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Under the Mat is a dark history podcast uncovering the overlooked corners of our collective past, centring feminist and anti-violence perspectives to challenge how we remember. Hosted on Acast. See... more
FAQs about Under the Mat: A Dark History Podcast:How many episodes does Under the Mat: A Dark History Podcast have?The podcast currently has 19 episodes available.
June 09, 2025Episode 18: The Wives of King Henry VIIIElton, G.R. & Morrill, J. S. (2025). Henry VIII. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England Historic Royal Palaces. (2025). Henry VIII, Terrible Tudor? https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/henry-viii/#gs.mckfb5Historic Royal Palaces. (2025). Henry VIII’s Wives: Six Queens, Six Women. https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/henry-viii-s-wives-six-queens-six-women/#gs.mckf1b Ponti, C. (2025). Who Were the Six Wives of Henry VIII? History.com. https://www.history.com/articles/henry-viii-wivesRoyal Museums Greenwich. (2025). How many children did Henry VIII have? https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/royal-history/how-many-children-did-henry-viii-have Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more14minPlay
May 27, 2025Episode 17: Mental Health Treatment & CareConcordia University, St. Paul. (2020). A History of Mental Illness Treatment: Obsolete Practices. https://online.csp.edu/resources/article/history-of-mental-illness-treatment/Department of Justice Canada. (2023). The Mentally Ill: How They Became Enmeshed in the Criminal Justice System and How We Might Get Them Out. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/mental/p3.htmlGoodman, J. T. (2014). Mental Health. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mental-healthJutras, M. (2017). Historical perspectives on the theories, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness. British Columbia Medical Journal. https://bcmj.org/mds-be/historical-perspectives-theories-diagnosis-and-treatment-mental-illnessLarson, Z. (2018). America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System. Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. https://origins.osu.edu/article/americas-long-suffering-mental-health-systemMalcolm, L. & Blumer, C. (2016). Madness and insanity: A history of mental illness from evil spirits to modern medicine. ABC News Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2016-08-02/mental-illness-and-insanity-a-short-cultural-history/7677906Mandell, W. (1995). The Realization of an Idea. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/mental-health/about/origins-of-mental-healthMcVean, A. (2017). The History of Hysteria. McGill University. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteriaRondinone, T. (2024). Reckoning With the History of Mental Healthcare. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asylum/202412/reckoning-with-the-history-of-mental-healthcareSims, A.C.P, &. Shepphird, S. (2025). Treatment of mental disorders. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/science/mental-disorder/Treatment-of-mental-disordersSmith, K.M. (2020). Discrimination and Racism in the History of Mental Health Care. National Alliance on Mental Illness. https://www.nami.org/african-american/discrimination-and-racism-in-the-history-of-mental-health-care/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more21minPlay
May 12, 2025Episode 16: RMS TitanicBoileau, J. (2022). Titanic. The Canadian Encylopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/titanicDaugherty, G. (2025). The Long, Strange Trip of the Titanic Victims Whose Remains Surfaced Hundreds of Miles Away, Weeks After the Ship Sank. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-long-strange-trip-of-the-titanic-victims-whose-remains-surfaced-hundreds-of-miles-away-weeks-after-the-ship-sank-180986386/History.com. (2009). Titanic. https://www.history.com/articles/titanicNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2024). R.M.S. Titanic - History and Significance. https://www.noaa.gov/office-of-general-counsel/gc-international-section/rms-titanic-history-and-significance#:~:text=Titanic%2C%20launched%20on%20May%2031,than%201%2C500%20passengers%20and%20crewPenner, L. (2025). Don’t Mind the Mess - The ship that sailed through time. The Carillon. https://www.thecarillon.com/local/2025/05/06/column-dont-mind-the-mess-the-ship-that-sailed-through-timeTikkanen, A. (2025). Titanic. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Titanic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more16minPlay
April 28, 2025Episode 15: Kwame Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Post-Colonial Foreign InterferenceAbbey, A. O. (2023). The Educational Impact of Military Coup D'etats in Ghana on Education. York University. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/34e9c030-1d9c-4c1f-8c99-60d19ff59d53BBC News. (2016). Four more ways the CIA has meddled in Africa. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36303327Encyclopaedia Brittanica. (2025). Kwame Nkrumah. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kwame-NkrumahGebe, B. Y. Ghana’s Foreign Policy at Independence and Implications for the 1966 Coup D’état. University of Ghana. https://jpanafrican.org/docs/vol2no3/GhanasForeignPolicyAtIndependenceAnd.pdfHersh, S.M. (1978). C.I.A. Said to Have Aided Plotters Who Overthrew Nkrumah in Ghana. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/09/archives/cia-said-to-have-aided-plotters-who-overthrew-nkrumah-in-ghana.htmlLentz, C. (2023). Kwame Nkrumah: memorials to the man who led Ghana to independence have been built, erased and revived again. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/kwame-nkrumah-memorials-to-the-man-who-led-ghana-to-independence-have-been-built-erased-and-revived-again-211434London School of Economics and Political Science. (2025). Kwame Nkrumah: From LSE to the presidency. https://www.lse.ac.uk/africa/hub-for-african-thought/thinkers/kwame-nkrumahOgunsuyi, A. (2023). Overthrow of Nkrumah in Ghana. EBSCO Information Services. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/overthrow-nkrumah-ghanaOkafor, C. (2025). John Mahama highlights how the CIA tried to tear down Ghana. Business Insider. https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/john-mahama-highlights-how-the-cia-tried-to-tear-down-ghana/j4yvc59 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more14minPlay
