This week we're going back to the Middle Ages with David Lowery's The Green Knight! Join us as we talk about St. Winfred's head, sumptuary laws, camera obscura, horrifying puppets, and more!

Sources:

The Life of St. Winifred, Golden Legend Volume VI, available at https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/goldenlegend/GoldenLegend-Volume6.asp#Winifred "Camera Obscura," History of Science Museum, available at https://www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/camera-obscura "When Was the Camera Invented? Everything You Need to Know." NFI, available at https://www.nfi.edu/when-was-the-camera-invented/#:~:text=While%20historians%20generally%20accept%20that,one%20he%20made%20around%201826.

Brian Tallerico, "The Green Knight," RogerEbert.com (July 30, 2021) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-green-knight-movie-review-2021  Mark Kermode, "The Green Knight review - a rich and wild fantasy," The Guardian (26 September 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/26/the-green-knight-review-david-lowery-dev-patel-gawain   Alissa Wilkinson, "The Green Knight is glorious and a little baffling. Let's untangle it." Vox (30 July 2021) https://www.vox.com/22585318/green-knight-explained-ending-spoilers-girdle-winifred-temptation   Richard Brody, ""The Green Knight," Reviewed: David Lowery's Boldly Modern Revision of a Medieval Legend," The New Yorker (August 3, 2021), https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-green-knight-reviewed-david-lowerys-boldly-modern-revision-of-a-medieval-legend  CinemaBlend, "Dev Patel & Joel Edgerton | 'The Green Knight' Interview" (July 27, 2021), https://youtu.be/VSW1ZBd2ARY  Anatomy of a Scene, "Take a Journey with Dev Patel in 'The Green Knight'" (July 30, 2021) https://youtu.be/Hc_SJ7dZQc4  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Knight_(film)  Romance of Lancelot du Lac Bodleian Library MS. Raw. Q. b. 6, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cee84920-8cef-42f4-afa3-7fcd97ea55f1/  

"Fashion Rules: a 14th century Knight's livery," St. John's College, University of Cambridge https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/mens-fashion#:~:text=English%20Sumptuary%20Laws%20were%20imposed,%2C%20furniture%2C%20jewellery%20and%20clothing.  "Sumptuous Origins," What (Not) to Wear: Fashion and the Law, Harvard Law School Historical & Special Collections' exhibits, https://exhibits.law.harvard.edu/purple-silk-and-cloth-gold  W. Mark Ormrod, "Landed Society, Conspicuous Consumption and the Political Economy: The Sumptuary Laws of 1363," in Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England (Boydell & Brewer, 2021), 74-82, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1grbbh2.9  Louise M. Sylvester, Mark C. Chambers, and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain: A Multilingual Sourcebook (Boydell & Brewer, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt7zstfh.16 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt7zstfh.14  David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066-1284 (London: Penguin, 2004).    Nicholas Orme, "The Culture of Children in Medieval England," Past & Present 148 (1995): 48-88. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651048  Frances K. Barasch, "Shakespeare and the Puppet Sphere," English Literary Renaissance 34:2 (2004): 157-175. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24463671  Victoria & Albert Museum, "A history of puppets in Britain," https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/a-history-of-puppets-in-britain#slideshow=21816336&slide=0 

This week we're back with a new episode on Atomic Blonde! Join us as we learn about breakdancing in East Berlin, Stasi defectors, the 1989 East German student protests, Cold War British traitors, and more!

Sources:

Nicole Sperling, "How Atomic Blonde Got Its Most Insane Action Sequence," GQ, available at https://www.gq.com/story/atomic-blonde-david-leitch Peter Debruge, "How the Atomic Blonde Team Pulled Off the Incredible One-Take Action Sequence," Variety, available at https://variety.com/2017/artisans/production/atomic-blonde-10-minute-action-scene-charlize-theron-1202512814/ Atomic Blonde, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2406566/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Blonde

Philip Oltermann, "Enemies Everywhere: Photos Show the Absurdity of Life Under the Stasi," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/enemies-everywhere-photos-show-absurdity-life-under-stasi-east-germany Sean Lavery, "The Personal Side of an East German Spy's Defection, in 'Betrayal'," New York Magazine, August 5 2020.

