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You will hear a detailed discussion on how with time the hysteria of the Salem Witch trails ended. Various factors, such as the changing local political climate and the rules around convictions changed  - but not overnight. Also provided will be an explanation of the archaic court system used then in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, that in some ways hastened both convictions and hangings. And provided will be a better understanding of those who were still in jail as of 1693 and their eventual fate. The events between 1692 through to 1711 will be covered, through interviews with Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack, both descendants of those tried and convicted at the time.

This is the third podcast on this topic of New England Witch Trials and links to the other two are below. Note that the earlier podcasts primarily discussed the Connecticut Witch trials also, which pre-dated the Salem trials. (can also be found on Spotify and Apple). Links below are through Buzzsprout:
Episode 1
Episode 2

Josh and Sarah have their own podcast series (Witch Hunt) and information about witch trials and information on past and current day issues around accused witches:
YouTube
Spotify
Website 

I am also pleased to announce my podcasts about Amalia Kussner resulted in a biography to be published next Spring! See link here for the Amazon (on sale now).

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Image: Salem Witch Trial Engraving, by Howard Pyle, 1892. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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In this episode you’ll hear a fascinating but largely unknown story from the Civil War about slaves who actually were enlisted to become spies for the Union side. You’ll learn about this in an interview with author Robert Hilliard, who published an intensively researched book last year - titled - In Freedom’s Shadow. Robert’s book - has had the distinction of TWO book awards: The Firebird Book Award for African American Fiction and the PenCraft 2024 Spring Best Book Award for Historical Fiction. Note that this episode, recorded last December, was delayed since I was working on my book which will be out next Spring, details to be found below. 

Robert Hilliard has written on sports, history, and the outdoors. He started his professional career as a marine biologist - in fact, his first paid publication was in Florida Oceanographic Magazine. After moving back home to western Pennsylvania, Rob worked as a reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and wrote for other outlets such as Upland Almanac, Pennsylvania Wildlife, and Pittsburgh History Magazine. His first book, A Season on the Allegheny, was published in 2012, and went to the “Top 10” in two Amazon categories. His historical espionage thriller: In Freedom's Shadow, is based on the true story of slave John Scobell, who escaped to the North during the Civil War, only to return to the Confederacy as a clandestine Union spy. In Freedom's Shadow was published in November 2023 and became a #1 Bestseller in multiple Amazon categories in its first week of publication.

In Freedom's Shadow at Amazon
Robert Hilliard's Website - roberthilliardwrites.godaddysites.com and Link

Kathleen's new book:
The Miniature Painter Revealed: Amalia Kussner’s Gilded Age Pursuit of Fame and Fortune at Amazon

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This episode with be an enlightening interview with Laurence Jurdem, Ph.D., adjunct professor at Fordham College, who pubished a fascinating and well reserached book detailing the friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge. You will hear of the enduring relationship between two men - who were very different characters in history, but in actuality had many things in common.

Here is a great review of "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Change American History"
from Publishers Weekly:

"This fascinating study reveals a new perspective on both Roosevelt and Lodge, and the impact of friendships on the course of events. Jurdem ably navigates the huge cache of letters exchagned between the two --- some 2,500 in all --- to tell a story rich with personal detail."

The book can be purchased through Amazon at this link.

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This is a follow-up to the Viktor Ullman episode, recorded in August 2022(link at end). Again - I am fortunate to interview Mark Ludwig (Director of the Terezin Music Foundation) and learn about the women at Terezin and their role in the music and the arts at this concentration camp. Though Terezín’s male composers — Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása and others — are well known, many outstandingly talented women were at the epicenter of the camp’s cultural community as well. 

 In this episdoe we will learn about the life and artistry of poet and composer Ilse Weber and about how she and women like Regina Jonas, who was the first ordained woman rabbi, and Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis helped their fellow prisoners transcend the horrors of Terezín. There were also the singers, pianists, and educators who comforted and enriched life within the walls of this concentration camp. Two images of the artwork from the children in Terezin will be posted at the podcast website, in the Viktor Ullman page (link).

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Links to Vicktor Ullman podcast episode (Aug 2022):
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This episode will present a very complete view of Hutchinson, from her early adoption of certain religious beliefs to her clash with Gov. Winthrop.  Dr. Hermes will provide not only the story of her life but the religious and social background of the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 1630's. Though the early years of the Bay Colony are often depicted as a haven for religious freedom, you will learn of philosophical divides and the involvement of the political leaders. And how these deep disagreements, as part of the Antinomian* Controversy,  lead to the outright banishments of some of the early inhabitants. Hutchinson's unwavering alignment with controversial beliefs and misogyny, in part, contributed to her family's tragic fate. Provided at the end of the episode, will be excerpts from the trial exchanges with Hutchinson and Winthrop (at 44min, 12sec). 

