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S8, E5- “Giving Boot Hill the Boot” with Sarah Keiss

In the last episode of Season 8, Hollie is joined by FHSU MA student Sarah Keiss. Sarah talks about Hays’s Boot Hill cemetary and its memory.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. While you’re there, give us a review. Let us know what you like and share widely!

Selected Bibliography:

“Skeleton Found in Boot Hill Here Believed That of Dance Hall Girl Who Killed Herself.” Hays Daily News, May 29, 1909.

Ellis County Historical Society History Book Committee. At Home in Ellis County, Kansas 1867-1992: Volume 1. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1991.

Forsythe, James. Lighthouse on the Plains: Fort Hays State University, 1902-2002. Hays: Fort Hays State University, 2002.

Marquess, Hollie. “The Frontier Demimonde: Prostitution in Early Hays City, 1867-1883.” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 43, no. 4 (Winter 2020-21): 216-233. https://scholars.fhsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=history_facpub.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-program.

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S8, E4- Meet Dr. Andrew Howard

In episode four, Hollie introduces listeners to FHSU History’s newest faculty member, Dr. Andrew Howard. His bio from the FHSU History webpage is below.

Andrew Howard earned his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 2023 after previously working as an academic editor in publishing and receiving his B.A. in History and Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University in 2013. He is a historian of the British Empire in South Asia, with his research focusing on the British intervention in the mountainous province of Kashmir in 1885. He is currently writing a book on the British failure to connect Kashmir by railroad with the rest of British India. At his previous position at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, he taught World History by focusing on the theme of empires, from the Persian Empire to the British Empire, and he also taught History of Religions. He has spent many years studying Hindi and Urdu languages and enjoys utilizing them in his research and while traveling in India. His historical interests include imperialism, politics, diplomacy, war and peace, language, and environment. He especially relishes helping students make sense of why the past happened the way it did and how it shaped the present world we live in today. Outside class, he is an avid trail runner and hiker, and a lover of animals and nature.

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S8, E3- “Dodge City’s Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe” with David Solis

In episode three, David Solis visits with Hollie about the history of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dodge City, Kansas, and the Feast of our Lady of Guadalupe in Dodge City.

Selected Bibliography:

Danza Tepeyac. “Danza Tepeyac 20th Aniversario.” YouTube Video. Mar 13, 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ujRz88DfIU&ab_channel=DanzaTepeyac.

Diocese of Dodge City. “Multicultural Celebration 09.” YouTube Video. December 5, 2009,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0nC5Z2Xrg.

Wenzl, Tim. Dodge City’s Mexican Village: A Place in Time 1906-1956. Community Foundationof Southwest Kansas, 2022.

Wenzel, Tim. A Legacy of Faith: The History of the Diocese of Dodge City Catholic Diocese of Dodge
City, 2001

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S8 E2- “Dr. Albert Yeager and the Quest to bring Tomato Plants to the Plains” – with Jeremy Gill

Horticulture historian and FHSU History Alumni Jeremy Gill joins Hollie to discuss Dr. Albert Yeager, a Kansas native, who brought the Bison Tomato to the plains.

You can find Jeremy’s substack, Historical Harvest, here. You can also follow his Facebook Page, Jeremy Gill, Horituclural Hitsorian, here.

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Season 8 Episode 1- “Written by Heart’s Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatnik Archive”with Amber Nickell, Chelsea Kiefer, Sarah Keiss, and David Solis

In the first episode of season 8, Hollie visits with some familiar friends of the podcast: Dr. Amber Nickell, Sarah Keiss, Chelsea Kiefer, and David Solis. They discuss their digital humanities project, “Written by Heart’s Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatnik Archive.” This project, available here, involved collecting data from a collection of letters between a Soviet Jewish couple during World War II. The Kantsedikas Family Letters Collection at Blavatnik provides a window into the experience of this couple as they navigated the war, love, parenthood, seperation, and various struggles.

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Season 8 coming soon!

Victor E History is back for its 8th season beginnign September 15. This season, Hollie will visit with special guests in five episodes:

Episode 1 “Written by Heart’s Blood: Mapping the Kantsedikas Family Letters from the Blavatnik Archive”- Amber Nickell, Chelsea Kiefer, Sarah Keiss, and David Solis

Episode 2- “Dr. Albert Yeager and the Quest to bring Tomato Plants to the Plains” – Jeremy Gill

Episode 3- “Dodge City’s Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe” – David Solis

Episode 4- “Meet Dr. Andrew Howard”

Episode 5 – “Giving Boot Hill the Boot”- Sarah Keiss

Catch the episodes every other Monday, beginning September 15, on Spotify, Apple, or Amazon Music.