April 14, 2025Episode 14: Broken ArrowsAdams, S. (2022). The lost nuke of British Columbia. Legion: Canada’s Military History Magazine. https://legionmagazine.com/the-lost-nuke-of-british-columbia/Gorvett, Z. (2022). The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear-bombs-that-no-one-can-findHosgood, A.F. (2023). In Northwest BC, the Case of the Missing Nuke. The Tyee. https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/25/Northwest-BC-Case-Missing-Nuke/Izzo, J. (2025). A brief history of missing US nuclear weapons. Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-missing-nuclear-weapons/Kass, H. (2024). The U.S. Military Is Missing 6 Nuclear Weapons. The National Interest. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-military-missing-6-nuclear-weapons-213059Mosher, D. (2017). A thermonuclear bomb slammed into a North Carolina farm in 1961 — and part of it is still missing. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-bomb-accident-goldsboro-nc-swamp-2017-5 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more14minPlay
March 17, 2025Episode 13: Colombian BananasCaro, J.E.E., & Vidal Ortega, A. (2012). The worker's massacre of 1928 in the Magdalena Zona Bananera - Colombia: An unfinished story. Memorias, 9(18), pp. 22-54. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262504044_The_worker%27s_massacre_of_1928_in_the_Magdalena_Zona_Bananera_-_Colombia_An_unfinished_storyDwyer, K. (2025). The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story. The Collector. https://www.thecollector.com/colombia-banana-massacre-1928-story/Gómez. G., I. (2024). The Human Cost of your Breakfast Banana. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/opinion/chiquita-banana-killings-colombia-auc.htmlGoodman, A. & González, J. (2024). Bananas and Blood: Chiquita Ordered to Pay Colombian Families $38 Million for Backing Death Squads. Democracy Now!. https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/12/chiquita_funding_death_squads_in_colombiaHarvard Political Review. (2015). One Hundred Years of Remembrance. https://harvardpolitics.com/one-hundred-years-remembrance/Ramirez Cabal, M. (2023). The Dark Side of Bananas: Imperialism, Non-State Actors, and Power. Harvard International Review. https://hir.harvard.edu/the-dark-side-of-bananas-imperialism-non-state-actors-and-power/Taylor, L. (2024). US banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/11/chiquita-banana-deaths-lawsuit-colombiaVaughan, D. (n.d.). Banana Massacre. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Banana-MassacreVisualizing the Americas. (n.d.) Colombia: A Photograph We Were Not Supposed to See. University of Toronto Mississauga. https://visualizingtheamericas.utm.utoronto.ca/1928-massacre-1Werner, J. (2024). The Deep Roots of the Chiquita Verdict. Time. https://time.com/6989104/chiquita-colombia-lawsuit/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more16minPlay
March 03, 2025Episode 12: Universities Pt. 2Brown, S.M. (2025). Harvard Under Fire for Slashing Slavery Initiative Staff as Black History Faces Nationwide Attacks. The Washington Informer. https://www.washingtoninformer.com/harvard-terminates-staff-slavery-initiative/CBC Radio. (2021). Penn Museum apologizes for collecting bones of victims of slavery and police violence. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.6007322/penn-museum-apologizes-for-collecting-bones-of-victims-of-slavery-and-police-violence-1.6007326Gladney, V. (2022). A Bare and Open Truth: The Penn and Slavery Project and the Public. Penn Arts & Sciences: Department of History. https://live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/node/14902Ireland, C. (2011). Harvard and slavery. The Harvard Gazette. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/harvard-and-slavery/McLeod, S. (2023). Stanford Prison Experiment: Zimbardo’s Famous Study. SimplyPsychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.htmlNgauv, J. (2019). Harvard is Built on Slavery. The Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/10/2/ngauv-harvard-built-slavery/Pendergrass, D.C. & Raji, M.Y. (2017). The Bitter Pill: Harvard and the Dark History of Birth Control. The Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/28/the-bitter-pill/Pilkington, E. (2022). Ivy League university set to rebury skulls of Black people kept for centuries. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/07/us-university-plans-repatriation-black-american-remainsPresident and Fellows of Harvard College. (2022). Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery. https://radcliffe-harvard-edu-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/43444f4b-d5f6-4d71-963d-e667b548a58d/HLS-whole-report_FINAL_2022-09-14FINAL-ua2.pdfThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Stanford Prison Experiment. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Stanford-Prison-Experiment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more13minPlay
