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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

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/

S3 Episode 2- “Nintendo: A Gamechanger in American Culture” with Keith Kuehn

In the second episode of the season, History Education student Keith Kuehn joins Dr. Manamee Guha to discuss the ways Nintendo and the beloved character of Mario transformed the culture of video games in America.

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:

Kondo, Koji. “VGL: Koji Kondo Interview.” Interviewed by Chris Kohler. Wired Magazine (2007). https://www.wired.com/2007/03/vgl-koji-kondo-/.

Kohler, Chris. Power Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life. Indianapolis: BradyGAMES, 2005.

Ryan, Jeff. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.

Consalvo, Mia. Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in a Global Context. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016.

Season 3, Episode 1- Zoot Suits, Las Pachucas, and the Sleepy Lagoon Murder with Lizbeth Guardado and David Solis

Image is of US Navy members with sticks and bats during the Zoot Suit Riots

In this episode, sophomore history education majors Lizbeth Guardado and David Solis join Hollie Marquess to discuss the Zoot Suit Riots, the Sleeply Lagoon Murder, and a lesser known group involved, Las Pachucas.

David Solis discusses Las Pachucas and, as promised, here is an image of their signature hairdo.

Lizbeth’s research focused on the Sleepy Lagoon Murder and trial as a precursor to the Zoot Suit Riots.

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:

The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race and Discrimination and Mexican American Rights – Mark A. Weitz, 2010

The Zoot Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation -Mauricio Mazon, 1984

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. – Eduardo Pagan, 2011

From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front.– Elizabeth Escobedo, 2013

The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and The Cultural Politics of Memory– Catherine Ramirez, 2009

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/zoot/

Season 3 is coming soon!

Gold colored condenser microphone other black background. Sound recording equipment.

Season 3 of Victor E History is out next week and we’ll debut our brand new theme song, composed by Fort Hays State University student Nathan Weis. This season we will chat with notable alumni and will continue to feature student research on topics like the Sleepy Lagoon Murder, las Pachucas, the 1917 intelligence tests, Japanese video games, the gay rights movement, Edythe Eyde, and more!

In the meantime, catch up on seasons 1 and 2 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

S2- Episode 7 “Patent Medicines in the West” with Erin Adams

In this episode, graduate student Erin Adams joins Hollie Marquess to discuss the sale of patent medicines in the west and how they used Native American imagery to sell their potions. They also discuss how the Great British Bake Off relates to Turner’s theory of the West.

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:

Primary Sources:

Adams, Samuel Hopkins. “If It’s Medical, It’s a Swindle.” New York Tribune. January 6, 1915, 74 edition, sec. 24,888. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-01-06/ed-1/seq-1/.

Louden’s Indian Expectorant. , ca. 1848. Photograph.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001701409/.

Glackens, L. M. , Artist. The Indian Medicine Show / L.M. Glackens. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, November 2. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2011647635/>.

“Kickapoo Indian Sagwa: Blood, Liver, Stomach and Kidney Renovator.” National Museum of American History. Accessed 2020. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1296185.

Secondary Sources:

Burns, Stanley B., and Elizabeth A. Burns. “Wizard Oil patent medicine salesmen. (A Pictorial History of Healing).” Clinician Reviews, July 2002, 43. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed Spring, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A90248517/AONE?u=klnb_fhsuniv&sid=AONE&xid=e7f78c7c

Biron, Gerry. “Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) participation in 19th century medicine shows.” Whispering Wind, August-September 2013, 6+. Gale Academic OneFile. https://link-gale-com.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/apps/doc/A347521927/AONE?u=klnb_fhsuniv&sid=AONE&xid=8dfc0ca3.

Rosenberg, John. 2012. “Barbarian Virtues in a Bottle: Patent Indian Medicines and the Commodification of Primitivism in the United States, 1870-1900.” Gender & History 24 (2): 368–88. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2012.01687.x.

S2-Episode 6 “The Fall of Nicholas II” with Miranda Edwards

In this episode, online Master’s student Miranda Edwards joins Dr. Manamee Guha to talk more about Nicholas II and World War I. How much did his autocratic ideals clash with revolutionaries who were looking for large-scale reforms? Miranda also discusses the role Nicholas II’s wife Alexandra Feodorovna and her ally Rasputin played in pushing Russia into the throes of World War I.

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:

Gilliard, Pierre. Thirteen Years at the Russian Court. Translated by F. Appleby Holt. New York, NY: George H. Doran & Co., 1987.

Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1968.

Price, Morgan Philips. Dispatches from the Revolution: Russia, 1916-1918. Edited by Tania Rose. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.

Radzinsky, Edvard. The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II. Translated by Marian Schwartz. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1992.

Romanov, Alexandra, Nicholas II Romanov, and Bernard Pares. Letters of the Tsaritsa to the Tsar, 1914-1916. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1987.

Service, Robert. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution. London: Macmillan, 2017.

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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