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Morgan and Emileigh continue the crazy tale of the Watergate scandal, focusing on the Senate hearings, the releasing of the tapes, and Congress' steps towards Nixon's impeachment. 

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Ep. 2 Sources

Documentary: Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal series by CNN (discovery+) 2022

“Watergate: Who Did What and Where Are They Now?” Alice Popovici, history.com. (updated 2023) 

https://www.history.com/news/watergate-where-are-they-now

https://watergate.info/

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/watergate.htm 

“The Watergate Files” presented by the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/Watergate_files/content.php?section=1&page=a

“The Watergate Hearings,” American Archive of Public Broadcasting

https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/watergate 

“Watergate and the Constitution” (2017)

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/watergate-constitution

“How federal impeachment works” (2024)

https://www.usa.gov/impeachment 

“The Saturday Night Massacre: How our Constitution trumped a reckless President,” by Ken Gormley (2015)

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-saturday-night-massacre-40-years-later-how-our-constitution-trumped-a-r 

“Nov. 17, 1973 | Nixon Declares ‘I Am Not a Crook’” (2011)

https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/nov-17-1973-nixon-declares-i-am-not-a-crook/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Haldeman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dean 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon 

“Smoking Gun” audio recording: https://watergate.info/1972/06/23/the-smoking-gun-tape.html 

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Join Morgan and Emileigh as they dive into the Nixon administration in the United States. Learn how the President and his loyal cronies would do whatever it took to keep power, including one of the most notorious constitutional violations in American history. 

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Ep 1 Sources: 

Documentary: Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal series by CNN (discovery+) 2022

“Richard Nixon.” Biography.com (2021)

https://www.biography.com/political-figures/richard-nixon

https://www.enemieslist.info/ 

https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers 

“How The Pentagon Papers Changed Public Perception Of The War In Vietnam” Terry Gross, NPR (2021)

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1007573283/how-the-pentagon-papers-changed-public-perception-of-the-war-in-vietnam

“Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92” Robert D. McFadden, New York Times. (2023)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/daniel-ellsberg-dead.html

“Lawrence F. O’Brien, 73; He Was Target of 1972 Watergate Break-In” Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Times. (1990)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-29-mn-1122-story.html

“5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here” Alfred E. Lewis, Washington Post (1972). 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/061872-1.htm

“The Democrat who cried (maybe) in New Hampshire and lost the presidential nomination” Robert Mitchell, Washington Post (2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/09/new-hampshire-ed-muskie-tears-primary/

“Nixon Debated Paying Blackmail, Clemency: ‘Keep Cap on Bottle’” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post (1974)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nixon-debated-paying-blackmail-clemency-keep-cap-on-bottle/2012/06/04/gJQABnH1IV_story.html

https://watergate.info/

“American Social Policy in the 1960’s and 1970’s” Jerry D. Marx

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/war-on-poverty/american-social-policy-in-the-60s-and-70s/

“The Nation: White House Intrigue: Colson v. Dean” Time Magazine. (1973)

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,879211-1,00.html 

“Watergate: Who Did What and Where Are They Now?” Alice Popovici, history.com. (updated 2023) 

https://www.history.com/news/watergate-where-are-they-now

“Cancer on the Presidency” recording: https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/index.php/media/33365

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Emileigh and Morgan leap into the world of wonky calendars, the science behind leap days, and major events that have happened on the rare February 29th. 

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Sources: 

The Longest Year in History 

Live Science: Why do we have leap year 

Leap day Events: Business Insider 

8 Things that Happened on Leap Day 

Columbus and his trickster ways 

Salem Witch Trials 

Salem Witch Museum

Panama Canal

Hattie McDaniel

Join Morgan and Emileigh as they discuss one of the most amazing women athletes of all time, Wilma Rudolph. Growing up in the Jim Crow south, Wilma, with the support of her loved ones, overcame a debilitating disability to become a triple gold medalist. 

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Sources:

(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph by Rita Liberti and Maureen M. Smith (2015)

“Rudolph, Wilma Glodean (1940- )”. Famous American Women A Biographical Dictionary from Colonial Times to the Present. (1980). Edited by Robert McHenry. G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers (Merriam-Webster Inc.)

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/wilma-rudolph

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/11/newsid_3554000/3554568.stm

“50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph’s triple gold in 1960” by Rob Bagchi. The Guardian, Jun. 1 2012

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/jun/01/50-stunning-olympic-moments-wilma-rudolph

“Leaders of Afro-American Nashville. Wilma Rudolph and the TSU Tigerbelles” by Bobby L. Lovett (1997)

https://www.tnstate.edu/library/documents/Rudolph.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Rudolph

https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws 

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GregorQuendel Attribution 4.0 

snapssound 

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Emileigh, Morgan, and their guest go on a high speed journey through the history of NASCAR from the humble beginnings as moonshine runners to today's cars that exceed 200 MPH. 

Videos from the Episode:

Jocko Flocko 

Ross Chastain's video game move to advance to the Championship 4 | NASCAR

https://www.tiktok.com/@dana_beers/video/7238596440036150574?lang=en

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Sources: 

https://www.nascar.com/nascar-history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc-sv-w4yeA

https://www.britannica.com/sports/stock-car-racing

https://www.nascarhall.com/blog/nascar-cars-through-the-generations

https://www.nascar.com/nascar-cup-series/2024/schedule/

https://sportsnaut.com/best-nascar-drivers-all-time/

https://dailydownforce.com/every-2024-nascar-track-from-oldest-to-youngest/

https://www.biography.com/athletes/dale-earnhardt

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history#:~:text=Here%20are%20a%20few%20of,got%20to%20win%20every%20race.%22

https://sportsnaut.com/worst-wrecks-nascar-history/

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history

https://www.talladegasuperspeedway.com/news-media/2021/09/16/where-to-build-bill-france-sr-s-vision-becomes-reality-as-alabama-international-motor-speedway-comes-to-life-in-1969/

In the 1890s, the tiny island of Zanzibar became a protectorate of Great Britain. Not everyone agreed with this move, and the tensions between two entities resulted in the Anglo-Zanzibar war, history's shortest recorded war. 

