We Effed Up

On the 32nd episode, Cody educates Theresa on the fact that baseball curses are an actual thing by citing the most famous example: the Curse of the Bambino.

Sources

• Creamer, Robert W. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
• Rader, Benjamin G. Baseball: A History of America’s Game. Champaign, IL: U. of Illinois Press, 2018.
• Shaughnessy, Dan. The Curse of the Bambino. New York, NY: Dutton, 1990.
• Vaccaro, Mike. Emperors and Idiots: The 100-Year Rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox. New York, NY: Doubleday, 2005.

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On the 31st episode, we dip our toes into video game history by talking about the game that killed the console industry in the early 1980s.

Sources

• Brode, Douglas. The Films of Steven Spielberg. New York, NY: Citadel, 1995.
• “Diggers Find Atari’s E.T. Games in Landfill.” Associated Press, 26 Apr 2014. Retrieved 4 Feb 2023.
• “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.” Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 Feb 2023.
• Hubner, John & William Kistner. “What Went Wrong at Atari.” Info World, Vol. 5, No. 49, 5 Dec 1983.
• Kent, Steven. The Ultimate History of Video Games. Roseville, CA: Prima Press, 2001.
• Vendel, Curt & Marty Goldberg. Atari, Inc.: Business Is Fun. Carmel, NY: Syzygy Press, 2012.

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Join us on a very unique episode of We Effed Up - a whodunit! In this episode, Theresa uses her immense powers of deductive reasoning to determine who the real effer-upper is with regards to the loss of Special Order 191 during the Civil War.

Sources

• “An Invitation to Battle: Special Order 191.” National Park Service, 27 May 2020. Accessed 25 Jan 2023. https://www.nps.gov/mono/learn/historyculture/an-invitation-to-battle.htm
• Cannan, John. The Antietam Campaign: August-September 1862. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, TN, 1994.
• Harsh, Joseph. Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862. John Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, 2012.
• Jamieson, Perry. Death in September: The Antietam Campaign. McWhiney Press, Abilene, TX, 1999.
• Jones, Wilbur Jr. “Who Lost the Lost Orders? Stonewall Jackson, His Courier, and Special Order 191.” Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1997.
• Sears, Stephen W. George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon. De Capo Press, New York, 1988.
• Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Louisiana State U. Press, Baton Rouge, 1959.

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In the 29th episode, we take a look at a man synonymous with fearmongering and baseless accusations: Joseph McCarthy.

Sources

• Adams, John G. Without Precedent: The Story of the Death of McCarthyism. W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1983.
• Belfrage, Cedric. The American Inquisition, 1945-1960: A Profile of the McCarthy Era. Thunder’s Mouth Press, St. Paul, 1989.
• Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. Columbia U. Press, New York, 2005.
• Fried, Albert. McCarthyism, The Great American Red Scare: A Documentary History. Oxford U. Press, Oxford, 1997.
• Tye, Larry. Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2020.
• Von Hoffman, Nicholas. Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn. Doubleday, New York, 1988.
• Wicker, Tom. Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy. Harcourt, Orlando, 2006.

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We’re back! In our 28th episode, we investigate the man who led the horrible English response to the Irish Great Famine and how his actions harmed Ireland, even to this day.

Sources

• Coogan, Tim Pat. The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2012.
• Donnelly, James. The Great Irish Potato Famine. Sutton Publishing, London, 2005.
• Gallagher, Thomas. Paddy’s Lament, 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Orlando, 1987.
• Kelly, John. The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2012.
• Martin, Francis and Moody, Theodore, Ed. The Course of Irish History (5th edition). Mercier Press, Cork, 2011.
• Murchadha, Ciaran. The Great Famine: Ireland’s Agony 1845-1852. Continuum, London, 2011. 
• O’Grada, Cormac. Black ’47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory. Princeton U. Press, Princeton, 1999.
• Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849. Harper & Row, New York, 1962.

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Welcome to the 27th episode of We Effed Up, where we examine one of the more macabre eff-ups in history with special guest Bry from Pontifacts (PONTIFACTS | Pontifacts).

Sources

• Cummins, Joseph. History’s Great Untold Stories: Obscure Events of Lasting Importance. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, Australia, 2011.
• Mann, Horace K. The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages. Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner, & Co., London, 1910.
• Moore, Michael E., et al. “The Attack on Pope Formosus: Papal History in an Age of Resentment.” Ecclesia et Violentia: Violence Against the Church and Violence Within the Church. Cambridge Scholars, Cambridge, 2014. Retrieved 20 Sep 2022.
• Reardon, Wendy J. The Deaths of the Popes. McFarland & Co, Jefferson, NC, 2004.
• Squatriti, Paolo, trans. The Complete Works of Liutprand of Cremona. Catholic U. Press of America, Washington, 2007.
• Wilkes Jr., Donald E. “The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History.” Flagpole. Athens, Ga., 2011. Retrieved 20 Sep 2022.

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Welcome to the 26th episode of We Effed Up, where we take a look at how one of the most infamous days in American history could have been avoided if one careless lieutenant had shown a bit more concern.

Sources

• Barnart, Michael. Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941. Cornell U. Press, Ithaca, NY, 1987.
• Gilbert, Martin. The Second World War. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1989.
• “Opana Mobile Radar Site.” National Park Service, 1 Jun 2017, .
• Proceedings of the Army Pearl Harbor Board. 78th Congress (1944). Joseph Lockard, First Lieutenant.
• Proceedings of the Army Pearl Harbor Board. 78th Congress (1944). Joseph McDonald, Technician 4th-Class.
• Proceedings of the Army Pearl Harbor Board. 78th Congress (1944). Kermit Tyler, Lieutenant Colonel.
• Zimm, Alan. Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions. Casemate, Havertown, PA, 2011.

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Welcome to the 25th episode of We Effed Up, where we look at how a simple mistake led to the creation of an entire musical genre.

Sources

• Bush, John. “Dub Revolution: The Story of Jamaican Dub Reggae and Its Legacy.” ND. .
• Degiorgio, Kirk. “The Roots of Dub.” 24 Aug 2018. <https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/08/the-roots-of-dub>.
• Gill, Pablo. “Dub Music: Exploring the Genre’s Jamaican Origins.” 15 May 2018. <https://www.udiscovermusic.com/in-depth-features/reggae-origins-of-dub/?amp>.
• Veal, Michael. Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae. Middletown (CT), Wesleyan U. Press, 2013.

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Welcome to the 24th episode of “We Effed Up,” where we talk about another blink-and-you’ll-miss-it eff-up that managed to derail the restoration of an empire.

Sources

• Hekster, Olivia. Rome and Its Empire, AD 193-284. Edinburgh U. Press, Edinburgh, 2008.
• Hijmans, Steven. Sol: The Sun in the Art and Religions of Rome. U. of Groningen Press, Groningen, 2009.
• Snyder, Graydon. Ante Pacem: Archaeological Evidence of Church Life before Constantine. Mercer U. Press, Macon, 2003.
• Southern, Pat. The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine. Routledge, Oxon, 2001.
• Watson, Alaric. Aurelian and the Third Century. Taylor & Francis, London, 1999.
• White, John. Restorer of the World: The Roman Emperor Aurelian. Pen & Sword, London, 2015.

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