Footnoting History

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 May 25, 2020

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Footnoting History is a bi-weekly podcast series dedicated to overlooked, popularly unknown, and exciting stories plucked from the footnotes of history. For further reading suggestions, information about our hosts, our complete episode archive, and more visit us at FootnotingHistory.com!

Episode Date
Medieval Coroners
Apr 06, 2024
Dressing Marie Antoinette
Mar 23, 2024
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Part II: ​Life and Legend
Mar 09, 2024
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Part I: ​International Icon, Revolutionary Hero
Feb 24, 2024
Harry Washington
Feb 10, 2024
Murder and the Mignonette
Jan 27, 2024
History for the Holidays III
Dec 09, 2023
The Many Adventures of Pope Innocent III
Nov 25, 2023
Kościuszko Squadron
Nov 11, 2023
History for Halloween X
Oct 28, 2023
The Witchcraft Trial of Alice Kyteler
Oct 14, 2023
Leo Frank and the Murder of Mary Phagan
Sep 30, 2023
The Cold Truth: A History of Refrigeration
Sep 16, 2023
Titus Oates, a Popish Plot, and the Mysterious Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
Sep 02, 2023
A Royal Son: Geoffrey, duke of Brittany
Aug 19, 2023
True Crime on Stage in Shakespeare’s England
Aug 05, 2023
Wyatt Earp and a Heavyweight Fix
Jul 22, 2023
William Mumler and Spirit Photography in the 19th century
Jul 08, 2023
Marlene Dietrich’s Scandalous Trousers
May 20, 2023
SPECIAL EDITION: The Stone of Destiny and the Crowning of Kings
May 06, 2023
The Public Arch
Apr 22, 2023
The Newsies Strike of 1899
Apr 08, 2023
The Weeks Murder Trial
Mar 25, 2023
Margaret Eaton and the Petticoat Affair
Mar 11, 2023
1288: A Moment in Norwich
Feb 25, 2023
Footnoting History’s Favorite Historical Footnotes
Feb 11, 2023
Rebecca Gratz: ​Philanthropist, Educator… Romantic Heroine?
Jan 28, 2023
The Papal Fleet
Jan 14, 2023
History for the Holidays II
Dec 03, 2022
The Greatest Knight: William Marshal, Part II
Nov 19, 2022
The Greatest Knight: William Marshal, Part I
Nov 05, 2022
History for Halloween IX
Oct 22, 2022
Who Murdered Licoricia of Winchester?
Oct 08, 2022
The Milne Family Part II
Sep 24, 2022
The Milne Family Part I
Sep 10, 2022
The Oneida Community, Part II
Aug 27, 2022
The Oneida Community, Part I
Aug 13, 2022
Jeffrey Hudson: England’s Forgotten Swashbuckler
Jul 30, 2022
Maria Merian’s Metamorphosis
Jul 16, 2022
Listener Q&A
Jul 02, 2022
Godiva’s Not-So-Naked Ride
May 21, 2022
Anna May Wong: International Star, Forgotten Icon
May 07, 2022
The Gold Cure
Apr 23, 2022
The Brothers York, Part II
Apr 09, 2022
The Brothers York, Part I
Mar 26, 2022
Sarojini Naidu: Beyond the Golden Threshold
Mar 12, 2022
Blue Jeans and the American Dream: ​The Story of Levi Strauss
Feb 26, 2022
The History of Valentine’s Day
Feb 12, 2022
The Origins of the Salem Witch Trials
Jan 29, 2022
Winnie-the-Pooh
Jan 15, 2022
History for the Holidays
Dec 11, 2021
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part II
Nov 27, 2021
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part I
Nov 13, 2021
History for Halloween VIII
Oct 30, 2021
Ivanhoe and the Modern Middle Ages
Oct 16, 2021
Ivanhoe and the Invention of Merry England
Oct 02, 2021
Sicilian Vespers, Part II: The Massacre and the War of the Vespers
