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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Joseph James DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer. DeAngelo tormented the State of California - particularly here in the Sacramento area (very, very close to where we live) - for more than ten years committing burglaries, rapes, and murders. Due to his widespread crimes, it took investigators more than four decades to piece together the fact that the man that had become known as the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, and the Original Night Stalker were all the same person. In 2018, DeAngelo was finally caught after a family member of his had uploaded their DNA to a genetic genealogy site. He was charged and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2020.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Galileo Galilei. He is considered to be the Father of Modern Science and, by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is considered to be “a - if not the - central figure of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century”. We have Galileo to thank for significant contributions to various fields of science, mathematics, philosophy, and physics. He studied and made huge contributions to areas such as gravity and relativity, inertia, and speed. He invented a better telescope for viewing planets and other objects in space. He was brilliant and I cannot wait to dive into all of these major accomplishments and achievements that he made in the fields of science, physics, and astronomy.

But, most interesting to me, is the way Galileo’s life ended. Over the course of his studies, Galileo became convinced of heliocentrism (the concept that the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun); this was contrary to the popular (and religious) belief at the time - geocentrism - which states that the Earth is actually at the center of the universe with all of the celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, planets, and stars) all revolving around it. Galileo’s heliocentric beliefs were incredibly controversial, particularly with the Catholic Church, who had his claims investigated - more than once - before eventually forcing him to recant his beliefs and placing him under house arrest where he would remain for the rest of his life.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 1985 MOVE Bombing in which the City of Philadelphia bombed and killed its own people. On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb onto a West Philadelphia home that they knew to be occupied by men, women, and children. Those residing within this house were a part of MOVE, a Black liberation group founded on the principles of racial justice, and other causes such as animal and environmental rights. They had long been a nuisance for the local police and had also become a nuisance to many of their residential neighbors who had made noise and littering complaints. In response to this, the Philadelphia Mayor ordered for the group to be evicted from the home. When they did not do this, the Philadelphia Police Department bombed the home and the Philadelphia Fire Department allowed for the fire resulting from this bombing to destroy an additional sixty-one homes. 

At the end of this horrendous event, eleven people were killed (including children) and another 250 people were left homeless.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the History of the British Museum. The British Museum truly has everything…and that’s exactly the problem. The British Museum is home to roughly eight million objects; the majority of which aren’t even on display for you to see! But of their high-ticket items that are on display, it is safe to say that a good chunk of them…were stolen. 

In this episode, we will discuss the History of the British Museum, its origins, how it managed to acquire so many of its artifacts, what those contested artifacts are, and what those countries are doing now in their attempts to have their property returned to them.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Sam Cooke. He is one of my (Rachel's) favorite musical artists and, upon learning that he was also a huge advocate of the Civil Rights Movement and that he died a truly tragic (and incredibly mysterious death) at only thirty-three years old, just has me even more fascinated with the artist behind the art. So join us this week to learn more about him!

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is of course most well-known for leading the French army to victory during the Hundred Years War when she was only a teenager. She claimed that she had been sent visions by God and that she was fulfilling a prophecy by leading France to victory. She would later be captured, however, by the enemy that considered her a heretic and she would be burned at the stake for her alleged crimes. About twenty years after her death, she would be vindicated of these allegations and, in 1920, she would officially be declared a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She is now considered a patron saint of France.

So was Joan of Arc a heroine? Was she a heretic? Or was she just a really confused - but also, very passionate, and rather impressive - young woman?

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the War of 1812. Now you all know that I am not a huge fan of Military History. In fact, it is my least favorite part about History. However, I have always found the War of 1812 fascinating in that it tends to so often be overlooked. Many Americans are not aware that we literally went to war again with Great Britain roughly thirty years after we had won our independence from them. 

This episode is not a thorough review of the War of 1812. We will not be going through a chronology of the war, talking about all of the key players, and all of the victories and defeats. Rather, we will be discussing the causes of the War of 1812 (how and why we fought again with Britain so soon after the Revolutionary War), how Native Americans were the ultimate losers in this war, and the long-term effects and consequences of what would become known by Americans as the Second War of Independence.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect. This is the story of a woman who was murdered outside of an apartment building in a highly populated area of New York and -- despite the fact that dozens of people witnessed the murder -- not a single one called the police. This is a story that has circulated for decades. 

The Bystander Effect which essentially says that humans -- when in the presence of others -- are less likely to step up and take responsibility themselves. That, when in a group setting, if we think others also witnessed a crime or witnessed someone in need, we are less likely to actually do something about it because we just assume someone else will. 

It would later be revealed though that this egregious story of Kitty Genovese’s horrendous murder -- and the 38 witnesses that allegedly saw the murder and did nothing about it -- has actually been grossly overexaggerated. More recent investigations have found that there are several inaccuracies with the original account and the original story that spread throughout the media.

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Welcome back for Season Thirteen of the Hashtag History podcast! As tradition dictates, the first episode of every season is a Leah Takeover Episode!

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing a specific Mount Everest expedition that took place in 1996 where, due to a blizzard during their descent of the mountain, eight climbers died. This tragedy has lead to multiple books, memoirs, and even movies about the experience.

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This week on Hashtag History for our Season Finale, we have the wonderful Stephanie and Tux from Beyond Reproach on the show to discuss the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Lost Cause mythology. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be finishing up our discussion on Princess Diana. This week, we are going to be diving into more of the unhappiness in Diana and Charles’ marriage, the affairs that led - in part - to their awful divorce, the brief period of time that Diana appeared to absolutely thrive post-divorce, her amazing charity work, and then her unfortunate and untimely death and all of the conspiracy theories surrounding that.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Princess Diana (more accurately, Diana, Princess of Wales) who married into the British Royal Family in 1981, becoming one of the most cherished, loved, and misunderstood figures in History all before her absolutely tragic and untimely death in 1997 when she was only thirty-six years old.

There is so much to say about Diana; the good, the bad, and the ugly. We admire so much about her…but that doesn’t mean she was a perfect person. She was human, as we all are. And we look forward to being able to tell her story and to portray Diana as the human that she was…to the best of our abilities.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth President of the United States of America, marking the first impeachment of a US President.

Johnson had a particularly unpopular presidency, having been thrust into the position following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Many in Congress opposed his Reconstruction plan and his overall practices. They passed a bill called the Tenure of Office Act in March 1867 which essentially restricted the President’s power by prohibiting him from removing certain officials with the approval of the Senate. So when Johnson did just that by attempting to remove Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from the Cabinet (not once; but twice!) without the proper approvals, the House of Representatives brought forth articles of impeachment for Andrew Johnson. However, failing to meet the two-thirds majority required to convict and officially remove Johnson from office, he would continue to serve out the rest of his presidential term.

Because impeachment does not mean removal from office.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 2002 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Scandal, otherwise known as “Skategate”. In 2002 at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, two ice skating couples - Russian pair Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya and Canadian pair David Pelletier and Jamie Sale - went head-to-head in the pairs ice skating competition. And while both pairs were incredible, it was noted that the Russian couple made a couple of technical flaws during their routine, including Anton not landing a double Axel. And yet, when the final scores were read - to the international audiences’ surprise - the Russian couple won.

Now…was it surprising that Russia won the ice skating competition? No. In fact, Russia had won this event at every Olympic Games since 1960! But 2002 was the first year it looked like another country stood a chance.

When it came down to it though, each country had their own set of judges voting for them with only France in the middle as the swing vote. And that’s when rumors began to swirl that perhaps Russia had bribed the French judge to vote for the Russian couple in a quid pro quo exchange.

So was the French judge bribed by the Russians? That’s what we will find out in this week’s episode.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the mysterious Civil War Glow. This refers to a phenomenon that was spotted during the Civil War - during the Battle of Shiloh of 1862 - in which a number of soldiers were seen with a mysterious glow emanating from their wounds. Although unexplainable by both the soldiers experiencing the glow and by the doctors treating them, it was found that the soldiers whose wounds glowed actually had a better chance at living than those that did not. In fact, many soldiers would refer to this as the “Angel’s Glow” and would thank the mysterious phenomenon for saving their lives. 

This mystery would remain as such for nearly a hundred and forty years! Amazingly, the mystery would eventually be very likely solved by a high school student in 2001 as part of a science project that he was conducting for school! 

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing a decades-long mystery…that was actually very possibly solved just earlier this year! After more than seventy years, the identification of the mysterious Somerton Man has - maybe - been discovered.

So who is/was the Somerton Man? On December 1, 1948, the body of a man was discovered on the Somerton Park Beach in Adelaide, Australia. He was found wearing a suit, with no obvious or visible cause of death, and a slip of paper in his pocket which read in Persian “Tamam Shud”. Or, in English, “It is finished.”

So who was the Somerton Man? Was he a spy? A scorned lover? Someone who owed money to the wrong person? A ballet dancer, even?

We are going to dive into all of that this week in addition to discussing the more recent developments in the case which provide a very interesting identification of the mysterious Somerton Man.

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WARNING: Please use discretion before listening to this week's episode. As much as we love to have you here, we want you to take care of YOU! If this week's topic is too distressing, please skip this episode and we will see you next week!

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Atanta Child Murders which were a series of murders that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia between 1979 and 1981 and resulted in the deaths of approximately twenty-nine people (the majority of which were children). An Atlanta man named Wayne Williams was eventually arrested and convicted of the murders of two of the adult victims…but still, to this day, no one has officially, legally been charged with any of the other murders…in particular, the murders of more than a dozen children. There are many people that do not believe that Williams was responsible for the deaths of all these children, including some of the parents of the children. In fact, there is some evidence that perhaps the KKK may have been involved in potentially upwards of fourteen of the murders. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing one of History’s most fascinating, magical, and sometimes spooky characters…the man that actually died on no other day but Halloween itself…Mr. Harry Houdini.

