Hashtag History

This week on Hashtag History, wet are joined by New York Times bestselling author, Amber Hunt, to discuss her newest book, Crimes of the Centuries. She discusses some well-known cases with us (such as the Salem Witch Trials, the 1982 Tylenol Poisonings, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire) as well as some lesser-known cases (such as that of Pearl Bryan, Stanford White, and Theora Hix).

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the relationship between husband and wife/president and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. I think it’s common knowledge (right?) that this married couple were actually cousins, yeah? But is it also common knowledge that Franklin Roosevelt was rumored to have had a number of affairs, right? And that Eleanor perhaps had her own affair…with a woman?

Learn all about it in this week's episode!

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Milgram Experiment which was a series of psychological experiments conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram in which he was testing the blind obedience of a participant to an authority figure. These were the experiments where one participant would serve in the role of a “teacher” while the other played a “student”. The teacher would ask the student a question and, if the student got the answer incorrect, the teacher was instructed to administer an electric shock to the student. With each incorrect answer, the shock levels were incrementally increased all the way from 15 volts to 450 (which is a fatal level). When you watch the video footage of these experiments, you can see that many of the “teacher” participants hesitate and even refuse to administer such intense shocks to the innocent “student”. But, shockingly (no pun intended), Milgram would find that - with the right amount of pressure applied to the “teacher” from an authoritative figure - every single participant was willing to go up to 300 volts, and a whopping 65% of the participants were willing to administer the maximum voltage levels of 450!

Milgram, whose Jewish parents had immigrated to the United States during the first World War, was particularly inspired by Nazi Germany and how so many members of the Nazi Party obeyed authority so blindly when they murdered thousands upon thousands of innocent Jews during the Holocaust. As was revealed during the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi leader after Nazi leader professed that they only did what they did because they were following orders from authorities.

The results of this test are pretty disturbing, to say the least. Lucky for us…they may not be true. For one, the device used to inflict electric shock upon innocent participants…wasn’t actually real. And those innocent participants…they were members of Milgram’s own staff. But that’s not even the most surprising revelations about the Milgram study to surface in more recent years. Australian psychologist Gina Perry has reevaluated the experiment and found that much of the raw data does not reflect Milgram’s final conclusion. In fact, that 65% number that we got earlier - the number of participants willing to blindly follow orders - is actually only based on a tiny fraction of those that ultimately participated in the test. Over 700 people took part in the Milgram Experiment, and yet Milgram’s final results derive from 40 of those participants. Additionally, Milgram’s gauge on “obedience” was skewed. Even if a participant refused to inflict electronic shock on the other participant upwards of twenty times before they complied, Milgram documented this as blindly obeying. 

The problem with all of this is that Milgram’s Experiment is still so widely known - inaccurately so - and still referred to as factual.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Lucille Desiree Ball, best known - of course - as the star of the I Love Lucy show. Ball would set numerous precedents with the I Love Lucy show by using three cameras and 35 mm film in front of a live audience, being the first pregnant woman shown on television, and being the first interracial marriage on television. She would star in over 70 films over the course of her life, earning the unofficial title of “the Queen of B Movies”. She would later become the first female studio head in Hollywood as president of Desilu Studios. She earned thirteen Emmy nominations and was awarded four, was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Crystal Award, the Governors Award, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and TWO stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I’m so excited to talk about her today because I think there’s a lot the general public knows about her - a lot that they don’t know about her - and a lot of features we see in Hollywood today for which she set the precedent.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Mark Weinberger, known as “The Nose Doctor”. To put it bluntly, Weinberger, a doctor who opened up his own practice in Indiana, was performing hundreds of unnecessary - and sometimes, negligent - sinus procedures on patients. In fact, according to a Vanity Fair article, he recommended surgery to 90% of his patients! 90%! That is an overwhelming number! Many of these patients either did not actually need the surgery OR were misdiagnosed with sinus problems when, in fact, they had things like cancer.