Sep 18, 2021
Sicilian Vespers, Part I: The Uprising
Sep 04, 2021
The Ottoman Kafes or the Princely Cage
Aug 21, 2021
Mohenjo Daro: Living City, Mound of the Dead
Aug 07, 2021
The History of Tikka Masala
Jul 24, 2021
Moe Berg, Baseball's Scholar and Spy
Jul 10, 2021
Christopher Columbus and the Book of Prophecies
May 29, 2021
Stede Bonnet, the Gentlemen Pirate
May 15, 2021
Empress, Strategist… Saint? Irene of Byzantium
May 01, 2021
Florida: Frontier and Cracker History
Apr 17, 2021
Anne Neville and the Wars of the Roses
Apr 03, 2021
Divorcing in Revolutionary France
Mar 20, 2021
The Martyrs of Thana
Mar 06, 2021
The Forme of Cury
Feb 20, 2021
From Hwaet to the Ring Shout: Lorenzo Dow Turner
Feb 06, 2021
The Origins of American Eugenics
Jan 23, 2021
Hurrem Sultan: the Woman Who Changed Ottoman Queenship
Dec 12, 2020
Marie Louise, Napoleon's Second Empress
Nov 28, 2020
Milicent Patrick and the Creature
Nov 14, 2020
History for Halloween VII
Oct 31, 2020
Surviving the Plague in 1665
Oct 17, 2020
William Miller and the Great Disappointment
Oct 03, 2020
Beyond Sacrifice: Aztec Medicine and Healing
Sep 19, 2020
Jane Manning James
Sep 05, 2020
The Male Witch
Aug 22, 2020
Maya, Spain, and the Historical Record
Aug 08, 2020
Revolutionary Movies, Part II: Dr. Zhivago and The Last Emperor
Jul 25, 2020
Revolutionary Movies, Part I: The Patriot and Les Miserables
Jul 11, 2020
Slavery and the Colony of Georgia
May 30, 2020
The Parnell Affair
May 16, 2020
Passing Exams in Imperial China
May 02, 2020
The Other Anne Boleyn
Apr 18, 2020
Prester John
Apr 03, 2020
Footnoting Disney: Mulan
Mar 21, 2020
Footnoting Disney: The Little Mermaid
Mar 07, 2020
Footnoting Disney: Pocahontas
Feb 21, 2020
Footnoting Disney: Aladdin
Feb 08, 2020
Footnoting Disney: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jan 25, 2020
The Forbidden Holiday
Dec 14, 2019
Haitian Revolution, Part II: ​1794-1804
Nov 30, 2019
Haitian Revolution, Part I: 1791-1793
Nov 16, 2019
The Unquiet Afterlife of Elizabeth Siddal
Nov 02, 2019
History for Halloween VI
Oct 19, 2019
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Oct 05, 2019
The Life and Travels of Newport Gardner
Sep 21, 2019
Evil Humors and the Common Cold
Sep 07, 2019
Revolutionary Notre-Dame de Paris
Aug 24, 2019
The Emu War
Aug 10, 2019
An Extraordinary Medicine Called Theriac
Jul 27, 2019
Purgatory is Not the Medium Place
Jul 13, 2019
Jessie Pope, (In)Famous Poet of World War One
May 18, 2019
The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
May 04, 2019
King John and His Dogs
Apr 20, 2019
Harlem Renaissance Man: James Weldon Johnson
Apr 06, 2019
Henry II and Thomas Becket, Part II: Rivals
Mar 23, 2019
Henry II and Thomas Becket, Part I: Friends
Mar 09, 2019
The History of Grading
Feb 24, 2019
The End is Nigh! The Apocalypse in the Renaissance
Feb 10, 2019
American Indian Prisoners of War ​
Jan 26, 2019
Mao and His Mango
Jan 12, 2019
Potosí: The Silver Mine that Changed the World
Nov 17, 2018
King Henry I of England and the White Ship
Nov 03, 2018
History for Halloween V
Oct 20, 2018
How to Make a Fortune in Fictional Poyais
Oct 06, 2018
The Legend of Pope Joan
Sep 30, 2018
Escape from Slavery: The Story of Mary and Emily Edmonson
Sep 08, 2018
Beyond the Trenches: Other Fronts of WWI
Aug 25, 2018
How to Avoid Serving in Napoleon's Army
Aug 11, 2018
Who Was Bass Reeves?