Leonard Schmieding, "Of Windmills, Headspins, and Powermoves," Ambivalent Americanizations 65-85 (2008). https://www.academia.edu/download/55926808/Leonard_Schmieding_2008_Of_Windmills__Headspins__and_Powermoves.pdf    Michael Hoyler and Christoph Mager, "HipHop ist im Haus: Cultural Policy, Community Centres, and the Making of Hip-Hop Music in Germany," Built Environment 31, no.3 (2005): 237-254. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23289442 

Paul Lashmar, Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv182jrfz.16  Chapman Pincher, "Their Trade is Treachery: A Retrospective," in Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US: Historiography since 1945 edited by Christopher R. Moran and Christopher J. Murphy, 281-288 (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt3fgsh7.23  Richard Aldrich, "British Intelligence During the Cold War," in Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989, edited by Jonathan Haslam and Karina Urbach, 149-69 (Stanford University Press, 2014) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqsdp7h.9  Timothy Heritage and Polina Ivanova, "George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98," Reuters (26 December 2020), https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-people-george-blake/george-blake-last-in-line-of-cold-war-spies-who-betrayed-britain-dies-at-98-idUSKBN29009J   Richard W. Stevenson, "John Cairncross, Fifth Briton In Soviet Spy Ring, Dies at 82," New York Times (10 October 1995) https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/10/world/john-cairncross-fifth-briton-in-soviet-spy-ring-dies-at-82.html 

"The Queen's Buckingham Palace Garden Parties," https://www.royal.uk/queens-buckingham-palace-garden-parties 

https://www.vulture.com/2017/07/lets-talk-about-the-ending-of-atomic-blonde.html Andrew Roth, "Lady Park of Monmouth Obituary: Senior MI6 officer, diplomat and Tory peer, she was known as the 'Queen of Spies'" The Guardian 28 March 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/daphne-park-obituary 

BBC Nine O'Clock News, October 10th 1989: https://youtu.be/wXE8vgbk1Bo?t=976 Susanne Lohmann, "The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989-1991," World Politics 47, 1 (1994) Marko Grdesic, "Television and Protest in East Germany's Revolution, 1989-1990," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 47, 1 (2014) David Remnick, "East Germans Stage Protest," Washington Post, 8 October 1989. Available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/10/08/east-germans-stage-protest/4bd87ba6-de59-43ee-9aab-1b6fdb03bd77/

Today we're going back to 14th-century Scotland with Outlaw King! Join us as we get into artichokes, William Wallace's body, The Battle of Loudon Hill, Robert the Bruce's long-suffering wife Elizabeth, and more!

Sources:

Gabriella Sonnante et al, "The Domestication of the Artichoke and Cardoon: From Roman Times to the Genomic Age," Annals of Botany 100, 5 (2007) John H Harvey, "Vegetables in the Middle Ages," Garden History 12, 2 (1984) Felicity Heal, "Food Gifts, the Household, and the Politics of Exchange in Early Modern England," Past and Present 199 (2008)

J.R. Davies, "The execution of William Wallace: the earliest account." Breaking of Britain 1216-1314 (University of Glasgow, 2011). https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/80622/1/80622.pdf  Murray Dahm, "Plucked from the notes of song: Blind Harry and the sources for William Wallace," Medieval Warfare 4:3 (2014):9-12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48578348  James J. Coleman, "'Not Servile and Conquered, but Free and Independent': Commemorating William Wallace and Robert the Bruce," in Remembering the Past in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commemoration, Nationality and Memory (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt14brwv8.7  Graeme Morton, "Chronicles of Wallace," in William Wallace: A National Tale (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b4nt.7 

