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In which the Historians learn about how to think about scandal and the relationship between sexuality and Evangelical and Pentecostal religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century America, and how RHOP and RHOSLC can help us understand cheating and sexuality in these church communities.

Recommended Reading

Suzanna Krivulskaya, “A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination,” The Revealer, March 2, 2020.

Wallace Best, “Lessons from the Rev. Eddie Long Scandal: Some Historical Context,” Huffpost, October 10, 2010.

Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Ambre Dromgoole, “Pastor Mary Cosby, Arranged Pentecostal Marriages, and the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Revealer, February 4, 2021.

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (New York: Liveright, 2020).

Megan Goodwyn and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “Keeping It 101” podcast.

Ahmad Greene-Hayes, “New Birth and Jamal Bryant: Time for the Black Church to Address Its Culture of Sexism, Misogyny and Homophobia,” The Root, December 4, 2018.

Emily Suzanne Johnson, “A Theme Park, a Scandal, and the Faded Ruins of a Televangelism Empire,” Religion & Politics, October 28, 2014.

Bravo Insider, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Answer ALL Your Questions About Mormonism."

Mathew Schmalz, “Why the Label ‘Cult’ Gets in the Way of Understanding New Religions,” The Conversation, April 10, 2018.

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In which the Historians discuss public history, the Bronze Age Mari and curse tablets in Roman Britain, the connections between soap operas with Bravo shows like Vanderpump Rules and RHOBH, contemplate Real Housewives' curses on each other, what Jax Taylor has to do with a legal record from 3,000 years ago, paralleling Yolanda's treatment of the Hadid sisters with imperial alliances of the Bronze Age, consider the relationships between ancient cure-alls and housewives' use of IV drips, rating travel journalism, and much, much more!

For more from our guest, check out:

CarlySilver.com

IG: @bespectacledlegend

Twitter: @CarlyASilver

Recommended Reading

Carly Silver, "Do You Want to Build an Icehouse?: On the refrigerated innovations of ancient rulers," Laphams Quarterly, September 28, 2021

Carly Silver, "How Ancient Cure-Alls Paved the Way for Drug Regulation," The Atlantic, January 10, 2017

Carly Silver, "This Corrupt Boss Was Charged With Sexual Harassment—3,000 Years Ago," Narratively, April 4, 2018

Greg Jenner, You’re Dead to Me podcast

Atlas Obscura

JStor Daily

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“I’m that misbehaving Nasty Wench, writing and creating history, making the good wives and patriarchs anxious” with Dr. Kristalyn Shefveland

The personal legacies of Kathleen Brown, William Byrd ancestry, tips for scholars and graduate students researching in the archive, Walt Disney’s failed Slavery-themed theme park, ethnic foldaways in Indiana, discussing how reality television can be used to teach historical memory and the Lost Cause myth, and much, much more! 

Kristalyn Shefveland's twitter: @kristalynmarie

Recommended Reading

Anglo-Native Virginia: Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).

Classic Restaurants of Evansville (Charleston, S.C.:The History Press, 2020)

Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1996)

Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975)

Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)  

Social Media

Twitter: @HistoriansH

Etsy Shop: HistoriansHousewives

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In which the Historians discuss connections between lynching photography and the power of television, the racial politics of Bravo touching on current events and hypocrisies in reality television storylines, historical contexts for cultural liberalism and its limits, Max takes over the Bonko Party game, and we all come to grips with the end of a really long semester, and much, much more!

Recommended Readings

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Kate Flach Op-Eds:

“Thanks to conservative politicians and the media, the education wars echo the 1960s,” Washington Post, November 19, 2021

“The ‘Wonder Years’ remake resurrects a 1970 tactic to diversify TV viewing,” Washington Post, October 1, 2021:

“Television is already moving to address racism—but will the effort last?,” Washington Post, June 11, 2020:

Daniel Widener, Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2010)

Allison Perlman, Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television (Rutgers University Press, 2016)

Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).

Elana Levine, Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020).

Ruth Feldstein, “I Wanted the Whole World to See"

Social Media

Twitter: @HistoriansH

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In which the Historians discuss family law, poverty law, and divorce law and how they come up on the Real Housewives, “high-wealth families” legal regulations around high-wealth exceptionalism, the Girardi divorce, the differences between trusts and estates and much, much more!

Further Readings

Allison Tate, Home of the Dispossessed, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (2022). 

Allison Tate, Inheriting Privilege, 116 Minnesota Law Review (2022). 

Allison Tate, Custom of The Country: Trusts and Marriage Planning in High-Wealth Families, 34 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Journal 219 (2021).

Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh

Rachel Sherman,  "'A Very Expensive Ordinary Life': Consumption, Symbolic Boundaries, and Moral Legitimacy among New York Elites." Socio-Economic Review 16(2): 411-433 (2018)

Sources

Lisa Vanderpump in ABC's "Poison Arrow"

Clip from Real Housewives of New York, Season 10 Episode 12: "Every Mayflower Has Its Thorn"

Social Media

Twitter: @HistoriansH

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In which the historians discuss the long history of Native sovereignty and the encroachment of state and federal government onto Native lands, issues of sovereignty, wardship and citizenship for Indigenous people, and how issues of Native identity are represented on the Real Housewives of New York, Potomac, and Atlanta, as well as much, much more!

For the article we reference in this episode, see: Sarah Viren, “The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t,” The New York Times Magazine (May 25, 2021)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html

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