Jul 28, 2018
Ancient Authoritative Animals
Jul 14, 2018
Special Edition: The Marriage of John Quincy and Louisa Adams
May 19, 2018
The Blazing World of Lady Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
May 05, 2018
Yolande Du Bois and the Weight of W.E.B. Du Bois's Dreams
Apr 22, 2018
Ambition, Anxiety, and the Unseen Universe: Science and Victorian Fiction
Apr 07, 2018
Evacuating the Loyalists
Mar 24, 2018
Hoelun the Stolen Bride
Mar 10, 2018
The Papal Pornocracy
Feb 25, 2018
Censorship in Reformation England
Feb 10, 2018
Jewish Fighters of Medieval Europe
Jan 27, 2018
How to Be a Beguine
Jan 13, 2018
Back of Every Great Work: The Story of Emily Warren Roebling
Dec 16, 2017
Napoleon Bonaparte's Near-Fatal Christmas
Dec 02, 2017
The Malleus Maleficarum
Nov 19, 2017
Distrust of Chinese-Americans in Early 20th-Century New York City
Nov 04, 2017
History for Halloween IV
Oct 21, 2017
Cemeteries: Washington Park Cemetery and Early 20th-Century Atlanta
Oct 07, 2017
Belle Gunness, Black Widow Serial Killer
Sep 23, 2017
John Dee: Astrologer, Courtier, Mystic...Spy?
Sep 09, 2017
The Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Aug 26, 2017
The Murderess in History
Aug 12, 2017
Cemeteries: Local History of Mid-20th Century Atlanta
Jun 17, 2017
Guy de Montfort and Dante’s Inferno
Jun 03, 2017
Secret Santa: The History of Santa Claus
May 23, 2017
The Husband-Killing She-Wolf: The Life of Joanna of Naples
May 23, 2017
The One-Legged Nazi-Fighting Jesuit: Rupert Mayer
May 20, 2017
Jumbo the Elephant
May 06, 2017
How to Punish a Witch in 16th-Century England
Apr 22, 2017
The Great Unpleasantness? World War One in Whodunits
Apr 08, 2017
Curious George Escapes Nazi Europe
Mar 25, 2017
Early American Newspapers and Freedom of the Press
Mar 11, 2017
A Royal Son: Henry the Young King
Feb 25, 2017
The Trotula and Medieval Gynecology
Feb 11, 2017
Tuxedo Park: Inside the Gate
Feb 03, 2017
The Woman and the 20-Pound Tumor
Jan 28, 2017
54° 40' or Fight: How a Latitude Line became a Rallying Cry
Jan 14, 2017
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Dec 17, 2016
Olga Nethersole and the Sapho Scandal
Dec 03, 2016
Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon
Nov 19, 2016
The Un-Engagement of Jane Austen
Nov 05, 2016
History for Halloween I
Oct 24, 2016
History for Halloween II
Oct 24, 2016
History for Halloween III
Oct 22, 2016
Poison in Colonial India
Oct 08, 2016
The (Failed) Republic of Fredonia
Sep 25, 2016
Tycho Brahe: The Astronomer with a Copper Nose
Sep 10, 2016
The Rise of the British Spy Novel
Aug 27, 2016
The Murder of Sweden's King Gustav III
Aug 13, 2016
The Life of Beatrice de Planissoles
Jun 18, 2016
Desert Queens? Women at the Edges of Empire from Hester Stanhope to Gertrude Bell
Jun 04, 2016
The Life and Crimes of Caravaggio
May 21, 2016
Al Capone's Pineapple Primary
May 07, 2016
Easter Rising, Part II: Aftermath
Apr 23, 2016
Easter Rising, Part I: Origins
Apr 09, 2016
Disney and the Space Race
Mar 26, 2016
Evelyn Nesbit and the Crime of the Century
Mar 12, 2016
The Eleven Lost Days
Feb 27, 2016
After Napoleon: Josephine Divorced
Feb 13, 2016
Medieval Animal Trials
Jan 30, 2016
Sherlock Holmes in Popular Culture
Jan 16, 2016
The Great Medieval Canon Law Forgery
Dec 06, 2015
The Origins of "I Am A Man"
Nov 21, 2015
Apples in America
Nov 07, 2015
Hospitals in the Victorian City
Oct 10, 2015
Papal Residences: The Lateran, The Vatican, and Castel Gandolfo
Sep 26, 2015
The Royal Teeth of Louis XIV
Sep 12, 2015
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Aug 29, 2015
The Invention of Canning
Aug 15, 2015
Big History?
