This week we're traveling back to 1950s Hollywood with Hail Caesar! Join us as we learn about the Writers Guild, stars going on arranged dates, the phrase "cut the mustard", how stars concealed unplanned pregnancies, and more!

Sources:

Jeffrey Schwartz, Tab Hunter Confidential. Allan Glaser Productions, 2015. Available on Amazon Prime. Benjamin McVay, "Movie Stars in the Studio System: Secrets and Rules," Cinema Scholars, available at https://cinemascholars.com/movie-stars-in-the-studio-system-secrets-and-rules/

Writers Guild of America West https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history and https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history/a-history-of-wga-contract-negotiations-and-gains  Hilary Swett, "The Screen Writers' Guild: An Early History of the Writers Guild of America," WG Foundation (2020). https://www.wgfoundation.org/screenwritersguild-history 

Greg Myre, "How The CIA Found A Soviet Sub--Without the Soviets Knowing," All Things Considered (NPR, 18 September 2017). https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/18/549535352/how-the-cia-found-a-soviet-sub-without-the-soviets-knowing   Lila Thulin, "During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw," Smithsonian Magazine (10 May 2019). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-cold-war-ci-secretly-plucked-soviet-submarine-ocean-floor-using-giant-claw-180972154/  "Russian Foxtrot Class attack submarine B-39, has gone to pasture." https://sdmaritime.org/visit/the-ships/b-39-submarine/ 

Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, and Arthur Garfield Kennedy, "cut the mustard," American Speech, Vol. 2 (1927), 352.  Dialect Notes Vol. 3 (University of Michigan and American Dialect Society, 1905). 

Anne Helen Petersen, "Clark Gable Accused of Raping Co-Star," Buzzfeed News, 2015. Available at https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/loretta-young

Bill Desowitz, "Hail Caesar! How the Coen Brothers Made Their Hollywood Valentine," IndieWire, available at https://www.indiewire.com/awards/industry/hail-caesar-the-coen-brothers-hollywood-1201781360/ Wikipedia, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail,_Caesar!

NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, this episode contains some lost audio.

This week we're traveling back to the 19th century with The Harder They Fall! Join us as we learn about the real-life figures behind the characters of this film, including Stagecoach Mary, Cherokee Bill, and more!

Sources:

Paul M. Lucko, "Goldsby, Crawford [Cherokee Bill]," Texas State Historical Society, available at https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/goldsby-crawford Art T. Burton, "Goldsby, Crawford," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, available at https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GO006 Juliet Galonska, "Cherokee Bill," On the Outlaw Trail, NPS, available at https://www.nps.gov/fosm/learn/historyculture/cherokee-bill-outlaw-trail.htm

Shelby Amspacher, "Stagecoach Mary Fields," Smithsonian National Postal Museum, https://postalmuseum.si.edu/stagecoach-mary-fields   Roger D. Hardaway, "African-American Women on the Western Frontier," Negro History Bulletin 60, no.1 (1997): 8-13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24766796  Kelli Cardenas Walsh, "Fields, Stagecoach Mary," in Black Women in America ed. Darlene Clark Hine (Oxford University Press, 2005).  Maggie Slepian, "Stagecoach Mary: A Montana Legend," Distinctly Montana  3 May 2023. https://www.distinctlymontana.com/stagecoach-mary  https://arcadiapublishing.com/blogs/news/pioneering-black-women-stagecoach-mary  Erin Blakemore, "Meet Stagecoach Mary, the Daring Black Pioneer Who Protected Wild West Stagecoaches," History, 28 January 2021, https://www.history.com/news/meet-stagecoach-mary-the-daring-black-pioneer-who-protected-wild-west-stagecoaches 

"Cathay Williams," Santa Fe Historic Trail, https://www.nps.gov/people/cwilliams.htm  Tamara Shiloh, "Cathay Williams: Buffalo Soldier," Oakland Post (27 March 2019):1.  DeAnne Blanton, "Cathay Williams Black Woman Soldier 1866-1868," Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women in the Military X, no. 3 (1992): 1.  Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles, Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology (Texas A&M University Press, 2007). 

RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_harder_they_fall  The Drew Barrymore Show, "Zazie Beetz Tells Drew About Her "The Harder They Fall" Fight Scene with Regina King," https://youtu.be/V3Gr4K_KJhY   "Jay-Z, Jeymes Samuel, and James Lassiter discuss making THE HARDER THEY FALL | Netflix" https://youtu.be/okyZHi4muoo   https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jonathan-majors-abuse-allegations-yale-1234781136/  Holly Rivet, "Love and Death on the Frontier: Finding Ben Reeves at the National Archives," Rediscovering Black History, National Archives, available at https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/08/18/ben-reeves-at-the-national-archives/ Art T. Burton, "Reeves, Bass," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, available at https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=RE020

Today we're traveling back to the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s with Boogie Nights! Join us as we learn all about the impact of VHS on the porn industry, adult film awards, the history of the San Fernando Valley, and more!

Sources:

Timothy Buzzell, "Demographic Characteristics of Persons Using Pornography in Three Technological Contexts," Sexuality & Culture 9, no.1 (2005): 28-48. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy-Buzzell-2/publication/227101923_Demographic_characteristics_of_persons_using_pornography_in_three_technological_contexts/links/5627ead608ae518e347b2faa/Demographic-characteristics-of-persons-using-pornography-in-three-technological-contexts.pdf  Jonathan Coopersmith, "Sex Vibes and Videotape: Sexuality and Electrical Technology in the 20th Century: The Role of the Pornography Industry in the Development of Videotape and the Internet," http://owncloud.unsri.ac.id/journal/threat/sex_vibes_21century.pdf  Ingrid Rachel Olson, Pornography, Spectatorship, and Sex Education in the VCR Era, Dissertation, The University of British Columbia (2018).  Karl A. Groskaufmanis, "What Films We May Watch: Videotape Distribution and the First Amendment," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 136, no.4 (1988): 1263-1300. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3312163  Peter Alilunas, Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video (University of California, 2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1d4v0gx  Steven Niedbala, "The Ontology of the Pornographic Image: The Meese Commission and the Rise of Sexual Media," Grey Room 64 (2016): 104-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26778436   AFAA Award Ceremonies: A Pictorial History, Part I (1977-1980). The Rialto Report. Available at https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/08/19/afaa-awards/ Ben Sherlock, "You're Not the King of Dirk: 10 Behind the Scenes Facts About Boogie Nights," ScreenRant, available at https://screenrant.com/boogie-nights-behind-scenes-facts-paul-thomas-anderson-movie/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Nights Oral history of Boogie Nights: http://grantland.com/features/boogie-nights/  Melia Robinson, "How LA's 'Porn Valley' Became the Adult Entertainment Capital of the World", Insider, available at https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-porn-valley-hugh-hefner-2017-9 Roth v. United States, 1957. Opinion available at https://www.oyez.org/cases/1956/582 Miller v. California, 1973. Opinion available at https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-73 Rose Eveleth, "What Can We Learn from the Porn Industry About HIV?" Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-can-we-learn-from-the-porn-industry-about-hiv-111558622/

This week we're traveling back to the 1970s with our 100th Episode Spectacular!!! Join us as we learn about activists Cleve Jones and Anne Kronenberg, Prop 6, and the Coors Boycott, before we look back on our favorite segments from past episodes. 

Sources:

Footage of 1978 Board of Supervisors Meeting, Anne Kronenberg: https://archive.org/details/glbths_1999-52_012_sc Photo of Anne Kronenberg Delivering Eulogy, SJSU Archives: https://digitalcollections.sjsu.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A80_364 Anne Kronenberg, Faculty Biography, available at https://npli.sph.harvard.edu/about/people/anne-kronenberg/ Japhy Grant, "Immortalized in Milk, Anne Kronenberg Still Sees the Big Picture," Queerty, available at https://www.queerty.com/immortalized-in-milk-anne-kronenberg-still-sees-the-big-picture-20090122

Allyson Brantley, "Taking on the Coors Brewing Company (And the Conservative Family Behind It," Public Seminar, available at https://publicseminar.org/essays/taking-on-the-coors-brewing-company-and-the-conservative-family-behind-it/ Taplines Episode on How Coors Busted Its Union and Boosted Its Boycott, available at https://vinepair.com/taplines-podcast/coors-labor-union-boycott/ Allyson Brantly, "The 1970s Beer Boycott Inspiring Amazon Organizers Today," Zocalo, available at https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/04/21/the-1970s-coors-beer-boycott/ideas/essay/