Harry Houdini was best known as a magician and escape artist who performed incredible feats such as being restrained and escaping from the belly of a whale, swallowing hundreds of needles and then bringing them back up, escaping from a crate that had been weighed down and sunk in the river, and, of course, escaping from the infamous Chinese Water Torture Cell. These are just a few of the incredible stunts that Houdini performed that we will be discussing this week. But in addition to discussing the things Houdini was most known for, we will also be diving into his personal life, his upbringing as a Hungary-native who moved to America at a young age, his endearing relationship with his wife, his likewise “endearing” relationship with his mom, his efforts to debunk spiritualists, and his mysterious and untimely death.

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Welcome back for Season Twelve! We are so happy to have you here!

This week on Hashtag History, Leah is taking over the episode and discussing witches (just in time for the Halloween season)! We take a dive into the idea that witches (as we know and picture them today) actually derive from depictions and stigmas surrounding early women beer brewers! We cover what early female brewers looked like and how depictions of them and the tools they used eventually went on to be correlated with witchcraft.

It's important to note that this idea that we embark on isn’t a 100% accepted theory across the board amongst Historians so we make sure to call out some of the opposing arguments throughout the episode.

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with Mike from Necronomipod! Tune in for the final episode of our guest speaker series to hear us discuss William McKinley's rise to the Presidency, his tragic assassination, and how it helped birth the secret service and change the overall accessibility of the President today.

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with Chris from Hundred Proof History podcast! Tune in to hear us discuss the Hamilton-Reynolds Scandal, how the Hamilton Musical may or may not be totally accurate, and why Hamilton never sought the presidency. Be prepared for lots of laughs!

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with AJ Rantz, the creator and owner of Cocktail Cards! Tune in to hear us discuss growing a small business on TikTok, how you can trace a cocktail's history based on the flavors and liquors used, the ingredients behind an amazing margarita, the launching of a mocktail movement, and lots of Prohibition History!

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with Susan Voskuil-Starcevich, the Education Director for the Sacramento History Museum! Tune in to hear us discuss some fascinating Sacramento History, all of the amazing events at the Sacramento History Museum, and how you can support your local museums. 

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In a special, bonus episode, Rachel had the honor of having Sharon McMahon on the podcast! Tune in to hear us discuss the power of educators, the momentum that drove some of History's greatest movements, and the importance of dispelling misinformation. 

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This week on Hashtag History for our Season Twelve Finale, we have the wonderful Gillian Pensavalle (of True Crime Obsessed the The Hamilton) on the show to discuss her new podcast series titled Let the Women. This series focuses on highlighting trailblazing women in the true crime space. And trust us; you do not want to miss this one!

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the racist History of the State of Oregon. While many states across the United States have incredible racist History, Oregon is the only state in the country to enter the Union with a Black exclusion law, quite literally banning Black people within its borders.  When they became a State in 1859, they entered as a Free State - meaning that slavery would not be permitted within its borders - but that’s not because these people were on the right side of History. No, Oregon was so deeply racist that they didn’t even want to look at Black people; enslaved or not. 

Oregon would not ratify the Fourteenth Amendment - the Amendment that provided equal protection of the law and gave citizenship to all Black people, including those formerly enslaved - until 1973! They also didn’t ratify the Fifteenth Amendment - which gave Black men the right to vote - until 1959!

And although Portland, Oregon’s most populous city, has long had the reputation of being very liberal and progressive, it continues to rank as one of the whitest big cities in America. According to the most recent national census, Oregon’s demographics show that nearly 83% of the state population is white with less than 2% Black. For Portland specifically, about 75% of the city is white and less than 6% is Black. 

We are going to be diving into all the things this week: How Oregon was quite literally established as a White Utopia from the onset, how white surpremacy hate groups (particularly the Ku Klux Klan) thrived - and continue to thrive - there, the gentrification and displacement of Black Americans (particularly in Portland), and what the State has done to combat this dark History.

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 1968 Olympics, the Black Boycott, and the Black Power Salute seen around the world. On October 16, 1968, two African-American Olympic athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos (who had just won gold and bronze respectively in the 200-meter sprint) took their place on the winners podium and each raised a black-gloved fist into the air as the United States National Anthem played. This act of protest on behalf of human rights would lead to a booing and hissing response from the audience and the eventual expulsion of both athletes involved. However, this image of Smith and Carlos with fists in the air would go down in History and would become one of the most iconic and most influential incidents in sports History.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Berlin Wall. This was a wall that was first erected in August of 1961 to essentially separate East and West Germany from one another. Following the Second World War, Germany - and Berlin itself - was split up into four allied occupation zones. The western portions were governed by the United States, Great Britain, and later France, while the eastern portion was governed by the Soviet Union. Between the years of 1949 and 1961, somewhere between 2.5 and 3.5 million Germans from the eastern side would flee to West Germany (for reasons we will get into later in this episode). In response to this mass exodus, East Germany would construct a wall through Berlin, closing off access to West Germany. What would begin as some cinder blocks and barbed wire would be converted over time into concrete walls that stood fifteen feet tall. These walls would be guarded 24/7 with soldiers in watchtowers ready to shoot at the first sign of escape. More than one hundred people (with the most widely accepted number closer to two hundred people) would be killed as they attempted to get to the other side of the wall.

This wall quite literally separated families. It separated communities. It destroyed railroad lines that used to pass through the city. It destroyed daily activities. It meant that some people could no longer go to their jobs or go to their nearest grocery store; to go see movies or go to the park with friends. More than 5,000 East Germans - so desperate to make it to West Germany - did just that by climbing over the barbed wire, jumping out of windows that were close to the wall, going underneath the wall through the sewer system, even flying hot air balloons over the wall!

This wall would stand for nearly thirty years before it was finally torn down in 1989. There was a huge celebration the day the wall fell with one Berlin resident spray-painting on the wall: “Only today is the war really over".

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon. When she did this in 1967, let’s just say that men were not ready for women to have this much equality. Because during the race, the race manager Jock Semple assaulted her by running up behind her and attempting to rip her bib number off of her shirt in order to disqualify her from the race. Switzer’s boyfriend who was running alongside her was able to shove Semple to the ground and Switzer was able to finish the race.

Following this incident, the Amateur Athletic Union (the governing body) would officially ban women from competing in long-distance running until 1972! Although we will be spending a lot of time talking about this infuriating setback in History, I do want to give a sneak peek to the ending so that we can all at least look forward to the eventual light at the end of the tunnel: Switzer would continue to run competitively and would even win the New York City Marathon in 1974, she would be named Female Runner of the Decade by Runner’s World Magazine, she became an author, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011, would actually end up becoming good friends with the race manager that tried to kick her out of the race, and - finally - in 2017, on the 50th anniversary of running the Boston Marathon that first time around, Switzer would run the race again - for the ninth time! - and would be assigned the same bib number that she had when she ran it that first monument, groundbreaking time in 1967.

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This week on Hashtag History, Leah is taking over the episode to discuss an infamous and mysterious character from History, Lola Montez. Montez was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous in the mid-19th Century as a Spanish dancer, among many other pursuits, one of which landed her as the lover of an actual Bavarian king!

Lola’s story comes with its fair share of controversies, especially when it comes to who the hell she actually was and what her true background was. Most of the controversy and confusion actually came directly from the source: herself. She fanned the flames of her own infamy, further propelling herself into the spotlight (her favorite place to be), and as historian Ralph Friedman, put it, “She changed her background to suit the occasion, and there were many occasions to suit.”

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing historic torture techniques. We have all of course heard of some of these historic torture techniques before; think back to Medieval Europe and the stories we’ve heard of people being tied by their limbs and then stretched out to the point of dislocation. Or think of Rome and the horrendous torture technique of crucifixion; most widely known because of, of course, the story of Jesus. Or, of course, the technique of using the pillory - that wooden frame that was used to lock in the head and hands of a person primarily used for the purpose of public humiliation.

These are all historic torture techniques that we are very familiar with. But there are so, SO many more that we are going to be diving into this week. We’re taking things all the way back to Ancient Greek culture, Ancient Chinese culture, and, of course, spending the majority of our time in Medieval Europe.

I think this goes without saying but this week’s episode is particularly gruesome. If you have a bit of a queasy stomach, you have been warned. This is NOT an easy episode to get through.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Little Rock Nine. Little Rock Nine is the name given to the nine students that were the first Black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, following the Brown v. Board of Education decision which ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. When these children went to Central High for their first day of school in September of 1957, they were met by an angry mob that threw things at them, spit on them, screamed horrible things at them, and more. The Arkansas Governor even called in the National Guard to block the students from being able to enter the school. It wasn’t until later that month that President Dwight D. Eisenhower engaged federal troops to get these nine students into the school by entering through a side door of the building to not draw the attention of the angry, racist mob. We of course know that this was not the end of their struggles and the horrid racism that they faced - and the bravery they exhibited - while attending this public school.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Enron Scandal, a major accounting fraud that took place in late-2001 when Enron Corporation - who, only the year prior, was considered to be one of the most successful companies in the world - announced that it was posting a $638 billion dollar loss in the third quarter…and then followed up that up shortly thereafter by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In only a few months, the company’s stock price - which, at its height, was $90 per share - fell to less than $0.26 per share. Along with the demise of the company also came the demise of nearly $2.1 billion dollars in pension plans for its thousands of employees. In fact, as higher-ups in the company were selling off their stock - aware that things were going to tank soon - they were simultaneously telling lower-level employees to invest in more company stock. The Securities and Exchange Commission investigated what happened at Enron and found that they had been conducting shady accounting practices, such as writing future gains (that had not yet been received) into current income statements and transferring their bad assets into special purpose entities in order to keep them off the books. Essentially, Enron was lying about their profits, defrauding investors, their employees, and Americans as a whole. 