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Season 7 Episode 5- “Fort Campbell and Disabled Dependents” with Michelle Moore

In this episode, Michelle Moore, a junior history major at Fort Hays State University online, joins Hollie to disucss the bridge between Fort Campbell and Disability Research Institutes. Michelle, who lives at Fort Campbell, discusess how in the 1970s, this fort became a desired duty station for families whose children needed accomodations in classrooms and/or medical intervention for disabilities.

Selected Bibliography:

Bryant, Benjamin T. “The Exceptional Family Member Program: Noble Cause, Flawed System.” Joint Force Quarterly 110, no. 3 (2023): 108-17. https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3450868/the-exceptional-family-member-program-noble-cause-flawed-system/.

Tidwell, Charles W. “Parental Concerns Surrounding the Care and Education of Military Dependent Children with Autism: A Phenomenological Study.” PhD Diss., Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA, 2016. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1872279266/BFAF7375AC794C44PQ/50?accountid=27424&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses.

US Congress, House. Exceptional Family Member Program- Are the Military Services Really Taking Care of Family Members?: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Military Personnel of the Committee on Armed Services. 116th Cong., 2d sess., February 5, 2020 https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/AS02/20200205/110469/HHRG-116-AS02-Wstate-CarriggA-20200205.pdf.

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Season 7, Episode 4-“Nisei Women in Japanese Internment” with Grace McCord

Junior history minor Grace McCord joins Hollie to discuss Nisei Women in Japanese Internnment camps in the US during WWII. Second-generation Japanease -American women, or Nisei women, faced significant challenges during WWII in Japanese Internment camps, but their experiences also foreced a shift in the structure of their families, allowing them some measure of independence from traditional expectations. Through education, vocational training, and military volunteer opportunities, Nisei women displayed agency and resilence.

Selected Bibliography:

Ito, Leslie. “Japanese American Women and the Student Relocation Movement, 1942-1945.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 21, no. 3 (2000): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/3347107.

Kurose, Akiko. “Akiko Kurose Interview I.” Interview by Matt Emery, Densho, July 17, 1997. https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-41-transcript-3d1725e567.htm.

Sakahara, Toru and Sakahara, Kiyo. “Toru Sakahara – Kiyo Sakahara Interview I.” Interview by Dee Goto. Densho, Feburary 24, 2024. https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/ddr-densho-1000-76-transcript-cd0479f05b.htm.

Suzuki Ichino, Mary. “Mary Suzuki Ichino Interview.” Interview by Richard Potashin. Densho, July 17, 2008. https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-manz-1/ddr-manz-1-51-transcript-b6b177d9c1.htm.

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Season 7, Episode 3 “Lizzie Borden- Gender and Religion at the Trial” with Riley Kershner

“Lizzie Borden took an ax. Gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty one.”

Sophomore History Education Major Riley Kershner joins Hollie to talk about the infamous trial of Lizzie Borden and the role that gender and religous biases played in the investigation, trial, and media coverage.

Hollie depicted Lizzie Borden with her ax on Riley’s rough draft of the paper and Riley incorporated it into her final presentation. It is clear based on this drawing why Hollie is a historian, not an artist.

Selected Bibliography:

Inquest Testimony of Lizzie Borden, August 9-11, 1892. Fall River Court Building. https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1444-inquest.

Bartle, Ronald. Lizzie Borden and the Massachusetts Axe Murders. Waterside Press, 2017.

Porter, Edwin H. The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders. Press of J.D. Monroe, 2018.

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Season 7, Episode 2 “Manhood in a Bottle” with Larry Zieammermann

In episode 2 of this season, history graduate student Larry Zieammermann joins Hollie to talk about the intersection of baldness, patent medicines, and masculinity. We’ve covered patent medicines on this podcast before. If you haven’t already, make sure to listen to season 2, episode 7 “Patent Medicines in the West” with Erin Adams, which is one of Hollie’s all time favorite episodes.

Larry’s research focues on male balding in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He includes a discussion of this advertisement for Wildroot Hair Tonic from 1924:

Selected Bibliography:

Johnes, Martin. “Masculinity, Modernity and Male Baldness, c.1880‐1939.” Gender & History 35, no. 1 (2023): 190–211.

Wildroot Hair Tonic, Wilroot, Co., Inc. “When love is young-why worry about hair?.” Advertisement. 1924. https://archive.org/details/WildrootHairTonic1924A.

Young, James Harvey. The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines inAmerica before Federal Regulation. Princeton University Press, 2015.

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Season 7, Episode 1 “The Satanic Panic and Dungeons and Dragons” with Tirzah Howery

“Lego Dungeons and Dragons – Look we found a treasure!” by Marco Hazard is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Victor E. History is back for its seventh season and in this first episode, Hollie is joind by Junior History and English Literature major Tirzah Howery to discuss the role of Dungeons and Dragons in The Satanic Panic. Tirzah, a long time D&D player unpacks the beginnings of the Satanic Panic and how media, and especially role playing games like D&D quickly became a target of nervous suburbanites who thought their children were demonic.