As medical malpractice and insurance fraud lawsuits began to stack up, Weinberger decided to hop ship and travel to Greece with his third wife to celebrate her thirtieth birthday. While on this vacation, Weinberger disappeared without telling his wife where he was going. She would soon find out that he had left her with more than $6 million in debt. Weinberger would not be found until five years later in the European Alps when his girlfriend spotted him on an episode of America’s Most Wanted.

Despite pleading guilty to 22 counts of healthcare fraud in 2011, Weinberger is now a free man…and you are not even ready to hear what kind of scammy operation he is running now.

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Due to obnoxious audio and technical issues, we are playing a re-run this week of one of our most popular episodes. Hope you enjoy and we will see you next week with a brand new episode!

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing hidden presidential illnesses. Between the fact that most people had no idea during Franklin D. Roosevelt's lifetime that he was paralyzed from the waist down, John F. Kennedy's had chronic back pain and Addison's Disease which would lead to a heavy addiction to painkillers and anti-anxiety medications, OR that it wouldn’t be until after the death of Grover Cleveland that the nation would learn that - while he was president - he had undergone an undercover surgical operation conducted on a private yacht to remove a cancerous tumor.

Because of the pedestal that American Presidents are placed upon, oftentimes these very human illnesses and diseases are hidden from the general public. But they matter. Presidential illnesses can truly change the course of History. In fact, some Historians believe that because of Woodrow Wilson’s series of strokes (many of which he kept hidden for a long period of time), he was unable to fight harder for the United States to join the League of Nations which may have helped to prevent World War II.

This week's episode allows us the flexibility to weave through various people and various time periods. We are going to be spanning the whole length of American Presidents from 1789 to now!

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Y2K Bug, also known as Y2K Problem or simply Y2K. This refers to a historical incident…that never really happened. At least not to the degree that it was proposed it would. As a recent survey reports, some 46% of people believed that - when the year changed from 1999 to 2000 - all hell would break loose. This was because it was believed that particular computer programs that only allowed for two year digits (for example, simply 99 as opposed to 1999) would instantly stop working when the date descended to 00 at the turn of the year (i.e., computers would not be able to distinguish the year 2000 from the year 1900). And these computer programs went beyond just not being able to operate your Word Perfect document (Haha…another millennial joke). No, these computer programs extended to airline reservations, banking software, utilities, medical equipment, infrastructure, power plants, government programs, nuclear weapon controls, and more. Should all hell break loose, we were looking at a global disaster that would cost somewhere between $300 and $600 billion to remedy!

As we all know now in hindsight, nothing particularly noteworthy occurred as the world rang in the year 2000. Sure, some small businesses experienced some computer programming issues…but did airlines and banks come crashing down? No. Whether this is due to the efforts that had been put into place leading up to the event to resolve potential issues (such as President Bill Clinton’s Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act) OR if the whole Y2K Bug was just a big hoax, is still debated to this day.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the origins of the AMBER Alert system. We here in the United States (as well as a number of other countries) have a system known as the AMBER Alert. I’m sure all of our American listeners (and maybe some of our international listeners too) are nodding their heads along right now, thinking back to a time when they saw an Amber Alert scroll across the bottom of their TVs, saw it on a billboard along the freeway, or were terrified when it loudly came across as an alert on their phone. 

Essentially, what an AMBER Alert is is an emergency alert message that goes out via television, radio stations, text message, and more, in the event of a child abduction. The alert will include information such as the possible name and description of the potential abductor as well as a description of their vehicle, including the license plate number, if this information is known. All of this is in an attempt to get help from the public in returning the child to their home as quickly as possible. If you happen to be driving along the freeway and see the wanted vehicle, you can call it into your local police station and help make an arrest much sooner than the police could do on their own.

Now, again, this is a system that most - if not, all - of us in the United States are familiar with. It is a system that has been in place nearly my entire life, having been established in 1996. But what many people don’t know are the origins of Amber Alert and what led to such a system being put in place.

