Episodes

  • Episode 9: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
    Jan 20 2025
    • Fadulu, L. (2023). After 112 Years, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Victims Get a Memorial. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/nyregion/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-memorial.html
    • History.com Editors. (2024). Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. History.com. https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/triangle-shirtwaist-fire
    • Kiger, P.J. (2023). How the Horrific Tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Led to Workplace Safety Laws. History.com. https://www.history.com/news/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-labor-safety-laws
    • National Portrait Gallery. The Tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Smithsonian. https://npg.si.edu/blog/tragedy-triangle-shirtwaist-factory
    • NYU Law News. (n.d.). One hundred years later, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is remembered. NYU Law. https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/TRIANGLE_FIRE_CENTENNIAL
    • Stein, L. & Skalka, D.A. (1957). The 1911 Triangle Factory Fire: Leon Stein Interviews. Cornell University. https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/survivorInterviews/DoraSkalka.html
    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Brittanica. (2024). Triangle shirtwaist factory fire. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire
    • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial. (n.d.) Triangle History. https://trianglememorial.org/triangle-history/

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    18 mins
  • Episode 8: The Beothuk People of Newfoundland
    Jan 6 2025
    • Cecco, L. (2020). Canada: DNA discovery lends weight to First Nations ancestral story. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/10/dna-canada-first-nations-ancestral-story
    • Hillier, B. (2021). There’s nothing to prove it, but Mi’kmaw mercenary myth persists, say researchers. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/mi-kmaw-mercenary-myth-colonial-history-school-textbooks-1.6073752
    • Marshall, I. & Macpherson, A.G. (n.d.). William Eppes Cormack (1796-1868): The Later Years. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/nflds/article/view/26100/30326
    • Meier, A.C. (2019). Who Were the Beothuk, the Lost People of Newfoundland? JSTOR Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/who-were-the-beothuk-the-lost-people-of-newfoundland/
    • Mitchell, A. (2021). Amet*: Understanding the Beothuk. Canadian Geographic. https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/amet-understanding-the-beothuk/
    • Story, G.M. (1976). CORMACK, WILLIAM EPPES. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cormack_william_eppes_9E.html
    • Story, G.M. (2022). Demasduit. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/demasduwit
    • Story, G.M. (1998). HOWLEY, JAMES PATRICK. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/howley_james_patrick_14E.html
    • Story, G.M. (2022). Shawnadithit. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/shawnadithit
    • Tuck, J.A. (2022). Beothuk. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/beothuk
    • Windspeaker.com. (2017). Shanawdithit: The last of the Beothuk people. https://windspeaker.com/news/womens-history-month/shanawdithit-the-last-of-the-beothuk-people

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    20 mins
  • Episode 7: Camp Sumter (Andersonville Prison)
    Dec 2 2024
    • American Battlefield Trust. (2024). Andersonville Prison. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison
    • Brittanica. (n.d.). Andersonville. https://www.britannica.com/place/Andersonville-Georgia
    • Davis, R.S. (2020). Andersonville Prison. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison/
    • Georgia Public Broadcasting. (n.d.). Punishment and Tragedy at Andersonville Prison. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/punishment-and-tragedy-at-andersonville-prison-georgia-public-broadcasting/1AUROj2waF4UIw?hl=en
    • History.com. (2019). Andersonville. https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/andersonville
    • National Park Service. (n.d.). An Introduction to Civil War Prisons. https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/cwprisons.htm
    • National Park Service. (n.d.). History of the Andersonville Prison. https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/camp_sumter_history.htm

