Today we're traveling back to the 1820s and the Kingdom of Dahomey with The Woman King! Join us as we learn about cowrie shells, Agojie weapons, the 1820s slave trade, King Ghezo, and more!

Sources:

Wendy Ide, "The Woman King review - a thunderously cinematic good time," The Observer (1 Oct 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/01/the-woman-king-review-a-thunderously-cinematic-good-time-viola-davis-gina-prince-bythewood-sheila-atim   RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_woman_king  Robert Daniels, "The Woman King," (16 Sept 2022) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-woman-king-movie-review-2022  ITV News, "Viola Davis defends new film The Woman King after Dahomey slave trade history backlash | ITV News," YouTube, https://youtu.be/ZxsvsSDvDcE   The Daily Show, "Thuso Mbedu - “The Woman King” & Social Impact with Paramount+ | The Daily Show," https://youtu.be/HAMULqA8cEw   Good Morning America, "Viola Davis talks new film, 'The Woman King' l GMA," YouTube https://youtu.be/fKGpMU2xSJk   Marion Johnson, "The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa, Part I," The Journal of African History 11, no.1 (1970): 17-49. https://www.jstor.org/stable/180215  Mahir Saul, "Money in Colonial Transition: Cowries and Francs in West Africa," American Anthropologist 106, no.1 (2004): 71-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567443  "Cowrie Shells and Trade Power," National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian, https://nmaahc.si.edu/cowrie-shells-and-trade-power  Barbara J. Heath, "Cowrie Shells, Global Trade, and Local Exchange: Piecing Together the Evidence for Colonial Virginia," Historical Archaeology 50, no.2 (2016): 17-46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24757075  Akinwumi Ogundiran, "Of Small Things Remembered: Beads, Cowries, and Cultural Translations of the Atlantic Experience in Yorubaland," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 35, no.2/3 (2002): 427-57. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3097620  Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson, "British Abolition and its Impact on Slave Prices Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa, 1783-1850," The Journal of Economic History 55, no.1 (1995): 98-119. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123769  Peter Morton-Williams, "The Oyo Yoruba and the Atlantic Trade, 1670-1830," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 3, no.1 (1964): 25-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41856687   Randy J. Sparks, "Blind Justice: The United States's Failure to Curb the Illegal Slave Trade," Law and History Review 35. no.1 (2017): 53-79. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26338410  Augustus A. Adeyinka, "King Gezo of Dahomey, 1818-1858: A Reassessment of a West African Monarch in the Nineteenth Century," African Studies Review 17, no.3 (1974): 541-48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/523800 

Group Portrait, Paris, 1891: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons#/media/File:COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Groepsportret_van_de_zogenaamde_'Amazones_uit_Dahomey'_tijdens_hun_verblijf_in_Parijs_TMnr_60038362.jpg Frederick Edwyn Forbes, "Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the Kingdom of Dahomey, and the residence at his capitol, 1849 and 1850," available at https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ngLr7B6zBM8C/page/n41/mode/2up Maeve Adams, "The Amazon Warrior and the De/Construction of Gendered Imperial Authority in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature," Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 6, 1 (2010) Augustus A. Adeyinka, "King Gezo of Dahomey, 1818-1858: A Reassessment of a West African Monarch in the Nineteenth Century," African Studies Review 17, 3 (1974) E.A. Soumonni and E.A. Soumoni, "Dahomean Economic Policy Under Ghezo, 1818-1858: A Reconsideration," Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 10, 2 (1980) Robin Law, "The Politics of Commercial Transition: Factional Conflict in Dahomey in the Context of Ending the Slave Trade," Journal of African History 38, 2 (1997)

This week we're jumping into the history of science with Marie Curie biopic Radioactive! Join us as we learn about petite Curies, famous medium Eusapia Palladino, whether or not Marie Curie was truly afraid of hospitals, her scandalous affair, and more!