Her research uncovered fascinating source material. In the episode, she discusses this image from Turmoil in the Toybox depicting a less than scientific “study” about the influence of media on a child’s mind.

Selected Bibliography:

Dear, William. The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

Jaffe, Rona. Mazes and Monsters. Delacorte Press, 1981.

Phillips, Phil. Turmoil in the Toybox. Starburst, Inc., 1986

Pulling, Pat. The Devil’s Web: Who Is Stalking Your Children For Satan? Huntington House, Inc., 1989.

Laycock, Joseph P. Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds. University of California Press, 2015.

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Season 7 coming soon!

Season 7 begins February 17 with an episode about The Satanic Panic and Dungeons and Dragons. This season, Victor E History will cover patent medicines for male baldness in the 19th century, the Lizzie Borden trial, women in Japanese Internment camps, and more! In the meantime, catch up on any episodes you’ve missed or re-listen to a favorite.

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Season 6, Episode 7- “John F. Kennedy’s 1959 Visit to Hays, Kansas” with Randy Gonzales”

Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy sits at a banquet table with Sixth District chairman Norbert Dreiling of Hays at a fundraising dinner on Nov. 20, 1959. With them are students from Girls Catholic High School, who were servers at the banquet. Courtesy photo

In the last episode of this season, Hollie is joined by history department alum Randy Gonzales. Randy is an expert on J.F.K.’s 1959 visit to Hays, KS. Kennedy’s visit to Hays included a stop at the radio station, a news conference at Fort Hays State University (home of Victor E. Tiger and Victor E. History!), a parade, and a banquet.

At the banquet, guests had Apple Pie ala Democrat for dessert. Randy shared this photograph from his Apple Pie ala Democrat at the banquet held in 2019 that was a recreation of the 1959 event.

Randy recently worked to get a plaque put on the wall of the FHSU Memorial Union to commemorate Kennedy’s visit to Fort Hays.

Randy earned his M.A. in history at FHSU and wrote his thesis on Kennedy’s visit to Hays.

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S6, E6 “The 1958 Federal Switchblade Ban” with Dr. Jason Barr

Dr. Jason Barr, FHSU History M.A. student, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss the 1958 Federal Switchblade Ban. Jason explores the cultural setting of the 1940s and 50s, including perceptions of race and juvenile delinquency, that led to Public Law 85-623. Jason also discusses popular media like films, novels, and magazine articles that led to ideas about who was using switchblades and how, creating a frenzy about teen gangs in the era.

Selected Bibliography:

Athanas, Verne. “Switchblade.” Saturday Evening Post. 1958, 231 (10), 24–50. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19537375&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Crowther, Bosley. “The Screen: ‘Blackboard Jungle:’ Delinquency Shown in Powerful Film.” New York Times, March 21, 1955, 21. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/03/21/93731664.html.

“It’s Time to Disarm Switch-Blade-Toting Juvenile Hoodlums.” July 12, 1958. Saturday Evening Post. 231 (2), 10. https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=19533675&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Wertham, Fredric. Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today’s Youth. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1955.

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S6, E5-“Resistance to Cannabis Prohibition, 1930-1945” with Dr. Emory Wilder

In episode 5, Dr. Emory Wilder, FHSU Masters student joins Hollie to discuss “Serpents” and “Vipers” and the resistance to cannabis prohibition from 1930-1945. Dr. Wilder covers cannabis in patent medicines, cannabis as a muse in jazz music, and the circumstances that led to discourse on a federal ban.

Selected Bibliography:

Anslinger, Harry J. “Marijuana, Assassin of Youth.” Reader’s Digest (1938).
https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1930/mjassassinrd.htm.

Chasteen, John Charles. Getting High: Marijuana in World History. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Cohen, Michael M. “Jim Crow’s Drug War: Race, Coca Cola, and the Southern Origins of Drug Prohibition.” Southern Cultures 12, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 55-79.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26391000.

Smith, Stuff, and the Onyx Club Boys. “If You’re a Viper.” March 13, 1936. Audio
recording. 00:03:20. hTps://soundcloud.com/stella-blue-1/youre-a-viper-stuff-smith-and.

Webb, Chick, and His Orchestra. “When I Get Low I Get High.” April 7, 1936. Audio recording. 00:02:29. https://archive.org/details/JV-10685-1936-
Qmepcnc4nyXcKRPmrZTHeJGTKJ9GTuBdXVxd7JbqxZMi3e.mp3.