February 18, 2025Episode 11: 1914 Sealing DisastersBaker, M. (n.d.). The Struggle for Influence and Power: William Coaker, Abram Kean, and the Newfoundland Sealing Industry, 1908–1915. Memorial University. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/nflds/article/view/21477/24946 CBC News. Sealing disasters marked as Elliston memorial opens. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/sealing-disasters-marked-as-elliston-memorial-opens-1.2681909CBC News. The 1914 sealing disaster: 100 years later. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/the-1914-sealing-disaster-100-years-later-1.2591837CityNews Vancouver. (2014). Newfoundland marks 1914 sealing disaster with father and son’s frozen embrace. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2014/03/30/newfoundland-marks-1914-sealing-disaster-with-father-and-sons-frozen-embrace/Crocker, D. (2014). History professor concludes 1914 sealing disaster played role in collapse of democracy. Saltwire. https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/history-professor-concludes-1914-sealing-disaster-played-role-in-collapse-of-democracy-117308Higgins, J. (2011). 1914 Sealing Disaster. The Independent. https://theindependent.ca/news/past-tense/1914-sealing-disaster/Higgins, J. (2007). Impact of the 1914 Sealing Disaster. Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador. https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/sealing-disaster-impact.phpHiggins, J. (2007). The 1914 Sealing Disaster. Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador. https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/sealing-disaster-1914.phpRyan, S. (n.d.). Newfoundland Spring Sealing Disasters to 1914. The Northern Mariner. https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol03/tnm_3_3_15-48.pdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more17minPlay
February 03, 2025Episode 10: DentistryAmerican Dental Education Association. (2023). History of Dentistry. https://www.adea.org/godental/Dentistry-101/history-and-data/history-of-dentistryCBC Radio. (2017). From tooth pullers to dentists: Dental care's 'really painful' history. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/filling-in-the-gaps-dental-care-in-canada-a-special-edition-of-the-current-1.4421567/from-tooth-pullers-to-dentists-dental-care-s-really-painful-history-1.4421608Connor, R.A. & Kamen, S. (2024). Dentistry. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/science/dentistryDaugherty, G. (2023). How Humans Took Care of Their Teeth Through History. History.com. https://www.history.com/news/dental-care-teeth-cleaning-through-historyDuncan, J. (2018). 10 Horrors Of Dentistry Throughout History. Listverse. https://listverse.com/2018/01/24/10-horrors-of-dentistry-throughout-history/Hargreaves, J.A. (2013). Dentistry. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dentistryJabr, F. (2019). The Truth About Dentistry. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/Mandel, I.D. (1994). Dental Quackery: A Retrospective View. The Journal of the American Dental Association. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002817794520087?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-2&rr=90b52ded6dc7eb47Morana, C. (2016). Quacks and Tramps: A Brief History of Dentistry in Canada. https://150.oda.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/YOHFW2016.pdfMuseum of Healthcare at Kingston. (2013). The Evolution of Dentistry. https://museumofhealthcare.blog/the-evolution-of-dentistry/Singh, A. (2023). Dental Quackery: The Status Quo in India. Medbound Times. https://www.medboundtimes.com/medbound-blog/dental-quackery-the-status-quo-in-indiaStaley, R. (2015). The cola kids of El Salvador. Corporate Knights. https://www.corporateknights.com/education/cola-kids-el-salvador/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more22minPlay
January 20, 2025Episode 9: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory FireFadulu, L. (2023). After 112 Years, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Victims Get a Memorial. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/nyregion/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-memorial.htmlHistory.com Editors. (2024). Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. History.com. https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/triangle-shirtwaist-fireKiger, P.J. (2023). How the Horrific Tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Led to Workplace Safety Laws. History.com. https://www.history.com/news/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-labor-safety-lawsNational Portrait Gallery. The Tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Smithsonian. https://npg.si.edu/blog/tragedy-triangle-shirtwaist-factoryNYU Law News. (n.d.). One hundred years later, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is remembered. NYU Law. https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/TRIANGLE_FIRE_CENTENNIALStein, L. & Skalka, D.A. (1957). The 1911 Triangle Factory Fire: Leon Stein Interviews. Cornell University. https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/survivorInterviews/DoraSkalka.htmlThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Brittanica. (2024). Triangle shirtwaist factory fire. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fireTriangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial. (n.d.) Triangle History. https://trianglememorial.org/triangle-history/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....more19minPlay
FAQs about Under the Mat: A Dark History Podcast:How many episodes does Under the Mat: A Dark History Podcast have?The podcast currently has 19 episodes available.