Cleve Jones, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement (New York: Hachette Books, 2017).  https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Milk-actors-and-the-people-they-play-3184353.php  "Vote No On Proposition 6" https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.13910627  Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris (eds.), An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings (University of California Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt24hsnt  Jackie M. Blount, "How Sweet It Is!" Counterpoints 367 Sexualities in Education: A Reader (2012): 46-60. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42981383  Katherine Turk, ""Our Militancy is in Our Openness": Gay Employment Rights Activism in California and the Question of Sexual Orientation in Sex Equality Law," Law and History Review 31, no.2 (2013): 423-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23489486  Karen Graves, "Presidential Address: Political Pawns in an Educational Endgame: Reflections on Bryant, Briggs, and Some Twentieth-Century School Questions," History of Education Quarterly, 53, no.1 (2013): 1-20.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/24481661 

Kirk Honeycutt, "'Milk': Film Review" The Hollywood Reporter (2 November 2008). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/milk-review-2008-movie-125079/#!   RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/milk  https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/emile-hirsch-interview-jail-rehab-1201758602/  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_(2008_American_film)  David Edelstein, "'Milk' Is Much More Than A Martyr Movie," Fresh Air NPR (26 November 2008). https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97518380  

This week we're going back to 1920s Chicago with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom! Join us as we learn about The Defender, some NSFW slang, recording contracts, Ma Rainey's love life, and more!

Sources:

Katherine A. Bitner, "The Role of the Chicago Defender in the Great Migration of 1916-1918," Negro History Bulletin 48, 2 (1985) James R. Grossman, "Blowing the Trumpet: The Chicago Defender and Black Migration During World War I," Illnois Historical Journal 78, 2 (1985) Mary E. Stovall, "The Chicago Defender in the Progressive Era," Illinois Historical Journal 83, 3 (1990) Chicago Defender Homepage (Current Version): https://chicagodefender.com/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey%27s_Black_Bottom_(film)

K. Allison Hammer, ""Just like a natural man": The B.D. styles of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and Bessie Smith," Journal of Lesbian Studies (2019): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2019.1562284   Robert Springer, "Folklore, Commercialism and Exploitation: Copyright in the Blues," Popular Music 26, no.1 (2007): 33-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4500298  Mariana Brandman, "Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939)," National Women's History Museum. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/gertrude-ma-rainey Jas Obrecht, ""See See Rider Blues"--Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1924)," Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Ma%20Rainey.pdf  Edward McClelland, "The Complicated Record Exec Left Out of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Chicago Mag (20 January 2021). https://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/ma-rainey-j-mayo-williams/  

Layli Phillips and Marla R. Stewart, ""I Am Just So Glad You Are Alive": New Perspectives on Non-Traditional, Non-Conforming, and Transgressive Expressions of Gender, Sexuality, and Race Among African Americans," Journal of African American Studies 12, no.4 (2008): 378-400. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41819183  Rebecca Bush, "Woman, Southern, Bisexual," The Public Historian 41, no.2 (2019): 94-115. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26862126  Steve Goodson, "Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939) "Hear Me Talkin' to You"," in Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times eds. Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark (University of Georgia Press).  https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt175734n.12  Jonathan Ned Katz, "Ma Rainey's "Prove It On Me Blues," 1928: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey's Amazing Resistance Anthem," OutHistory. https://www.outhistory.org/oldwiki/index.php?title=Ma_Rainey%27s_%22Prove_It_On_Me_Blues,%22_1928   Carla Williams, "Blues Music," 2015, http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/blues_A.pdf 

Complete Timeline of Slang Terms for Vagina: https://timelinesofslang.com/vaginact.html "Pussy," Green's Dictionary of Slang: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/bl252wa Online Etymology Dictionary: https://www.etymonline.com/word/pussy "Pussy and Pusillanimous" Penn Language Log: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24012#:~:text=There's%20a%20plausible%20and%20well,development%20of%20pussy%20%3D%20female%20genitals

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This week we travel back to 1960s Mississippi with Mississippi Burning! Join us as we learn about the epic tale of the integration of Ole Miss, murderous Klansmen, civil rights activist training, and more!