David H. Caldwell, "Scottish Spearmen, 1298-1314: An Answer to Cavalry," War in History 19:3 (July 2012): 267-289. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26098476  Michael Brown, "The Bannockburn War (1307-13)" in Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323 (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r298b.8  Conor McCarthy, "Outside the Law in the Middle Ages," Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 21-54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv10kmcwf.5  BBC Bitesize, "The Battle of Loudoun Hill, 1307," https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8g86sg/articles/zfptwty 

Susan Abernathy, "Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scotland," Medievalists.net, available at https://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/elizabeth-de-burgh-queen-scotland/ David Mackay, "Robert the Bruce Died 700 Years Ago. . . But He's Still Paying 5 Pounds to This Church Every Year," The Press and Journal, available at https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/1068815/moray-church-still-receiving-money-from-robert-the-bruce-700-years-later/

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_King  Anthony D'Alessandro, "'Outlaw King' Filmmaker David Mackenzie Trims Netflix Epic By 20 Minutes Post Toronto Premiere," Deadline (23 September 2018), https://deadline.com/2018/09/netflix-chris-pine-outlaw-king-recut-by-david-mackenzie-post-tiff-premiere-1202469711/   Peter Bradshaw, "Outlaw King review- bold, watchable portrait of Robert the Bruce," The Guardian (9 November 2018). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/09/outlaw-king-review-bold-watchable-portrait-of-robert-the-bruce-chris-pine  Meilan Solly, "The True Story of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's 'Outlaw King'" Smithsonian Magazine (8 November 2018) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-robert-bruce-scotlands-outlaw-king-180970756/  Annie Howard, "Chris Pine Talks Full-Frontal Scene in 'Outlaw King': "It Was Important," The Hollywood Reporter (7 September 2018), https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/chris-pine-talks-full-frontal-scene-outlaw-king-it-was-important-watch-tiff-2018-1140079/  

This week we're going back to 1840s California with the Mask of Zorro! Join us to learn about children in Catholic missions, the truly weird story of a guy named Harry Love and the head of Joaquin Murrieta, the dons of California, and more!

Sources Cecilia Rasmussen, "Early Lawman Overshadowed by His Quarry," Los Angeles Times, available at https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-me-then12-story.html Full Documentary, "The Head of Joaquin Murrieta," Available at https://vimeo.com/189559216 Fronteras, Interview with John Valadez, available at https://video.pbswisconsin.org/video/fronteras_krwg-head-joaquin-murrieta-john-valadez/ Mask of Zorro, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mask_of_zorro "Steven Spielberg Had to Talk Martin Campbell Into Making Mask of Zorro," SlashFilm, available at https://www.slashfilm.com/778799/the-wizard-of-oz-almost-premiered-without-its-signature-song/ Roger Ebert's Review of Mask of Zorro: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mask-of-zorro-1998 Mask of Zorro, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Zorro

Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr., We Are the Land: A History of Native California (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021).  Martin Rizzo-Martinez, "First Were Taken the Children, and Then the Parents Followed," We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), : https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv270kv7w.7 . Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, "Junipero Serra's Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias," in The Worlds of Junipero Serra: Historical Contexts and Cultural Representations edited by Steven W. Hackel (University of California Press); https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt2050wrm.12 

Kevin Starr, California: A History (New York: The Modern Library, 2015).  "Mexican California," Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/california-first-person-narratives/articles-and-essays/early-california-history/mexican-california/  "Kumeyaay - The Rancho Period," https://www.kumeyaay.com/kumeyaay-the-rancho-period.html  Philip Laverty, "The Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation of Monterey, California: Dispossession, Federal Neglect, and the Bitter Irony of the Federal Acknowledgement Process," Wicazo Sa Review 18:2 (2003):41-77.

Today we're headed back to the long-ago days of 1988 with Donnie Darko! Join us as we learn about book banning, electric hand dryers, teen cocaine use, "cellar door", and more!