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S6, E4- “Hoover, the Flood of 1927, and the African American Turn from the Republican Party” with Will Amos

In this episode, Will Amos, undergraduate history major, chats with Hollie Marquess about the 1927 Mississippi River Flood. This devastating flood caused hundreds of deaths and displaced thousands from homes. Will discusses the natural disaster, Herbert Hoover’s coordination of relief efforts, and the reasons in which this flood marked the African American turn from the Republican Party.

Selected Bibliography:

Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Touchstone, 1998.

Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.

Randolph, Ned. “River Activism, ‘Levees-Only’ and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927,” Media and Communication 6, no. 1 (February 2018): 43-51.

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S6, E3 “Sensory Interactions in Finnish Death Customs”

FHSU History M.A. student Starla Rajavouri discusses Finnish death customs with Hollie Marquess. Starla focuses on the sensorial aspects of preparing the body of the deceased, burial practices, rites and customs to prevent returning spirits, and the lament traditions.

Selected Bibliography:

Koski, Kaarina. “Conceptual Analysis and Variation in Belief Tradition: A Case of Death-Related Beings.” Electronic Journal of Folklore 38 (2008): 45-66.

Lönnrot, Elias. Suomen kansan muinaisia loitsurunoja. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran, 1880; reprint, Project Gutenberg, 2015. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48751.

Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot (SKVR). Finnish Literature Society. Available online: http://skvr.fi.

Tolbert, Elizabeth. “Women Cry with Words: Symbolization of Affect in the Karelian Lament.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 22 (1990): 80-105. https://doi.org/10.2307/767933.

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S2, E2- “Soundscapes of Polish Ghettos” with Matt Davenport

“Still Life of a Violin and Sheet of Music Behind Prison Bars by Bedrich Fritta,” 1943, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Episode 2 features another previous guest of Victor E, Matt Davenport. In this episode he visits with Hollie about his research titled “Music, Silence, and Violence: Soundscapes and Collective Memory of Polish Ghettos.” Matt unpacks the ways in which music, silence, and the sounds of violence shaped everyday interactions of Jewish people in the ghettos as well as the role of the soundscapes in the way in which survivors remember the ghettos.

Matt’s previous episode on Victor E.’s first season also discusses the Holocaust, with a focus on the Holocaust in the East. Check that out here: https://wordpress.com/post/victorehistory.com/71

You can find Matt’s episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. While you’re there, give us a review. Let us know what you like and share widely!

Selected Bibliography:

Bruk, Selene. “Oral History Interview with Selene Bruk.” Interviewed by Arnold Band. March 6, 1983. The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503582.

Carolyn Birdsall, Nazi Soundscapes: Sound, Technology and Urban Space in Germany, 1933-1945, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

Flam, Gila. Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto 1940-45. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Nowak, Anja. Violent Space: The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023.

Songs mentioned in the episode:

Our Town is Burning

Es Brent

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Season 6, Episode 1- “1950s North Carolina Women’s Prison Riots” with Chelsea Kiefer

Photo of a Christmas program in the Raleigh Women’s Prison. Chelsea discusses this image in the episode.

Season six begins with a familiar guest, Chelsea Kiefer. Chelsea joins Hollie to discuss “When the Powerless Stand Up: Social Dynamics in 1950s North Carolina Women’s Prison Riots.” She discusses riots that happened in 1954 and 1956 that occurred in the women’s prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. These riots, both motivated by very different circumstances, demonstrate that the women felt that rioting was the only way they could create change. However, the riots resulted in even less power for these women in an era before the major inmate rights movements.

Selected Bibliography:

“18 Women Inmates Riot.” The New York Times, September 23, 1956.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/09/23/95810601.html?pageNumber=59.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2020.

Faith, Karlene. Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance. New York: First Seven Stories Press, 2011.

“History of NC Prisons.” North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
https://www.doc.state.nc.us/admin/page1.htm.

“Prison Quiet After Riot Over Death of Tied Girl.” Norfolk Journal and Guide, August 28, 1954. The State Library of North Carolina. Raleigh, NC.

Book recommended by Hollie in the episode: https://www.hughryan.org/house-of-d

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Season six coming soon!

Victor E. History is back in August with its sixth season! This season offers a wide variety of topics from our online and campus students as well as an alum. This season’s episodes are:

Episode 1- August 26- “1950s North Carolina Women’s Prison Riots” with Chelsea Kiefer

Episode 2- September 9- “Soundscapes of Polish Ghettos” with Matt Davenport

Episode 3- September 23- “Sensory Interactions in Finnish Death Customs” with Starla Rajavouri

Episode 4- October 7- “Hoover, the Flood of 1927, and the African American Turn from the Republican Party” with Will Amos

Episode 5- October 21 “Resistance to Cannabis Prohibition, 1930-1945” with Dr. Emory Wilder

Episode 6- November 4 “The 1959 Federal Switchblade Ban” with Dr. Jason Barr

Episode 7- November 18 “John F. Kennedy’s 1959 Visit to Hays, Kansas” with Randy Gonzales

While you’re waiting, catch up on seasons one through five on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. While you’re there, give us a review. Let us know what you like and share widely!

