Maybe Water Maybe Vodka

By Eugene Potts Allison Johnson

Two grad school historians in training discuss Women's and African American history while utilizing their unique perspectives as a Black man and a white woman. These conversations are designed to m

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The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.

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November 18, 2025Ep. 15 Voting Rights Act
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This week Allison and Eugene sit down to talk about the 1964 Voting Rights Act along with the results of various political races that took place on the 4th of November. Eugene springs a 1965 Alabama Literacy Test used to determine if Black people could vote.
Sources https://kansasreflector.com/2021/07/07/in-kansas-the-fairest-congressional-election-map-might-have-no-lines-at-all/
https://klrd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/m3_AdAstra_1-packet.pdf
district.https://lawrencekstimes.com/2025/09/04/ks-gop-might-redistrict-davids/
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/05/virginia-election-democratic-sweep-what-next/
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Email: [email protected]
Socials: @maybewatermaybevodka
Music:
Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
crime, murder, true crime, history, historians, academic, political science, women's history
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44min
November 12, 2025Voting RIghts Act
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This week Allison and Eugene sit down to talk about the 1964 Voting Rights Act along with the results of various political races that took place on the 4th of November. Eugene springs a 1965 Alabama Literacy Test used to determine if Black people could vote.
Sources https://kansasreflector.com/2021/07/07/in-kansas-the-fairest-congressional-election-map-might-have-no-lines-at-all/
https://klrd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/m3_AdAstra_1-packet.pdf
district.https://lawrencekstimes.com/2025/09/04/ks-gop-might-redistrict-davids/
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/05/virginia-election-democratic-sweep-what-next/
Contact Us:
Email: [email protected]
Socials: @maybewatermaybevodka
Music:
Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
crime, murder, true crime, history, historians, academic, political science, women's history
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44min
November 05, 2025 Ep. 14 - Unplanned Conversation
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This week was an unplanned conversation about where we are with the upcoming episodes and where we are as a nation.
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Socials: @maybewatermaybevodka
Editing:
Allison Johnson
Music:
Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
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42min
October 08, 2025 Ep. 13 Part 2 - Scott Ellsworth
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This week is a continuation of Eugene and Allison's talk with award-winning author and teaching professor, Scott Ellsworth, about his newly-released book, Midnight on the Potomac. Scott's book focuses on the last year of the Civil War, main characters like Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson Davis, and John Wilkes Booth while also utilizing several lesser-known players to tell the story. His writing draws the reader in, no matter their historical prerequisites, and brings riveting and important histories to the general population. This is a two-part episode, so tune in next week for the rest!
Sources:
Midnight on the Potomac, Scott Ellsworth
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Email: [email protected]
Socials: @maybewatermaybevodka
Editing:
Jessica Newman
Music:
Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
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55min
October 01, 2025 Ep. 13 Part 1 - Scott Ellsworth
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This week Eugene and Allison talk to award-winning author and teaching professor, Scott Ellsworth, about his newly-released book, Midnight on the Potomac. Scott's book focuses on the last year of the Civil War, main characters like Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson Davis, and John Wilkes Booth while also utilizing several lesser-known players to tell the story. His writing draws the reader in, no matter their historical prerequisites, and brings riveting and important histories to the general population. This is a two-part episode, so tune in next week for the rest!
Sources:
Midnight on the Potomac, Scott Ellsworth
Contact Us:
Email: [email protected]
Socials: @maybewatermaybevodka
Editing:
Jessica Newman
Music:
Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
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43min
September 24, 2025 Ep. 12 - Clementine Barnabet
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This week Eugene and Allison talk about a female, African American serial killer named Clementine Barnabet. From grizzly murders, to time served in one of the nations'e toughest prisons and a possible lobotomy, this story covers a lot of ground. Tune in and let us know what you think!
Sources:
⁠The Toledo News-Bee - Google Books⁠
⁠"NEGRO HELD IN JAIL AT CROWLEY FOR BUTCHERY OF FAMILY OF FOUR" · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders⁠
⁠HRWG Annual Symposium Proceedings⁠
⁠“A Very Queer Case” | Nova Religio | University of California Press⁠
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Email: [email protected]
Socials: @maybewatermaybevodka
Editing:
Allison Johnson & Eugene Potts
Music:
Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
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47min
September 10, 2025 Ep. 11 - The Benders
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This week Eugene and Allison talk about a famous Kansas family and listener request, The Benders. Send us your recommendations and maybe we'll feature your request next!
Sources:
Library of Congress: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/10/bloody-benders/
Library of Congress: https://guides.loc.gov/homestead-act/introduction?loclr=blogser
Humanities Kansas: https://www.humanitieskansas.org/get-involved/kansas-stories/people/true-crime-in-kansas-the-mystery-of-the-benders
Kansas University Alumni: https://kansasalumnimagazine.org/magazine-article/bloody-benders-property/
Historical Marker Database: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=275329
Pittsburgh State: https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/439/
Harpers Weekly: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027796633&seq=477&q1=bender
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Email: [email protected]
Socials: @maybewatermaybevodka
Music:
Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
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58min
August 20, 2025 Ep. 9 Part 2 - Who Gets to do the Remembering, Forgetting, and Interpreting?
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Kayla is back with us again this week to close out last week's episode on who gets to do history: the remembering, the forgetting, and the interpreting. Email us with your questions!
Book Mentions (cont. from Ep. 9 Part 1):
The Power of Place by Dolores Hayden
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph Trouillot
The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Podcast Recommendations:
The Intelligence by The Economist titled The Weekend Intelligence: The Memory Keepers, August 9, 2025
Music:
Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
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1h 15min
August 13, 2025 Ep. 9 Part 1 - Who Gets to do the Remembering, Forgetting, and Interpreting?
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This week, Allison and Eugene are joined by Kayla Nelson, a public historian. She shares with us the details of who gets to do the remembering, forgetting, and interpreting of history and how those decisions are inherently non-neutral and often politically motivated.
Book Mentions:
The Power of Place by Dolores Hayden
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph Trouillot
The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
Podcast Recommendations:
The Intelligence by The Economist titled The Weekend Intelligence: The Memory Keepers, August 9, 2025
Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
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1h 39min
August 06, 2025 Allison passed comps
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Allison passed her comps. A conversation about Black women, the clothes we wore growing up, along with setting up next week's podcast about states' rights. Allison will be wrong for once
Music by Jon Scott LLC
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1h 21min

FAQs about Maybe Water Maybe Vodka:

How many episodes does Maybe Water Maybe Vodka have?

The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.