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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:

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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

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.

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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.

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

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.

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:

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.

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