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S5, E8- “The Orphan Train” with Joanna Lockwood

In the last episode of the season, Joanna Lockwood, History Masters Student at FHSU, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss the orphan train. Joanna explains how and why the orphan train began, the experiences faced by orphan train riders on their journey and in their new homes, and modern memorialization efforts. Joanna’s great-grandfather, George Lockwood, was an orphan train rider at just six years old.

Selected Bibliography:

Primary Sources

Johnson, Mary Ellen. Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories. Vol. 1. Wever, IA: Quixote Press, 1992. (This is just the first of a six-volume collection compiled by Mary Ellen Johnson and the OTHSA organization).

Secondary Sources

The American Experience: The Orphan Trains. Produced and Directed by Janet Graham and Edward Gray. Crystal City, VA: PBS, 1995. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/orphan/#cast_and_crew.

Aviles, Donna Nordmark. Orphan Train to Kansas. Shelbyville, KY: Wasteland Press, 2018

Holt, Marilyn Irvin. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Kidder, Clark. Emily’s Story: The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider. Self-published, CreateSpace Publishing, 2007.

Langsam, Miriam Z. Children West: A History of the Placing-Out System of the New York Children’s Aid Society, 1853-1890. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin for Department of History, University of Wisconsin, 1964.

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S5, E7- “The Nazi Olympics” with Keith Kuehn

Helene Mayer, Olympic Fencer, c. 1936.
“Helene Mayer, c1936” by Los Angeles Times is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

In episode 7 of this season, senior history major Keith Kuehn visits with Hollie about the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, or “The Nazi Olympics.” Helene Mayer (pictured above) was a German Jewish fencer who competed and won a silver for Germany. Keith unpacks the use of German propaganda, including film and television as well as the German discrimination against Jews and how this played out during the 1936 games.

Keith also briefly discusses his pet Eugene, who became the mascot for Ms. Marquess’s Women in American History course. Eugene, a female tortoise, got dressed up based on the theme of each week. Here she is as Eugene the Riveter.

Selected Bibliography:

Birchall, Frederick T. “Goebbels Denies Intent to Use Games for Propaganda Purposes.” New York Times. July 31, 1936. accessed November 20, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/1936/07/31/archives/goebbels-denies-intent-to-use-games-for-propaganda-purposes.html?searchResultPosition=20.

Kline, Christopher. “The Olympic Torch Relay’s Surprising Origins.” History. A&E Television Networks, published May 17, 2012. accessed December 2, 2023.

Pinkhasov, Seymon, dir. What If? The Helene Mayer Story. 2008; Hesse, Germany: 2021. stream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIUs_ceGVYw.

Riefenstahl, Leni, dir. Olympia. April 20, 1938. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23Q01qvdGs&t=1458s.

Riefenstahl, Leni. Leni Riefenstahl Interview, 1964. NDR-Nordschau. 1964. Accessed November 20, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1zdzmxpif8&t=1s.

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Season 5 Episode 6- “Futball: A Voice for the Silenced in Nazi Germany” with David Solis

In episode 6, senior history major at FHSU, David Solis, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss the role of football (or soccer) in Nazi Germany. David explores the complex nature of resistance, both with individuals and whole soccer clubs, during the Nazi regime in World War II.

Selected Bibliography:

German Officials in Kiev. A flyer that advertised the rematch between Flakelf and FC Start. Summer 1942. From the DW, https://www.dw.com/en/death-match-in-the-shadow-of-war/a-16000159.

Arolsen Archives and Borussia Dortmund. Football Players in Focus: Educational Materials on Sports, Persecution, and Remembrance. Germany: Arolsen Archives, 2021. https://arolsen-archives.org/content/uploads/football-players-in-focus.pdf.

Simpson, Kevin E. Soccer Under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust. Maryland: Roman & Littlefield, 2016. Accessed through ProQuest https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/lib/fhsu/reader.action?docID=4525022.

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. We also have a new accelerated MA program. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-program

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S5 E5- “Through Hell to the Midwest: Mapping Holocaust Survival in Kansas City” with Hollie Marquess, Amber Nickell, and Sarah Keiss

Midwest Center for Holocaust Education Monument in Kansas City

In this episode, Hollie Marquess is joined by Amber Nickell and Sarah Keiss. The three of them discuss their research project, “Through Hell to the Midwest,” which maps Holocaust survival using arcGIS and StoryMaps. Hollie, Amber, and Sarah discuss how they used oral history testimony from the Fortunoff Archives to trace Holocaust survivors from birth, through the Holocaust, and to their new lives in the Kansas City area. For more information on these survivors, visit:

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S5-E4 “Pauline Sabin and the Campaign Against Prohibition” with Whitney Befort

In this episode, junior history education major Whitney Befort joins Hollie Marquess to discuss Pauline Sabin and her efforts to repeal the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Whitney covers her early life, her involvement in politics, and how she mobilized women all over the country to dismantle Prohibition in the U.S.