*(from Greek, loosely translated to "Against the Law")

Link to trial transcript

Dr. Katherine A. Hermes is the publisher of Connecticut Explored (magazine of Connecticut History). Her impressive academic career includes: (A.B. History, cum laude, Univ. of CA- Irvine, M.A.  & M.Phil History, Yale Univ., J.D. from Duke Univ. School of Law, Ph.D. in Colonial American History, Yale Univ.). Her dissertation, "Religion and Law in Colonial New England, 1620-1730", covered the Antinomian Controversy and Anne Hutchinson.  She has had numerous publications, the most recent co-authored with Beth Caruso, "Between God and Satan: Thomas Thornton, Witch-Hunting, and Religious Mission in the English Atlantic World, 1647-1693," Connecticut History Review (Fall 2022). 

Connecticut Explored, the magazine of Connecticut history: ctexplored.org

I am also pleased to announce my podcasts about Amalia Kussner resulted in a biography to be published next Spring! See link here for the Amazon (on sale now).

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Welcome to the People Hidden in History Podcast series, You will hear a brief preview of an upcoming podcast episode – to be recorded and released later this fall. 

This is to be a follow-up episode from August 2022, which was an interview with Mark Ludwig, Director of the Terezin Music Foundation. The episode focused on Viktor Ullman, a composer and music critic, who was a prisoner at the Terezin concentration camp. 

However, this upcoming episode will focus on the many talented women at Terezin (pianists, composers, educators). These women comforted and enriched the life within the walls of this concentration camp. The Robert Schumann piano piece you hear at the beginning and end, was known to have been played by women pianists at Terezin.  

To highlight these women, the Terezin Music Foundation – is excited to give them their due on the great stage of Symphony Hall in Boston at their next Gala Event on November 19th (details here). 

 Do listen to the first podcast (link here), that will give a better understanding of life at Terezin, and how those living there were under constant threat of deportation to Auschwitz but also how music still could enrich their spirits. 

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This episode is an interview with Catherine Musemeche who wrote a fascinating biogrpahy on Mary Sears, titled: Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II. It tells the story of how the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan when World War II began and how oceanographers came to the rescue. Our efforts were severely hindered in that there was inadequate data on  tides, planning for coral reefs, etc. - to enact effective amphibious landing. Mary Sears, an overlooked oceanographer with untapped talent who, along with her team, became instrumental in turning the tide of the war in the United States’ favor. 

Episode Markers (in mins:secs)

• Introduction (0:0)
• Start of Interview (2:12)
• Early Education (5:13)
• History of Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. (7:45)
• Mary Sears Life in 1941 (11:30)
• Return to Woods Hole (15:50)
• Difficult Island Landings(Pacific) & Tarawa Island (19:36)
• Using Data from Mary Sears Reports (27:06)
• Mary Sears - becoming a Naval Officer (37:35)
• Recognition of Mary Sears (40:42)
• Inspiration for Book (45:16)

This book is far more than a biography, and it weaves the multiple story lines – of our war efforts in the Pacific, the efforts of these scientists to bring about the critical victories and of course the incredible life of Mary Sears.

• Amazon Link to Book
• Book reviews - Kirkus & Barnes and Noble

As mentioned in this episode, Kate will be speaking at a December WW2 conference (at this link).

Catherine “Kate” Musemeche is a graduate of the University of Texas McGovern Medical School in Houston, Texas and the University of Texas School of Law. Musemeche’s first book, Small, was longlisted for the E.O. Wilson/Pen American Literary Science Award and was awarded the Texas Writer’s League Discovery Prize for Nonfiction in 2015. Her second book, Hurt, was named one of the top ten EMS books of the decade. She has also contributed to Smithsonian Magazine, the Wall Street Journal,  New York Times’ “Motherlode” blog, KevinMD.com, Creative Nonfiction magazine and EMS World. She lives in Austin, Texas.

I am also pleased to announce my podcasts about Amalia Kussner resulted in a biography to be published next Spring! See link here for the Amazon (on sale now).