Sources:

Banned Books:

Leonard Kniffel, "The Dangerous Modern Library List," American Libraries 29, 8 (1998) Eleanor Diaz and James LaRue, "50 Years of Intellectual Freedom," American Libraries 48, 11-12 (2016) BOARD OF EDUCATION, ISLAND TREES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 26 et al., Petitioners, v. Steven A. PICO, by his next friend Frances Pico et al. Available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/457/853 Banned and Challenged Books, ALA, available at https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics Graham Greene, The Destructors, full text available at https://100mudcats.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/destructors.pdf

Teen Cocaine Use:

Joseph Moreau, ""I Learned it by Watching YOU!" The Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the Attack on "Responsible Use" Education in the 1980s," Journal of Social History 49:3 (Spring 2016): 710-37. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43920720 Richard A. Miech, Howard Chilcoat, and Valerie Harder, "The increase in the association of education and cocaine use over the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence for a 'historical period' effect," Drug and Alcohol Dependence 79 (2005):311-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.01.022 Robert A. Johnson and Dean R. Gerstein, "Initiation of Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, Marijuana, Cocaine, and Other Substances in US Birth Cohorts since 1919," American Journal of Public Health 88:1 (1998): 27-33. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.27 Jenifer Hamil-Luker, Kenneth C. Land, and Judith Blau, "Diverse trajectories of cocaine use through early adulthood among rebellious and socially conforming youth," Social Science Research 33 (2004): 300-21.

Hand Dryers:

Handy Andy' hand dryer Photograph, Gift of General Electric Company Limited, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.26400145 Ernie Smith, "The Weird History of Hand Dryers Will Blow You Away," Atlas Obscura 24 August 2015, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-weird-history-of-hand-dryers-will-blow-you-away Samanth Subramanian, "Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands," The Guardian 25 April 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/25/hand-dryers-paper-towels-hygiene-dyson-airblade

Background:

Jeff Izaha, "What the Hell is 'Donnie Darko' About, Anyway?" Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/donnie-darko-20th-anniversary-richard-kelly-interview-1245435/ Phil Hoad, "How we made Donnie Darko," The Guardian 12 December 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/12/how-we-made-donnie-darko-jake-gyllenhaal Megan Summers, "10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Jake Gyllenhaal's Cult Classic Donnie Darko," ScreenRant 26 July 2020 https://screenrant.com/donnie-darko-behind-the-scenes/ "Donnie Darko" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/donnie_darko

Cellar Door:

Leslie Jones, JRR Tolkien: A Biography. Greenwood Biographies, 2003. David Crystal, "Phonoaesthetically Speaking," Available at https://www.davidcrystal.com/Files/BooksAndArticles/-4009.pdf Harriet Powney, "What's the Loveliest Word in the English Language?" The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/may/25/mind-your-language-loveliest-word

 

This week we're going back to the 1970s with Thunderheart! Join us as we learn about FBI jurisdiction on Native American reservations, the American Indian Movement, the Pine Ridge reservation, and more!