Selected Bibliography:

Sabin, Pauline Morton. “I Change My Mind on Prohibition.” Outlook, June 13, 1928. https://www.unz.com/print/Outlook-1928jun13-00254/.

“Women Will Battle For Dry Law Repeal.” The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA), March 1, 1932. https://archive.org/details/per_atlanta-constitution_1932-03-01_64_261/page/n13/mode/2up.

Ambrose, Hugh, and John Schuttler. Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition. New York: Berkely, 2018.

Neumann, Caryn E. “The End of Gender Solidarity: The History of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform in the United States, 1929-1933.” Journal of Women’s History 9, no. 2 (1997): 31-51. https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2010.0564.

“The Repeal of Prohibition.” Prohibition: An Interactive History. The Mob Museum. Accessed October 30, 2023. https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-end-of-prohibition/repeal-of-prohibition/.

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S5 Episode 3- “Women and Mourning Culture in the Victorian Era” with Kylah Smith

“Mourning dress, 19th century” is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5.

In episode Kylah Smith, junior history major, visits with Hollie about Victorian Era America’s mourning customs. She unpacks how mourning practices differed based on gender, social status, and relationship to the deceased.

Selected Bibliography:

“The Fashion of Mourning.” Godey’s Lady’s Book (March 1875).

“The Social Duty of a Woman: A Visit of Sympathy.” Cassell’s Family Magazine (1894).

McDaniel, Katherine. “Angels in Black: Victorian Women in Mourning.” City of Greeley Museums. Accessed November 5, 2023. https://greeleymuseums.com/victorian-women-in-mourning/.

Strange, Julie-Marie. “‘She Cried a Very Little’: Death, Grief and Mourning in Working-Class Culture, c. 1880-1914.” Social History 27, no. 2 (May 2002): 143–61.

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S5 E2- “The German Genocide of the Herero” with Larry Zieammermann

History Grad student Larry Zieammermann joins Hollie to discuss the German Genocide of the Herero. If you haven’t already, pop back into season 1 to listen to his first appearance on the podcast when he discussed Lucy Parsons.

Selected Bibliography:

Gewald, Jan-Bart. Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999.

Gewald, Jan-Bart. “The Great General Of The Kaiser.” Botswana Notes and Records 26 (1994):67-76.

Schaller, Dominik J. and Zimmerer, Jurgen. “Settlers, Imperialism, Genocide: Seeing the Global without Ignoring the Local.” Journal of Genocide Research 10, no. 2 (2008): 191-99.

Erichsen, C.W.. “The Angel of Death has Descended Violently Among Them”: Concentration Camps and Prisoners-of-War in Namibia, 1908-1908. Leiden: African Studies Centre,2005.

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Season 5 Episode 5- “Kansas Methodists and the KKK” with Susan Elliott

In our first episode of the season, junior history major Susan Elliot joins Hollie to discuss the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas and its interaction with Kansas Methodists.

Selected Bibliography:

Baker, Kelly J. Gospel According to the Klan: the KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915- 1930. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011.

“Kansas Ku Klux Donate $8160 to Wesley.” Wichita Sunday Eagle, November 19, 1922. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/64381053. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/64381056.

“Ku Klux Klan Enters Kansas.” Emporia Gazette, July 23, 1921. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/16523569/?terms=%22ku%20klux %20klan%22&match=1.

“To the Lovers of Law and Order, Peace and Justice and to All Whom of Right It May Concern.” Evening Star, April 8, 1922. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/76634588/?terms=%22ku %20lux&match=1

Rives,Tim. The Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City, Kansas. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2019.

“Stinging Reply to Editor Who Criticized Klan Gift to Hospital is Hurled.” Evening Star, December 11, 1922. https://kansashistoricalsociety.newspapers.com/image/76632573/? terms=%22methodist%22&match=1.

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Season 4, Episode 7- FHSU History Alumna Brianna Buller

Brianna Buller at Royal Holloway in London

In the final episode of Season 4, Hollie is joined by Brianna Buller. Brianna earned her B.A. in History at FHSU and went on to a M.A. in Public History at Royal Holloway in London. The two discuss her time at both universities, her Threads of Herstory Project, and adventures in Europe.

https://www.threadsofherstory.com/

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Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-programs/

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S4, E 6 Epidemic Disease and Medical Relief during the Irish Potato Famine with Dr. Robert Lane

“The Famine Memorial Dublin Ireland May 2018” by Ron Cogswell is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

In this episode, Dr. Rob Lane, ENT Physician and current FHSU M.A. in History student, joins Hollie to discuss epidemic disease and medical relief during the Irish Potato Famine.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Film- Black ’47

Corrigan, Dominic. On famine and fever as cause and effect in Ireland: with observations on hospital location, and the dispensation in outdoor relief of food and medicine. Dublin: Goodwin, Son, and Nethercott, Printers, 1846. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y5ydbae6/items?canvas=35.