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Welcome back for Season Eleven!

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing War of the Worlds. And not necessarily the novel, The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells, which is about aliens from Mars invading the Earth. No, more specifically, we are discussing an incident that occurred the day before Halloween in 1938 when actor Orson Welles (no relation to author H.G. Wells) read aloud an adaptation of The War of the Worlds on live radio. Innocent enough, right? HOWEVER, Welles delivered this adaptation of the story in a “breaking-news”, news-reporting alert type method. So when he told of Martians landing on Earth, Americans took him seriously. When this radio program - in the style of a news broadcast - played audio from people who appeared to be live witnesses to aliens landing on the Earth and using a heat ray to burn up American citizens, listeners went nuts. Americans became so alarmed that the results of this broadcast led to traffic jams, an outrageous amount of calls to local law enforcement, and a significant fleeing from the site of the alleged invasion, New Jersey. Following the incident, when it was realized that this had all just been a fictional tale (that all of these witnesses had actually been paid actors), there was complete outrage directed at the radio program for what many perceived to be a deceptive delivery of the tale of the War of the Worlds.

It is worth noting though that more modern historians believe that this was not quite as large-scale as was originally reported. Many believe now that the mass hysteria resulting from this incident was actually grossly exaggerated by the media. But regardless, this whole thing - however big or small - was a hot mess. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are continuing to revisit our coverage of the Chappaquiddick incident. If you have been with us for some time now, you will recall that we covered Chappaquiddick in our first ever podcast episode in July of 2019. With us now reaching Episode 100, we wanted to bring it back to where it all began. If you have listened to our original coverage of this incident, don't go anywhere! This time around will be a completely different experience!

On July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off of a bridge into a pond off Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. Kennedy escaped from the car but left his passenger behind to die. This week, we are closing out coverage of this incident by discussing the graphic details found at the scene, the ramifications the incident had on the Kennedy family and the nation as whole, and an audio recording from Mr. Kennedy himself.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are revisiting our coverage of the Chappaquiddick incident. If you have been with us for some time now, you will recall that we covered Chappaquiddick in our first ever podcast episode in July of 2019. As we are nearing Episode 100, we wanted to bring it back to where it all began. If you have listened to our original coverage of this incident, don't go anywhere! This time around will be a completely different experience!

On July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off of a bridge into a pond off Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. Kennedy escaped from the car but left his passenger behind to die.

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In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the Great Emu War of 1932 which was - quite literally - a war that Australia declared on the local emus…and LOST. This story is WILD and we cannot wait to share it with you!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Caning of Charles Sumner, also oftentimes referred to as the Brooks-Sumner Affair. On May 22, 1856, during a debate in the Senate chamber regarding slavery, Representative of South Carolina Preston Brooks (who was a huge supporter of slavery) picked up a cane and beat Senator from Massachusetts Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor. In fact, Sumner was beaten so severely that the walking cane that was used to club him would end up shattering. Sumner would not return to the Senate for THREE YEARS as he recovered from his injuries.

The public beating of a Senator on the Senate Floor was absolutely mind-blowing and is symbolic of the civil tension regarding slavery during the pre-Civil War period.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Paul Schäfer, a Nazi who -- following World War II -- had to flee Germany when he was charged with sexually abusing two boys at the orphanage that he ran there. He fled to Chile where he would establish a super creepy and torturous cult known as the Colonia Dignidad where he would physically and sexually abuse minors and torture political deviants…all with the support of the Chilean government. Schäfer would run this cult for over thirty years before he would finally be caught and charged with the crimes.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the racist history of the Masters Tournament. The Masters was systemically white, upper-class men. Despite it beginning in 1934, the first Black golfer would not be allowed to compete in the tournament until 1975! The club would not admit its first Black member until 1990! Co-founder of the Tournament, Clifford Roberts, was allegedly quoted as saying, “As long as I’m alive, all the golfers will be white and all the caddies will be Black."

And although we will primarily be focusing on the racist history of the Masters, we also have to acknowledge its sexist history too. Membership to the Masters club would not even be offered to women until 2012!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing an incredible and very well-known woman in History, Nellie Bly. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Bly was an American investigative journalist most well-known for breaking the record when she traveled the world in just 72 days! AND also most well-known for that time she went undercover as a mental patient in order to expose the realities of New York’s insane asylums. And she did all of this in the late-1800s; at a time when women still didn’t have the right to vote, at a time when women weren’t allowed to go places or do things without a male escort, at a time when it was quite literally AGAINST THE LAW in some parts of the country for women to wear pants! Bly would go on to not only change History for women but to change the course of investigative journalism forever. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing hidden presidential illnesses. Between the fact that most people had no idea during Franklin D. Roosevelt's lifetime that he was paralyzed from the waist down, John F. Kennedy's had chronic back pain and Addison's Disease which would lead to a heavy addiction to painkillers and anti-anxiety medications, OR that it wouldn’t be until after the death of Grover Cleveland that the nation would learn that - while he was president - he had undergone an undercover surgical operation conducted on a private yacht to remove a cancerous tumor.

Because of the pedestal that American Presidents are placed upon, oftentimes these very human illnesses and diseases are hidden from the general public. But they matter. Presidential illnesses can truly change the course of History. In fact, some Historians believe that because of Woodrow Wilson’s series of strokes (many of which he kept hidden for a long period of time), he was unable to fight harder for the United States to join the League of Nations which may have helped to prevent World War II.

This week's episode allows us the flexibility to weave through various people and various time periods. We are going to be spanning the whole length of American Presidents from 1789 to now!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Chernobyl Disaster. This was an incident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in  Ukraine where a test went disastrously wrong and resulted in a radioactive explosion. Two people would die as a direct result of the explosion with nearly thirty more people dying over the course of the next few months due to exposure to the radiation. What is particularly devastating about this incident in History was the lack of transparency and the cover-up attempt on the part of the Soviet Union. This would lead to radioactive contamination throughout the Soviet Union and Western Europe for some ten days following the explosion. It is now estimated that upwards of 125,000 people died as a result of Chernobyl, having been exposed to radiation at levels nearly 400 times greater than those of the Hiroshima bombing. Chernobyl is considered to be the worst nuclear disaster in History.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Vincent Chin, a twenty-seven year old Chinese-American man that was beaten to death in Detroit, Michigan, on June 19, 1982. He was beaten by two white men that worked in the Detroit automobile industry. These men would beat Chin to death when they mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for their being out of work due to the recent influx in Japanese car imports. But the tragedy doesn’t stop there. Because, when these two men were tried for murder, they would end up instead being convicted of manslaughter and would receive only a fine of $3,000…and no jail time. The judge in this case was quoted as saying, in reference to the light sentence he had given the men, “These aren’t the kind of men you send to jail. You fit the punishment to the criminal, not the crime.” 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing a few stories of what we like to call slack-wearing suffragettes. This episode has a heavy focus, however, on the Van Buren Sisters who were two sisters who rode 5,500 miles in 60 days to cross the continental United States on their own motorcycle! In 1916, they became the second and third women to drive motorcycles across the entire continent!

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As you all know, we are currently on a season break and working hard behind the scenes to bring you a very exciting Season Ten very soon! In the meantime, however, we thought it would be fun to give you some bonus content! We hope you enjoy!

In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the 1917 Bath Riots. These were a series of riots that occurred in January of 1917 when seventeen-year-old Carmelita Torres refused to take a toxic bath in order to cross from Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas. Yes, you heard that correctly: American officials in Texas required Mexicans entering the United States to strip naked, be physically inspected, sprayed down with water that contained gasoline and other toxic chemicals, and undergo an intensive lice treatment. When Torres refused to be humiliated in this way, it sparked a series of riots that would occur over the course of two days at the Santa Fe Bridge.

This is an often forgotten story in American History and one that is super important to talk about and remember. So let's dive in!

Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at [email protected].

As you all know, we are currently on a season break and working hard behind the scenes to bring you a very exciting Season Ten very soon! In the meantime, however, we thought it would be fun to give you some bonus content! We hope you enjoy!

In January of 1908, a woman named Katie Mulcahey was arrested when she was caught smoking in public. Just one day prior, a new ordinance was passed that banned women - and only women - from smoking in public places. Mulcahey, not knowing about the new ordinance, struck a match and lit her cigarette in public. She was cited for the infraction but refused to pay and was immediately arrested. When put before a judge, she was quoted as saying, “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.”

Tune into this week's BONUS episode to learn how this story ends!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are joined by Amber Hunt of the Crimes of the Centuries podcast as we discuss the Osage Nation Murders. The Osage Nation Murders were a series of murders that occurred over the course of decades in the early 1900s. Also know as the Reign of Terror, the Osage Nation Murders marks the murders of approximately sixty Osage Native Americans by those that wanted to take over their land and headrights to the lucrative oil it produced. The subsequent investigation was conducted by the still-evolving Federal Bureau of Investigation and would mark one of the most devastating massacres and conspiracies in American History.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the forced sterilization of thousands of Latinas here in California throughout the 20th century. In 1909, California passed a eugenics law that allowed for the sterilization of people considered to be “unfit or feeble-minded” unquote. Of the 20,000 people forcibly sterilized in California between the years of 1909 and 1979, it was found that Latinas carried a nearly 60% higher risk of forced sterilization than any other racial group. Perhaps one of the most devastating things about this dark chapter in History are the heartbreaking stories of numerous women attempting to get pregnant; not realizing that they had been sterilized. In particular, there was a groundbreaking class action lawsuit in the 1970s that ten Latina women would bring forward, proving that they had been coerced into signing what many of them did not realize was a sterilization consent form. Due to a language barrier and the fact that some of these women were forced to sign this form while they were literally in labor, many of them did not realize that they had been sterilized until weeks and months later; some of them didn’t realize it until they were attempting to get pregnant again.