Aug 01, 2015
Comic Books and Thrill-Killers? An Interview with Mariah Adin
Jul 18, 2015
Independence from Whom? The American Revolution and Europe
Jul 04, 2015
Nuts: James Mulligan, Anthony McAuliffe, and the Notion of Surrender
Jun 20, 2015
Dogs: The Final Frontier
Jun 06, 2015
Opium Wars and Peace
May 23, 2015
Bonapartes in America: Jerome and Elizabeth
May 09, 2015
Special Edition: British Royal Siblings
May 02, 2015
Pop! Pop! Pop! A Brief History of Popcorn
Apr 25, 2015
Cola di Rienzo: Medieval Tribune of the Roman Republic
Apr 11, 2015
The Mystery of the Classic Authors
Mar 28, 2015
The Lepers and the London Nurse: The Remarkable Travels of Kate Marsden
Mar 14, 2015
Jean Hardouin and the Phantom Time Conspiracies
Feb 28, 2015
Watson, Franklin, and the Drama of DNA
Feb 14, 2015
Mush!: A Short History of Dog Sledding
Jan 31, 2015
Empress Eugénie in Exile, Part II: Life After Empire
Jan 17, 2015
Empress Eugénie in Exile, Part I: Flight from Paris
Jan 03, 2015
King Arthur's Christmas: Christianity, Paganism, and Community
Dec 21, 2014
Protest Pop and Queen Elizabeth II' s Silver Jubilee
Nov 29, 2014
Robert Bruce: Stabbings and Statebuilding
Nov 22, 2014
Mental Institutions, Part II: The Rosenhan Experiment
Nov 15, 2014
Mental Institutions, Part I: Nellie Bly's Exposé
Nov 08, 2014
Guy Fawkes
Nov 01, 2014
The Demon Core
Oct 25, 2014
Advances in the West: Grant's Army in 1862
Oct 18, 2014
Taking the Waters: Good Health Among the "Best People"
Oct 11, 2014
Hugh O'Neill and the Tudors
Oct 04, 2014
Dog Stars, Part II
Sep 27, 2014
Dog Stars, Part I
Sep 20, 2014
Seeking to Punish in 17th-Century England
Sep 13, 2014
King Childeric of the Franks: Barbarian?
Sep 06, 2014
Space Exploration and History ft. Asif Siddiqi
Aug 30, 2014
Alan Turing
Aug 23, 2014
Warrior, Wife, and Mother: The Story of Sichelgaita of Salerno
Aug 16, 2014
The Scientific Passions of Mary Buckland
Aug 08, 2014
Laura Bridgman, Charles Dickens, and Helen Keller
Aug 02, 2014
Rosamund: 6th-Century Regicide and Politics
Jul 26, 2014
Lawrence O'Brien: Fenians and the American Civil War
Jul 19, 2014
The Rise of the Studios: The Origins of the Film Industry, Part II
Jul 12, 2014
Love, Parachutes, and Käthchen Paulus
Jul 12, 2014
Alcibiades: The Bad Boy of Athens
May 31, 2014
Before Napoleon: Josephine Bonaparte's First Marriage
May 25, 2014
The King James Bible: One Version of the Greatest Story Ever Told
May 17, 2014
Nursery Rhymes, History, and Memory
May 10, 2014
A Tale of Three Breeds
May 03, 2014
The Birth of a Blockbuster
Apr 26, 2014
Jumping the Broom: The Evolution of a Wedding Tradition
Apr 19, 2014
From Magic Lanterns to Nickelodeons: The Origins of the Film Industry, Part I
Apr 13, 2014
Dr. Fredric Wertham: Hero or Super-Villain?