Crowley, John, William Smyth, and Mike Murphy, eds. Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Geary, Laurence. Medicine and charity in Ireland, 1718-1851. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2004.

O’Connor, John. The Workhouses of Ireland: The Fate of Ireland’s Poor. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1995.

Ó Murchadha, Ciarán. The Great Famine: Ireland’s Agony, 1845-1852. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

“Famine Memorial” by Daniel Dudek is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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S4, Episode 5- “Child-free Women in the early 20th century” with Chelsea Kiefer

Chelsea Kiefer, senior history major at FHSU, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss child-free women in the first half of the 20th century. She unpacks rates of child-free women, methods to prevent pregnancy (including horrifying ones like a condom that looks like a chef hat and ones that are reusable), and Eugenic postcards.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

-example of Eugenics postcard

In the episode, Chelsea and Hollie mention a condom that looks like a chef hat. We are not using an image of the reusable condoms here, but you can use your imagination for that.

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S4, E4- Study Abroad to Florence and Prague

Hollie Marquess is joined by Dr. Kim Perez of the FHSU history program and several of her students that went on a Study Abroad to Prague and Florence over the summer. Savanna Baumgart, Rachel Waddell, Becca Balzan, and Erin Adams discuss all things Prague and Florence in this episode.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

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S 4, E3 “Jacqueline Cochran and the creation of the Women’s Flying Training Detachment” with Kayla Nelson

Kayla Nelson, graduate Public History major at FHSU, joins Hollie to discuss female aviation pioneer Jacqueline Cochran, who advocated that women had women pilots had the skills and abilities to fly for the war effort during WWII. She formed the Women Flying Training Detachment and eventually headed the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Cochran, Jacqueline. “American Women Pilots” 3 September 1943, Box 14, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderJJ.pdf.

Landdeck, Katherine Sharp. The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. New York: Crown, 2021.

Smith, Hannah. “The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII: A Tactical Necessity with Strategic Implications.” Air & Space Power History 69, no. 1 (2022). https://www.afhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Spring2022Issue_All-1.pdf.

Olds, Robert. “To all women holders of licenses,” 29 July 1941, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Box 2, Subseries I: Pre-WASP Files, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderA.pdf.

War Department. “Jacqueline Cochran Named Director of Women’s Flying Training in Army,” 14 September 1942, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Box 2, Subseries I: Pre-WASP Files, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderCC.pdf.

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S4, E2- “Obscenity law and the Supreme Court” with Ashlynn Kelly

Ashlynn Kelly, senior history major at FHSU, joins Hollie Marquess to talk about Anthony Comstock, how the Supreme Court tried to define obscenity, and Kansas’s relationship with obscenity law.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413 (1966), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/383/413/.

Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.usreports/usrep413&div=10&start_page=15&collection=usreports&set_as_cursor=2&men_tab=srchresults.

Quantity of Books et al. v. Kansas, 378 U.S. 205 (1964), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.usreports/usrep378&div=25&start_page=205&collection=usreports&set_as_cursor=0&men_tab=srchresults.

Roth v. United States, 354 US 476 (1957), https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=usreports&handle=hein.usreports/usrep354&id=517&men_tab=srchresults.

State v. A Motion Picture Entitled “The Bet,” 219 Kan. 64, 547 P.2d 760 (Kan. 1976) https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=1904294&native_id=1904294&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.

Swearingen v. United States, 161 U.S. 446, 16 S.Ct. 562 (1896), https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=348734&native_id=348734&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.

United States v. One Book Called “Ulysses,” 5 F. Supp. 182 (S. D. New York 1933), https://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLawAuth?cid=7165726&native_id=7165726&rest=1&collection=fastcasefull.

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Season 4 Episode 1- Alumnus Chris Dinkel- history and law school

In our first episode of season 4, host Hollie Marquess is joined by Chris Dinkel, alumnus of FHSU, and Dr. Kim Perez, history faculty. Chris completed his M.A. in history at FHSU and has since graduated from Columbia Law School in NYC. Chris discusses his time in our master’s program, his study process for the LSAT, living in a miniscule NYC apartment with a family of three, and his recent case that went to the Supreme court.

Chris was honored with FHSU’s Young Alumni Award in 2023. The Young Alumni Award was designed to recognize outstanding achievements and recent accomplishments early in their careers.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-programs/

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Season 4 is coming soon!

