Often left off maps or stuck inside a seam, the history of Aotearoa is often indicative of the consequences of colonialism. Sources: HANZ, Thomas. Historyaotearoa.Com, 20 Apr. 2024, https://historyaotearoa.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABptIUbOg5ylpyqEphUIh6_0CvNv_K1raqlOZnQdvCEt6ICn48kov7mL1YwQ_aem_Af8K9eJ_RnvvvC5E6WCPVEwf63sYGX6libqhAoeWzaI85fhbbxoAVK9ba8-jlMQYTWQ. Accessed 1 Apr. 2024. King, Michael. Penguin History of New Zealand. Penguin, 2017. Thompson, Christina. Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. Thompson, Christina. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. Harper, 2022. Wallis, Helen M. “Abel Tasman.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 10 Apr. 2024, www.britannica.com/biography/Abel-Tasman.

Listener request! The Mad Trapper of Rat River sparked the largest manhunt in Canadian history. Special guest, Beau Binek! Sources: Editors. “Albert Johnson, ‘The Mad Trapper of Rat River.’” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 22 Jan. 2008, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/albert-johnson. Katz, Hélèna. The Mad Trapper: The Incredible Tale of a Famous Canadian Manhunt. CNIB, 2007. North, Dick. The Mad Trapper of Rat River: A True Story of Canada’s Biggest Manhunt. Lyons Press, 2018.

Marie Curie was a revolutionary scientist discovering a previously unknown state of matter, as well as two elements on the periodic table. She was first woman to win the Nobel Prize and first person to win in twice (not to mention in different scientific fields). Join us for the incomparable Marie Curie! Sources: Curie, Eve, and Vincent Sheean. Madam Curie. Mass., Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Editors. “Marie Curie.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 11 Mar. 2024, www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Curie. Goldsmith, Barbara. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. Paw Prints, 2008.

In part 2 of The Blues, we talk about the folklorists who came to (mistakenly) define what the blues music was, and what it wasn’t. Aaron Weed joins us again! Sources: Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. 7th ed., Oxford University Press, 1994. Gioia, Ted. Delta Blues. 20th ed., W. W. Norton, 2008. King, Chris Thomas. Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture. Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2021.

The blues - one of the greatest cultural inventions of all time - and its history has been shrouded and obscured by folklorists seeking to perpetuate a racist myth applying primitiveness to the genre. Which is untrue of course. Special guest, Aaron Weed! Sources: BlackFacts.com. “Creoles of Color.” Blackfacts.Com, 2023, www.blackfacts.com/fact/creoles-of-color. Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. 7th ed., Oxford University Press, 1994. Gioia, Ted. Delta Blues. 20th ed., W. W. Norton, 2008. King, Chris Thomas. Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture. Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2021.

Emily Dickinson was one of, if not the greatest American poet. The real Emily and details about her life remain elusive however. Sources: Ackmann, Martha. These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson. W.W, Norton & Company, Inc., 2021. Dickinson, Emily, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickenson Sic. Madison Park, an Imprint of Pacific Publishing Studio, 2022. Gordon, Lyndall. Lives like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds. Penguin, 2011.

British MP, soldier, suspected spy for the KGB and Mossad, and controversial media baron, Robert Maxwell was a lot of things. Today he’s recognized more for who his youngest daughter is, the infamous Ghislaine Maxwell. Sources: Maxwell, Elisabeth. A Mind of My Own: My Life with Robert Maxwell. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994. Preston, John. Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain’s Most Notorious Media Baron. Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.

Warren G. Harding’s administration was one marked by scandal, bribery, and even a suspicious murder suicide plot. Teapot Dome was the largest political scandal in American history up until Watergate. Sources: Laton McCartney. The Teapot Dome Scandal : How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country. New York, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009. ‌ “Teapot Dome Scandal | Definition, Facts, & Significance | Britannica Money.” Www.britannica.com, 23 May 2023, www.britannica.com/money/topic/Teapot-Dome-Scandal.

Among many other firsts, Apollo 8 would be the first to send humankind outside of Earth’s orbit and then to orbit the moon, broadcast around the Earth on Christmas Day, 1968. This overshadowed mission was planned under a tight deadline and changed the space race. Happy holidays from the History Boiz! Sources: Kluger, Jeffrey. Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon. Henry Holt et Company, 2018. Kurson, Robert. Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon. Random House, 2019. Sandler, Martin W. Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed Everything. Thorndike Press, 2019.

The American sport and tradition of football has a long and violent history. One team that was never supposed to actually compete with the large Ivy League schools ended up not only winning, but also changing the game of football itself into something we would recognize as modern day football. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was built with the express purpose in mind to strip their native culture, traditions, and beliefs, in place for Anglo-American culture, traditions, and belief. It was made up of children as young as 6 and as old as 25. Sources: Archivists, Curators. “Records.” Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, 2010, carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/. Jenkins, Sally. The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation. Anchor Books, 2008.

Bolívar succeeds where others would surely fail and for that, his name would be added in the pantheon of great leaders of history, but at what cost?Sources: Sources: Arana, Marie. Bolívar: American Liberator. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014. Editors. “Simón Bolívar.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 20 July 2023, www.britannica.com/biography/Simon-Bolivar.