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Footnoting History — 305 episodes
Christianity in the Ancient Kingdom of Aksum
The Affair of the Poisons
Leon Czolgosz and the Assassination of President McKinley
Drinking in Medieval England Revisited
Lord Edward's Crusade
James Smithson's Institution
“A Forgotten Spot in the Caribbean”: Nevis
Tsianina: Artist, Trailblazer… Princess?
The Dog at the Heart of the Corps of Discovery Expedition
The Shots Not Heard Round the World
The Hidden Treasure of the Cairo Genizah
Alexander's Worlds
Beer Through the Ages
History for the Holidays V
Thank You, James Hemings (the man who brought you mac and cheese)
Dr. Blackwell
History for Halloween XII
Ren Faire History: From Folk Music to Fried Food
The Pendle Witches
Playing War: The Development and Early Use of Kriegsspiel
A Brief History of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Sisters
Simon de Montfort Revisited
Pockets! And Why Women Don’t Have Them
Beyond Sad Gruel: Food and Diet in Medieval Europe
William and Caroline Herschel, Astronomer Siblings
Say ȝes to the Chausemles: Fashion in the Medieval West
Christianity and the Roman Empire: Jerusalem to Constantinople
The Archdiocese of Khanbaliq
The Executioner in the Premodern West
Cassandra Austen: Jane’s Adored Sister
Tales from the Tower of London II
Coming Home from War in Ancient Greece
Hummel and Howe – Attorneys at Crime
History for the Holidays IV
A Royal Son: Eustace, Count of Boulogne
Thurkill’s Excellent Adventure: A Medieval English Peasant’s Tour of Hell
History for Halloween XI
How to Avoid the Death Penalty in Medieval England, Part II
How to Avoid the Death Penalty in Medieval England, Part I
So You've Been Elfshot
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Malet Coup
The Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca
Medieval Midwives Beyond Myths
Tales from the Tower of London: Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and Ranulf Flambard
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Many Accounts of the Execution of Anne Boleyn
Alfred Packer, Notorious Cannibal?
Owney: Star Pup of the US Railway Mail Service
Medieval Coroners
Dressing Marie Antoinette
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Part II: Life and Legend
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Part I: International Icon, Revolutionary Hero
Harry Washington
Murder and the Mignonette
History for the Holidays III
The Many Adventures of Pope Innocent III
Kościuszko Squadron
History for Halloween X
The Witchcraft Trial of Alice Kyteler
Leo Frank and the Murder of Mary Phagan
The Cold Truth: A History of Refrigeration
Titus Oates, a Popish Plot, and the Mysterious Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
A Royal Son: Geoffrey, duke of Brittany
True Crime on Stage in Shakespeare’s England
Wyatt Earp and a Heavyweight Fix
William Mumler and Spirit Photography in the 19th century
Marlene Dietrich’s Scandalous Trousers
SPECIAL EDITION: The Stone of Destiny and the Crowning of Kings
The Public Arch
The Newsies Strike of 1899
The Weeks Murder Trial
Margaret Eaton and the Petticoat Affair
1288: A Moment in Norwich
Footnoting History’s Favorite Historical Footnotes
Rebecca Gratz: Philanthropist, Educator… Romantic Heroine?
The Papal Fleet
History for the Holidays II
The Greatest Knight: William Marshal, Part II
The Greatest Knight: William Marshal, Part I
History for Halloween IX
Who Murdered Licoricia of Winchester?
