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Professor Buzzkill History Podcast

Professor Buzzkill History Podcast

Joe Coohill

Professor Buzzkill is an exciting podcast that explores history myths in an illuminating, entertaining, and humorous way.

862 - The Press and Women Politicians from Victoria Woodhull to Kamala Harris
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  • 862 - The Press and Women Politicians from Victoria Woodhull to Kamala Harris

    Professor Terri Finneman explains how the press has portrayed women politicians running for high office in the United States. From Victoria Woodhull in the 1870s to Kamala Harris in 2020, she enlightens us about how the media treatment of women politicians has and hasn’t changed over this long period! Encore Episode.

    Tue, 26 Mar 2024
  • 861 - The "Princess Qajar" Meme: Junk History and Conceptions of Beauty

    Dr. Victoria Martinez joins to debunk and explain Junk history is embodied a viral meme that portrays a nineteenth-century Persian princess with facial hair, alongside the claim that 13 men killed themselves over their unrequited love for her. While it fails miserably at historical accuracy, the meme succeeds at demonstrating how easily viral clickbait obscures and overshadows rich and meaningful stories from the past. It's junk history! Episode 548.

    Tue, 19 Mar 2024
  • 860 - Irish America: Race and Politics

    Professor Mary Burke destroys the myths and caricatures of Irish Americans as a monolithic cultural, racial, and political group. Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey how the Irish racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean, on America's frontiers and antebellum plantations, and along its eastern seaboard. Her cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas examines the forcibly transported Irish, the eighteenth-century Presbyterian Ulster-Scots, and post-1845 Famine immigrants. Episode 547.

    Tue, 12 Mar 2024
  • 859 - Who Said "Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History"?

    Lots of people are credited with coining the great phrase, “well-behaved women rarely make history.” These include Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anne Boleyn, and many more. Given time, any powerful woman with self-respect, backbone, and verve will get credit for this phrase and sentiment. Listen and learn who said it first.

    Wed, 06 Mar 2024
  • 858 - Green Book Sites: Local History and Architecture

    We've already learned about the importance of "The Negro Motorist Green Book" from our previous show. Here, historians Catherine Zipf and Susan Hellman discuss their project on the architecture of the sites found in the Green Book and what various efforts are being made to locate more Green Book sites and preserve them. Perhaps the best show we've ever done about local history! Episode 546.

    Tue, 05 Mar 2024
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