Sources:

Charles L. Dana, et al. "Report of an Investigation into the Phenomena Connected With Eusapia Palladino," Science, May 20 1910. Francesco Paolo de Ceglia and Lorenzo Leporiere, "Becoming Eusapia: The Rise of the "Diva of Scientists", Science in Context 33 (2020)

Timothy Jorgensen, "How Marie Curie Brought X-Ray Machines To the Battlefield," (2017) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-marie-curie-brought-x-ray-machines-to-battlefield-180965240/ https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/our-movement/our-history/marie-curie-invisible-light-the-red-cross-and-wwi https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/marie-curie

Susan Quinn, Marie Curie: A Life (Plunkett Lake Press, 2019).  New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 19 Nov. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1911-11-19/ed-1/seq-24/  The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.), 07 Nov. 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022472/1912-11-07/ed-1/seq-11/  The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.), 28 Nov. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86058226/1911-11-28/ed-1/seq-2/  Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 28 Nov. 1911. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1911-11-28/ed-1/seq-12/ 

This week we're going back to the Old West with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs! Join us as we learn about dry counties, whether or not birds can count, bank robbery, the Chautauqua, and more!

Sources: A.V. "Why America Still Has 'Dry Counties'," The Economist, available at https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/06/05/why-america-still-has-dry-counties Nancy Kay Tisdale, The Prohibition Crusade in Arizona. MA Thesis, 1965. Full text available at https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/551788/AZU_TD_BOX252_E9791_1965_251.pdf?sequence=1 Chautaqua: An American Narrative. PBS. Available at https://www.pbs.org/video/chautauqua-an-american-narrative-chautauqua-an-american-narrative/ Kelsey Ables, "What is Chautauqua? The Site of the Rushdie Attack Has a Long History," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/08/13/chautauqua-history/

Jacky Emmerton, "Birds' Judgments of Number and Quantity," Avian Visual Cognition https://pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/emmerton/  Hank Davis and Jeff Memmott, "Counting Behavior in Animals: A Critical Evaluation," Psychological Bulletin 92:3 (1982): 547-71. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hank-Davis/publication/232453414_Counting_behavior_in_animals_A_critical_evaluation/links/555b44e808ae8f66f3ad5120/Counting-behavior-in-animals-A-critical-evaluation.pdf  Joe Nickell, "Animal Shows" Secrets of the Sideshows, 299-321 (University Press of Kentucky, 2005). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcf40.16 

Michael T. Caires, "Building a Union of Banks: Salmon P. Chase and the Creation of the National Banking System," New Perspectives on the Union War edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Elizabeth R. Varon, 160-85 (Fordham University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh1dnpx.10  E. Michael Rosser and Diane M. Sanders, "Overview of Banks and Mortgage Banking in the United States," A History of Mortgage Banking in the West: Financing America's Dreams, 19-40 (University Press of Colorado, 2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vz4910.7   John Warnock, "Tucson: A Place-Making," Journal of the Southwest 58:3 (2016): 361-616. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26310194  Brian D. Behnken, "Bandits Everywhere: Anti-Mexican Violence, Mexican and Mexican American Resistance," Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469670140_behnken.11  Robert M. Utley, "Who Was Billy the Kid?" Montana The Magazine of Wester History 37:3 (1987): 2-11. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4519066  Stuart H. Traub, "Rewards, Bounty Hunting, and Criminal Justice in the West: 1865-1900," Western Historical Quarterly 19:3 (1988): 287-301. https://www.jstor.org/stable/968233 

Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_ballad_of_buster_scruggs  Peter Bradshaw, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review - the Coens' brutal salute to the western," The Guardian, 31 August 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/31/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-review-coen-brothers-western  Glenn Kenny, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," RogerEbert.com 9 November 2018, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-2018  Terry Gross interview, Fresh Air, https://www.npr.org/2019/02/08/692636652/filmmakers-joel-and-ethan-coen-on-singing-cowboys-and-working-with-oxen  Claire Lampen, "All the Allegations Against James Franco," The Cut 13 July 2022. https://www.thecut.com/2022/07/all-the-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-james-franco.html  BBC News, "Liam Neeson bemoans sexual harassment 'witch hunt' in Hollywood," 13 January 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-42675667   BBC News "Liam Neeson in racism storm after admitting he wanted to kill a black man," 5 February 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47117177 

This week we're going back to 1860s Ireland with The Wonder! Join us as we learn about anorexia mirabilis, turf, Victorian hair tokens, and more! *Content Warning: This episode features discussion of eating disorders and sexual abuse.

