniversary-reunion-57292/

Baby Face Nelson:

British Pathe, "Farewell Baby Face aka "Baby Face" Nelson Killed (1934)" https://youtu.be/yKmuM7vDdLc "Baby Face Nelson" Natural Born Outlaws (2016). https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B016YLTDPG/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r "Lester Gillis ("Baby Face" Nelson)" FBI History, Famous Cases & Criminals https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/lester-gillis-baby-face-nelson "Lester Joseph Gillis (Baby Face Nelson)" FBI Records: The Vault https://vault.fbi.gov/George%20%28Baby%20Face%29%20Nelson "A Byte Out of History: Man on the Run: The Last Hours of "Baby Face" Nelson" https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2004/november/nelson_112904 "Baby Face Nelson" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Face_Nelson Bryan Burrough, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 (Pengiun, 2009). John Fox, "Lessons at Little Bohemia," https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/newss-lessons-at-little-bohemia/view Michael Woodiwiss, "Gangbusting and Propaganda," Double Crossed: The Failure of Organized Crime Control (Pluto Press, 2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1rfsnbn.15 Matthew Cecil, "J. Edgar Hoover's FBI," The Ballad of Ben and Stella mae: Great Plains Outlaws Who became FBI Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2 (University Press of Kansas, 2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g69zw2.8

Cracker:

Gene Demby, "The Secret History of the Word 'Cracker," NPR Code Switch (1 July 2013). https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/07/01/197644761/word-watch-on-crackers Martha Nelson, "Nativism and Cracker Revival at the Florida Folk Festival," The Florida Folklife Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2012) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvptm.17 Zsolt K. Viragos, ""Celtic Oddities": Patterns of Cracker Culture in the American South," Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 18:1/2 (Spring-Fall, 2012): 101-119. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43488463 Mozell C. Hill and Becode C. McCall, ""Cracker Culture": A Preliminary Definition," Phylon 11:3 (3rd Qtr., 1950): 223-31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/272007 Google Books Ngram Viewer "white of you" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=white+of+you&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cwhite%20of%20you%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cwhite%20of%20you%3B%2Cc1 John Stapler and Faye Goldberg, "The Black and White Symbolic Matrix" (1973) https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED085461.pdf Mark Liberman, "Ask Language Log: "...white of you" (4 June 2011) https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3179

Man of Constant Sorrow:

John Garst, ""Man of Constant Sorrow": Antecedents and Tradition" Country Music Annual 2002 (University Press of Kentucky, 2002). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130ht6t.6 "Ralph Stanley" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Stanley#Biography Carl Lindahl, "Thrills and Miracles: Legends of Lloyd Chandler," Special Double Issue: Advocacy Issues in Folklore Journal of Folklore Research Vol. 41, No. 2/3 (May-December, 2004): 133-71. See also Barbara Chandler's work in the same issue. https://www.jstor.org/stable/i291343

Robert Johnson and the Crossroads:

Scanned copy of Robert Johnson's Death Certificate: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305144848/http://blues.jfrewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/cert_back.jpg Robert Johnson, Essential Mississippi Delta Blues, Full Album: https://youtu.be/fDfPHQux51A Philip J. Deloria, "Broadway and Main: Crossroads, Ghost Roads, and Paths to American Studies' Future," American Quarterly 61, 1 (2009) Ayana Smith, "Blues, Criticism, and the Signifying Trickster," Popular Music 24, 2 (2005)

Pappy O'Daniel:

W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel Radio Broadcast, August 1941. Full broadcast available at https://youtu.be/inJQ7swZxuw Jefferey Jenkins and Justin Peck, "Building Toward Major Policy Change: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1941-1950," Law and History Review 31, 1 (2013) David Witwer, "The Racketeer Menace and Antiunionism in Mid-Twentieth Century US," International Labor and Working-Class History 74 (2008)

Dapper Dan:

Pomade Shop: https://pomadeshop.com/en/pomades/pomades-for-beginners/832/dapper-dan-men-s-pomade Rockabilly Rules: https://www.rockabilly-rules.com/en/Dapper-Dan-Mens-Pomade.html

This week we're traveling to 1980s Wales with Pride! Join us for a discussion of Gay's the Word, Mary Whitehouse, age of consent, Bread and Roses, and more!