Sources: "What We Investigate: Indian Country Crime," FBI.gov: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/indian-country-crime https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/Public-Law%2083-280 Stewart Wakeling et al, "Policing on American Indian Reservations," US Department of Justice. July 2001 Maura Douglas, "Sufficiently Criminal Ties: Expanding VAWA Criminal Jurisdiction for Indian Tribes," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 166, 3 (2018) Rebecca A Hart and M. Alexander Lowther, "Honoring Sovereignty: Aiding Tribal Efforts to Protect Native American Women from Domestic Violence," California Law Review 96, 1 (2008) Roger Ebert Review, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/thunderheart-1992 Sam Pack, "The Best of Both Worlds: Otherness, Appropriation, and Identity in Thunderheart," Wicazo Sa Review 16, 2 (2001) TV Reed, "Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian," Wicazo Sa Review 16, 2 (2001) "Who is Native American, and Who Decides That?" NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/2012/11/01/164101913/who-is-native-american-and-who-decides-that Circe Sturm, "How the Native American Population Increased 87% Says More About Whiteness Than About Demographics," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/how-the-native-american-population-in-the-us-increased-87-says-more-about-whiteness-than-about-demographics-170920 Sarah Viren, "The Native Scholar Who Wasn't," New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderheart  American Experience, "Wounded Knee" We Shall Remain https://youtu.be/DgKJ6UTRMJ4  Kenny Rogers/ History Channel https://youtu.be/lJxqMAopPuA  Charles Trimble, "Honor the Goons? Never!" Indian Country Today https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/honor-the-goons-never  John M. Crewdson, "2 F.B.I. Men Die, Indian Reported Slain in a Sioux Village Near Wounded Knee," The New York Times (27 February 1975):1, 6. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/06/27/issue.html  Grace Lichtenstein, "16 Sioux Sought by F.B.I. In the Slaying of 2 Agents," The New York Times (28 June 1975): 1, 12. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/06/28/78253597.html?pageNumber=1   Molly Ivins, "5 Years After Wounded Knee, Elections Show Tribal Splits," The New York Times (24 February 1978): 12. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/02/24/110934343.html?pageNumber=12  "It's time to free Leonard Peltier, America's longest serving political prisoner," Scheer Intelligence, KCRW (3 Dec. 2021), https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/its-time-to-free-leonard-peltier-americas-longest-serving-political-prisoner  "June 26, 1975," Leonard (podcast); https://leonard.buzzsprout.com/1176053/4324784-june-26-1975?t=0  https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/resmurs-case-reservation-murders  C-SPAN, "1989 - American Indian Activist Russell Means testifies at Senate Hearing," YouTube (posted 24 October 2012), https://youtu.be/xVANRroxuOo  Kevin McKiernan, "Agnes Lamont - Oglala Sioux on Pine Ridge Reservation," MPR Archive, https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1974/08/30/agnes-lamont-oglala-sioux-on-pine-ridge-reservation  https://libguides.usd.edu/abourezk-woundedknee  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abourezk 

PBS Newshour "Why the Sioux Are Refusing $1.3 Billion," PBS/YouTube (24 August 2011) https://youtu.be/ObabZdcEXh4  Delilah Friedler, ""Get the Hell Off": The Indigenous Fight to Stop a Uranium Mine in the Black Hills," Mother Jones March/April 2020 Issue, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/the-black-hills-are-not-for-sale/  

 

This week we're traveling back to the late nineteenth (?) or early twentieth (?) century with Blake Edwards' The Great Race! Join us as we get into bad fencing, parachutes, suffragists, car races, songs about domestic violence, and more!

Sources:

Parachutes:

"First Parachute Jump is Made Over Paris," History.com, available at https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-parachutist Jimmy Stamp, "An Early History of the Parachute," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/an-early-history-of-the-parachute-951312/

Suffragists: Krista Cowman, "Doing Something Silly: The Uses of Humour by the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914," International Review of Social History 52, 15 (2007) CJ Bearman, "An Army Without Discipline? Suffragette Militancy and the Budget Crisis of 1909," Historical Journal 50, 4 (2007) Laura E Nym Mayhall, "Defining Militancy: Radical Protest, the Constitutional Idiom, and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1908-1909," Journal of British Studies 39, 3 (2000) The Exploress Podcast, "Silent No More: American Womens' Fight for Their Rights," Available at https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2020/10/28/silent-no-more-womens-suffrage

Car Racing:

Karen Abbott, "Paris or Bust: The Great New York-to-Paris Auto Race of 1908," Smithsonian Magazine (March 7, 2012) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/paris-or-bust-the-great-new-york-to-paris-auto-race-of-1908-116784616/  Sherry J. Holladay and W. Timothy Coombs, "The great automobile race of 1908 as a public relations phenomenon: Lessons from the past," Public Relations Review 39, no.2 (June 2013): 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.12.002   "Omaha, a Stop on the Great Race of 1908," History Nebraska, https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/omaha-stop-great-race-1908  "1908 New York to Paris Great Race," Ames History Museum, https://ameshistory.org/tribunearchives/1908-new-york-paris-great-race  "Longest Auto Race That Ever Took Place: Long-Lost Pictures Show Victor's Woes," LIFE (23 May 1955), https://books.google.com/books?id=rVYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=%22Great+Race%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjajZaDzq_1AhUAkIkEHTvhDAAQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Great%20Race%22&f=false  "T. Walter Williams of The Times Dies," The New York Times 10 November 1942, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/11/10/87399371.html?pageNumber=27 