This episode does have a specific focus on the sterilization of Latina women in California throughout the 20th century. But that isn’t to ignore the horrendous stories of Black and Indigenous women - as well as women with disabilities - that were also forcibly sterilized. Additionally, this episode does have a narrow focus on California as California made up 80% of sterilizations throughout the United States during this time period! We do, however, want to acknowledge that harmful eugenics laws were passed throughout the United States and affected tens of thousands of people nationwide. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Henri Charriere - or, as he was nicknamed, Papillon - a condemned prisoner that was sent to one of the most infamous prisons in History in French Guiana known as Devil’s Island. After eight escape attempts, Charriere finally successfully escaped the notoriously impossible-to-escape prison, living the latter part of his life as a free man when he was pardoned by the French Justice System for his alleged crime.

In 1968, when Charriere was sixty-two years old, he published an autobiography titled Papillon in which he detailed the wild stories of his incarceration and escape from Devil’s Island. This book was an immediate success and is nowadays considered a modern classic. By the time Charriere passed away in 1973, more than five million copies of the book had been sold. To this day, there are more than 200 editions of the book and it has been sold in 21 different languages. This book was adapted into a film in 1973 starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and another movie adaptation was made in 2017 starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek.

The validity of the Papillon book continues to be called into question, however, as it is believed that this book can’t possibly be a true autobiography of Charriere’s experiences. In fact, it is more often than not believed that many of the experiences he wrote about in Papillon were either total works of fiction or were indeed real…but had actually occurred to other inmates and not to him.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Liebeck vs. McDonald’s Restaurants, more commonly known as the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case. In 1992, a seventy-nine-year old woman named Stella Liebeck bought a cup of coffee from a McDonald’s drive thru in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While in her car, she spilled the coffee in her lap and suffered severe burns. She took this matter to court and would be awarded close to $3 million dollars. When the story first came out, the general public was told the Liebeck was lawsuit-happy; if someone can get nearly $3 million dollars for spilling coffee on themselves - coffee that she had to have known was hot - while she was driving and not paying attention, that just goes to show that now anyone can sue anyone for anything! In fact, we nowadays give away a Stella Awards (named after Stella Liebeck) for each year’s most frivolous, ridiculous lawsuits.

Over the course of this episode though, we will learn that nearly every single one of those - quote unquote - “facts” of the case were, in fact, false. Nearly every detail you think you know about this case is about to get debunked.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Olga of Kiev, the first recorded female ruler of Russia who, in an effort to avenge her husband’s murder by the Drevilian, quite literally slaughtered the Drevlian people and burned their capital to the ground. Later in life, she would convert to Christianity and, some 600 years after her death, the Russian Orthodox Church would formally ordain her as a Saint. 

We will find in this episode a lot of Girl Power and badassery. But also the internal conflict of not glorifying murder and destruction.

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CONTENT WARNING: This week's episode contains mentions of child abuse, animal mutilation, suicide, and more.

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Satanic Panic, which spanned the 1980s and into the 1990s here in the United States. It was a phenomenon that alleged that mass child abuse across the United States all had ties back to satanic cults. This phenomenon originated with the 1980 publication of a book titled Michelle Remembers in which a woman wrote of her journey of undergoing memory therapy and alleging that she had discovered repressed memories of years of satanic ritualistic abuse. This moral panic was exacerbated a few years later in 1983 when a woman here in California accused her son’s preschool, the McMartin Preschool, of abusing him. The McMartin Preschool trial would become the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American History.

Over the course of the Satanic Panic, these satanic ritual abuse theories would extend to alleging that teachers were engaging in human sacrifices, that McDonald’s was funding the Church of Satan, that listening to rock music was a sure sign that you were a devil worshipper, and so much more.

People would serve time behind bars for the unsubstantiated, alleged crimes, and families would be torn apart forever. At the end of the day, there would be more than 12,000 accusations made across the country with not a single one of them containing verifiable, supporting evidence.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Ford Pinto’s Explosive History. The 1971 Ford Pinto was rushed into production for a myriad of reasons that we will be getting into in this episode. Because of this rushed turnaround time, Ford had to cut a lot of corners. And these corners included selling a car with a fuel tank that Ford KNEW carried a high risk of setting on fire during rear-end collisions. When Ford conducted a cost-benefit analysis, they found that it would cost them more to fix the car than it would to just pay off all the legal fees that came along with all of the wrongful death suits they received. Ford would continue to manufacture this same, dangerous model for years, leading to the deaths of approximately twenty-seven people.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Patty Hearst who -- in 1974 at only nineteen-years-old -- was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California. A few days after her kidnapping, a tape was received by a Berkeley radio station from the Symbionese Liberation Army that stated that they were holding Hearst as a prisoner of war and demanded that the Hearst family give millions of dollars worth of food to needy Californians in exchange for their daughter. Dissatisfied with the family’s response to this demand, the group continued to hold Hearst, seemingly against her will. Everything changed though when, two months after her kidnapping, surveillance footage at a San Francisco bank captured Hearst participating in an armed robbery alongside the group and later personally declared in tape recordings that she had officially joined the Symbionese Liberation Army of her own free will.

Patty Hearst instantly became one of the most hated people in America. When she was eventually arrested nearly two years after her capture, the country stood divided on their beliefs about her involvement. Was she a traitor? Had she really joined the SLA of her own volition? Or had she been brainwashed? Does Patty Hearst represent one of the most classic cases of Stockholm Syndrome in History?

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Selena Quintanilla Perez, an American singer, businesswoman, and fashion designer that would be credited as one of the most influential Latin artists of all time at a time when the Tejano music industry was largely dominated by male artists. She would break through this glass ceiling and become by far one of the most well-known Mexican-American entertainers to ever exist. Tragically, on March 31, 1995, when Selena was only twenty-three years old, she would be shot and murdered by a friend of hers’ that had managed her fan club.

Following her tragic death, her English crossover record, titled Dreaming of You, would reach the top of the Billboard 200, the first Latin artist to ever do so. Since then, nearly 18 million Selena records have been sold and several movies and shows have been made to document Selena’s life, namely the 1997 film that starred Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla that would propel Lopez, also a Latin American artist, into the spotlight in a major way.

This episode touches on all of our favorite things: A badass woman in History shrouded in controversy and corruption and tragedy.

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Welcome back for Season Nine!

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Andree de Jongh, a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II. She organized and led the Comet Line (or Le Réseau Comète, as it was called by it’s French-speaking members) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium.

Between August 1941 and December 1942, she escorted an estimated 118 people, including more than 80 airmen, from Belgium to “neutral” Spain, where they were transported to the United Kingdom.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are joined by Caitlin and Sarah of Luminol Podcast as we discuss the disappearance of Etan Patz and the legacy of the Missing Children Milk Carton Campaign. Etan Patz was a six-year-old boy who went missing in 1979 as he was walking to his school bus. It wouldn’t be until several decades later that his murderer would be apprehended and tried for his crimes.

What many people don’t realize is that it was this case - the disappearance of Etan Patz - that launched the Milk Carton Campaigns of the early 1980s in which images of missing persons were placed on the sides of milk cartons. It was also this case that led to the establishment of National Missing Children’s Day and even laid the foundation for Amber Alerts which we are all very familiar with today.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the murder of Gianni Versace, a world-renowned fashion designer that would go on to quite literally revolutionize the fashion industry. He was shot and killed on the steps of his mansion in Miami Beach when he was only fifty years old by what is known as a spree killer, Andrew Cunanan. 

In the spring and summer of 1997, Cunanan, who had never had a criminal record before, would go on a killing spree, killing five people over the course of only three months. But why would Versace be one of Cunanan’s unfortunate targets, you might ask? Well, despite the fact that the Versace family has denied for nearly twenty-five years that there was any connection between Versace and Cunanan and that it was just a random murder, there may be evidence that shows that the two had met before Versace’s tragic death.

We will be doing a deep dive into Versace, Cunanan, and the overwhelming mark they each left on the world, this week on Hashtag History. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are wrapping up our two-part series on Lance Armstrong, the only professional cyclist to win seven Tour de France titles...all before it was revealed more than a dozen years after his first win that he had been using performance-enhancing drugs in every single one of his Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005. We are starting this week in 1999 and going all the way through his seven Tour de France wins until we reach his eventual demise as his doping scandals would be revealed.

Be sure to come back next week when we finish our coverage of this topic in a special second part episode!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Lance Armstrong, the only professional cyclist to win seven Tour de France titles...all before it was revealed more than a dozen years after his first win that he had been using performance-enhancing drugs in every single one of his Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005. This news was particularly devastating to those that had admired and supported Armstrong through his 1996 cancer diagnosis when he learned, at only twenty-five years old, that he had stage three testicular cancer and that the cancer had already spread to his lungs, brain, abdomen, and lymph nodes. To come back from what his doctor’s initially determined as a less than 50% chance of living - to not only survive that but to then go on to achieve not one, not two, not three - but SEVEN titles in what is considered by many to be the most difficult sporting event in the world - was just unbelievable. The only thing more unbelievable than his miraculous rise to the top...was that he had cheated and lied the whole way there.

Be sure to come back next week when we finish our coverage of this topic in a special second part episode!