Season four premiers August 28! Mark your calendars for episodes out every other Monday. Season four features an alumnus who has recently taken a case to the Supreme Court and another who creates historical statues. Featured student research includes topics such as obscenity and the courts, WWII aviation, early 20th century child-free women, and more! We’ll also hear from students who traveled to Florence and Prague over the summer. In the meantime, catch up on any episodes you’ve missed, or listen to your favorites again. Be sure to share widely and help us spread the word about these amazing students and their hard work!

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S3 Episode 7- Poland 2023- Students discuss study abroad

Students and Ms. Marquess in downtown Warsaw

In our final episode of this semester, Dr. Guha is joined by Dr. Nickell and Hollie Marquess, along with three students who went on their study abroad to Poland trip in March 2023. History majors Alex White, Sarah Keiss, and Ashlyn Carlson discuss their experience of learning about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland. Of course, we also discuss pierogis!

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

FHSU students at Cafe Bergson in Oswiecim

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S3 Episode 6- “Edythe Eyde: A Queer Media Pioneer” with Lucy Martin

Junior Lucy Martin joins Hollie Marquess to discuss Edythe Eyde and her contributions to Queer Media that helped to shape a lesbian identity and inspire the LGBTQ Civil Rights movements at mid-century. Eyde wrote the first lesbian newsletter in the U.S., “Vice Versa” and also sang about queer life.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

After you listen to Lucy’s episode, check out https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/bonus-episode-edythe-eydes-gay-gals-mixtape/ so you can hear her songs.

While working at RKO Pictures, Edythe’s boss told her to “look busy” and so she typed her lesbian newsletter with carbon copies to distribute.

Selected Bibliography:

Ben, Lisa. “Vice Versa,” Queer Music Heritage. https://queermusicheritage.com/viceversa0.html (Copies of Vice Versa)

Eyde, Edythe. Interview by Eric Marcus, n.d. in “Edyth Eyde aka Lisa Ben.” October 26, 2016, Making Gay History: LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archives, produced by Pineapple Street Media, podcast, 15:33, https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-1-3/.

Edye, Edythe. Interview by Eric Marcus, n.d. in “Bonus Episode- Edyth Eyde’s Gay Gal’s Mixtape.” October 11, 2017, Making Gay History: LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archives, produced by Pineapple Street Media, podcast, 13:23, https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/bonus-episode-edythe-eydes-gay-gals-mixtape/.

Hansen, Rob. “Tigrina (Edythe Edye).” http://www.fiawol.org.uk/fanstuff/THEN%20Archive/LASFS/Tigrina.htm.

Legare, Lydia. “Lisa Ben’s Songbook.” https://lydialegare.wixsite.com/lisabenssongbook.

Marcus, Eric. Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990; An Oral History. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.

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S3 Episode 5 “Entrapment, the Mattachine Society, and Gay Rights” with Megan Householter

Sophomore Megan Householter joins Hollie Marquess to discuss how the tactics of Vice Squads, like entrapment, led to the forming of the Mattachine Society at mid-century and, ultimately, to a modern gay rights movement.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Call, Hal. Interview by Eric Marcus, n.d., in “Hal Call.” March 16, 2017, Making Gay History: LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archives, produced by Pineapple Street Media, podcast, 22:35, https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-13-hal-call/

Charles, Douglas M. Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, September 2015.

D’Emilio, John. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. New York: Routledge Publishing, 1992.

Hay, Harry. Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder. Edited by Will Roscoe. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Lvovsky, Anna. Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, May 2021. ProQuest.

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Season 3, Episode 4- “Fatherhood Among the Gods” with Jason Rivera

Prof. Manamee Guha is joined by FHSU History junior Jason Rivera to discuss his paper Fatherhood Among Ancient Gods. The podcast explores the life cycle of father-son relationships through the lens of three different father-son pairs across three different mythologies, Zeus and his father Cronos, Odin and Thor and God and Jesus.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Williams, Charles. Forever a Father, Always a Son. Wheaton, Il: Victor Books. 1991.

Williams, Charles. “The Life Cycle of Father-Son Relationships.”

Thompson, Marianne Meye. “The Living Father.” Semeia: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999.

Sturluson, Snorri. The Prose Edda. Translated by Arther Gilchrist Brodeur. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1916.

Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. “Theogony.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914.

Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1942.

Eliade, Mircea. A History of Religious Ideas: vol. 2 From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity. Chicago, Il: The University of Chicago Press, 1982.

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S3 Episode 3- Major Ben Peeler

US Army Major Ben Peeler, alumnus of Fort Hays State University History Department joins Hollie Marquess to discuss his time at FHSU and how his degrees from Fort Hays prepared him for his successful military career.

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode

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