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Sharing with my listeners some updates:
1) I have an upcoming webinar on Amalia Kussner, offered through the New York Adventure Club (www.nyadventureclub.com, category Gilded Age). It will offer recent research on Kussner and many images, detailing her life and the Gilded Age.  Date is Aug. 14th but content is available for a week. Please join my virtual audience!!
For further background: Kussner Podcast 1, Kussner Podcast 2
2) Planning upcoming podcasts - 

• Anne Hutchinson - A Defiant Voice in the 1630's (for October)
• The Women of Terezin (for November)
• Potential:  Camp Century - Cold War Mishap (date TBD)

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Thanks to all the loyal listeners over the last 3 years!!

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This episode will provide the background to the successful exoneration (by the passing of Resolution HJ 34 in Connecticut). You'll hear from the same 4 people that were interviewed in my series (from July 2022) and the tremendous efforts it took to get this bill passed. There were many components to this positive outcome - working w/ local representatives (including Rep. Jane Garibay), many volunteers and the power of various social media outlets. Also this team's involvement with Dr. Leo Igwe, a human right's activist from Nigeria, fighting modern day witch killings. These 4 people will also tell how this has impacted their lives. Please see related links at the end.
1st Interview: Beth Caruso, Josh Hutchinson, Sarah Jack
2nd Interview: Mary Louise Bingham

Episode Markers: (in min:secs)

• Details and Timeline on Resolution (1:22)
•  Introductions &  Activities over the last year (2:22)
• The group in CT for the passing of the bill (24:03)
• Impacts personal & otherwise (24:59)
• Reading the names of witches who were hanged (33:47)
• Wrap-up of 1st Interview (38:47)
• Postscripts - 1st Interview (39:33)
• 2nd Interview & Activities (40:38)
• Role of John Winthrop Jr. in Witch Trials (42:54)
• Future research on John Winthrop Jr. (46:47)
• Impacts personal & otherwise (50:52)
• Postscripts - 2nd Interview (55:00)
• Conclusion (55:49)

Thou Shalt Not Suffer Website & Podcast
https://advocacyforallegedwitches.law.blog/
https://connecticutwitchtrials.org
Connecticut History Review - Article by K. Hermes and B. Caruso
"Between God and Satan: Thomas Thornton, Witch-Hunting, and Religious Mission in the English Atlantic World, 1647-1693"
One of Windsor - Website and Links to Beth Caruso's Books
Massachusetts Historical Society - John Winthrop Jr. Medical Papers

I am also pleased to announce my podcasts about Amalia Kussner resulted in a biography to be published next Spring! See link here for the Amazon (on sale now).

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"A Salem Witch Trial" by Frank O. Small, in Stepping-stones of American History. W. A. Wilde Company, publishers (1904)

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You will hear about a fascinating artist – J. C. Leyendecker- who's illustrations epitomized the lifestyles of America in the early 20th century. Note: this will be a PG rated episode. His commercial art – primarily in magazines, became an iconic art style from the 1900's through the 1930’s.

Leyendecker was also a major influence for Norman Rockwell, one of America’s most beloved 20th century artists. You will learn of the evolution of Leyendecker's style – from the Paris art scene of the 1900’s to then reflecting the elegant lifestyle of the 1920’s that men and women strived for. But, in clever and subtle ways – his art also reflected his hidden lifestyle.
Episode markers (in mins:secs)

• Background – J. C. Leyendecker (3:20)
• Trip to Paris and development of style (5:05)
• Career with Saturday Evening Post & cover themes (7:50)
• Distinctive Leyendecker style & technique (12:10)
• Start of Arrow Collar ads & Charles Beach as model (14:23)
• The classic Leyendecker “look” (17:50)
• Hidden subtext in artwork (20:05)
• Artistic influence on Norman Rockwell (21:40)
• Later career – late 1920’s on (26:21)
• Start of collecting Leyendecker (27:51)
• Movie on Leyendecker – Coded (31.29)
• Exhibition – NY Historical Society (33:29)

Other links:

• National Museum of American Illustration:
  • Link to J. C. Leyendecker Artwork 
  • Link to F. X. Leyendecker Artwork

I am also pleased to announce my podcasts about Amalia Kussner resulted in a biography to be published next Spring! See link here for the Amazon (on sale now).

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Image credit:  J. C. LEYENDECKER (1874-1951) , COUPLE IN BOAT - ARROW COLLAR AD , 1922, oil on canvas , 20 1/2 x 29 ½ , Arrow Collar advertisement