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Rudy Kurniawan, a world famous wine connoisseur, collector, seller...and total fraudster. In 2012 when the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided Kurniawan’s Arcadia, California home, they found the place littered with empty wine bottles, detached labels, corking tools, wax for sealing bottles, and extensive wine tasting notes. It would appear that Kurniawan was mixing cheaper wines, studying his tasting notes to blend the tastes as seamlessly as possible, and then putting them in bottles with expensive labels and passing them off as rare, vintage wines. Kurniawan would become the first person in the United States to be tried and convicted of wine fraud. 

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Rodney King, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who was captured on video camera on March 3, 1991 as he was being beaten viciously by four Los Angeles Police Department officers. The review would find that he had been struck over fifty times with a baton leaving him with fractures to the skull, a broken leg and teeth, bruises, lacerations to the face, a burn wound on his chest from a stun gun, and permanent brain damage. The officers were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force and, after a three-month long trial, a nearly all-white jury acquitted the officers. This verdict directly correlated with the start of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and reiterated the racial tension, misconduct, and police brutality many had experienced at the hands of the LAPD.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Benedict Arnold, the OG traitor, who was a major general of the American Continental Army during the Revolutionary War...all before selling out and switching sides to join the British Army. And this wasn’t any old betrayal; Arnold had been given command of West Point under George Washington (who trusted him completely) and then, when his plans to surrender West Point to the British were foiled, he fled to British lines and would end up leading their army against the country that he had just betrayed.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing that infamous 1967 Bigfoot film. Five decades later and - despite all the analysis and scrutiny that the film has received - it still, to this day, has never officially been debunked. And it really was that film that ingrained Bigfoot in American folklore.

Stay tuned as we talk about a brief History of Bigfoot, that infamous film, the hoaxes and conspiracies, and the possibility of this thing being real.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Mary Mallon - more infamously known as Typhoid Mary (or, as she has also been called, “The Most Dangerous Woman in America”) - who was the first person in the United States to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. By the time it was discovered that she was a carrier of the disease, she had spread typhoid fever to over fifty people; three of which would die of the disease. Even after she was arrested for being a public health threat, she continued to work in the service industry continuing to expose unknowing people to the disease. She would eventually be physically forced to quarantine, living nearly thirty years of her life in isolation before she would die.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the weird and wondrous World War II tactical deception that was Operation Mincemeat. This was a 1943 British deception operation in which the corpse of a deceased British homeless man (dressed as an officer of the Royal Marines and carrying fabricated correspondence about fictitious military plans to invade Sicily) was purposefully planted in Nazi-friendly Southern Spain in order to convince the Nazis of an impending British invasion and throw them off the track of the true plans for British troops. This story is wild!

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We are SO EXCITED to announce that, in honor of the Two Year Anniversary of the Hashtag History podcast, we will be hosting our first ever LIVE show via ZOOM! It will take place on Saturday, July 24th at 4:00 PM PST. 

We will have a LIVE cocktail segment that all registered attendees can participate in, lots of raffles and prizes and giveaways, AND a handful of special guests that will join us in telling stories of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption from the 1920s.

Registration will open next Wednesday, June 23rd. Head over to our website at www.hashtaghistory-pod.com to sign up then!

From the bottom of our hearts, we cannot thank you all enough for all of the love and support you have shown us over the past two years. This event is to celebrate YOU and to thank YOU for all that you have done to make the Hashtag History podcast what it is today. 

We cannot wait to see you all there!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are so honored and so excited to have the amazing Alicia Gutierrez-Romine on the podcast! Alicia is an author, historian, and professor that recently published her book titled "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969".

In this episode, we get to ask Alicia all of the questions about the history of criminal abortions. This conversation included how eugenics and California's movie industry played a role in abortion history, the disparity between white women and women of color in the abortion space, common misconceptions about abortions and the women seeking them, and the current state of abortions here in America.

We highly recommend checking out Alicia's book at www.nebraskapress.unl.edu or www.amazon.com.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Gouverneur Morris who - in addition to being the Forgotten Founding Father - was also maybe the weirdest, wildest, and (dare I say it?) freakiest Founding Father of them all. This guy liked to have sex in public (one of those public places being the Louvre), he had a peg leg which was maybe from a carriage accident but also maybe from when he jumped from a balcony to escape from a mistress’ husband, he got married for the first time when he was 57 years old to his housekeeper (who had previously been accused of killing her newborn baby), AND he would eventually die when he attempted to perform surgery on his own penis by using a whale bone to unblock his urethra...but would end up giving himself a fatal injury.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Lee Miller. Miller was a model and photographer, most well-known for being a war correspondent for Vogue during World War II, capturing over 60,000 images (images that many of the male photographers wouldn’t dare to take of the liberated concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. But most iconic of all was when, on April 30, 1945, while Adolf Hitler was committing suicide in a bunker in Berlin, Lee Miller got into his apartment in Munich, took of her muddy, military boots and posed in Hitler’s bathtub for one of the best pictures I have ever seen.

Despite all of these accomplishments (and many more that we will be discussing in this week’s episode), Miller wasn’t very well known until after her death. In fact, her own son was unaware of all of her accomplishments until after she passed away and he discovered the 60,000+ images in her attic.

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In a special, bonus episode, we had the honor of having Ian from Necronomipod on the podcast to discuss the St. Valentine's Day Massacre! On February 14, 1929, Chicago's North Side Gang (well known to be a rival of infamous Mob Boss, Al Capone) was gunned down in a garage in Chicago, Illinois. Although Capone has been linked to the incident and many believe him to be directly responsible for the murders, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre technically remains unsolved to this day.

Join Rachel, Leah, and Ian as we discuss Al Capone and the rise of gangs during Prohibition, the rivalry between Capone and George "Bugs" Moran, the massacre itself and how it changed History forever, the downfall of Capone, and where things stand now (which may or may not involve some paranormal activity!).

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Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, you will receive a card and stickers, and you will have access to weekly bonus Hashtag Hangout episodes.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Alan Turing. Turing was an English Mathematician responsible for the early development of algorithms, computer science, and artificial intelligence. He was also responsible for assisting in cracking coded messages during World War II which quite literally resulted in the Allies winning the war. Jack Copeland - professor and author - has said that, because of Turing’s work, the war was shortened by more than two years resulting in millions of lives being saved.

Turing would end up dying at the very young age of 41 as a criminal because he was homosexual. The father of the modern-day computer would end up being subjected to chemical castration and would die a very untimely, very unfortunate, and in some ways, suspicious, death.

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- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing MK Ultra. MK Ultra was a project operated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency in which they performed illegal experiments on oftentimes unknowing human subjects by using drugs like LSD, electroshock, hypnosis, abuse, food and sleep deprivation, AND MORE to determine if these techniques would be useful in order to force confessions, brainwash, and overall, just inflict horrendous psychological torture. These experiments would lead to absolute psychological trauma and, in at least one case, death.

The MK Ultra Project ran from 1953 to 1973 and was exposed in 1975 by the Church Committee and the United States President’s Commission on CIA Activities...but only after an incredible journalist with the New York Times began investigating the matter.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the 1916 shark attacks. These were a series of attacks over the course of two weeks in the summer of 1916 in New Jersey which resulted in the deaths of four people and one other injured. This series of shark attacks is what really initiated American fear of sharks and the misconstrued belief that they are these evil “man-eaters”. And, although the writer denies it, many believe that it was these tragic incidents in 1916 that would inspire Peter Benchley to publish an infamous book in 1974 titled Jaws.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Japanese Detention Camps, camps that were established here in the United States during World War II following the attack of Pearl Harbor. Under President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, it became policy for the U.S. Government to place HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Japanese in detention camps here on American soil. Of the more than 120,000 people placed in these detention camps, more than 60% of them were American citizens. It was said that someone with as little as 1/16th Japanese lineage could be placed in a detention camp.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Sacramento Good Guys Hostage situation, an incident that occurred on April 4, 1991, in Sacramento, California where 39 employees and customers of the Good Guys electronics store were held hostage for more than eight hours by four hostage takers. By the time this event ended, more than a dozen of the hostages would be injured and three of the hostages would be killed...as well as three of the four hostage-takers. 

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Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Anna Anderson, probably the most well-known Grand Duchess Anastasia impostor. After the Romanov family was executed by firing squad in 1918, it was widely believed that two of the bodies (more specifically, the body of the Romanov’s only son, Alexei, and the body of the youngest daughter, Anastasia) had not been located which led many to believe that they had survived the massacre. In the following years, dozens of people came forward claiming to be surviving Romanov family members. The most famous of which was a woman named Anna Anderson who, in 1920, was institutionalized in a Berlin mental hospital following a suicide attempt. She was known around the hospital as “Miss Unknown'' because no one could determine her identity. But in March of 1922, she came forward with claims that she was indeed the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

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We're back for Season Seven! And as tradition dictates, the first episode of each season is a Leah Takeover Episode! 

This week on Hashtag History, Leah takes a deep dive into the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, an infamous disaster that struck the coast of Northern California on an early April morning in 1906 with an estimated magnitude of 7.9. It was felt as far north as Eureka, California (some even say as far north as Oregon) and as far south as Salinas, California, sparking devastating fires and causing over 3,000 deaths. Tune in to hear the legacy of this devastating earthquake...and maybe even pick up a boozy cake recipe along the way!

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Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store!

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In a special, bonus, collaboration episode, the ladies of Hashtag History teamed up with the lovely ladies of the Murder History Girls podcast to discuss what is often referred to as the most infamous unsolved murder in American History, the Black Dahlia.

Because there was just so much information to cover, we split this episode into two parts! To hear Part Two of our coverage of the Black Dahlia, you will need to hop on over to the Murder History Girls' feed. Part Two will be made available on their feed at the exact same time that Part One is available on ours' so you don't have to wait one second!

In our Part One coverage, we discuss the Black Dahlia victim, Elizabeth Short, and her upbringing, the absolutely heinous murder and discovery of the body, the investigation, and the ways in which the media obsessed over this case.

