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SYMHC Live: Mysteries of the Color Blue

2019-10-1600:44:566

Blue is the most popular color in many parts of the world, and it can seem like it's everywhere. . But many ancient languages didn’t have a word for blue, and some languages still don’t. This show was recorded live at a National Gallery of Art's NGA Nights event. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Jeanne Baret

2019-10-1400:36:133

Baret was the first woman known to circumnavigate the globe. But her experience wasn’t just about the travel – she was working, and her work took her to places that were totally unexpected for someone of her gender and economic class in the 18th century. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

SYMHC Classics: The Case of the Colorado Cannibal, Alferd Packer

2019-10-1200:24:016

It's an unsettling 2012 episode! In the winter of 1873, Alferd Packer led gold prospectors into the Rockies, but harsh conditions soon set them off course. Packer was the only survivor, and he looked oddly well-fed. He claimed he'd killed in self-defense. But was he guilty of murder? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Commercial Aviation in the U.S., Part 2

2019-10-0900:55:109

In this episode, we’ll go from the international agreement that prepared for a global airline industry up to the deregulation of U.S. commercial aviation in the late 1970s. And then we have a special guest -- John Hodgman came by the studio for a visit! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Commercial Aviation in the U.S., Part 1

2019-10-0700:32:0613

Since the possibility of air travel became a reality, many entrepreneurs were trying to figure out a way to make flight into a business. This first of two parts covers those early efforts, and the growth of the airline industry up to WWII. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

SYMHC Classics: Beast of Gevaudan

2019-10-0500:30:5814

This 2014 episode covers attacks on women and children of Gevaudan in the 1760s, which sparked a huge push to hunt and kill the mystery beast behind them. While efforts to track the animal struggled, France was gripped in terror. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

The Black Sox Scandal

2019-10-0200:40:529

Some of the Chicago White Sox players confessed to taking a bribe to lose the 1919 World Series on purpose, but they never admitted to actually underplaying. And the collective memory about this whole scandal is very different from how it all played out. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Unearthed! In Autumn 2019

2019-09-3000:44:4410

As promised in July, we have some Unearthed this fall! We've got past episode updates, cannonballs, things that are oldests and firsts, textiles, edibles and potables, and a little bit of creepy and eerie stuff at the end. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

SYMHC Classics: The Doctors' Riot of 1788

2019-09-2800:23:558

We're revising a 2014 episode today. In the late 1700s, medical colleges needed cadavers for educational dissection, but there were no legal means for obtaining them. This led to some unorthodox dealings in the acquiring of bodies, and brought New York to a fever pitch in 1788. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Interview: Sarah Roberts of the Atlanta History Center

2019-09-2500:56:5610

Holly sat down with Sarah Roberts, the Vice President of Goizueta Gardens and Living Collections at the Atlanta History Center, to talk about making history a living part of Atlanta's community culture. You can visit the Atlanta History Center's website here: https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Comments (130)

Charlie Wilson

Very enjoyable podcast. Been listening for a month now and have enjoyed every episode. As a Halloween fan, this was particularly appealing.

Oct 17th

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D S

Interesting topic, but too much attention to viewing things from a 21st century feminist perspective with the usual myopic hand wringing at the end. Being apolitical is not a bad thing at times.

Oct 12th

Ford Prefect

I neither know or care about plants but this was such a pleasant interview.

Sep 26th

Wulffhardt

A circle is hardly a complex lineage

Sep 20th

if only 2012 was the end of the world and that was the final inauguration.

Sep 12th

yes but did anyone expect it

not the case anymore lol (trump)

Aug 31st

Kayl matthew

another stellar topic brought to you by 50 year old cat ladies. bring the original hosts back

D.L. George

don't talk so fast. you sound like you're on speed.

"Big Oof" me on voting 3rd party because you dislike the candidate going against another candidate you like even less circa 2019

Aug 24th

Listening to them talk about how MySpcae and MTV played a large role during the presidential and candidate debates was a slap in the face as to how buckwild 2008 was. Especially with the underlying tone that obviously these platforms were the best way to market such things at the time. Twitter is still going strong and blows up during debates, but the other 2 are obsolete and barely holding on. It's fun listening to things from 11 years ago sometimes

Agenda Future

all those movements have distroyed our country. your morons and theres no way anyone listen to you airheads.

Jul 27th

you are the most ignorant problem in our world. facts are facts. opinions are opinions. the rewriting of history is demoralizing to our white men. who can stand your voices.