Sources:

"James Meredith at Ole Miss" https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/ole-miss-integration  Debbie Elliott, "Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot," NPR Morning Edition (1 Oct 2012). https://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/161573289/integrating-ole-miss-a-transformative-deadly-riot  CW Eagles, "The Fight for Men's Minds: The Aftermath of the Ole Miss Riot of 1962," The Journal of Mississippi History (2009). http://www.jasonklodt.com/s/eagles-fightmensminds.pdf  Charles W. Eagles, The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss, (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 319-71. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807895597_eagles.22 

"Lawrence A. Rainey, R.I.P.," The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 38 (2003): 125. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3134229  Renee C. Romano, Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders (Harvard University Press, 2014), 26, 46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qdswt.4  Howard Ball, Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kansas, 2004), 7-8, 23, 94-99, 122, 135-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mmfsn9  Kent Spriggs (ed.), Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Reflections from the Deep South, 1964-1980 (University Press of Florida, 2017), 177, 180-83, 198, 223, 280-1.  https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/mississippi-burning  "Investigation of the 1964 Murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman," File No. DJ 144-41-686 https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/micheal-schwerner-james-chaney-andrew-goodman  "Mississippi Burning (MIBURN) Case Part 1 of 9" FBI Records: The Vault, p73-6. https://vault.fbi.gov/Mississippi%20Burning%20%28MIBURN%29%20Case/Mississippi%20Burning%20%28MIBURN%29%20Case%20Part%201%20of%209/view  Irv Letofsky, "Another Case of Murder in Mississippi: TV movie on the killing of three civil rights workers in 1964 tries to fill in what 'Mississippi Burning' left out," Los Angeles Times (4 Feb 1990): H8.  Jesse Kornbluth, "The Struggle Continues," New York Times (23 July 1989): SM16.  "Mississippi cleric resigns over hiring of ex-sheriff," Chicago Tribune (24 April 1989): 3.  Phyllis Messinger, "Slow Change Marks Town 20 Years After Civil Rights Killings," Hartford Courant (31 July 1984): A7. Paul Hendrickson. "20 Years Ago, in the Heat of the Night: On the Anniversary of the Murders, Mississippi Guards its Memories Mississippi's Longest Summer the Summer of '64." The Washington Post, Jul 10, 1984. "Ex-Sheriff Hits TV for Job Loss." Chicago Defender (Big Weekend Edition), Mar 01, 1975.  "Ex-Sheriff Rainey: He's Haunted by the Past." Boston Globe, Sep 22, 1974. 

Craig Smith, "Western Pennsylvanians Recall Their Route to the March on Washington," TribLive, https://archive.triblive.com/local/local-news/western-pennsylvanians-recall-their-route-to-the-march-on-washington/ Jennifer Taylor, "The 1965 Freedom Patrols and the Origins of Seattle's Police Accountability Movement," Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, available at https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/freedom_patrols.htm Interviews with Sam H. Bowers Jr. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, available at https://da.mdah.ms.gov/bowers/ "Samuel Bowers, 82, Klan Leader Convicted in Fatal Bombing, Dies," New York Times, November 6 2006: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/us/06bowers.html "Klan Leader Sentenced to Life," Southern Poverty Law Center, available at https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/klan-leader-sentenced-life US Department of Justice Report, Referral to the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi: https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1041791/download

Roger Ebert, "Mississippi Burning," 9 December 1988. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mississippi-burning-1988  Seongyong Cho, "Looking Back at Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning," 9 Sept 2020. https://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/looking-back-at-alan-parkers-mississippi-burning  Robert Brent Toplin, "Mississippi Burning Scorches Historians," Perspectives (1 April 1989). https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/april-1989/mississippi-burning-scorches-historians  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Burning 

This week we're going back to the 1960s with Boston Strangler! Join us as we learn about the Boston PD's bad advice to women, raids on queer communities, the death of Albert DeSalvo, and more!