Sources:

Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, University of California Press, 1988 Gail Sher, "The Fasting Spirit," The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 8, 2 (1988) Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary, Penguin Books, 2001 Interview with Emma Donoghue, NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2016/09/17/494360267/emma-donoghues-new-novel-the-wonder?t=1658214518736 Interview with Sebastian Lelio and Florence Pugh, Deadline, available at https://deadline.com/2022/11/the-wonder-florence-pugh-sebastian-lelio-interview-contenders-los-angeles-1235177120/ "Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder Lin Elinor Pettersson Nordic Irish Studies Vol. 16 (2017), pp. 1-20 (20 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26486974"

Liam Kennedy, ""The People's Fuel": Turf in Ireland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change, edited by Richard W. Unger, 25-30  (2013). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Verena-Winiwarter/publication/260497629_The_View_from_Below_On_Energy_in_Soils_and_Food/links/02e7e5317108b2128c000000/The-View-from-Below-On-Energy-in-Soils-and-Food.pdf#page=27  Emmet Larkin, "Economic Growth, Capital Investment, and the Roman Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Ireland," The American Historical Review, 72, no.3 (1967): 852-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1846659  Muiris O'Sullivan and Liam Downey, "Turf-Harvesting," Archaeology Ireland 30, no.1 (2016): 30-33. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43745953  Caitriona Clear, Social change and everyday life in Ireland, 1850-1922 (Manchester University Press, 2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt155jj46  "Two Men Cutting Turf with their Dog in the Background," n.d. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.30233352  Rory Carroll, "‘We’re being left with nothing’: Ireland’s turf wars expose rural grievances," The Guardian (4 May 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/were-being-left-with-nothing-irelands-turf-wars-expose-rural-grievances 

Jolene Zigarovich, "Circulating Bodies: Secular Mementos, Jewelry, and Hairwork," in Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 131-56. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2hq0hnc.8  Victoria & Albert Museum examples of mourning rings: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O376217/ring/ and https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O376204/ring/  and https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O123385/mourning-ring-unknown/  Deborah Lutz, "The Dead Still Among Us: Victorian Secular Relics, Hair Jewelry, and Death Culture," Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no.1 (2011): 127-42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41307854 

We're back with our first episode of 2023, and we're talking about RRR! Join us as we learn about the Gymkhana Club, riot gear, Lala Lajpat Rai, flogging in the British Raj, and more!

Sources:

Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Volume 281 (6 July 1883): https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1883-07-06/debates/53f4430d-fcb5-43e2-b9e1-e478f12fb23d/India-CriminalLaw%E2%80%94PunishmentOfFlogging Sean Lang, "John Nicholson: The Sadistic British Officer Who Was Worshipped As a Living God in India," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/john-nicholson-the-sadistic-british-officer-who-was-worshipped-as-a-living-god-in-india-99889 David Skuy, "Macauley and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to India's Legal System in the 19th Century," Modern Asian Studies 32, 3 (1998) Whipping Act of 1909, Full Text Available at https://www.indiacode.nic.in/repealed-act/repealed_act_documents/A1909-4.pdf Radhika Singha, "The Rare Infliction: The Abolition of Floggin in the Indian Army, circa 1835-1920," Law and History Review 34, 3 (2016) "Discrimination Still Alive and Well in India's Clubs," Irish Times, available at https://www.irishtimes.com/news/discrimination-still-alive-and-well-in-india-s-exclusive-clubs-1.1209302 Amrit Dhillon, "No Dogs or Indians: Colonial Britain Still Rules at India's Private Clubs," Sydney Morning Herald, available at https://www.smh.com.au/world/no-dogs-or-indians-colonial-britain-still-rules-at-indias-private-clubs-20170630-gx1vtk.html "Report of the Committee Appointed in the Government of India to Investigate the Disturbances in the Punjab," 1920, available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report_of_the_Committee_Appointed_in_the/u9INAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=delhi+gymkhana+club&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover Vinay Lal, "Hinduism," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World edited by Peter N. Stearns (Oxford University Press, 2008).  C.V. Mathew, "Arya Samaj," in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity edited by Roger E. Hedlund, Jesudas M. Athyal, Joshua Kalapati, and Jessica Richard (Oxford University Press, 2011).  "Hindu Nationalism," in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History edited by Stanley N. Katz (Oxford University Press, 2009).  "Hindu nationalism," in A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations edited by Garrett W. Brown, Iain McLean, and Alistair McMillan (Oxford University Press, 2018).  Christophe Jaffrelot, "Madan Mohan Malaviya and Lala Lajpat Rai," in Hindu Nationalism: A Reader (Princeton University Press, 2007). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s415.9 D.P. Singh, "Lala Lajpat Rai: His Life, Times and Contributions to Indian Polity," The Indian Journal of Political Science 52, no.1 (1991): 125-36. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41855539  Vanya Bhargav, "Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas on Caste: Conservative or Radical?" Studies in Indian Politics 6, no.1 (2018): 15-26.  J.S. Bains, "Lala Lajpat Rai's Idealism and Indian National Movement," The Indian Journal of Political Science 46, no. 4 (1985): 401-20.  S.R. Bhakshi and S.R. Bhakshl, "Simon Commission and Lajpat Rai: An Assessment," Porceedings of the Indian History Congress 50 (1989): 507-18. 

Saṅgīt Mahābhāratī, "Vandé Mātaram," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Music of India (Oxford University Press, 2011). 

Martin Thomas, "'Poying the Butcher's Bill': Policing British Colonial Protest after 1918," Crime, History & Societies 15, no.2 (2011): 55-76. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42708833   Aftab Nabi, "Consolidating the British Empire: The Structure, Orientation, and Role of Policing in Colonial Africa and Asia," Pakistan Horizon 69, no.2 (2016): 47-77. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44988203  David Arnold, "The Police and Colonial Control in South India," Social Scientist, 4, no. 12 (1976): 3-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3516332   Simeon Shoul, "Soldiers, Riot Control and Aid to the Civil Power in India, Egypt and Palestine, 1919-39," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 86, no. 346 (2008): 120-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44231576   Prashant Kidambi, "'The ultimate masters of the city': police, public order and the poor in colonial Bombay, c. 1893-1914," Crime, History & Societies 8, no.1 (2004): 27-47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42708561  

John Powers, "If you haven't been back to the movies yet, Indian epic 'RRR' is the reason to go," NPR (11 October 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1127995338/rrr-review--rajamouli-indian-epic-cult-following  Steve Rose, "Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 5 - RRR" The Guardian (19 December 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/19/best-movies-of-2022-in-the-us-no-5-rrr  Glen Weldon et al, "'RRR' is an inteRRRnational phenomenon," Pop Culture Happy Hour, NPR (11 July 2022). https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1107301440/rrr-is-an-interrrnational-phenomenon   Nitish Pahwa, "A Wild Indian Blockbuster is Ravishing Movie Fans, but They're Missing Its Troubling Subtext," Slate (8 June 2022). https://slate.com/culture/2022/06/rrr-review-indian-blockbuster-netflix-hindu-nationalism.html   Rotten Tomatoes, https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rrr 

For our final episode of 2022, we're mixing things up! Instead of depictions of the past, we're turning our attention to depictions of the future with 1996's Barb Wire! Join us as we get into what this movie got right and wrong about the dystopian year of 2017 with discussions of moving to Canada, brain scanning technology, licensed sex work, smoking, and more!