Apr 05, 2014
The Life and Times of Emperor Diocletian
Mar 29, 2014
Richard the Lionheart on Crusade
Mar 22, 2014
Irish Family Values: The Clannrickard Burkes in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
Mar 15, 2014
Mademoiselle de Maupin: The Life and Afterlife of a 17th-Century Swashbuckler
Mar 01, 2014
The History of the Academy Awards
Feb 21, 2014
Buck and Blanche (and Bonnie and Clyde)
Feb 15, 2014
Brotherhood Under the Black Flag: Multiracial Pirate Crews of the Early Modern Period
Feb 08, 2014
One Year Anniversary Show: How We Became Historians
Feb 01, 2014
From Union Soldier to Confederate Bushwacker: Loyalty and Disloyalty in Civil War West Virginia
Jan 25, 2014
Cold Noses and Oxytocin: Doggy Prehistory
Jan 18, 2014
Rilla of Ingleside and the WWI Homefront
Jan 11, 2014
2:31:56*: The Rosie Ruiz Scandal
Jan 04, 2014
The Christmas Truce of 1914
Dec 28, 2013
Historical Ad Campaigns
Dec 14, 2013
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Part II: Australia and New Zealand
Nov 30, 2013
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Part I: The Abduction
Nov 23, 2013
Reformation Propaganda
Nov 16, 2013
Living Memory: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Nov 09, 2013
Cheating on Jesus: Bigamy in the Medieval Catholic Priesthood
Nov 02, 2013
The Only Running Footman
Oct 26, 2013
The Many Reformations of 16th-Century Europe
Oct 19, 2013
Queer Women in the Golden Age of Mysteries
Oct 12, 2013
Criminalizing Sex in Early Modern England
Oct 05, 2013
Medieval Gift Elephants
Sep 28, 2013
Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico
Sep 21, 2013
The Strategic Failure of the Habsburg Chin
Sep 14, 2013
Popular Protest in Late Antique Ravenna
Sep 07, 2013
Confucius and Jesus: The Jesuit Mission to China
Aug 31, 2013
Napoleon, Part II: Life in Napoleonic Society
Aug 24, 2013
The Origin of the Marathon: Linking Past to Present
Aug 17, 2013
The Mau Mau Insurgency
Aug 10, 2013
Mozart's Zombie, the Runaway Priest, and the Emperor's Opera
Aug 03, 2013
Emperor Akbar, the Mughal Empire, and Divine Faith
Jul 27, 2013
Special Edition: Royal Baby Names
Jul 22, 2013
Napoleon, Part I: The Man
Jul 13, 2013
The Several Defenestrations of Prague
Jul 06, 2013
Entertainment in Medieval Towns
Jun 29, 2013
Goethe's Werther and the Suicide Effect
Jun 22, 2013
Why Simon de Montfort is in the U.S. House of Representatives
Jun 15, 2013
Running in the Ancient Olympic Games
Jun 07, 2013
Getting Skinny: A Brief History of Dieting
Jun 01, 2013
Lepers and Leprosy in the 13th Century
May 25, 2013
Occupy Alcatraz: Protesting Native American Autonomy
May 17, 2013
Tulipmania!
May 11, 2013
The French Revolution Countdown (Part II)
May 04, 2013
Science, Plague, and Pericles: Reconstructing the Face of Myrtis
Apr 27, 2013
Viking Invasions and St. Edmund's Talking Head
Apr 20, 2013
Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" and the Indian Mutiny
Apr 13, 2013
The French Revolution Countdown (Part I)
Apr 06, 2013
Prehistoric Runners and the 'Fall' of the Neanderthals
Mar 30, 2013
Drinking in Medieval England
Mar 23, 2013
Heresy and You: Alice Rowley and Lollardy
Mar 16, 2013
Cruel Mind and Deadly Malice: A Murder in Early Modern England
Mar 09, 2013
Zombies in Thietmar of Merseburg
Mar 02, 2013
Cathars, Templars, and The Siege of Montségur
Feb 23, 2013
Special Edition: Olaudah Equiano
Feb 20, 2013
Henry II and the Invasion of Ireland
Feb 16, 2013
Special Edition: Papal Abdication
Feb 11, 2013