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    15 mins
  • Episode 6: Kent State Shootings
    Nov 18 2024
    • Aftoora-Orsagos, P. & Rubinkam, M. (2024). Troops fired on Kent State students in 1970. Survivors see echoes in today’s campus protests. AP. https://apnews.com/article/kent-state-ac60fdcb2a2dc852e49ee9fc2e6aaf31
    • Diacon, T. (2024). The Long Shadow of May 4, 1970. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/05/03/long-shadow-may-4-1970-opinion
    • Guerrieri, V. (2020). How 13 Seconds Changed Kent State University Forever. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fifty-years-ago-kent-state-massacre-changed-university-forever-180974787/
    • Kaur, H. (2020). 50 years ago today, the shooting of 4 college students at Kent State changed America. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/us/kent-state-shooting-50th-anniversary-trnd/index.html
    • Kelly, D. (2024). Kent State shootings: The 1970 student protests that shook the US. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240503-kent-state-university-1970-protests-that-shook-the-us
    • McCormick, P. (2021). The Girl in the Kent State Photo. The Washington Post Magazine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/04/19/girl-kent-state-photo-lifelong-burden-being-national-symbol/
    • Pruitt, S. (2023). Kent State Shootings: A Timeline of the Tragedy. History.com. https://www.history.com/news/kent-state-shootings-timeline
    • The Associated Press. (2024). AP Was There: Ohio National Guard killed protesters at Kent State University. https://apnews.com/article/kent-state-shootings-1970-ap-story-85ef44415eec5b1242096568218ac16b
    • Treisman, R. (2024). She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/04/1249023924/kent-state-shooting-activists-protests-survivor
    • VanDeMark, B. (2024). In a new era of campus upheaval, the 1970 Kent State shootings show the danger of deploying troops to crush legal protests. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/in-a-new-era-of-campus-upheaval-the-1970-kent-state-shootings-show-the-danger-of-deploying-troops-to-crush-legal-protests-237374
    • Wallenfeldt, J. (n.d.). Kent state shooting. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Kent-State-shootings

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    19 mins
  • Episode 5: Parenting & Childhood
    Nov 4 2024
    • Amezcua-Patino, L. (2023). Nurturing Through Time: The History and Evolution of Parenting. Medium. https://medium.com/raising-a-beautiful-mind/nurturing-through-time-the-history-and-evolution-of-parenting-224cd17a3eb8

    • CBC Radio. (2019). Parenting throughout history could be weird, and downright dangerous: author. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-february-18-2019-1.5021628/parenting-throughout-history-could-be-weird-and-downright-dangerous-author-1.5021677

    • Hart, L. & Caven, K. (2016). Parenting’s troubled history: Why changing family patterns is our most important work. https://acestoohigh.com/2016/10/18/parenting-trouble-history/

    • Loughborough University. (2023). Raising children in the 16th century: Parenting tips you may (not) want to try. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2023/april/sixteenth-century-parenting-tips/

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    15 mins
  • Episode 4: The Salem Witch Trials
    Oct 21 2024
    • Blumberg, J. (2022). A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/
    • Linder, D.O. (1995). Tituba. UMKC School of Law: Famous Trials. https://www.famous-trials.com/salem/2045-asa-tit
    • Lohnes, K. (n.d.). How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/story/how-rye-bread-may-have-caused-the-salem-witch-trials
    • Markham-Cantor, A. (2019). The Problem With Dressing Up as a Witch for Halloween. The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/witch-costume-halloween/
    • Niehoff, L. (2020). What the Salem witch trials can teach us in 2020. Detroit Free Press. https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2020/10/29/lesson-salem-witch-trials/6067161002/
    • Salem Witch Museum. (2024). FAQ. https://salemwitchmuseum.com/faqs/
    • Schiff, S. (2015). Unraveling the Many Mysteries of Tituba, the Star Witness of the Salem Witch Trials. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unraveling-mysteries-tituba-salem-witch-trials-180956960/
    • Snider, A.C. (2021). The Salem Witch Trials: A Story of Patriarchy, Persecution and Misogyny. Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-were-the-salem-witch-trials
    • Vujic, K. (2024). Fact-checking the Salem Witch Trials. The Cut. https://www.thecut.com/article/alice-markham-cantor-interview-once-and-future-witch-hunts-book.html
    • Wallenfeldt, J. (2024). Salem witch trials. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials

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    15 mins
  • Episode 3: MK-ULTRA
    Oct 7 2024
    • Annable, K. (2017). 'She went away, hoping to get better': Family remembers Winnipeg woman put through CIA-funded brainwashing. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/mkultra-cia-velma-orlikow-1.4449922
    • Banerjee, S. (2023). MK-ULTRA mind-control experiments: Quebec high court says U.S. has immunity in Canada. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/mk-ultra-mind-control-experiments-quebec-high-court-says-u-s-has-immunity-in-canada/article_8eb4f925-8ed1-59b7-bfa7-179a7dd94055.html
    • Boylan, D. (2017). CIA’s MK-Ultra LSD mind control experiment has lingering legacy. The Washington Times. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/30/cias-mk-ultra-lsd-mind-control-experiment-has-ling/
    • Dunleavy, B. (2023). What Happened to Ted Kaczynski at Harvard?. History.com. https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-unabomber-at-harvard
    • Gross, T. (2019). The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
    • Kinzer, S. (2019). The secret history of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s base for mind-control experiments. Politico. https://www.politico.eu/article/the-secret-history-of-fort-detrick-the-cias-base-for-mind-control-experiments/
    • Noakes, T.C. (2021). Montreal MKULTRA Experiments. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mkultra
    • Nofil, B. (2024). The CIA’s Appalling Human Experiments with Mind Control. History.com. https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments
    • Prideaux, E. & Penner, J. (2021). The Untold Story of the CIA’s MK Ultra: A Conversation with Stephen Kinzer. Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-untold-story-of-the-cias-mkultra-a-conversation-with-stephen-kinzer/
    • Shephard, E., Ellenwood, L., & Oke, C. (2020). Brainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA. CBC News. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/brainwashed-mkultra/
    • Thompson, E. (2017). Federal government quietly compensates daughter of brainwashing experiments victim. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cia-brainwashing-allanmemorial-mentalhealth-1.4373590



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    21 mins
  • Episode 2: Universities
    Sep 23 2024
    • Anthony, A. (2024). ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/nick-bostrom-controversial-future-of-humanity-institute-closure-longtermism-affective-altruism
    • Ermakov, A. (2022). Legends and myths of Moscow University. Kot Shryodingera. https://kot.sh/zakony-svobody/tpost/sf5xe66ob1-legendi-i-mifi-moskovskogo-universiteta
    • Langevin, L.A. (n.d.). Mikhail Lomonosov: Russian author and scientist. Brittanica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Vasilyevich-Lomonosov
    • Levine, R. (2018). From heartbreaking letters to triumphant trophies: 12 objects that tell the story of U of T during the Great War. U of T News. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/heartbreaking-letters-triumphant-trophies-12-objects-tell-story-u-t-during-great-war
    • Lomonosov Moscow State University. (2021). https://openday.msu.ru/en/history#:~:text=Lomonosov%20Moscow%20State%20University%20is,Lomonosov%20(1711%2D1765)
    • New World Encyclopedia. (n.d.). Moscow State University. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Moscow_State_University
    • Omer, N. (2020). The dark and dirty legacy of racism at Oxford University. https://gal-dem.com/legacy-of-racism-oxford-university-rhodes/
    • Scott, A. (2007). Behind Enemy Lines: U of T grads John Kenneth Macalister and Frank Pickersgill trained as spies during the Second World War. An unlucky break brought their lives to a tragic end. University of Toronto Magazine. https://magazine.utoronto.ca/campus/history/u-of-t-world-war-two-stories/
    • Spiers, A. (2023). Oxford’s Ghostly Tales and Spooky Histories. Oxford Scholastica Academy. https://www.oxfordscholastica.com/blog/oxfords-ghostly-tales-and-spooky-histories/
    • The Archaeologist. (2023). Oxford's Dark Past: Uncovering The Most Violent City Of Medieval England. https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/oxfords-dark-past-uncovering-the-most-violent-city-of-medieval-england
    • University College Toronto. (2024). Our Ghost Story: The Legend of Reznikoff and Diabolos. https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/our-ghost-story
    • University of Oxford. (2024). https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history

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    18 mins