The Milne Family Part II
The Milne Family Part I
The Oneida Community, Part II
The Oneida Community, Part I
Jeffrey Hudson: England’s Forgotten Swashbuckler
Maria Merian’s Metamorphosis
Listener Q&A
Godiva’s Not-So-Naked Ride
Anna May Wong: International Star, Forgotten Icon
The Gold Cure
The Brothers York, Part II
The Brothers York, Part I
Sarojini Naidu: Beyond the Golden Threshold
Blue Jeans and the American Dream: The Story of Levi Strauss
The History of Valentine’s Day
The Origins of the Salem Witch Trials
Winnie-the-Pooh
History for the Holidays
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part II
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part I
History for Halloween VIII
Ivanhoe and the Modern Middle Ages
Ivanhoe and the Invention of Merry England
Sicilian Vespers, Part II: The Massacre and the War of the Vespers
Sicilian Vespers, Part I: The Uprising
The Ottoman Kafes or the Princely Cage
Mohenjo Daro: Living City, Mound of the Dead
The History of Tikka Masala
Moe Berg, Baseball's Scholar and Spy
Christopher Columbus and the Book of Prophecies
Stede Bonnet, the Gentlemen Pirate
Empress, Strategist… Saint? Irene of Byzantium
Florida: Frontier and Cracker History
Anne Neville and the Wars of the Roses
Divorcing in Revolutionary France
The Martyrs of Thana
The Forme of Cury
From Hwaet to the Ring Shout: Lorenzo Dow Turner
The Origins of American Eugenics
Hurrem Sultan: the Woman Who Changed Ottoman Queenship
Marie Louise, Napoleon's Second Empress
Milicent Patrick and the Creature
History for Halloween VII
Surviving the Plague in 1665
William Miller and the Great Disappointment
Beyond Sacrifice: Aztec Medicine and Healing
Jane Manning James
The Male Witch
Maya, Spain, and the Historical Record
Revolutionary Movies, Part II: Dr. Zhivago and The Last Emperor
Revolutionary Movies, Part I: The Patriot and Les Miserables
Slavery and the Colony of Georgia
The Parnell Affair
Passing Exams in Imperial China
The Other Anne Boleyn
Prester John
Footnoting Disney: Mulan
Footnoting Disney: The Little Mermaid
Footnoting Disney: Pocahontas
Footnoting Disney: Aladdin
Footnoting Disney: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Forbidden Holiday
Haitian Revolution, Part II: 1794-1804
Haitian Revolution, Part I: 1791-1793
The Unquiet Afterlife of Elizabeth Siddal
History for Halloween VI
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Life and Travels of Newport Gardner
Evil Humors and the Common Cold
Revolutionary Notre-Dame de Paris
The Emu War
An Extraordinary Medicine Called Theriac
Purgatory is Not the Medium Place
Jessie Pope, (In)Famous Poet of World War One
The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
King John and His Dogs
Harlem Renaissance Man: James Weldon Johnson
Henry II and Thomas Becket, Part II: Rivals
Henry II and Thomas Becket, Part I: Friends
The History of Grading
The End is Nigh! The Apocalypse in the Renaissance
American Indian Prisoners of War
Mao and His Mango
Potosí: The Silver Mine that Changed the World
King Henry I of England and the White Ship
History for Halloween V
How to Make a Fortune in Fictional Poyais
The Legend of Pope Joan
Escape from Slavery: The Story of Mary and Emily Edmonson
Beyond the Trenches: Other Fronts of WWI
How to Avoid Serving in Napoleon's Army
Who Was Bass Reeves?
Ancient Authoritative Animals
Special Edition: The Marriage of John Quincy and Louisa Adams
The Blazing World of Lady Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Yolande Du Bois and the Weight of W.E.B. Du Bois's Dreams
Ambition, Anxiety, and the Unseen Universe: Science and Victorian Fiction
Evacuating the Loyalists
Hoelun the Stolen Bride
The Papal Pornocracy
Censorship in Reformation England
Jewish Fighters of Medieval Europe
How to Be a Beguine
Back of Every Great Work: The Story of Emily Warren Roebling
Napoleon Bonaparte's Near-Fatal Christmas
The Malleus Maleficarum
Distrust of Chinese-Americans in Early 20th-Century New York City
History for Halloween IV
Cemeteries: Washington Park Cemetery and Early 20th-Century Atlanta
Belle Gunness, Black Widow Serial Killer
John Dee: Astrologer, Courtier, Mystic...Spy?
The Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
The Murderess in History
Cemeteries: Local History of Mid-20th Century Atlanta
Guy de Montfort and Dante’s Inferno
Secret Santa: The History of Santa Claus
The Husband-Killing She-Wolf: The Life of Joanna of Naples
The One-Legged Nazi-Fighting Jesuit: Rupert Mayer
Jumbo the Elephant
How to Punish a Witch in 16th-Century England
The Great Unpleasantness? World War One in Whodunits
Curious George Escapes Nazi Europe
Early American Newspapers and Freedom of the Press
A Royal Son: Henry the Young King
The Trotula and Medieval Gynecology
Tuxedo Park: Inside the Gate
The Woman and the 20-Pound Tumor
54° 40' or Fight: How a Latitude Line became a Rallying Cry
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Olga Nethersole and the Sapho Scandal
Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon
The Un-Engagement of Jane Austen
History for Halloween II
History for Halloween I
History for Halloween III
Poison in Colonial India
The (Failed) Republic of Fredonia
Tycho Brahe: The Astronomer with a Copper Nose
The Rise of the British Spy Novel
The Murder of Sweden's King Gustav III
The Life of Beatrice de Planissoles
Desert Queens? Women at the Edges of Empire from Hester Stanhope to Gertrude Bell
The Life and Crimes of Caravaggio
Al Capone's Pineapple Primary
Easter Rising, Part II: Aftermath
Easter Rising, Part I: Origins
Disney and the Space Race
Evelyn Nesbit and the Crime of the Century
The Eleven Lost Days
After Napoleon: Josephine Divorced
Medieval Animal Trials
Sherlock Holmes in Popular Culture
The Great Medieval Canon Law Forgery
The Origins of "I Am A Man"
Apples in America
Hospitals in the Victorian City
Papal Residences: The Lateran, The Vatican, and Castel Gandolfo
The Royal Teeth of Louis XIV
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Invention of Canning
Big History?
Comic Books and Thrill-Killers? An Interview with Mariah Adin
Independence from Whom? The American Revolution and Europe
Nuts: James Mulligan, Anthony McAuliffe, and the Notion of Surrender
Dogs: The Final Frontier
Opium Wars and Peace
Bonapartes in America: Jerome and Elizabeth
Special Edition: British Royal Siblings
Pop! Pop! Pop! A Brief History of Popcorn
Cola di Rienzo: Medieval Tribune of the Roman Republic
The Mystery of the Classic Authors
The Lepers and the London Nurse: The Remarkable Travels of Kate Marsden
Jean Hardouin and the Phantom Time Conspiracies
Watson, Franklin, and the Drama of DNA
Mush!: A Short History of Dog Sledding
Empress Eugénie in Exile, Part II: Life After Empire
Empress Eugénie in Exile, Part I: Flight from Paris
King Arthur's Christmas: Christianity, Paganism, and Community
Protest Pop and Queen Elizabeth II' s Silver Jubilee
Robert Bruce: Stabbings and Statebuilding
Mental Institutions, Part II: The Rosenhan Experiment
Mental Institutions, Part I: Nellie Bly's Exposé
Guy Fawkes
The Demon Core
Advances in the West: Grant's Army in 1862
Taking the Waters: Good Health Among the "Best People"
Hugh O'Neill and the Tudors
Dog Stars, Part II
Dog Stars, Part I
Seeking to Punish in 17th-Century England
King Childeric of the Franks: Barbarian?
Space Exploration and History ft. Asif Siddiqi
Alan Turing
Warrior, Wife, and Mother: The Story of Sichelgaita of Salerno
The Scientific Passions of Mary Buckland
Laura Bridgman, Charles Dickens, and Helen Keller
Rosamund: 6th-Century Regicide and Politics
Lawrence O'Brien: Fenians and the American Civil War
The Rise of the Studios: The Origins of the Film Industry, Part II
Love, Parachutes, and Käthchen Paulus
Alcibiades: The Bad Boy of Athens
Before Napoleon: Josephine Bonaparte's First Marriage
The King James Bible: One Version of the Greatest Story Ever Told
Nursery Rhymes, History, and Memory
A Tale of Three Breeds
The Birth of a Blockbuster
Jumping the Broom: The Evolution of a Wedding Tradition
From Magic Lanterns to Nickelodeons: The Origins of the Film Industry, Part I
Dr. Fredric Wertham: Hero or Super-Villain?
The Life and Times of Emperor Diocletian
Richard the Lionheart on Crusade
Irish Family Values: The Clannrickard Burkes in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
Mademoiselle de Maupin: The Life and Afterlife of a 17th-Century Swashbuckler
The History of the Academy Awards
Buck and Blanche (and Bonnie and Clyde)
Brotherhood Under the Black Flag: Multiracial Pirate Crews of the Early Modern Period
One Year Anniversary Show: How We Became Historians
From Union Soldier to Confederate Bushwacker: Loyalty and Disloyalty in Civil War West Virginia
Cold Noses and Oxytocin: Doggy Prehistory
Rilla of Ingleside and the WWI Homefront
2:31:56*: The Rosie Ruiz Scandal
The Christmas Truce of 1914
Historical Ad Campaigns
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Part II: Australia and New Zealand
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Part I: The Abduction