Author: victorehistory

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.

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.

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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

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

Dr. Albert Yeager

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.

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!

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.

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

Sheva, Soloman, and Basenka Kantsedikas

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.

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!

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.

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. 

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:

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.

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

Nisei Week beauty competion

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.

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:

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.

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

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

Lizzie Borden

“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.

Also Lizzie Borden

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.

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:

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.

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

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:

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:

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.

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