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Episode 34 - This Week In History: The Great Moon Hoax, (Some) Women Win the Right to Vote, Krakatoa Erupts, and the Chicano Moratorium Protests
Andrew introduces a new feature called This Week and History and mostly bums out Seth with tales of historical importance that took place between August 24 - 30.
Follow us at @yourenotgonnalikethispod on Instagram and @yonopod on Twitter
Email us at [email protected]
Sources:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax - An overview of the Great Moon Hoax of 1835
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/moon-shot-race-a-hoax-and-the-birth-of-fake-news - Article highlighting the racist undertones of the hoax
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/18/21358913/19th-amendment-ratified-anniversary-women-suffrage-vote - Vox piece detailing the various shortcomings of the 19th amendment and the racism prominent in the women’s suffrage movement
* Andrew mistakenly said the 19th amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920. It was actually ratified eight days prior but went into affect on the 26th
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/bearing-the-cross-david-garrow?variant=32116818968610 - Book mentioned in the episode that covers the civil rights movement and figures mentioned in this episode including Diane Nash and John Lewis
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/krakatau-explodes - Overview of the eruption at Krakatoa
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2016/08/31/the-eruption-of-krakatoa-was-the-first-global-catastrophe/#312412582f1e - Article focusing on the effects of the eruption felt across the globe
http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times - Article focusing on the incredible sound produced by the eruption
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/07/173736882/how-did-strom-thurmond-last-through-his-24-hour-filibuster - Article on the longest filibuster in US Senate history
https://www.kcet.org/kcet-50th-anniversary/august-1970-chicano-moratorium-protests-in-east-la-journalist-ruben-salazar - Article on the Chicano Moratorium protest of 1970
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/important-day-us-history-chicano-moratorium - Further detail on the protest
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Andrew introduces a new feature called This Week and History and mostly bums out Seth with tales of historical importance that took place between August 24 - 30.
Follow us at @yourenotgonnalikethispod on Instagram and @yonopod on Twitter
Email us at [email protected]
Sources:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax - An overview of the Great Moon Hoax of 1835
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/moon-shot-race-a-hoax-and-the-birth-of-fake-news - Article highlighting the racist undertones of the hoax
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/18/21358913/19th-amendment-ratified-anniversary-women-suffrage-vote - Vox piece detailing the various shortcomings of the 19th amendment and the racism prominent in the women’s suffrage movement
* Andrew mistakenly said the 19th amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920. It was actually ratified eight days prior but went into affect on the 26th
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/bearing-the-cross-david-garrow?variant=32116818968610 - Book mentioned in the episode that covers the civil rights movement and figures mentioned in this episode including Diane Nash and John Lewis
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/krakatau-explodes - Overview of the eruption at Krakatoa
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2016/08/31/the-eruption-of-krakatoa-was-the-first-global-catastrophe/#312412582f1e - Article focusing on the effects of the eruption felt across the globe
http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times - Article focusing on the incredible sound produced by the eruption
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/07/173736882/how-did-strom-thurmond-last-through-his-24-hour-filibuster - Article on the longest filibuster in US Senate history
https://www.kcet.org/kcet-50th-anniversary/august-1970-chicano-moratorium-protests-in-east-la-journalist-ruben-salazar - Article on the Chicano Moratorium protest of 1970
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/important-day-us-history-chicano-moratorium - Further detail on the protest