Songs About Domestic Violence:

Michael Lasser, City Songs and America Life, 1900-1950 (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), 120-150.  Henrietta Yurchenco, ""Blues Fallin' Down Like Hail" Recorded Blues, 1920s-1940s," American Music 13, no.4 (Winter 1995): 448-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052403  https://genius.com/Ma-rainey-see-see-rider-blues-lyrics  David Monod, Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925, (University of North Caroline Press, 2020), 51-90.  Vaudeville Nation, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/vaudeville/roots.html  The American Vaudeville Museum Archive https://vaudeville.library.arizona.edu/collections/  From the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn02zySmtvc 

Film Background:

https://exhibits.library.gsu.edu/current/exhibits/show/johnnymercer/collaborations/henrymancini  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race  David Zeitlin, "Greatest pie fight ever creates a horrendous SPLAAT!" LIFE (9 July 1965) https://books.google.com/books?id=R1MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false  IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743232/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1  Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1008852-great_race 

This week we're traveling back to 1920s France with A Very Long Engagement! Join us to learn about the amazing story of that time the president of France fell out of a train in his pajamas, the No Man's Land, WWI-era aircraft, the Paris Flood of 1910, and more!

Sources:

Film Background:

Rotten Tomatoes, A Very Long Engagement: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_very_long_engagement_2004 Roger Ebert Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-very-long-engagement-2004 Liza Bear, "Jean-Pierre Jeunet, With a Distaste for War, on His Bittersweet 'A Very Long Engagement'", IndieWire: https://www.indiewire.com/2004/11/jean-pierre-jeunet-with-a-distaste-for-war-on-his-bittersweet-a-very-long-engagement-78528/

Execution and the No Man's Land: Nicholas Atkin, Petain. Routledge, 1998. Self Harm and Hand Wounding, National Archives, UK: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/loyalty-dissent/self-harm-hand-wounding/ John Sweeney, "Lest We Forget: The 306 'Cowards' We Executed in the First World War," The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/nov/14/firstworldwar.uk William A. Pelz, "Protest and Mutiny Confront Mass Slaughter: Europeans in WWI," A People's History of Modern Europe, Pluto Press. Steven R. Welch, "Military Justice," The International Encyclopedia of the First World War, Available at https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/military_justice Bentley B. Gilbert and Paul P. Bernard, "The French Army Mutinies of 1917," The Historian 22, 1 (1959) Douglas Gill and Gloden Dallas, "Mutiny in Etaples Base in 1917," Past and Present 69, 1975.

Airpower in WWI: Malcolm Cooper, "The Development of Air Policy and Doctrine on the Western Front, 1914-1918," Aerospace Historian 28, 1 (1981) "Who Killed the Red Baron?" Nova, available at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/race-nf.html Ellen Castelow, "WWI: The Battle for the Skies," available at https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/World-War-One-The-Battle-for-the-Skies/

The 1910 Paris Flood:

Nalina Eggert, "When Paris was under water for two months," BBC News 3 June 2016, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36443329 The Guardian, "Flooding in Paris in 1910," 7 January 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/weather/gallery/2010/jan/07/paris-france-great-flood-1910 Ishaan Tharoor, "What Paris looked like the last time floods were this bad," The Washington Post 3 June 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/03/what-paris-looked-like-the-last-time-floods-were-this-bad/ Paul Simons, "The great Paris flood of 1910," The Times (London), 19 February 2020, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-great-paris-flood-of-1910-3rmlz22mw Pierre-Alain Roche, "The Seine River Flooding in the Ile-de-France Region" OECD https://www.oecd.org/env/cc/33995401.pdf The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.), 18 Feb. 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99062049/1910-02-18/ed-1/seq-9/ The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.), 28 Jan. 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085947/1910-01-28/ed-1/seq-1/ The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.), 07 Feb. 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1910-02-07/ed-1/seq-1/ Associated Press, "Grim Specter Stalks Over Paris," Weekly Journal Miner 2 February 1910 (Prescott, AZ), https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85032923/1910-02-02/ed-1/seq-1/ United Press, "Paris Flood Now Abating; Fight to Prevent Disease," Perth Amboy Evening News (Perth Amboy, NJ) 29 January 1910, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85035720/1910-01-29/ed-2/seq-1/ "Scientific American, ""Lessons of the Paris Flood."" 102, no. 6 (February 5, 1910): 118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26008227 "