Sources:

James H. Hammond, "Boston 'Strangler' Flees Hospital; Women Are Told to Lock Doors," The Washington Post (25 Feb 1967): 1.  Douglas Crocket, "What Did the Five Strangle Victims Have in Common?" Boston Globe (24 Aug 1962): 4.  Charles Claffey, "9 Stranglings Still Unsolved--And Circle of Fear Widens," Boston Globe (15 Sep 1963): 38.  "Police Working Without Result on Stranglings," Boston Globe (8 July 1962): 6.  Douglas Crocket, "Police Have Queried 3000 Persons in Strangling Case," Boston Globe (20 Jan 1963): 9.  Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 09 Dec. 1962. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1962-12-09/ed-1/seq-7/  "What Police Say: 'Women Too Trusting.. Careless'." Boston Globe (1960-), Sep 19, 1965. "Public Faces/Private Lives," The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston, https://www.historyproject.org/exhibition/public-faces-private-lives  Robert B. Kenney, "South Cove Branded Degenerates' Hangout," Boston Globe (8 July 1965): 1.  Joseph Keblinsky, "The Dapper Strikes Out," Boston Globe (11 Jly 1965): A4.  "Remember Scollay Square?" Boston Globe (2 November 1963): 4.  "Rowdy Ways of Scollay Sq. Soon Will Go: Proper Boston Stands the Death Watch," Chicago Daily Tribune (11 March 1962): B8.  Anthony J. Yudis, "Renewal to Oust 28 Liquor Spots: Battle for South Cove," Boston Globe (30 May 1965): 11.  Sixtieth Annual Report of the Police Commissioner for the City of Boston for the Year Ending December 31, 1965. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hl2k7i?urlappend=%3Bseq=33%3Bownerid=116415389-37  Blackwood, Harold. "What People Talk about: Boston Revisited After 20 Years, Ex-Navy Man Likes what He Sees." Boston Globe (1960-), Apr 14 1963, p. 1. ProQuest.  Jan Brogan, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv29g2gxr.6  Anne Gray Fischer, "Boston: The Place is Gone! Policing Black Women to Redevelop Downtown," in The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469665061_fischer.8  

"DeSalvo, Confessed Boston Strangler, Found Stabbed to Death in Prison Cell," New York Times, 11/27/1973, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/27/archives/desalvo-confessed-boston-strangler-found-stabbed-to-death-in-prison.html Susan Kelly, "The Boston Stranglers," Kensington, 2013.

Nathan Smith, "The Tenacious Woman Reporters Who Helped Expose the Boston Strangler," Smithsonian, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-tenacious-women-reporters-who-helped-expose-the-boston-strangler-180981786/ Kevin Slane, "Separating Fact From Fiction in the Boston Strangler Movie," Boston.com, available at https://www.boston.com/culture/movies/2023/03/17/boston-strangler-movie-whats-real-not/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Strangler_(film)

This week we're traveling back to 1970s Iran with Persepolis! Join us as we learn about Qajar princes, the role of the CIA in the Shah's regime, banned music in 1970s Iran, the Iran-Iraq War, and more!

Sources: Afshar v. Department of State (1983). Case text available at https://casetext.com/case/afshar-v-department-of-state Richard T. Sale, "SAVAK: A Feared and Pervasive Force," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/05/09/savak-a-feared-and-pervasive-force/ad609959-d47b-4b7f-8c8d-b388116df90c/ AJ Langguth, "Torture's Teachers," New York Times, June 11 1979, available at https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/11/archives/tortures-teachers.html "CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup," The National Security Archive, available at https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/

Qajar portraits https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/exhibition-highlights/  Miriam Berger, "The divisive legacy of Iran's royal family," The Washington Post (16 January 2020),  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/16/divisive-legacy-irans-royal-family/ Yann Richard, Iran: A Social and Political History since the Qajars (Cambridge University Press, 2019).  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/17/british-spys-account-sheds-light-on-role-in-1953-iranian-coup Eskandari, Mohammad. “Pierre Razoux , The Iran–Iraq War, Trans. Nicholas Elliot (London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015). Pp. 640. $39.99 Cloth. ISBN: 9780674088634.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, no. 1 (2017): 202–205.

Heather Rastovac, "Contending with Censorship: The Underground Music Scene in Urban Iran," Intersections 10, 2 (2009)

RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/persepolis  Wiki: Kristin Hohenadel, "An Animated Adventure, Drawn From Life," New York Times (21 Jan 2007) https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/movies/21hohe.html  Roger Ebert's review (2008); https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/persepolis-2008 

Ranj Alaaldin, "How the Iran-Iraq war will shape the region for decades to come," The Brookings Institute (9 October 2020), https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/10/09/how-the-iran-iraq-war-will-shape-the-region-for-decades-to-come/   Bruce Riedel, "Lessons from America's First War with Iran," The Brookings Institute (22 May 2013), https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lessons-from-americas-first-war-with-iran/ 

This week we're going back to 2007 with The Big Short! Join us as we learn about bespoke tranche opportunities, various hedge fund guys, Sofia's predictions for what Millennial side hustles will look like when none of us are retired in 50 years, and more!

Sources:

Jack Schwager, Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win. Wiley, 2012 Indiewire interview with Adam McKay: https://www.indiewire.com/2015/12/interview-adam-mckay-talks-the-big-short-making-a-bourne-style-financial-drama-angering-judd-apatow-more-100043/ John Szramiakje, "Here's the Story of One of the Heroes of the Big Short," Insider, available at https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-burry-life-story-2017-5 Johnny Brayson, "Where the Big Short's Michael Burry Is Today," Bustle, available at https://www.bustle.com/articles/133631-what-is-michael-burry-doing-today-the-big-short-character-is-still-weary-of-the-financial Reed Stevenson and Bloomberg, "Criminally Unjust: Big Short Investor Who Called Subprime Mortgage Collapse Slams Coronavirus Lockdowns," Fortune, available at https://fortune.com/2020/04/07/big-short-michael-burry-subprime-mortgage-coronavirus-lockdowns/ Flaxman et al, "Estimating the Effects of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Europe," Nature, available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7

John J. McConnell and Stephen A. Buser, "The Origins and Evolution of the Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities," Annual Review of Financial Economics 3 (2011): 173-92, https://www.jstor.org/stable/42940424.  Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein, "The Roots of the Great Recession," in The Great Recession eds. David B. Grusky, Bruse Western, and Christopher Wimer (Russel Sage Foundation), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610447508.6  Richard H. Sander, Yana A. Kucheva, and Jonathan M. Zasloff, "The Mortgage Crisis and the Great Recession," Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing (Harvard University Press, 2018)., https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24trdcq.28  Donald Palmer and Michael W. Maher, "The mortgage meltdown as normal accidental wrongdoing," Strategic Organization 8, no.1 (2010): 83-91. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23728572   Robert J. Schiller, "Mortgage Lenders and Securitizers," Finance and the Good Society (Princeton University Press),  https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32bb86.11 

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NOTE: This episode was originally posted as a Patreon-only bonus episode. 

This week we're talking about the first season of A League of Their Own! Join us as we learn about censored letters in WWII, the code of conduct for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, and more!

Sources:

Full text available at https://www.aagpbl.org/history/rules-of-conducthttps://www.aagpbl.org/teams/rockford-peaches/1944 

Lisa Taylor/Justina Moloney, "Passed Censor," Folklife Today: American Folklife Center & Veterans History Project, Library of Congress (28 August 2017). 

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/08/passed-censor/ "Victory Mail," National Postal Museum, Smithsonian. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/victory-mail and https://youtu.be/tj_LoG7wStY 

Myron Fox, "Censorship!" American Experience, PBS (2000). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/warletters-censorship/ "

Letters Home: Wartime Correspondence from the Natale Bellantoni Papers," Hoover Institution Library & Archives https://histories.hoover.org/letters-home/#:~:text=Throughout%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,hands%20should%20mail%20be%20intercepted.

Devan Coggan, "Abbi Jacobson responds to angry reactions to A League of Their Own: 'Representation matters so much'" Entertainment Weekly (15 August 2022). https://ew.com/tv/a-league-of-their-own-reactions-abbi-jacobson-responds/ 

Rebecca Nicholson, "A League of Their Own review-- this gorgeous baseball drama is about something far bigger than sport," The Guardian (12 August 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/12/a-league-of-their-own-review-baseball-drama-abbi-jacobson-madonna-movie-remake 

Jenna Scherer, "A League Of Their Own serves up a whole new crop of Peaches," AV Club (10 August 2022). https://www.avclub.com/a-league-of-their-own-season-1-review-1849391265 

Linda Holmes, "New Peaches, new problems: 'A League of Their Own' makes a successful move to TV," NPR (11 August 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/08/11/1116855780/a-league-of-their-own-2022-amazon-prime-review 

Riese, "32 Excerpts From Really Special “League Of Their Own” Reviews Written By Homophobes Who’ve Had Quite Enough," Autostraddle, (15 August 2022). https://www.autostraddle.com/32-homophobic-league-of-their-own-reviews/ https://youtu.be/1OvULWYcSjQ