This week we travel back to the late 19th/early 20th century with Tesla! Join us for a discussion of ice cream, karaoke, the electric chair, Anne Morgan, and more!

Sources:

William Kemmler:

"Sources on William Kemmler," Murderpedia, available at https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kemmler-william.htm Michael S. Rosenwald, "Great God, He is Alive! First Man Executed by Electric Chair Died Slower Than Thomas Edison Expected," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/26/thomas-edison-the-electric-chair-and-a-botched-execution-a-death-penalty-primer/

Film Background:

Rivka Galchen, Interview with Michael Almereyda, LitHub. Available at https://lithub.com/michael-almereyda-on-capturing-the-unknowable-nikola-tesla/ Tesla, Wikipedia. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(2020_film) Scout Tafoya, Limits Don't Exist: Michael Almereyda on Tesla," Rogerebert.com, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/michael-almereyda-interview-tesla

Anne Morgan:

SCETV Presents Anne Morgan's War (PBS) "Anne Morgan: advocate for women and workers" https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/triangle-fire-anne-morgan/ Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Anne Tracy Morgan." Encyclopedia Britannica, January 25, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Tracy-Morgan .

Ice Cream Cones:

https://www.idfa.org/the-history-of-the-ice-cream-cone Merrill Fabry, "The Murky History of the Ice Cream Cone," Time (12 April 2016) https://time.com/4288576/ice-cream-cone-history/ Frascati etching, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-2009-291 "The Ice Cream Cone," Today in History, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-23

Sarah Bernhardt:

Glenn C. Altschuler, "Sarah Bernhardt's Dramatic Life, Onstage and Off," NPR, Available at https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129879698 Victoria Duckett, "Sarah Bernhardt," Women Film Pioneers Project, available at https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/sarah-bernhardt/ Elana Shapira, "Sarah Bernhardt," Jewish Women's Archive, available at https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bernhardt-sarah Ashley Chervinski, "How Closely do the Characters in Tesla Resemble the Real People?" Refinery29, available at https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/08/9978762/tesla-cast-characters-real-people#slide-5