President Deschanel and the Train: Edwin L. James, "Deschanel Escape Thrills France," The New York Times 25 May 1920, https://nyti.ms/323VKcW Laurence Hills, "M. Deschanel Escapes Death," The Sun and the New York Herald 25 May 1920, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030273/1920-05-25/ed-1/seq-1/ Ralph Courtney, "President of France Falls From Fast Train at Night," New York Tribune 25 May 1920, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-05-25/ed-1/seq-1/ Associated Press, "Deschanel in Pajamas Falls Off Moving Train," Evening Public Ledger Philadelphia, PA, 24 May 1920, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045211/1920-05-24/ed-1/seq-1/ "French President Falls From Moving Train But Is Not Missed for 40 Miles," The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]), 24 May 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1920-05-24/ed-1/seq-1/

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-very-long-engagement-2004 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344510/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Long_Engagement

This week we're traveling back to 19th century America with Greta Gerwig's Little Women! Join us as we learn more about selling hair, scarlet fever, women catching fire, women's colleges, and more!

Sources:

Hair Selling: Elisabeth G. Gitter, "The Power of Women's Hair in the Victorian Imagination," PMLA 99, 5 (1984) JM Allen, "Monster Topknots and Balloon Chignons: Purity and Contamination in the False Hair Trade," University of Salford, 2018: https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/44308/3/Monster%20top%20knots.pdf "The Trade in Human Hair," March 1869, available at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-trade-in-human-hair/ Emma Tarlo, "The Secret History of Buying and Selling Hair," Smithsonian, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-history-buying-and-selling-hair-180961080/

Women's Colleges: Roberta Wein, "Women's Colleges and Domesticity, 1875-1918," History of Educatio Quarterly 14, 1 (1974) "First Students Arrive at Mt. Holyoke Seminary," MassMoments, available at https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/first-students-arrive-at-mt-holyoke-seminary.html Erich M. Studer-Ellis, "Springboard to Mortarboard: Women's College Foundings in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania," Social Forces 73, 3 (1995)

Background:

RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/little_women_2019 A.O. Scott, "'Little Women' Review: This Movie is Big" New York Times; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/movies/little-women-review.html "Notes on a Scene" Vanity Fair YouTube https://youtu.be/Li9ff4rQlck Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(2019_film)

Women Catching Fire:

Alison Matthews David, "Blazing Ballet Girls and Flannelette Shrouds: Fabric, Fire, and Fear in the Long Nineteenth Century," TEXTILE, 14, no.2 (2016): 244-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2016.1139382 "A Shocking Accident." The Indiana Sentinel 23 June 1874, p.5. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87056600/1874-06-23/ed-1/seq-5/ "Pungent Paragraphs," The Republican. (Oakland, Md.), 12 Feb. 1887. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88065202/1887-02-12/ed-1/seq-6/ "Accidents." The Canton Advocate (Canton, SD) 13 January 1881. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025440/1881-01-13/ed-1/seq-1/ Ceredo Advance (Ceredo, WV) 31 march 1887), 1. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092392/1887-03-31/ed-1/seq-1/ "Too Many Women." Pittsburg Dispatch 14 September 1890, p.20. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024546/1890-09-14/ed-1/seq-20/

Scarlet Fever:

Regina Radikas and Cindy Connolly, "Young patients in a young nation: scarlet fever in early nineteenth century rural New England," Pediatric Nursing 33, no. 1 (2007). Karl F. Meyer, "Principles of Prophylaxis Against Typhoid Fever, Whooping-Cough, Scarlet Fever and Smallpox," California and Western Medicine XXXVII, no. 6 (1932). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1658460/pdf/calwestmed00442-0002.pdf Melanie A. Kiechle, "Learning to Smell Again: Managing the Air between the Civil War and Germ Theory," in Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (University of Washington Press, 2017) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwnp2p.11 C. Killick Millard, "The Etiology of "Return Cases" Of Scarlet Fever," The British Medical Journal 2, no. 1966 (September 1898): 614-18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20255715 Robert Milne, "The Home Treatment Of Scarlet Fever," The British Medical Journal, 2, no. 2496 (October 1908): 1333-34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25279631 Frances E. Morley, "Scarlet Fever: Isolation and Disinfection," The American Journal of Nursing 1, no.8 (May 1901): 558-61. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3402124 "The Scarlet Fever Epidemic," Scientific American 36, no. 7 (February 1877): 105. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26055536 "Scarlet Fever." The Portland daily press 9 December 1885, p.2 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016025/1885-12-09/ed-1/seq-2/ "Scarlet Fever: All You Need to Know" CDC https://www.cdc.gov/groupastrep/diseases-public/scarlet-fever.html

This week we're traveling back to 1940s Ireland with The Secret of Roan Inish! Join us to learn more about selkie lore, the evacuation of Irish islands, currachs, the history of education in Ireland, and more!

Sources:

Film Background:

Popcorn, Dailies, and Guiness: John Sayles on the Making The Secret of Roan Inish. Cinemontage: https://cinemontage.org/popcorn-dailies-and-guinness-the-secret-of-the-making-of-roan-inish/ Roger Ebert Review, Secret of Roan Inish: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-secret-of-roan-inish-1995 IMDB page, Secret of Roan Inish: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111112/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Currachs: Claidhbh O Gibne, "Newgrange Currach," Archaeology Ireland 24, 3 (2010) Tony Curtis, "Currach," The Poetry Island Review 74 (2002)

Evacuation of Islands: Patricia Lysaght, "Paradise Lost? Leaving the Great Blasket," Bealoideas 74 (2006) Patrick Freyne, "The Last of the Blasket Evacuees: We're Not Great Mixers on the Mainland." Irish Times, available at https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-last-of-the-blasket-evacuees-we-weren-t-great-mixers-on-the-mainland-1.1831611 Timothy J White and Andrew Riley, "Irish Neutrality in World War II: A Review Essay," Irish Studies in International Affairs 19 (2008) "Evacuation Marks the End of an Era as Last Families Leave the Blaskets," 1953, Reprinted in the Independent: https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/evacuation-marks-end-of-an-era-as-last-families-leave-the-blaskets-27370752.html

Irish Education:

Kenneth Milne, "hedge schools" and "national schools" in The Oxford Companion to Irish History, edited by S.J. Connolly (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 237-8, 384. Senia Paseta, Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003). O'Donovan Rossa, Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary (Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2004). T.J. O Ceallaigh and Aine Ni Dhonnabhain, "Reawakening the Irish Language through the Irish Education System: Chellenges and Priorities," IEJEE 8, no.2 (2015): 179-98. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1085869.pdf Paddy Dolan, "Balances between civilising processes and offensives: Adult-child relations in Irish primary schools from the mid-nineteenth century," Human Figurations 4, no.1 (2015). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0004.105/%E2%80%94balances-between-civilising-processes-and-offensives-adult?rgn=main;view=fulltext Moira J. Maguire and Séamus Ó. Cinnéide, "'A Good Beating Never Hurt Anyone': The Punishment and Abuse of Children in Twentieth Century Ireland," Journal of Social History 38, no.3 (2005): 635-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3790648

Selkies:

Peter Le Couteur, "Slipping Off the Sealskin: Gender, Species, and Fictive Kinship in Selkie Folktales," Gender Forum 55 (2015): 55-82. http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201509CompleteIssueAnimals.pdf#page=58 T.J. Westropp, "A Study of Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland (Continued)," Folklore 32, no.2 (1921): 101-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1255238