Victor E History

FHSU graduate student Sarah Keiss joins Hollie to discuss Hays, Kansas's Boot Hill Cemetary.

Hollie visits with FHSU History's newest faculty member, Dr. Andrew Howard.

FHSU History M.A. student David Solis visits with Hollie about the history of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dodge City, Kansas, and the Feast of our Lady of Guadalupe in Dodge City.

Horiculture historian and FHSU history alumni Jeremy Gill joins Hollie to discuss Dr. Albert Yeager's research on tomatoes and how he brought the Bison Tomato to the plains.

Dr. Amber Nickell, Sarah Keiss, David Solis, and Chelsea Kiefer join Hollie Marquess to discuss their digital humanities project "Written by Heart's Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatik Archive."

Michelle Moore, a junior history major at Fort Hays State University online, joins Hollie to disucss the bridge between Fort Campbell and Disability Research Institutes. Michelle, who lives at Fort Campbell, discusess how in the 1970s, this fort became a desired duty station for families whose children needed accomodations in classrooms and/or medical intervention for disabilities. 

 Junior history minor Grace McCord joins Hollie to discuss Nisei Women in Japanese Internnment camps in the US during WWII. Second-generation Japanease -American women, or Nisei women, faced significant challenges during WWII in Japanese Internment camps, but their experiences also foreced a shift in the structure of their families, allowing them some measure of independence from traditional expectations. Through education, vocational training, and military volunteer opportunities, Nisei women displayed agency and resilence. 

In episode three of season 7, sohpomore history education major Riley Kershner joins Hollie to talk about the infamous trial of Lizzie Borden and the role that gender and religious biases played in the investigation, trial, and media coverage.

In episode 2 of this season, history graduate student Larry Zieammermann joins Hollie to talk about the intersection of baldness, patent medicines, and masculinity. We've covered patent medicines on this podcast before. If you haven't already, make sure to listen to season 2, episode 7 "Patent Medicines in the West" with Erin Adams, which is one of Hollie's all time favorite episodes. Larry's research focues on male balding in the 19th and early 20th centuries. 

 Victor E. History is back for its seventh season and in this first episode, Hollie is joind by Junior History and English Literature major Tirzah Howery to discuss the role of Dungeons and Dragons in The Satanic Panic. Tirzah, a long time D&D player unpacks the beginnings of the Satanic Panic and how media, and especially role playing games like D&D quickly became a target of nervous suburbanites who thought their children were demonic. 

Content Warning- mentions of suicide