Sources:

Background:

Pride, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/ Odie Henderson Review, Rogerebert.com: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pride-2014 Mark Kermode's Review, The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/14/pride-film-review-mark-kermode-power-in-unlikely-union

Mary Whitehouse:

Mary Whitehouse Obituary, The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/nov/24/guardianobituaries.obituaries The Gay Poem that Broke Blasphemy Laws, available at https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2008/01/10/the-gay-poem-that-broke-blasphemy-laws/ Letters from Mary Whitehouse, The National Archives, available at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/sixties-britain/letters-mary-whitehouse/ Gavin Shaffer, "Til Death Do Us Part and the BBC: Racial Politics and the British Working Class, 1965-1975," Journal of Contemporary History 45, 2 (2010) The Lesbian Tide (March-April 1978) Barbara Norden, "The Campaign Against Pornography," Feminist Review 35 (1990)

Gay's the Word:

Diarmaid Kelliher, "Solidarity and Sexuality: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners 1984-5," History Workshop Journal 77 (Spring 2014): 240-62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43299555 All Out! Dancing in Dulais https://youtu.be/lHJhbwEcgrA Kate Kellaway, "When miners and gay activists united: the real story of the film Pride," The Guardian (31 August 2014). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/31/pride-film-gay-activists-miners-strike-interview IMDB page for Pride: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Maroula Joannou, "'Fill a bag and feed a family': the miners' strike and its supporters," in Labour and the left in the 1980s eds. Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam (Manchester University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvnb7nds.14 June Thomas, "gagging "gay's the word"" Off Our Backs 15:4 (April 1985): 3 and "gay's the word update" Off Our Backs 15:9 (October 1985): 8 Gillian Rodgerson and Linda Semple, "Who Watches the Watchwomen?: Feminists against Censorship" Feminist Review 36 (August 1990): 19-24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1395106 Simon Watney, "AIDS, pornography and law" Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS, and the Media (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv4sn.10 Alwyn Collinson, "Hidden Pride: London's LGBT history" Museum of London (2 February 2019) https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/london-pride-london-lgbt-history-gay-rights

Age of Consent:

Paul Bloomfield, "Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties," in Labour and the left in the 1980s eds. Jonathan Davis and Rohan McWilliam (Manchester University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvnb7nds.9 Matthew Waites, "Equality at Last? Homosexuality, Heterosexuality and the Age of Consent in the United Kingdom" Sociology 37:4 (November 2003): 637-55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42856567 David Rayside, "Promoting Heterosexuality in the Thatcher Years," in On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics (Cornell University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5qdh32.7 Michel Bozon and Juliette Rennes, "The history of sexual norms: the hold of age and gender," trans. by Sian Reynolds Clio: Women, Gender, History 42 Age and Sex (2015): 7-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26273655 "Marriage laws" Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/table_marriage#k Vicky Iglikowski-Broad, "The passing of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act," National Archives Blog (24 July 2017). https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/sexual-offences-act/ Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, "The 1967 Sexual Offences Act: a landmark moment in the history of British homosexuality," History Extra; BBC History Magazine (14 July 2018). https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/the-1967-sexual-offences-act-a-landmark-moment-in-the-history-of-british-homosexuality/ "Convictions and Cautions for Gross Indecency" Stonewall https://www.stonewall.org.uk/help-advice/criminal-law/convictions-and-cautions-gross-indecency Peter Tatchell, "Don't fall for the myth that it's 50 years since we decriminalised homosexuality," The Guardian (23 May 2017) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/fifty-years-gay-liberation-uk-barely-four-1967-act "Sexual Offences Act 1967" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967 Nicholas Syrett, "Child marriage is still legal in the US" The Conversation (11 December 2017). https://theconversation.com/child-marriage-is-still-legal-in-the-us-88846 Anjali Tsui, "Married Young: The Fight Over Child Marriage in America," Frontline (14 September 2017). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/married-young-the-fight-over-child-marriage-in-america/ "Page 3" Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_3 "Wolfenden Report, 1957" British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/wolfenden-report-conclusion

Bread and Roses:

"Bread and Roses," The Zinn Education Project, available at https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/bread-and-roses-song/ Tea Hvala, "Streetwise Politics: Feminist and Lesbian Grassroots Activism in Ljubljana," in Feminist Media: Participatory Spaces, Networks, and Cultural Citizenship, ed Elke Zobl and Ricarde Drueke, Transcript Publishing: 2012 Desmond King and David Rueda, "Cheap Labor: The New Politics of 'Bread and Roses' in Industrial Democracies," Perspectives on Politics 6, 2 (2008) Wini Breines, "What's Love Got to Do With It? White Women, Black Women, and Feminism in the Movement Years," Signs 27, 4 (2002) Joan Baez and Mimi Farina, "Bread and Roses," Availabe at https://youtu.be/LWkVcaAGCi0 "Pan y Rosas: Argentine Women in the Struggle," Left Voice, available at https://www.leftvoice.org/pan-y-rosas-argentine-women-in-the-struggle

We're traveling back to the Middle Ages (kinda?) with The Court Jester! Join us for a discussion of sign language, performance troops, court jesters, kidnapping of women, and more!

Sources:

Background:

"Danny Kaye Arriving in 'The Court Jester'..." The Christian Science Monitor 29 February 1956, p.5 "Memo to my Husband from Sylvia (Mrs. Danny Kaye) Fine" Photoplay Jan-Jun 1955, p.57. "Comic Knighthood for Kaye" LIFE 30 January 1956, p.93-6. Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Court_Jester ; https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291035/?ref_=tt_ov_dr https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659085/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1 Al Steen, "Review: The Court Jester," Motion Picture Daily 27 January 1956 p.1, 6. Bosley Crowther, "Burlesque With a Lance; Danny Kaye Is Starred as 'The Court Jester' Knighthood Movies Are Spoofed at Paramount," The New York Times 2 February 1956. Angela Lansbury talks about her career: https://youtu.be/QOma6cinvZ8

Hermine's Midgets:

Classified Ad 8--No Title, Chicago Daily Tribune 8 March 1947, p. 15. "Burlesque: Old Howard," Daily Boston Globe, 11 January 1947, D7. "BURLESQUE: OLD HOWARD "Toyland"," Daily Boston Globe 30 December 1941, p.8; Display Ad 58--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 21 April 1940, C6. Display Ad 110--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 14 April 1940, C6. Display Ad 11--No Title, Daily Boston Globe 31 December 1941, p.5. "Hermine's Midgets to Play 9 M. & P. Suburban Theatres," Daily Boston Globe 10 April 1940, p.12. "Burlesque: GLOBE THEATRE Renee and Girls" Daily Boston Globe 13 January 1942, p. 17. Deborah Petersen, "Tiny Elves Big Hit at Area Mall," The Hartford Courant 22 November 1982, B2a. Bob Kowalchyk, "Family Fun in Adirondacks," The Hartford Courant 11 September 1977, p. 11F. Sunny Stalter-Pace, Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffman's Life in Vaudeville and Dance (Northwestern University Press, 2020) 9. Timothy G. Turner, ""We Midgets are People Like You!"" Los Angeles Times 19 May 1935, p.SM9. H.I. Phillips, "The Once Over: The Summer Vacationists' Relief Fund," Daily Boston Globe 4 August 1928, p.14. "FAMOUS DWARFS AT THE HARTFORD: Royal Lilliputians Heads Entertaining Bill First Three Days." The Hartford Courant 31 October 1915, p.17. "Union Collects $1,000 Salary Claim for Midgets," Variety 1 October 1947, p.43. "Keith's, Indpls." Variety 11 April 1945, p. 65. Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev, "The dwarves of Auschwitz," The Guardian 23 March 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/23/the-dwarves-of-auschwitz . Bob Hermines Magazine of Midgets Robert (Hermine) Rebernigg, Flushing, NY, 1945. http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/vaudeville/wp-content/uploads/azu_ms421_b4_f10_004_w.pdf

Kidnapping Elite Women:

Caroline Dunn, Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500, (Cambridge University Press, 2012). https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1017/CBO9781139061919 Kiera Lindsey, "'The Absolute Distress of Females': Irish Abduction and the British Newspapers, 1800 to 1850," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 42:4 (2014): 625-44.

Court Jesters:

Beatrice K Otto, Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World. University of Chicago Press. Jean Fouquet, Portrait of the Ferrara Court Jester, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester#/media/File:Jean_Fouquet-_Portrait_of_the_Ferrara_Court_Jester_Gonella.JPG Magda Romanska, "The History of the Court Jester," Available at http://blog.blo.org/the-history-of-court-jester-by-magda

Sign Language:

"The Origins of Cistercian Sign Language," https://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/the-origins-of-cistercian-sign-language/ "The Development of Education for Deaf People," https://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/the-development-of-education-for-deaf-people/ RJ Salter, "Only Half Healed," Selected Readings from the Proceedings of the 'Maladies, Miracles, and Medicine of the Middle Ages,' University of Reading. Marina Radic-Sestic, "The Beginnings of Education for Deaf Persons: Renaissance Europe," Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation (2012)

It's our Christmas episode (about a week late): A Lion in Winter! Join us for a discussion of medieval Christmas, dogs, King Lear, and more!

Sources:

"The Lion in Winter" Roger Ebert 4 November 1968 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lion-in-winter-1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_in_Winter_(1968_film)

Mental Floss https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/514198/10-dramatic-facts-about-king-lear#:~:text=KING%20LEAR%20WAS%20INSPIRED%20BY,12th%2Dcentury%20Historia%20Regum%20Britanniae.

Legend of King Lear: "Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of King Lear in History of the Kings of Britain" https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/geoffrey-of-monmouths-account-of-king-lear-in-history-of-the-kings-of-britain "Dates and Sources: Find out what inspired Shakespeare's King Lear and when it was written," Royal Shakespeare Company https://www.rsc.org.uk/king-lear/about-the-play/dates-and-sources "Geoffrey of Monmouth," PBS, 1 May 2009, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/king-lear-geoffrey-of-monmouth/638/ . Six Old English Chronicles https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Six_Old_English_Chronicles/Geoffrey%27s_British_History/Book_2

Dogs Kathleen Walker-Meikle, "Dogs: Medieval Man's Best Friend," British Library https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/dogs-medieval-mans-best-friend.html Diane Lee, "Dogs at the Medieval Banquet," the iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/dogs-at-the-medieval-banquet/ "Nothin' but a Hound Dog" Medieval manuscripts blog, British Library, 4 february 2013 https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/02/nothin-but-a-hound-dog.html?_ga=2.178439524.1765360649.1603983305-769267029.1603983305

Eleanor and Her Sons: Helen Castor, "Why Richard I shared his bed with the king of France," The Guardian 18 March 2008 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/mar/19/monarchy.france "Richard I (1157-1199)" BBC History http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/richard_i_king.shtml Henric Bagerius and Christine Ekholst, "Kings and favourites: politics and sexuality in late medieval Europe," Journal of Medieval History 43:3 (2017): 298-319. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1080/03044181.2017.1322999 Ralph V. Turner, Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England (Yale University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vm2g7.18 John Gillingham, Richard I (Yale University Press, 1999). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkzqv.6 David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain, 1066-1284 (London: Penguin, 2004). "Eleanor of Aquitaine" You're Dead to Me BBC Radio4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087r8kb

Rosamund Clifford: Lyrics to Queen Elanor's Confession, Available at https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch156.htm The Woman in the Bower, Sexual Fables, available at http://sexualfables.com/the_woman_in_the_bower.php Robert L. Chapman, "A Note on the Demon Queen Eleanor," Modern Language Notes 70, 6 (1955) Sally Jefferey, "The Formal Gardens at Moor Park in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries," Garden History 42, 2 (2014)

Medieval Christmas: Professor Sarah Peverley, "Christmas at the Medieval Court," available at https://sarahpeverley.com/2012/12/22/christmas-at-the-medieval-court/ University of Liverpool Podcast, "Sarah Peverley": https://sarahpeverley.com/tag/medieval-christmas/ "Christmas in the Middle Ages," Medievalists.net, available at https://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/christmas-in-the-middle-ages/

We don't have a full episode this week, so enjoy one of our Patreon bonus episodes on the pilot of Marvelous Mrs Maisel! Join us to learn about Central Park, black and white cookies, and more!

BTS featurettes: https://youtu.be/atdI3-vlOi0 https://youtu.be/u5HgyNMHQ7k 

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/marvelous-mrs-maisel-finale-rachel-brosnahan-interview-michael-zegen 

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/how-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-got-made-69966/ 

https://ny.eater.com/2014/6/2/6214949/the-black-and-white-cookies-curious-history 

Joanne Spataro, "The Real History of Black and White Cookies," Vice 4 May 2018. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pax7gg/the-real-history-of-black-and-white-cookies 

Zabar's cookie selection https://www.zabars.com/cookies/ 

Liz Logan, "How Pyrex Reinvented Glass for a New Age," Smithsonian Magazine 5 June 2015 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-pyrex-reinvented-glass-new-age-180955513/ 

"'Button-Down Mind' Changed Modern Comedy" NPR 23 December 2007. 

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/17561805  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Newhart#Early_career 

https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-

board/documents/BobNewhart.pdf 

Seneca Village and Central Park. Available at 

https://www.centralparknyc.org/articles/seneca-village 

Anne C. Schenderlein, Germany on Their Minds: German-Jewish Refugees and Their Relationships With Germany, 1938-1988. Berghan Books.

Morrison H. Heckscher, "Creating Central Park," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65, 3 (2008)