Sources:

J.J. McCullough, "Did Americans really move to Canada under Trump? Data tells a bigger story." The Washington Post (23 August 2022). https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/23/canada-us-immigration-data-republican-presidents/  James McCarten, "'Feels kind of hopeless': Here's why some Americans are looking to move to Canada," Global News (18 July 2022). https://globalnews.ca/news/8996261/americans-move-canada/  Judy Dutton, "Seriously, How Many Americans Will Move to Canada? A Reality Check," yahoo!news (9 November 2016). https://news.yahoo.com/seriously-many-americans-move-canada-203000264.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACmJFAA767l-aD8rP_Z7fjghljqlB8bqtWVNU2dJrE9qEkWf-l6KISfGxDBFe-elI3JS45ALHM9OZnk2TOTdBev3BCg2bq_1gFnV444eDD9Ol1lwsAO47qCTiae_GUgSE79idEtkMHHq-fyAxQQCnH65ZTf7U2WN71lJvJ5ACDYM 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," Smoking & Tobacco Use: Adult Data," https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adult_data/cig_smoking/index.htm  Sandy McDowell, "Smoking Rates Historically Low, but Other Cancer-related Behaviors Need Improvement," American Cancer Society (19 May 2021). https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/acs-report-smoking-rates-historically-low-but-other-cancer-related-behaviors-need-improvement.html  Lydia Saad, "U.S. Smoking Rate Still Coming Down," Gallup (24 July 2008). https://news.gallup.com/poll/109048/us-smoking-rate-still-coming-down.aspx   World Health Organization, "Tobacco," (24 May 2022). https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco 

Seiro Ito and Aurelie Lepine, "The Effect of Sex Work Regulation on the Health and Wellbeing of Sex Workers: Evidence from Senegal," Health Economics, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.3791 "Global Mapping of Sex Work Laws," NSWP, available at https://www.nswp.org/sex-work-laws-map

Yasmin Anwar, "Scientists Use Brain Imaging to Reveal Movies in Our Mind," Berkeley News, available at https://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/ Ian Sample, "Researchers Use Brain Scans to Read People's Minds," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/mar/12/mind-reading-brain-scans-memories https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a38958677/barb-wire-true-story-pam-and-tommy/ https://screenrant.com/barb-wire-movie-pamela-anderson-what-happened/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/

This week we're going back to 1990s West Virginia with Dark Waters! Join us as we learn about forever chemicals, the EPA, DuPont's court settlements, and more!

Sources: Sharon Lerner, "The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception," The Intercept, 11 August 2015 Mariah Blake, "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia," HuffPost https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/  https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/reference-news-release-epa-settles-pfoa-case-against-dupont-largest-environmental  Sharon Lerner, "The Teflon Toxin," https://theintercept.com/2015/08/20/teflon-toxin-dupont-slipped-past-epa/  Nathaniel Rich, "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare,"  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html "Weinberg Memo," https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2289501-weinberg-memo.html  Chicago Tribune, Farmer Wilbur Earl Tennant's Historic Video Shows Mysterious Cow Disease: https://www.chicagotribune.com/9a272e0c-2b50-4dc7-8f14-04432c04e948-132.html Jeff Mordock, "Dupont denied retrial in $1.6M chemical cancer case," Delaware Online 17 February 2016, https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2016/02/17/duponts-motion-void-16m-jury-verdict-denied/80530306/   Mariah Blake, "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia," HuffPost https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/  Glynis Board, "DuPont Offers $670M Settlement for "Teflon" Chemical Contamination of Water," WV Public Broadcasting (13 February 2017)  http://redirect.wvpublic.org/post/dupont-offers-670m-settlement-teflon-chemical-contamination-water  Monica Amarello, "DuPont, Chemours and Corteva Reach $4 Billion Settlement on ‘Forever Chemicals’ Lawsuits" Environmental Working Group (January 2021) https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/dupont-chemours-and-corteva-reach-4-billion-settlement-forever-chemicals Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dark_waters_2019  Owen Gleiberman, "Film Review: 'Dark Waters'" Variety (13 November 2019). https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/dark-waters-review-mark-ruffalo-todd-haynes-1203402923/  VICE News, "Mark Ruffalo Takes Us Inside the Making of 'Dark Waters'" YouTube; https://youtu.be/JyE4_7j6UdQ  The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, "Mark Ruffalo - Playing a Real-Life Hero in True Horror Story "Dark Waters" | The Daily Show" YouTube; https://youtu.be/5pWFJPyyPAw   GQ, "Mark Ruffalo Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ" https://youtu.be/Q-Kt-6joSns  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)  Mark Eichmann, "DuPont execs react to villain role in 'Dark Waters' film," WHYY (1 November 2019). https://whyy.org/articles/dupont-execs-react-to-villain-role-in-dark-waters-film/  

