We Effed Up

Welcome to the 23rd episode of “We Effed Up,” where we continue the never-ending saga of English screwing with Ireland, featuring a familiar villain from the American Revolution.

Sources

• Bew, John. Castlereagh: A Life. Oxford U. Press, Oxford, 2011.
• Elliot, Marianne. Partners in Revolution: The United Irishmen and France. Yale U. Press, New Haven, 1982.
• Geoghan, Patrick. The Irish Act of Union, 1798-1801. Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1999.
• Johnson, Paul. Ireland, Land of Troubles: A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day. Holmes & Meier, London, 1982.
• Whelan, Kevin. The Tree of Liberty: Radicals, Catholicism, and the Construction of Irish Identity, 1760-1830. Cork U. Press, Cork, 1996.
• Wickwire, Franklin and Mary. Cornwallis: The Imperial Years. U. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1980.

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Welcome to the 22nd episode of We Effed Up, where we examine how one man’s distraction brought down a president.

Sources

• Brown, DeNeen. “’The Post’ and the Forgotten Security Guard Who Discovered the Watergate Break-in.” The Washington Post. 22 Dec 2017.
• Dean, John. The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It. Viking, New York, 2014.
• Nelson, Jack. “Excerpts from Interview with Man Who Says He Helped in Bugging of Democrats.” The New York Times. 7 Oct 1972.
• O’Sullivan, Shane. Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA. Skyhorse, New York, 2018.
• Rugaber, Walter. “Watergate Trial in Closed Session.” The New York Times. 18 Jan 1973.
• Smith, Harrison. “Alfred Baldwin, Chief Watergate Eavesdropper and Lookout, Is Dead at 83.” The Washington Post. 5 May 2022.

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Welcome to the twenty-first episode of “We Effed Up,” where we discuss Scotland, England, and why you just can’t rush romance.

Sources

• Brown, Michael. The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371. Edinburgh U. Press, Edinburgh, 2004.
• Campbell, Marion. Alexander III, King of Scots. House of Lochar, Edinburgh, 1999.
• Lynch, Michael. Scotland: A New History. Edinburgh U. Press, Edinburgh, 1991.
• Maxwell, Herbert, ed. 1909. “Chronicle of Lancercost.” The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. 6, no. 184.
• Webster, Bruce. Medieval Scotland: The Making of an Identity. St. Martin’s Press, Edinburgh, 1997.
• Woolf, Alex. From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070. Edinburgh U. Press, Edinburgh, 2007.

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Welcome to the twentieth episode of “We Effed Up,” where we discuss the dire consequences of impatience.

Sources

• Burns, Thomas. Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, Ca. 375-425 A.D. Bloomington, Indiana U. Press, 1994.
• Heather, Peter. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. Oxford, Oxford U. Press, 2007.
• Lee, A. D. From Rome to Byzantium: The Transformation of Ancient Rome. Edinburgh, Edinburgh U. Press, 2013.
• Lenski, Noel. Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. Berkeley, U. of California Press, 2003.
• Marcellinus, Ammianus. Res Gestae (Book 31). Translated by C. D. Yonge, London, George Bell & Sons, 1911.

1. Panello, R. J. The Private Orations of Themistius. Berkeley, U. of California Press, 2000.

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Welcome to the 19th episode of “We Effed Up,” where we begin our journey into the repeated offences against Ireland with the king-not-king of England, Oliver Cromwell.

Sources

• Bennett, Martyn. Oliver Cromwell. Routledge, London, 2006.
• Bennett, Martyn. The Civil Wars Experienced: Britain and Ireland 1638-1661. Routledge, London, 2000.
• Gentles, Ian. The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution. Yale U. Press, New Haven, 1994.
• Lenihan, Padraig. Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1727. Routledge, London, 2008.
• O’Callaghan, Sean. To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland. Brandon, Dublin, 2000.
• O’Siochru, Michael. God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland. Faber & Faber, London, 2008.

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Welcome to the eighteenth episode of “We Effed Up,” where we talk about one of the strangest nights in the history of baseball.

Sources

• Dahl, Steve & Hoekstra, Dave. Disco Demolition: The Night Disco Died. Curbside Splendor, Chicago, 2016.
• Dickson, Paul. Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick. Walker, New York, 2012.
• Frank, Gillian. “Discophobia: Antigay Prejudice and the 1979 Backlash against Disco.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, May 2007.
• Graves, Jeremiah. “30 Years Later: Disco Demolition Night.” Bleacher Report, 12 Jul 2009. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/216590-30-years-later-disco-demolition-night.
• Marsh, Dave. “The Flip Sides of ’79.” Rolling Stone, 22 Dec 1979.
• Young, Christopher. “When Fans Wanted to Rock, the Baseball Stopped: Sports, Promotions, and the Demolition of Disco on Chicago’s South Side.” The Baseball Research Journal, Summer 2009.

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Welcome to the seventeenth episode of “We Effed Up,” where we learn why professional qualifications are essential.

Sources

• Coleman, Neil M., Wojno, Stephanie, and Kaktins, Uldis. (2016). Dam-breach hydrology of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 – Challenging the findings of the 1891 investigation report. Paper No. 178-5. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper283665.html
• “Johnstown Flood National Memorial.” National Park Service. 15 February 2022. http://www.nps.org/jofl
• McCullough, David. The Johnstown Flood: The Incredible Story Behind One of the Most Devastating Disasters America Has Ever Known. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1968.
•  “Statistics about the Great Disaster.” Johnstown Flood Museum, The Johnstown Area Heritage Association. 3 June 2019. http://www.jaha.org/attractions/johnstown-flood-museum/flood-history/facts-about-the-1889-flood/
• Zebrowkski, Ernest. Perils of a Restless Planet: Scientific Perspectives of Natural Disasters. Cambridge U. Press, London, 1998.

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Welcome to episode sixteen of “We Effed Up,” where we discuss why it’s a good idea to know where you’re going.

Sources

• Belfield, Richard. The Assassination Business: A History of State-Sponsored Murder. Carroll & Craft, New York, 2005.
• Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Penguin, London, 2012.
• King, Greg & Woolmans, Sue. The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2013.
• MacMillan, Margaret. The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War. Profile Books, New York, 2013.
• McMeekin, Sean. 7/1/1914: Countdown to War. Basic Books, New York, 2013.

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Welcome to the fifteenth episode of “We Effed Up,” on which we discuss the Twilight Zone movie accident and the director in charge.

Sources

• Farber, Stephen, and Marc Green. Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case. Arbor House, New York, 1988.
• Feldman, Paul. “John Landis Not Guilty…” Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1987.
• LaBrecque, Ron. Disaster at Twilight Zone: The Tragedy and the Trial. Charles Schribner, New York, 1988.
• McBride, Joseph. Steven Spielberg: A Biography. U. Press of Mississippi, Oxford, 2010.
• Murray, Robin, and Joseph Heumann. Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge. SUNY Press, Albany, 2009.
• Noe, Denise. “The Twilight Zone Tragedy.” Crime Library. March 2, 2014.

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Welcome to the fourteenth episode of “We Effed Up,” where we FINALLY get around to the American Revolution and the stuffy British aristocrat responsible for Saratoga.

Sources

• Ferling, John. Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-81. Bloomsbury, New York, 2021.
• Ketchum, Richard. Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolution. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1997.
• Luzader, John. Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution. Savas Beattie, New York, 2008.
• O’Shaughnessy, Andrew. The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of Empire. Yale U. Press, New Haven, 2013.

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