For coverage of the suspects and theories surrounding this case, head on over to listen to Part Two on the Murder History Girls podcast!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are so honored and so excited to have the lovely Kaitlin Calogera on the podcast! Kaitlin is the founder and owner of A Tour of Her Own, the first tourism company in Washington, D.C. to focus exclusively on Women's History.

Kaitlin shares all about TOHO, the amazing tours and events they put on, how they have pivoted and adjusted business during COVID-times, and what the future looks like for TOHO and Women's History as a whole.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Anita Hill and the infamous event that thrust her into the spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 about accusations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, while in his capacity as her manager at both the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, had sexually harassed her. This event truly changed History. Tune into this week's episode to learn how!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park Bombing, an absolutely tragic incident in which a pipe bomb was placed at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia during the Summer Olympics that would take the life of one person and injure another 111. This bomb was placed by Eric Rudolph, an American terrorist, who would go on to plant three more bombs over the course of the next two years. Perhaps one of the worst things to come from the Centennial Olympic Bombing though is that the blame would be placed on the wrong man. Jewell would be investigated by the FBI and publicly blamed for the bombing - socially ridiculed and isolated - for several months before the FBI shifted their focus to Rudolph.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Apollo 13. Apollo 13 was the third spacecraft of the Apollo Missions that was meant to land on the moon. However, when an oxygen tank exploded on their way to the moon, the crew had to instead loop around the moon, returning to Earth a week after they took off.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are completing our coverage of the Heaven's Gate cult. They were/are a religious cult centered around the idea that God is an extraterrestrial being and that, in order to reach the highest level (what they call “the next level”) was to be swept up by a Comet.

The most tragic part about this story though is that, in 1997, 39 cult members (including their leader, Marshall Applewhite), were found to have committed suicide in order to attain this “next level”, making it the largest mass suicide on US soil.

In this Part Two special, we cover how Applewhite had to completely restructure the doctrine of Heaven's Gate in order to explain the death of co-founder, Bonnie Nettles.  The theory up to this point was that we would all one day be swept up by a UFO to attain the Next Level. But this isn’t what happened with Nettles though. And so Applewhite explained it away by saying the only way to attain the Next Level now was to physically, earthly die at which point the soul would evolve into an alien and progress to the Next Level but the body - the “vehicle” - would remain here on earth. And this is where it begins to lay the seeds for the horrific mass suicide we will be discussing in this week's episode...

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, you can always call the National Suicide Prevention Line at 1-800-273-TALK (that’s 1-800-273-8255). They are a 24/7, free, confidential line that is there to help you.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Heaven's Gate cult. They were/are a religious cult centered around the idea that God is an extraterrestrial being and that, in order to reach the highest level (what they call “the next level”) was to be swept up by a Comet.

The most tragic part about this story though is that, in 1997, 39 cult members (including their leader, Marshall Applewhite), were found to have committed suicide in order to attain this “next level”, making it the largest mass suicide on US soil. 

In this Part One special, we will be covering the background of both of the leaders, Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, a deep look into the followers, and how the death of Nettles would change everything.

And then stay tuned for next week's Part Two conclusion episode where we will dig into all of the tragedy.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Burke and Hare murders. These were a series of murders that occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland in the year 1828 in which William Burke and William Hare killed sixteen different people and then turned around and sold the corpses to an anatomist for his dissections. In essence...getting paid to murder. Yikes!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Hartford Circus Fire. This was a fire that occurred on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut and would be marked as one of the worst fires in US History. The fire happened during a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey performance that was attended by close to 8,000 people! It would result in the deaths of 168 people and injury to another 700 people.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are doing a deep dive into the history of the Titanic (no pun intended...), a timeline of its fateful maiden voyage, a spotlight on a few important characters, what has changed as a result of the sinking of the Titanic...and then, of course, we will also be discussing a few of the conspiracy theories surrounding the sinking of the Titanic. Because, of course, there are always conspiracy theories!

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We're back for Season Six! And as tradition dictates, the first episode of each season is a Leah Takeover Episode! And this episode will not disappoint if you are into serial killers, blood, gore, lost hopes, and dead dreams. Welcome!

This week on Hashtag History, Leah takes a deep dive into the story of Elizabeth Bathory, the blood countess, and her unfortunate victims. She follows this story up with deep dives into multiple other female serial killers from the early modern period, a category of History you may be shocked to hear...is not small.

We also open up the episode to discussion in an attempt separate fact from fiction, what is true and what has been sensationalized, and why female serial killers are so fascinating!

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For our Season Five Finale episode, we are joined by Allie and Katie, the lovely ladies of the HERstory on the Rocks podcast! In this super special collaboration episode, we covered one of those most contested, debated, and controversial women out there...Tonya Harding!

Allie and Katie take us through Harding's rough childhood, whirlwind love life, and early skating career leading up to the Olympics. And then Rachel and Leah walk you through the Nancy Kerrigan scandal, Harding's removal from professional figure skating, and where she is now.

We take a deep dive into the way Harding was portrayed in the media, the unfair comparison to Kerrigan and other "ice princesses", the way Harding's childhood shaped the person she would become, and a weigh-in on Harding's level of guilt in the Kerrigan assault.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Alcatraz! Alcatraz was a maximum security federal prison located on Alcatraz Island which is just a mile and a half off of the San Francisco coast. Between the location, the weather, and the horrifically cold waters that surrounded it, it was considered to be the “strongest prison” in America. Alcatraz housed some of America’s worst and most notorious inmates including Machine Gun Kelly, Robert “Birdman” Stroud, and, of course, Al Capone. Today Alcatraz is a museum that sees 1.5 million visitors a year.

But above and beyond all of these interesting facts, Alcatraz has long been considered one of the most haunted locations in America with visitors reporting feeling pockets of ice cold as they walk through the former prison, hearing crying and moaning as they walk through the cell blocks, and even report hearing Al Capone playing his banjo in the showers.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the true story of Pocahontas and John Smith. While we love Disney's 1995 Pocahontas movie for the nostalgia and bangin' musical numbers, we all know it is wildly inaccurate. But while most people blame Disney for our misunderstanding of the true story, we actually have John Smith himself to thank for it! 

Just a few of the things you will learn in this episode are that Pocahontas wasn't even her real name, she was likely only ten or eleven when she first met Smith, she did not have a romantic relationship with Smith, she did not save Smith from being executed, and she was only twenty years old when she died...and her death may or may not have been murder!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Cheryl Araujo Rape Case which became the first ever televised rape case. In 1983, Araujo was gang-raped by four men when she was only 21 years old. People stood around, watched it happen, and did nothing. Even worse, when her case was brought to trial, the narrative was flipped to essentially "blame the victim", to say Araujo brought it on herself, and that her rape was her fault.

Having the trial televised was a big deal. A rape case is an extremely sensitive trial to cover since it is widely known amongst courts and journalists that the names of victims of sexual assault do not get disclosed. Many States have laws prohibiting the disclosure of the name and address of rape victims as confidentiality is vital to their protection. But when Araujo took the stand for her testimony, her name and address accidentally became part of the official public record.

This case changed her life forever.  And after watching what she went through, it also changed the willingness of many other sexual assault victims to come forward. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Tuskegee Experiment which was a clinical study conducted by the United States Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 in which the U.S. Public Health Service told the hundreds of Black men that were a part of this study that, by participating, they would be treated for “bad blood” and would receive free healthcare. 

But, instead of receiving healthcare, the USPHS “treated” the participants with placebos and known to be ineffective methods while ensuring that these men would be denied real medical treatment from any other facility. The men in the program were also never advised that many of them actually had syphilis...and that this was the reason USPHS had selected them for the study. 

As a result of this withholding of information and withholding treatment, many of the men involved in this study would later die of syphilis and an additional 40 wives of the men in the study would contract the disease with 19 children born with congenital syphilis. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing John Demjanjuk. In 1975, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service received a list of individuals living in the United States that were suspected of having supported Germany during the Second World War. One particular name on this list was that of John Demjanjuk, a fifty-five year old naturalized US citizen living in the suburbs of Seven Hills, Ohio with his wife and kids. He would be identified by Holocaust survivors in Israel that alleged that he was the notorious “Ivan the Terrible” that worked at the Treblinka extermination camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed. Demjanjuk would deny these accusations and would fight it in court for the remainder of his life. When he died in 2012, a final judgment on his appeal still hadn’t been issued, meaning that - to this day - Demjanjuk is technically, on paper, innocent…

So is this a case of one of the most horrific Nazis of all time being convicted for his crimes? Or is it an innocent man and a victim of mistaken identity?

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft. Occurring in March of 1990, this incident is the largest unsolved case of museum theft in History! To this day, we still do not know who was responsible for the theft. No arrests have ever been made and none of the artwork has ever been recovered.  

At 1:20 AM on a Sunday morning, two men dressed as police officers walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up the museum guards in the basement of the museum, and then walked out of the museum only 81 MINUTES LATER with thirteen pieces of artwork valuing at over $600 million dollars in today’s money!  

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the American Indian Boarding Schools. The American Indian Boarding Schools were government-funded boarding schools operated from 1860 to 1978 with the sole purpose of killing Native American cultures and forcing Native American children to assimilate to white, Christian society. These children oftentimes had their long hair cut, their cultural clothing destroyed, their names changed, and contact and communication with their families severed.

It's a devastating time period in American History that must be discussed and cannot be ignored. 

A special thanks goes out to our amazing listener, Jill, for reviewing this episode for us! Thank you so much for that, your Patreon support, and the million other amazing things you do!