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Sources: 

Johnson, Ben. “The Shortest War in History.” (March 1 2015). Historic UK Website. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Shortest-War-in-History/ 

Saud Turki, Benyan. “Sayyid Khalid Bin Barghash, Britain and the Throne of Zanzibar.” Oct. 2009. Anaquel de Estudios Arabes, 21. 35-53. 

https://www.academia.edu/22075854/Sayyid_Khalid_Bin_Barghash_Britain_and_the_throne_of_Zanzibar_Sayyid_Khalid_Bin_Barghash_Gran_Breta%C3%B1a_y_el_trono_de_Zanzibar 

Anglo-Zanzibar War: History’s Shortest War by Warographics on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8ZHb2z-4V8 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Tanzania

https://www.britannica.com/place/Zanzibar-Tanzania

https://www.african-adventures.co.uk/a-brief-history-of-zanzibar/

https://diplomacy.state.gov/encyclopedia/protectorate/

In 1914, Shackleton and his crew, aboard two ships, voyaged to Antarctica with the purpose of crossing the frozen landscape from end to end. The expedition didn't go as planned and the resulting story is one of survival, bravery, and true endurance. 

Links you'll need to reference: 

Map of Expedition 

List of Crew

Footage of their voyage

Underwater footage of the Endurance

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https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_ships/endurance.php

https://people.howstuffworks.com/why-is-it-bad-luck-to-change-name-ship.ht

https://swmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Endurance_Map_swmaps.jpg

https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/the-heart-of-the-great-alone/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace/elephant-island-1916

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/hero-who-rebelled-against-shackleton-is-honoured-with-statue-of-beloved-cat-733172.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mrs-chippy-monument

https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_ships/aurora.php#google_vignette

https://endurance22.org/history-of-endurance

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Henry-Shackleton

We're diving into paleo-genomics today with this episode, where Morgan and Emileigh dive into how animals became domesticated. Learn how man's best friend came to be, and the unique way cats entered our lives! 

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Sources: 

MacHugh, David; Larson, Greger; & Orlando, Ludovic. “Taming the Past: Ancient DNA and the Study of Animal Domestication.” (2016). Annual Review of Animal Bioscience, 5: 329-51. doi: 10.11146/annurev-animal-022516-022747

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-animal-022516-022747

Driscoll, Carlos A.; Macdonald, David W.; & O’Brien, Stephen J. “From wild animals to domestic pets, and evolutionary view of domestication.” (2009). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106(1). 9971-9978. doi: 10.1073/pnas.090158106

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702791/

Wilkins, Adam S., Richard W. Wrangham, and W. Tecumseh Fitch. 2014. “The “Domestication Syndrome” in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics.” Genetics, 197 (3): 795-808. doi:10.1534/genetics.114.165423. 

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/12717449/4096361.pdf?sequence=1

McHugo, Gillian P.; Dover, Michael J; & MacHugh, David E. “Unlocking the origins and biology of domestic animals using ancient DNA and paleogenomics.” (2019). BMC Biology, 17(98). doi: 10.1186/s12915-019-0724-7

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889691/

Driscoll, Carlos A.; Clutton-Brock, Juliet; Kitchener, Andrew C.; & O’Brien, Stephen J. “The Taming of the Cat.” (2009). Scientific American, 300(6), 68-75

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790555/

Larson, Greger & Fuller, Dorian Q. “The Evolution of Animal Domestication.” (2014). Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 45, 115-36. 

doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135813

http://www.palaeobarn.com/sites/domestication.org.uk/files/downloads/112.pdf 

Pennisi, Elizabeth. “The taming of the pig took some wild turns.” (Aug. 31, 2015). 

doi: 10.1126/science.aad1692

https://www.science.org/content/article/taming-pig-took-some-wild-turns

Gon III, Samuel M. & Price, Edward O. “Invertebrate Domestication: Behavioral Considerations” (1984). BioScience, 575-579. doi:10.2307/1309600

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Emileigh and Morgan dive into the world of some of the world's oldest and most popular board games. Every game has a story and you might be surprised by the story your favorite game tells!

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https://medium.com/@peterattia/the-full-history-of-board-games-5e622811ce89

https://alexandrallewellyn.com/about/the-history-of-backgammon/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/chess/Development-of-theory

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/8603006

Checkers History video-short

https://libapp.shadygrove.umd.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/international-games-day/history-of-checkers

https://www.invent.org/blog/inventors/milton-bradley-game-of-life

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/28/7924487/game-of-life-history

Morgan and Emileigh explore the history of the samurai throughout medieval and modern Japan. WARNING: discussion of ritual suicide. 

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Sources: 

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire https://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/enteredo_8.html 

Samurai - Encyclopedia Japan https://doyouknowjapan.com/samurai/ 

The Age of the Samurai: 1185-1868 http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1000ce_samurai.htm 

Samurai the Last Warrior documentary written and directed by Charlie Shepard

History of Japan https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e641.html 

https://mai-ko.com/travel/japanese-history/samurai/things-you-may-wonder-about-the-samurai/#:~:text=How%20can%20you%20become%20a,get%20married%20to%20a%20samurai. 

https://www.japanesewiki.com/history/Kaihatsu-Ryoshu.html

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