This week we're traveling back to the 1960s and 70s with David Fincher's Zodiac! Join us as we learn about ciphers, Melvin Belli's role in the case, Detective Dave Toschi, "I Am Not Paul Avery" buttons, and more!

Sources:

Melvin Belli Letter: https://www.zodiacciphers.com/melvin-belli-letter.html Clip of Melvin Belli on Jim Dunbar show: https://youtu.be/TsM-kwU2mRU Clip of Dave Toschi on Melvin Belli Letter: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/231077 Armistead Maupin on the Dave Toschi Letters: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/231082 "Police Officials on Coast Deny Inspector Forged Zodiac Letters," New York Times (16 July 1978) "Investigator of Zodiac Murders Loses Post Over Letters to Paper," New York Times, (12 July 1978)

James Felton, "FBI Confirms Zodiac Killer's Infamous 340 Cipher Has Been Decoded..." IFL Science, https://www.iflscience.com/fbi-confirms-zodiac-killers-infamous-340-cipher-has-been-decoded-and-his-message-finally-revealed-62044 Katie Dowd, https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/zodiac-340-cipher-solved-solution-code-15795178.php#photo-6406008  Dave Smith, "Zodiac Killer---Chilling Portrait of Madness," Los Angeles Times (15 October 1969): 1.  https://youtu.be/-1oQLPRE21o and https://youtu.be/ekbur_b8F3M "An interview with Paul Avery About the Zodiac Killer"  https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/231066  Michael Taylor, https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Paul-Avery-Longtime-Newspaper-Reporter-2722001.php  Dave Smith, "Zodiac Threatens to Kill Reporter for S.F. Newspaper," Los Angeles Times (31 October 1970): b1.  Christian Zilko, "Zodiac Turns 15: 15 Behind the Scenes Facts You Didn't Know About the David Fincher Movie," IndieWire, available at https://www.indiewire.com/feature/zodiac-david-fincher-behind-the-scenes-trivia-1234702993/ Tiffany Hearsey, "Robert Graysmith on Shooting Zodiac with David Fincher," Rue Morgue, available at https://rue-morgue.com/robert-graysmith-on-shooting-zodiac-with-david-fincher/

This week we're traveling back to the 18th century with Prey! Join us as we learn about horses and dogs in Comanche society, rites of passage, buffalo hunting, and more!

Sources:

Yvette Running Horse Collin, "The Relationship Between the Indigenous Peoples of America and the Horse: Deconstructing a Eurocentric Myth," Dissertation, University of Alaska J Frank Dobie, "The Comanches and Their Horses," Southwest Review 36, 1 (1951)

Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prey_2022 Sandra Hale Schulman, "Comanche Nation vs. 'Predator'," Indian Country Today (12 June 2022). https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/comanche-nation-vs-predator  Wendy Ide, "Prey review- stylish Predator prequel rooted in Native American history," The Guardian (6 August 2022). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/06/prey-review-stylish-predator-prequel-rooted-in-native-american-history   Mia Galuppo, "Next Big Thing: 'Prey' Star Amber Midthunder on Bringing an Indigenous Action Hero Into 'Predator' Franchise," The Hollywood Reporter (4 August 2022). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/prey-amber-midthunder-indigenous-representation-predator-movie-1235191007/  HeyUGuys, "Prey - Amber Midthunder & Jhane Myers on a Comanche dub, streaming release & the film's physicality," YouTube (5 August 2022). https://youtu.be/CAFq-tF77s0  CinemaBlend, "'Prey' Interviews With Amber Midthunder, Dan Trachtenberg & More!" YouTube (1 August 2022). https://youtu.be/YL1XlfdS20o  Sarah Rose, "Coco the Dog is Georgia's breakout rags-to-riches canine star--with aliens involved!" GPB (16 August 2022). https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/08/16/coco-the-dog-georgias-breakout-rags-riches-canine-star-aliens-involved#:~:text=Coco%2C%20a%20rescued%20dog%20from,stars%20Amber%20Midthunder%20(left). Riley Steward, "Prey Breakout Dakota Beavers Went from Working at TJ Maxx to Fighting Predators," GQ (12 August 2022). https://www.gq.com/story/prey-dakota-beavers  Carson Burton, "'Prey' Star Dakota Beavers Talks Upending Traditional Native Representation in His First Acting Role," Variety (5 August 2022). https://variety.com/2022/film/news/prey-dakota-beavers-predator-native-representation-1235326590/  SE Roberts, "That's Not a Wolf: English Misconceptions and the Fate of New England's Indigenous Dogs," The William and Mary Quarterly (2022).  Peter Mitchell, Horse Nations: The Worldwide Impact of the Horse on Indigenous Societies Post-1492 (Oxford University Press, 2015), 151-4.  Joshua Abram Kercsmar, "Wolves at Heart: How Dog Evolution Shaped Whites' Perceptions of Indians in North America," Environmental History 21, no.3 (2016): 516-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44132074  Matthew Jackson, "The Dog in 'Prey' Had No Acting Experience Before the Movie, But She Kept Getting Extra Scenes," SYFY (8 August 2022). https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/prey-dog-no-acting-experience-before-the-movie  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Dog  Bradley Folsom, "An Interesting and Odd Present: Transporting American Bison across the Atlantic in the Eighteenth Century," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 120, no.1 (2016): 1-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44647077   M. Scott Taylor, "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison," The American Economic Review, 101, no.7 (2011): 3162-95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41408734  Loretta Fowler, The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains (Columbia University Press, 2003). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/fowl11700.5  Robert Michael Morrissey, "Bison Algonquians: Cycles of Violence and Exploitation in the Missisippi Valley Borderlands," Early American Studies 13, no.2 (2015): 309-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24474892 

Annette Kuhlmann, "American Indian Women of the Plains and Northern Woodlands," Mid-American Review of Sociology 16, 1 (1992) Meagan Navarro, "Prey Producer Jhane Myers Used Her Own Cultural Background to Capture Comanche Authenticity," Bloody Disgusting, available at https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3725606/prey-producer-jhane-myers-used-her-own-cultural-background-to-capture-comanche-authenticity-interview/

This week we're going back to 1902 and the Sea Islands with Daughters of the Dust! Join us as we talk about Gullah quilting practices, the Wanderer, African-American migration to Canada, and more!

Sources:

Kathy J. Brown, "Gullah Geechee Visuality as Protest Art, Contemplative Practice, and Anti-Racist Pedagogy," The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry 9, no.1 (2022): 22-42. Betsey Poore, "Living History Captures the Essence of Gullah," (9 July 2013). https://islandconnectionnews.com/living-history-captures-the-essence-of-gullah/  Arthur Chisolm, "#146 Part 1 Gullah Rag Quilting Workshop," (31 January 2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAtavj-Rh4&ab_channel=ArthurChisolm 

D. Chongo Mundende, "African American Exodus to Canada," Oklahoma Historical Society, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AF001 Steve Schwinghamer, "The Colour Bar at the Canadian Border: Black American Farmers," Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/black-american-farmers https://ansa.novascotia.ca/community https://www.tompsc.com/DocumentCenter/View/5624

Roger Ebert's Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/daughters-of-the-dust-1992 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_Dust Interview with Julie Dash: https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/we-have-a-lifetime-of-stories-to-tell-julie-dash-on-daughters-of-the-dust

Charles J Montgomery, "Survivors From the Cargo of the Negro Slave Yacht Wanderer," American Anthropologist. Livia Gershon, "This Yacht Trafficked Enslaved Africans Long After the Slave Trade Was Abolished," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/louisiana-museum-remembers-yacht-turned-slave-ship-180977653/