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In what may be one of Rachel's favorite episodes ever, we are discussing two infamous boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling that took place in 1936 and 1938. We talk about how these fights were more than just boxing matches; they were nation versus nation, American versus Nazi, white man versus Black man. Louis would go on to become a symbol of freedom, democracy, and national pride in the face of World War II, despite the fact that he was an African-American man that was not treated equally in his own country, could not vote, and was placed in a segregated unit when he left the world of boxing to defend the United States in the Second World War.

A special thanks goes out to Rachel's husband, Alex, for this week's topic suggestion!

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We're back! Thank you all for joining us for our Season Five premiere! As tradition dictates, the first episode of every season is a Leah Takeover Episode! This week on Hashtag History, Leah introduces us to Catherine the Great. Although we all know of her, how much do we know about her? In this episode, we cover Catherine's rough childhood, loveless marriage to Peter the Great, and an arranged coup d'etat that resulted in Catherine becoming the longest ruling leader of Russia.

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The Hashtag History Podcast is ONE YEAR OLD! Thank you so much to all of our amazing listeners that have joined alongside us during this amazing journey! With four seasons and forty episodes behind us, we look forward to the many more to come!

In honor of our One Year Anniversary, we did something that has been listener requested since Day One: A "Drunk History"-esque episode. While giving you a History lesson about Prohibition (and why it was a giant flop!), we will also be consuming a favorite cocktail from each of our four previous seasons! That's FOUR cocktails in ONE hour.

This episode gets real drunk real fast. So buckle up!

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In our fourth installment of the Hasty History episodes, we are looking into the story of Theodosia Burr Alston. As the daughter of super controversial and eventual Vice President Aaron Burr, Theodosia grew up surrounded by chaos and scandal. So does it come as any surprise that her own story would end up being surrounded in mystery? In December of 1812, Theodosia got on a ship sailing out from North Carolina to visit her father in New York...and was never seen again. What happened to Theodosia?! Where did she go?! There are endless rumors and theories as to what happened to this deeply beloved woman.

If you are a Hamilton Musical fan, you are sure to like to this episode! We take a deeper dive into one of the characters briefly introduced in the musical and expand on her life to give you a better look at who the true Theodosia Burr Alston was. 

Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content.

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How have we already made it to the end of Season Four? In this week's Season Four Finale, we are joined by Emily and Kelley, the lovely ladies of the Wining About HERstory podcast! In true Wining About HERstory fashion, they tell the uplifting and motivational story about phenomenal Dorothea Dix, a nurse and all-around advocate that fought for the mentally ill. And then, in true Hashtag History fashion, we follow up their story with the dark and twisted tale of horrific Jane Toppan, the serial killer nurse who would go on to kill dozens of her patients.

As you can tell, this episode is about three times the length of our normal episodes. We just had so much fun together! So cozy on up or go for a nice long car ride while you listen to the story of two different women - both in the medical field - but on very different sides of History.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are diving into the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt of 1981. Just two months after becoming the 40th American President, Reagan was nearly assassinated by a mentally ill, would-be assassin that was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster. The would-be assassin, John Hinckley, Jr., attempted to assassinate the United States President in an attempt to gain Foster's attention and affection. Join us on this week's episode to learn all about the assassination, John Hinckley, Jr. and his obsession with Foster, and the ways in which this incident completely changed nationwide gun control laws and the insanity defense in the court system.

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Join us for our third installment of Hasty History where we take a dive into Mad King Ludwig's life and death. Ludwig was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his very mysterious death in 1886. He was not your "typical" king and was often referred to as the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King. After living a mysterious life, it almost comes as no surprise that Ludwig also had a very mysterious death. When his body was discovered after missing for nearly six hours, his death was ruled a suicide. But...was it really? Tune into this episode to find out!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are concluding our two-part series on the Salem Witch Trials. In this week's episode, we discuss the end of the trials, the numerous theories behind why these trials ever took place, and the deep bitterness and embarrassment that today's Salem Village still has over this tragic event. If you have ever visited Salem, Massachusetts (or if you plan to do so) to check out some Salem Witch Trial sites and artifacts, be sure to listen to this episode. Because what you see in Salem, Massachusetts today...is kind of, sort of, all...bogus. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about the Salem Witch Trials which will forever go down in History as one of the craziest, most bizarre, and most tragic incidents in colonial history. Over the years of 1692 and 1693, over two hundred people were accused of witchcraft with over twenty of them being executed for the crime and five others dying while behind bars. These accusations came as a result of mass hysteria of demonic possession swept across colonial Massachusetts. Today those accused have been annulled of their guilty verdicts but that doesn’t change History and that doesn’t change the culture, the climate, and the deep roots of bitterness that still reside in Massachusetts to this day.

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Black Lives Matter!

In our second ever Hasty History episode, we are revisiting the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 in a special, bonus feature. The Tulsa Race Massacre continues to be one of the most devastating acts of racial violence to occur on American soil. And yet, it is also one of the least known events in American History. In fact, to this day, many History textbooks do not contain information about this incident as much of the information surrounding this massacre was destroyed in its aftermath. 

We already covered this incident in a full-length episode on our normal feed during Season Three. But, given its relevance in modern day, we wanted to re-record and rebroadcast a bonus episode about this event in History and why it is so important that Americans know about it.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are diving into the history of the electric chair. We take a deep look at the history of execution methods and how execution by electric chair was ultimately chosen as the most humane form of capital punishment. We also look into William Kemmler, his crime, and how he ended up changing the course of history by becoming the very first man to be electrocuted by the state. Tune into this week's episode for an electrifying cocktail, some Thomas Edison history we bet you never knew, and a pretty embarrassing (but also hilarious) Taco Bell story.

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Do you like bananas? You might not after listening to this week's episode. This week on Hashtag History, we are diving into one of our most corrupt topics yet: The United Fruit Company. The United Fruit Company was an American company formed in 1899 to grow and trade bananas that ended up going on to control nearly all transportation across all of Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, and the West Indies. This control extended to the political and economic realms with the United Fruit Company essentially using capitalism to control the entire banana republic. When workers of the United Fruit Company requested formal, written employment contracts which included eight hour work days, six day work weeks, and actual paychecks, the local Colombian government opened fire killing anywhere from 47 to 2,000 people!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are taking an uncharacteristic break from from our normal talk of conspiracy and corruption to discuss something more positive: the History of Disneyland. We talk all things Walt Disney, Disneyland's disaster of an Opening Day, and we even cover some of our own personal Disneyland experiences. 

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Join us for our first ever episode of Hasty History where we take a dive into the Pandemic of 1918, also known as the Spanish Flu. Tune in to learn about the world's most severe pandemic in recent history that killed more people than World War I and World War II combined. For all of us dealing with the heavy affects of today's COVID-19, it may feel pretty eerie to learn that those affected by the 1918 pandemic were also very familiar with quarantine orders, social distancing, and the cancellation of large events and businesses.

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WARNING: THERE IS A LOT OF SCREAMING IN THIS EPISODE.

This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about the Dyatlov Pass incident. This is the true story that occurred in February of 1959 when nine experienced hikers were found dead along what is now known as Dyatlov Pass in the northern Ural Mountains. It was found that their tents had been torn from the inside and were hurriedly escaped. It was horrifically cold at this time and all hikers - not even remotely dressed for the sub-zero temperatures - died of hypothermia. But, in addition to hypothermia, two of the hikers were found to have fractured skulls, two other hikers were found to have severe chest fractures, one hiker was missing both eyeballs, and one of the other hikers was missing her tongue. What happened?! We discuss the most popular theories, give our own take on the incident, and do a lot of screaming in this week's episode.

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In a special, bonus, collaboration episode, the ladies of Hashtag History join together with the guys of The Discographer to discuss the life and times of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana who met a very tragic death at the young age of twenty-seven.

In this collaboration episode, The Discographers take a deep dive into Cobain's childhood, young adult life, and his unique musicality and what made him so legendary. Hashtag History does a deeper dive into Cobain's suicide and all of the controversies and conspiracies surrounding it.

And, of course, it wouldn't be a Hashtag History episode without a cocktail!

Join us for some hardcore history, lots of laughs, and some revealing information about how we have all been spending our time in quarantine.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Sophie Scholl, the badass, anti-Nazi activist and resistance member that worked against the Nazi movement during World War II and, when caught, was executed by guillotine at the young age of twenty-one. Scholl isn't talked about enough here in America but, back in Germany, her name is synonymous with the word "Freedom". Tune into this week's episode for an uplifting History lesson about a dynamite woman!