That is what we will be discussing this week on the podcast.

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Welcome back for Season Fourteen of the Hashtag History podcast! As tradition dictates, the first episode of every season is a Leah Takeover Episode!

This week on Hashtag History, we will be diving into a very specific and very niche portion of World War II History: The Navajo Code Talkers.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Navajo Code Talkers, they were a group of over 400 Navajo men recruited by the United States Marine Corps during World War II to create a code for war correspondence based on their very complex native language. Despite their courage and willingness to utilize their native language for the success of the United States' war effort, their contributions would go almost thirty years without recognition due to the secrecy of the Navajo Code Talker program.

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This week on Hashtag History, we interview Carol Daly, one of the lead investigators on the Golden State Killer case. She was also the first woman appointed as Undersheriff with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the first woman appointed Chair of the Board of Prison Terms…and so many more firsts for women in the Sacramento law enforcement!

In this episode, Carol shared with us details about her involvement in the Golden State Killer case - as well as a few other infamous Sacramento cases - and showered us all with some female empowerment as she discusses the huge strides she made for women in Sacramento law enforcement and what it was like working in such a male-dominated field.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Joseph James DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer. DeAngelo tormented the State of California - particularly here in the Sacramento area (very, very close to where we live) - for more than ten years committing burglaries, rapes, and murders. Due to his widespread crimes, it took investigators more than four decades to piece together the fact that the man that had become known as the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, and the Original Night Stalker were all the same person. In 2018, DeAngelo was finally caught after a family member of his had uploaded their DNA to a genetic genealogy site. He was charged and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2020.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Galileo Galilei. He is considered to be the Father of Modern Science and, by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is considered to be “a - if not the - central figure of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century”. We have Galileo to thank for significant contributions to various fields of science, mathematics, philosophy, and physics. He studied and made huge contributions to areas such as gravity and relativity, inertia, and speed. He invented a better telescope for viewing planets and other objects in space. He was brilliant and I cannot wait to dive into all of these major accomplishments and achievements that he made in the fields of science, physics, and astronomy.

But, most interesting to me, is the way Galileo’s life ended. Over the course of his studies, Galileo became convinced of heliocentrism (the concept that the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun); this was contrary to the popular (and religious) belief at the time - geocentrism - which states that the Earth is actually at the center of the universe with all of the celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, planets, and stars) all revolving around it. Galileo’s heliocentric beliefs were incredibly controversial, particularly with the Catholic Church, who had his claims investigated - more than once - before eventually forcing him to recant his beliefs and placing him under house arrest where he would remain for the rest of his life.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 1985 MOVE Bombing in which the City of Philadelphia bombed and killed its own people. On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb onto a West Philadelphia home that they knew to be occupied by men, women, and children. Those residing within this house were a part of MOVE, a Black liberation group founded on the principles of racial justice, and other causes such as animal and environmental rights. They had long been a nuisance for the local police and had also become a nuisance to many of their residential neighbors who had made noise and littering complaints. In response to this, the Philadelphia Mayor ordered for the group to be evicted from the home. When they did not do this, the Philadelphia Police Department bombed the home and the Philadelphia Fire Department allowed for the fire resulting from this bombing to destroy an additional sixty-one homes. 

At the end of this horrendous event, eleven people were killed (including children) and another 250 people were left homeless.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the History of the British Museum. The British Museum truly has everything…and that’s exactly the problem. The British Museum is home to roughly eight million objects; the majority of which aren’t even on display for you to see! But of their high-ticket items that are on display, it is safe to say that a good chunk of them…were stolen. 

In this episode, we will discuss the History of the British Museum, its origins, how it managed to acquire so many of its artifacts, what those contested artifacts are, and what those countries are doing now in their attempts to have their property returned to them.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Sam Cooke. He is one of my (Rachel's) favorite musical artists and, upon learning that he was also a huge advocate of the Civil Rights Movement and that he died a truly tragic (and incredibly mysterious death) at only thirty-three years old, just has me even more fascinated with the artist behind the art. So join us this week to learn more about him!

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is of course most well-known for leading the French army to victory during the Hundred Years War when she was only a teenager. She claimed that she had been sent visions by God and that she was fulfilling a prophecy by leading France to victory. She would later be captured, however, by the enemy that considered her a heretic and she would be burned at the stake for her alleged crimes. About twenty years after her death, she would be vindicated of these allegations and, in 1920, she would officially be declared a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She is now considered a patron saint of France.

So was Joan of Arc a heroine? Was she a heretic? Or was she just a really confused - but also, very passionate, and rather impressive - young woman?

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the War of 1812. Now you all know that I am not a huge fan of Military History. In fact, it is my least favorite part about History. However, I have always found the War of 1812 fascinating in that it tends to so often be overlooked. Many Americans are not aware that we literally went to war again with Great Britain roughly thirty years after we had won our independence from them. 

This episode is not a thorough review of the War of 1812. We will not be going through a chronology of the war, talking about all of the key players, and all of the victories and defeats. Rather, we will be discussing the causes of the War of 1812 (how and why we fought again with Britain so soon after the Revolutionary War), how Native Americans were the ultimate losers in this war, and the long-term effects and consequences of what would become known by Americans as the Second War of Independence.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect. This is the story of a woman who was murdered outside of an apartment building in a highly populated area of New York and -- despite the fact that dozens of people witnessed the murder -- not a single one called the police. This is a story that has circulated for decades. 

The Bystander Effect which essentially says that humans -- when in the presence of others -- are less likely to step up and take responsibility themselves. That, when in a group setting, if we think others also witnessed a crime or witnessed someone in need, we are less likely to actually do something about it because we just assume someone else will. 

It would later be revealed though that this egregious story of Kitty Genovese’s horrendous murder -- and the 38 witnesses that allegedly saw the murder and did nothing about it -- has actually been grossly overexaggerated. More recent investigations have found that there are several inaccuracies with the original account and the original story that spread throughout the media.

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- Rachel and Leah

Welcome back for Season Thirteen of the Hashtag History podcast! As tradition dictates, the first episode of every season is a Leah Takeover Episode!

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing a specific Mount Everest expedition that took place in 1996 where, due to a blizzard during their descent of the mountain, eight climbers died. This tragedy has lead to multiple books, memoirs, and even movies about the experience.

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This week on Hashtag History for our Season Finale, we have the wonderful Stephanie and Tux from Beyond Reproach on the show to discuss the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Lost Cause mythology. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be finishing up our discussion on Princess Diana. This week, we are going to be diving into more of the unhappiness in Diana and Charles’ marriage, the affairs that led - in part - to their awful divorce, the brief period of time that Diana appeared to absolutely thrive post-divorce, her amazing charity work, and then her unfortunate and untimely death and all of the conspiracy theories surrounding that.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Princess Diana (more accurately, Diana, Princess of Wales) who married into the British Royal Family in 1981, becoming one of the most cherished, loved, and misunderstood figures in History all before her absolutely tragic and untimely death in 1997 when she was only thirty-six years old.

There is so much to say about Diana; the good, the bad, and the ugly. We admire so much about her…but that doesn’t mean she was a perfect person. She was human, as we all are. And we look forward to being able to tell her story and to portray Diana as the human that she was…to the best of our abilities.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth President of the United States of America, marking the first impeachment of a US President.

Johnson had a particularly unpopular presidency, having been thrust into the position following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Many in Congress opposed his Reconstruction plan and his overall practices. They passed a bill called the Tenure of Office Act in March 1867 which essentially restricted the President’s power by prohibiting him from removing certain officials with the approval of the Senate. So when Johnson did just that by attempting to remove Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from the Cabinet (not once; but twice!) without the proper approvals, the House of Representatives brought forth articles of impeachment for Andrew Johnson. However, failing to meet the two-thirds majority required to convict and officially remove Johnson from office, he would continue to serve out the rest of his presidential term.

Because impeachment does not mean removal from office.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 2002 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Scandal, otherwise known as “Skategate”. In 2002 at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, two ice skating couples - Russian pair Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya and Canadian pair David Pelletier and Jamie Sale - went head-to-head in the pairs ice skating competition. And while both pairs were incredible, it was noted that the Russian couple made a couple of technical flaws during their routine, including Anton not landing a double Axel. And yet, when the final scores were read - to the international audiences’ surprise - the Russian couple won.

Now…was it surprising that Russia won the ice skating competition? No. In fact, Russia had won this event at every Olympic Games since 1960! But 2002 was the first year it looked like another country stood a chance.

When it came down to it though, each country had their own set of judges voting for them with only France in the middle as the swing vote. And that’s when rumors began to swirl that perhaps Russia had bribed the French judge to vote for the Russian couple in a quid pro quo exchange.

So was the French judge bribed by the Russians? That’s what we will find out in this week’s episode.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the mysterious Civil War Glow. This refers to a phenomenon that was spotted during the Civil War - during the Battle of Shiloh of 1862 - in which a number of soldiers were seen with a mysterious glow emanating from their wounds. Although unexplainable by both the soldiers experiencing the glow and by the doctors treating them, it was found that the soldiers whose wounds glowed actually had a better chance at living than those that did not. In fact, many soldiers would refer to this as the “Angel’s Glow” and would thank the mysterious phenomenon for saving their lives. 

This mystery would remain as such for nearly a hundred and forty years! Amazingly, the mystery would eventually be very likely solved by a high school student in 2001 as part of a science project that he was conducting for school! 

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing a decades-long mystery…that was actually very possibly solved just earlier this year! After more than seventy years, the identification of the mysterious Somerton Man has - maybe - been discovered.

So who is/was the Somerton Man? On December 1, 1948, the body of a man was discovered on the Somerton Park Beach in Adelaide, Australia. He was found wearing a suit, with no obvious or visible cause of death, and a slip of paper in his pocket which read in Persian “Tamam Shud”. Or, in English, “It is finished.”

So who was the Somerton Man? Was he a spy? A scorned lover? Someone who owed money to the wrong person? A ballet dancer, even?

We are going to dive into all of that this week in addition to discussing the more recent developments in the case which provide a very interesting identification of the mysterious Somerton Man.

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WARNING: Please use discretion before listening to this week's episode. As much as we love to have you here, we want you to take care of YOU! If this week's topic is too distressing, please skip this episode and we will see you next week!

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Atanta Child Murders which were a series of murders that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia between 1979 and 1981 and resulted in the deaths of approximately twenty-nine people (the majority of which were children). An Atlanta man named Wayne Williams was eventually arrested and convicted of the murders of two of the adult victims…but still, to this day, no one has officially, legally been charged with any of the other murders…in particular, the murders of more than a dozen children. There are many people that do not believe that Williams was responsible for the deaths of all these children, including some of the parents of the children. In fact, there is some evidence that perhaps the KKK may have been involved in potentially upwards of fourteen of the murders. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing one of History’s most fascinating, magical, and sometimes spooky characters…the man that actually died on no other day but Halloween itself…Mr. Harry Houdini.

Harry Houdini was best known as a magician and escape artist who performed incredible feats such as being restrained and escaping from the belly of a whale, swallowing hundreds of needles and then bringing them back up, escaping from a crate that had been weighed down and sunk in the river, and, of course, escaping from the infamous Chinese Water Torture Cell. These are just a few of the incredible stunts that Houdini performed that we will be discussing this week. But in addition to discussing the things Houdini was most known for, we will also be diving into his personal life, his upbringing as a Hungary-native who moved to America at a young age, his endearing relationship with his wife, his likewise “endearing” relationship with his mom, his efforts to debunk spiritualists, and his mysterious and untimely death.

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Welcome back for Season Twelve! We are so happy to have you here!

This week on Hashtag History, Leah is taking over the episode and discussing witches (just in time for the Halloween season)! We take a dive into the idea that witches (as we know and picture them today) actually derive from depictions and stigmas surrounding early women beer brewers! We cover what early female brewers looked like and how depictions of them and the tools they used eventually went on to be correlated with witchcraft.

It's important to note that this idea that we embark on isn’t a 100% accepted theory across the board amongst Historians so we make sure to call out some of the opposing arguments throughout the episode.

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with Mike from Necronomipod! Tune in for the final episode of our guest speaker series to hear us discuss William McKinley's rise to the Presidency, his tragic assassination, and how it helped birth the secret service and change the overall accessibility of the President today.

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with Chris from Hundred Proof History podcast! Tune in to hear us discuss the Hamilton-Reynolds Scandal, how the Hamilton Musical may or may not be totally accurate, and why Hamilton never sought the presidency. Be prepared for lots of laughs!

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with AJ Rantz, the creator and owner of Cocktail Cards! Tune in to hear us discuss growing a small business on TikTok, how you can trace a cocktail's history based on the flavors and liquors used, the ingredients behind an amazing margarita, the launching of a mocktail movement, and lots of Prohibition History!

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with Susan Voskuil-Starcevich, the Education Director for the Sacramento History Museum! Tune in to hear us discuss some fascinating Sacramento History, all of the amazing events at the Sacramento History Museum, and how you can support your local museums. 

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel had the honor of having Sharon McMahon on the podcast! Tune in to hear us discuss the power of educators, the momentum that drove some of History's greatest movements, and the importance of dispelling misinformation. 

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This week on Hashtag History for our Season Twelve Finale, we have the wonderful Gillian Pensavalle (of True Crime Obsessed the The Hamilton) on the show to discuss her new podcast series titled Let the Women. This series focuses on highlighting trailblazing women in the true crime space. And trust us; you do not want to miss this one!

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the racist History of the State of Oregon. While many states across the United States have incredible racist History, Oregon is the only state in the country to enter the Union with a Black exclusion law, quite literally banning Black people within its borders.  When they became a State in 1859, they entered as a Free State - meaning that slavery would not be permitted within its borders - but that’s not because these people were on the right side of History. No, Oregon was so deeply racist that they didn’t even want to look at Black people; enslaved or not. 

Oregon would not ratify the Fourteenth Amendment - the Amendment that provided equal protection of the law and gave citizenship to all Black people, including those formerly enslaved - until 1973! They also didn’t ratify the Fifteenth Amendment - which gave Black men the right to vote - until 1959!

And although Portland, Oregon’s most populous city, has long had the reputation of being very liberal and progressive, it continues to rank as one of the whitest big cities in America. According to the most recent national census, Oregon’s demographics show that nearly 83% of the state population is white with less than 2% Black. For Portland specifically, about 75% of the city is white and less than 6% is Black. 

We are going to be diving into all the things this week: How Oregon was quite literally established as a White Utopia from the onset, how white surpremacy hate groups (particularly the Ku Klux Klan) thrived - and continue to thrive - there, the gentrification and displacement of Black Americans (particularly in Portland), and what the State has done to combat this dark History.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 1968 Olympics, the Black Boycott, and the Black Power Salute seen around the world. On October 16, 1968, two African-American Olympic athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos (who had just won gold and bronze respectively in the 200-meter sprint) took their place on the winners podium and each raised a black-gloved fist into the air as the United States National Anthem played. This act of protest on behalf of human rights would lead to a booing and hissing response from the audience and the eventual expulsion of both athletes involved. However, this image of Smith and Carlos with fists in the air would go down in History and would become one of the most iconic and most influential incidents in sports History.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Berlin Wall. This was a wall that was first erected in August of 1961 to essentially separate East and West Germany from one another. Following the Second World War, Germany - and Berlin itself - was split up into four allied occupation zones. The western portions were governed by the United States, Great Britain, and later France, while the eastern portion was governed by the Soviet Union. Between the years of 1949 and 1961, somewhere between 2.5 and 3.5 million Germans from the eastern side would flee to West Germany (for reasons we will get into later in this episode). In response to this mass exodus, East Germany would construct a wall through Berlin, closing off access to West Germany. What would begin as some cinder blocks and barbed wire would be converted over time into concrete walls that stood fifteen feet tall. These walls would be guarded 24/7 with soldiers in watchtowers ready to shoot at the first sign of escape. More than one hundred people (with the most widely accepted number closer to two hundred people) would be killed as they attempted to get to the other side of the wall.

This wall quite literally separated families. It separated communities. It destroyed railroad lines that used to pass through the city. It destroyed daily activities. It meant that some people could no longer go to their jobs or go to their nearest grocery store; to go see movies or go to the park with friends. More than 5,000 East Germans - so desperate to make it to West Germany - did just that by climbing over the barbed wire, jumping out of windows that were close to the wall, going underneath the wall through the sewer system, even flying hot air balloons over the wall!

This wall would stand for nearly thirty years before it was finally torn down in 1989. There was a huge celebration the day the wall fell with one Berlin resident spray-painting on the wall: “Only today is the war really over".

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon. When she did this in 1967, let’s just say that men were not ready for women to have this much equality. Because during the race, the race manager Jock Semple assaulted her by running up behind her and attempting to rip her bib number off of her shirt in order to disqualify her from the race. Switzer’s boyfriend who was running alongside her was able to shove Semple to the ground and Switzer was able to finish the race.

Following this incident, the Amateur Athletic Union (the governing body) would officially ban women from competing in long-distance running until 1972! Although we will be spending a lot of time talking about this infuriating setback in History, I do want to give a sneak peek to the ending so that we can all at least look forward to the eventual light at the end of the tunnel: Switzer would continue to run competitively and would even win the New York City Marathon in 1974, she would be named Female Runner of the Decade by Runner’s World Magazine, she became an author, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011, would actually end up becoming good friends with the race manager that tried to kick her out of the race, and - finally - in 2017, on the 50th anniversary of running the Boston Marathon that first time around, Switzer would run the race again - for the ninth time! - and would be assigned the same bib number that she had when she ran it that first monument, groundbreaking time in 1967.

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This week on Hashtag History, Leah is taking over the episode to discuss an infamous and mysterious character from History, Lola Montez. Montez was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous in the mid-19th Century as a Spanish dancer, among many other pursuits, one of which landed her as the lover of an actual Bavarian king!

Lola’s story comes with its fair share of controversies, especially when it comes to who the hell she actually was and what her true background was. Most of the controversy and confusion actually came directly from the source: herself. She fanned the flames of her own infamy, further propelling herself into the spotlight (her favorite place to be), and as historian Ralph Friedman, put it, “She changed her background to suit the occasion, and there were many occasions to suit.”

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing historic torture techniques. We have all of course heard of some of these historic torture techniques before; think back to Medieval Europe and the stories we’ve heard of people being tied by their limbs and then stretched out to the point of dislocation. Or think of Rome and the horrendous torture technique of crucifixion; most widely known because of, of course, the story of Jesus. Or, of course, the technique of using the pillory - that wooden frame that was used to lock in the head and hands of a person primarily used for the purpose of public humiliation.

These are all historic torture techniques that we are very familiar with. But there are so, SO many more that we are going to be diving into this week. We’re taking things all the way back to Ancient Greek culture, Ancient Chinese culture, and, of course, spending the majority of our time in Medieval Europe.

I think this goes without saying but this week’s episode is particularly gruesome. If you have a bit of a queasy stomach, you have been warned. This is NOT an easy episode to get through.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Little Rock Nine. Little Rock Nine is the name given to the nine students that were the first Black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, following the Brown v. Board of Education decision which ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. When these children went to Central High for their first day of school in September of 1957, they were met by an angry mob that threw things at them, spit on them, screamed horrible things at them, and more. The Arkansas Governor even called in the National Guard to block the students from being able to enter the school. It wasn’t until later that month that President Dwight D. Eisenhower engaged federal troops to get these nine students into the school by entering through a side door of the building to not draw the attention of the angry, racist mob. We of course know that this was not the end of their struggles and the horrid racism that they faced - and the bravery they exhibited - while attending this public school.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Enron Scandal, a major accounting fraud that took place in late-2001 when Enron Corporation - who, only the year prior, was considered to be one of the most successful companies in the world - announced that it was posting a $638 billion dollar loss in the third quarter…and then followed up that up shortly thereafter by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In only a few months, the company’s stock price - which, at its height, was $90 per share - fell to less than $0.26 per share. Along with the demise of the company also came the demise of nearly $2.1 billion dollars in pension plans for its thousands of employees. In fact, as higher-ups in the company were selling off their stock - aware that things were going to tank soon - they were simultaneously telling lower-level employees to invest in more company stock. The Securities and Exchange Commission investigated what happened at Enron and found that they had been conducting shady accounting practices, such as writing future gains (that had not yet been received) into current income statements and transferring their bad assets into special purpose entities in order to keep them off the books. Essentially, Enron was lying about their profits, defrauding investors, their employees, and Americans as a whole. 

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Welcome back for Season Eleven!

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing War of the Worlds. And not necessarily the novel, The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells, which is about aliens from Mars invading the Earth. No, more specifically, we are discussing an incident that occurred the day before Halloween in 1938 when actor Orson Welles (no relation to author H.G. Wells) read aloud an adaptation of The War of the Worlds on live radio. Innocent enough, right? HOWEVER, Welles delivered this adaptation of the story in a “breaking-news”, news-reporting alert type method. So when he told of Martians landing on Earth, Americans took him seriously. When this radio program - in the style of a news broadcast - played audio from people who appeared to be live witnesses to aliens landing on the Earth and using a heat ray to burn up American citizens, listeners went nuts. Americans became so alarmed that the results of this broadcast led to traffic jams, an outrageous amount of calls to local law enforcement, and a significant fleeing from the site of the alleged invasion, New Jersey. Following the incident, when it was realized that this had all just been a fictional tale (that all of these witnesses had actually been paid actors), there was complete outrage directed at the radio program for what many perceived to be a deceptive delivery of the tale of the War of the Worlds.

It is worth noting though that more modern historians believe that this was not quite as large-scale as was originally reported. Many believe now that the mass hysteria resulting from this incident was actually grossly exaggerated by the media. But regardless, this whole thing - however big or small - was a hot mess. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are continuing to revisit our coverage of the Chappaquiddick incident. If you have been with us for some time now, you will recall that we covered Chappaquiddick in our first ever podcast episode in July of 2019. With us now reaching Episode 100, we wanted to bring it back to where it all began. If you have listened to our original coverage of this incident, don't go anywhere! This time around will be a completely different experience!

On July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off of a bridge into a pond off Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. Kennedy escaped from the car but left his passenger behind to die. This week, we are closing out coverage of this incident by discussing the graphic details found at the scene, the ramifications the incident had on the Kennedy family and the nation as whole, and an audio recording from Mr. Kennedy himself.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are revisiting our coverage of the Chappaquiddick incident. If you have been with us for some time now, you will recall that we covered Chappaquiddick in our first ever podcast episode in July of 2019. As we are nearing Episode 100, we wanted to bring it back to where it all began. If you have listened to our original coverage of this incident, don't go anywhere! This time around will be a completely different experience!

On July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off of a bridge into a pond off Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. Kennedy escaped from the car but left his passenger behind to die.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

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In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the Great Emu War of 1932 which was - quite literally - a war that Australia declared on the local emus…and LOST. This story is WILD and we cannot wait to share it with you!

Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com.