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For our Season Four premiere episode, Leah is taking over and talking all about the Hindenburg Disaster of 1937. Often referenced as "The Titanic of the Sky", the LZ-129 Hindenburg was an airship that - upon what would become its final voyage across the Atlantic in May of 1937 - met a terrible, fiery end and claimed along with it the lives of 35 passengers and crew members. Tune into this episode to learn how this horrific event in History changed air travel forever. Oh, and also to enjoy a simple cocktail, some quarantine catch-up, and a really embarrassing story about Rachel.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are wrapping up Season Three with a super special Season Finale featuring special guest, Nicole Allison, Public Historian at the California State Railroad Museum and subject matter expert on all things related to women of the railroad. In this episode, Nicole tells us all about the Railroad Museum's latest exhibit, Crossing Lines: Women of the Railroad, and the major contributions women had to not only the railroad but to law, society, and the way we operate today! 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are completing our discussion on the Jonestown Massacre that occurred in November of 1978 when occult leader, Jim Jones, killed 918 of his followers in a mass suicide as a result of drinking and injecting cyanide. In this final Part Two episode, we discuss the Peoples Temples' move to Guyana, how their "Utopia" quickly turned into a hell, and the absolute devastation that occurred in Jonestown that still shocks the world to this day.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about the Jonestown Massacre that occurred in November of 1978 when occult leader, Jim Jones, killed 918 of his followers in a mass suicide as a result of drinking and injecting cyanide. In this special Part One episode, we are diving into Jones' background, his fake AF "faith healings", and how he was able to convince thousands to follow him to their eventual deaths.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about the infamous Donner Party, the group of individuals that traveled along the Oregon Trail to the West...and maybe ate each other along the way. Although everyone has some knowledge about the Donner Party, how much do you really know? Join us this week to learn all things Donner Party, all things westward travel, and all things cannibalism. Whoo!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Leonardo Da Vinci, the ultimate polymath. Don't know what a polymath is? Listen to this episode to find out! We discuss all things Da Vinci and go far beyond just the artist behind infamous paintings like The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. We dive into Da Vinci, the scientist, the engineer, the zoologist, the inventor...and more! We also take a dive into Da Vinci's personal life, the people he hung out with, and possibly why he never married. Tune into this episode to learn a thing or two about the man that everyone thinks they know all about.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about one of Rachel's most favorite stories to talk about...EVER! For one, we get to talk about our hometown again, Sacramento, California. But what many people don't know is that Sacramento is home to one of America's greatest, most methodical, most deceptive, and most unsuspecting serial killers. Tune in to this week's episode to hear how one elderly woman swindled the less fortunate out of their money...and then buried them in her backyard.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about the Tylenol poisonings that occurred in 1982 and resulted in the deaths of seven innocent people. To this day, no one has been charged with the crime. Rachel and Leah discuss possible suspects, Johnson & Johnson's response to the incident, and the changes made in pharmaceutical industries as a result of this devastation.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Jane Stanford, the co-owner of infamous Stanford University here in California. What most people don't know though is that Jane Stanford...was murdered! Or was she? Tune into this extra special episode that includes all of Rachel's and Leah's favorite things: History (duh!), murder (DUN DUN DUN), and discussions about our hometown, Sacramento, California!

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We're back for Season Three! And to kick things off, Leah is taking over this Season Premiere! This week on Hashtag History, Leah is talking all about the Jacobite Uprising of 1745 which was the last of a series of Scottish revolts against their British rulers in an effort to restore a Catholic Stewart to the English throne. Join us for some yummy drinks (and maybe some carrots?) while Leah teaches Rachel all about something in History that Rachel knows nothing about! 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are celebrating the Season Finale of Season Two with a special two-part segment about the John F. Kennedy Assassination. We are joined by reoccurring guest, Kelly Boyles, the owner of Milk House Shakes in Old Sacramento (a coffee and milkshake shop based on U.S. Presidents). The JFK Assassination has long been one of the greatest controversies in American History...and rightfully so. In this week's episode, we conclude the story of the assassination by diving into Kennedy's death and autopsy, Lyndon B. Johnson's swearing in, the Warren Commission, and all things conspiracy theory!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are celebrating the Season Finale of Season Two with a special two-part segment about the John F. Kennedy Assassination. We are joined by reoccurring guest, Kelly Boyles, the owner of Milk House Shakes in Old Sacramento (a coffee and milkshake shop based on U.S. Presidents). The JFK Assassination has long been one of the greatest controversies in American History...and rightfully so. In this week's episode, we learn about Kennedy's upbringing, his severe medical condition, his race for the presidency, and all the details behind that infamous trip to Dallas, Texas in November of 1963. While we stick to the generally accepted facts presented by the Warren Commission in this episode, don't you worry! We dive into all things conspiracy in Part Two of the JFK Assassination coming out next week!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about the lesser-known Kennedy Assassination: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Only five years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, Robert ("Bobby") Kennedy sadly followed in his brother's footsteps. And not just in his race for the presidency; he too was assassinated by a "lone" assassin...or was he? Join us as we talk about the RFK Assassination and the many questions and conspiracy that come along with it.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about the Great Fire of Rome that occurred in 64 AD and wiped out a third of the City! Who was responsible for the fire? Christians? Nero? Or could the whole fire have been accidental?

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This week on Hashtag History, we are debunking the many myths of the Winchester Mystery House constructed by Sarah Winchester for a non-stop thirty-eight years! Rachel took a tour to the infamous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California and reports back on her first-hand experiences, some hardcore history truths, and the long-standing myths and rumors that have surrounded Mrs. Winchester's mysterious house for hundreds of years.

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This week on Hashtag History, we are diving into the "other side" of world-famous singer, Frank Sinatra. While most people know Sinatra as one of the best-selling musicians in the world with over 150 million records sold worldwide, there was a whole other side of Sinatra that most people don't know. This other side reveals a story of Sinatra's arrest and imprisonment, his deep mafia ties, a really violent temper, and an FBI file that contained more than 2,000 pages!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Roman Emperor, Elagabalus, who has long been considered by historians to be one of Rome's worst and most ill-equipped emperors...EVER. His reign was plagued by religious controversy, crazy parties, and really scandalous sexual exploits. He was married to five different women all while carrying on a committed relationship with a male slave. Meanwhile, on the side, he was sleeping with more men and women that one can count! Elagabalus is also now considered to have possibly been transgender and is one of the first reported cases of a request for gender reassignment surgery. Join us as we break down this super fascinating character in Roman History!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are taking a deep look into one of the most controversial operations to ever be conducted by the United States Government. This operation took place shortly after World War II, a global conquest initiated by Germany in which the world witnessed the deaths of approximately 70 million people. The world saw firsthand how powerful and how devastating the Nazi Party could be. So why, between the years of 1945 and 1959, would the U.S. Government pay for nearly 2,000 Germans (some which had been leaders in the Nazi Party) to come here to the United States to work on some of our most top secret projects? This is the story we are diving into this week as we analyze Operation Paperclip. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are diving into one of America's very first murder trials in which a woman was tried for murdering her parents. This case also marks one of the first instances in which the media completely blew things out of proportion causing mass interest in the crime both then and now. In fact, pop culture has picked up the Lizzie Borden story in movies, television shows, and even a ballet! Join us this week as we talk about the one of the most fascinating stories in American true crime History.

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- Rachel and Leah

Welcome to Season Two of Hashtag History! This week on Hashtag History, we are doing all kinds of new things like introducing a Halloween special edition episode...and passing the reigns over to Leah for her takeover episode! Leah introduces us to Jack the Ripper, the still unidentified serial killer that roamed Whitechapel, London in the late 1800s and has been connected to at least five gruesome murders. We dive into all of the victims' stories as well as the various theories about who exactly Jack the Ripper might be. 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are celebrating the Season Finale of Season One by inviting our special guest, Kelly Boyles (owner of Milk House Shakes in Old Sacramento) to join us as we discuss the Teapot Dome Scandal. This scandal is super underrated even though, prior to the Watergate Scandal, this was the largest political scandal to occur in the highest office of the land. Join us as we dive into the life of President Warren G. Harding, his lifelong dealings in corruption, and a deep analysis into just how involved he was in the Teapot Dome Scandal. 

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- Rachel and Leah 

This week on Hashtag History, we are breaking down the super infamous and super well-known Black Plague that struck Europe between 1347 and 1351 and resulted in the deaths of anywhere between 75 to 200 million people! Although everyone knows about the Black Plague, we are confident that you will learn a thing or two on this episode that you did not already know. Oh, and here's a fair warning: This episode is DISGUSTING! Be sure to hold your appetites and have a bucket nearby as we dive into this week's gruesome story! 

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This week on Hashtag History, we are diving into one of History's greatest mysteries and greatest losses. Imagine a place where we could gather all of the answers to all of our questions about ancient civilization; a central location that contained upwards of 700,000 resources that you could use to obtain any and every type of information you could imagine about the ancient world. Now I want you to imagine all of that information vanishing and, with it, our knowledge of the ancient world was destroyed. Tune into the episode to find out more!

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be transporting ourselves back to ancient Egypt to take a closer look at one of the most controversial pharaohs to ever live! He was so controversial, in fact, that after he died, monuments of his were destroyed, his image was removed from statues, and his name was even expunged from the list of pharaohs so that Egyptians could pretend like his reign had never happened. So what did this guy do to get himself nearly removed from History?! Tune into the episode to find out! 

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This week on Hashtag History, we continue to discuss immigrants in America in the early 1900s. Immigrants faced intense discrimination in America which not only meant lower wages in the work place but it also meant poor housing, daily racial and religious prejudice, and even - in the worst case scenario - it could mean being tried and executed for a crime you did not commit. This is the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Were they truly guilty of murder? Or was is guilt by association?

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This week on Hashtag History, we are diving into the tragic story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire which killed 146 people on March 25, 1911 in Manhattan, New York. So why didn't the one and only fire escape work? Why was the door to the stairs that led outside locked? Why was there no water when the emergency water valves were turned? And just how many other ways could this incident have been prevented? Check out this episode to find out!  

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This week on Hashtag History, we will be diving into America’s oldest mystery: The Lost Colony of Roanoke! When you learn about American History, starting with the Colonial Era, most people are taught that Jamestown was the start of it. Most people have never even heard of the Colony of Roanoke and have no idea that the Colonial Era actually started over twenty years before the Jamestown settlers arrived. So why are we not taught about the Roanoke Colony? 

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- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we discuss the Chappaquiddick incident in gory detail, discover the severe ramifications the incident had on the Kennedy family and the nation as a whole, and we will even hear a word from Mr. Kennedy himself!

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- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we introduce the Chappaquiddick incident! We will take a dive into Ted Kennedy’s background, the events leading up to the infamous car accident, and…hey, you may even learn how to make a new cocktail!  

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 - Rachel and Leah

Welcome to Hashtag History; the ultimate History podcast for History Nerds and History Haters alike! Here at Hashtag History, we dive into History's greatest stories of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption.