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Hashtag History

Hashtag History

The ultimate History podcast for History Nerds and History Haters alike! Here at Hashtag History, we dive into History"s greatest stories of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption.

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00:36:08

EP 98: The Caning of Charles Sumner

Hashtag History ·

2022/04/19

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Caning of Charles Sumner, also oftentimes referred to as the Brooks-Sumner Affair. On May 22, 1856, during a debate in the Senate chamber regarding slavery, Representative of South Carolina Preston Brooks (who was a huge supporter of slavery) picked up a cane and beat Senator from Massachusetts Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor. In fact, Sumner was beaten so severely that the walking cane that was used to club him would end up

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00:45:02

EP 97: Paul Schäfer, The One-Eyed Pedophiliac Nazi...

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2022/04/12

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Paul Schäfer, a Nazi who -- following World War II -- had to flee Germany when he was charged with sexually abusing two boys at the orphanage that he ran there. He fled to Chile where he would establish a super creepy and torturous cult known as the Colonia Dignidad where he would physically and sexually abuse minors and torture political deviants…all with the support of the Chilean government. Schäfer would run this cult for over thirty years before

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00:48:25

EP 96: The Racist History of the Masters Tournament

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2022/04/05

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the racist history of the Masters Tournament. The Masters was systemically white, upper-class men. Despite it beginning in 1934, the first Black golfer would not be allowed to compete in the tournament until 1975! The club would not admit its first Black member until 1990! Co-founder of the Tournament, Clifford Roberts, was allegedly quoted as saying, “As long as I’m alive, all the golfers will be white and all the caddies will be Black." And although

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00:39:46

EP 95: Nellie Bly

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2022/03/29

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing an incredible and very well-known woman in History, Nellie Bly. Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Bly was an American investigative journalist most well-known for breaking the record when she traveled the world in just 72 days! AND also most well-known for that time she went undercover as a mental patient in order to expose the realities of New York’s insane asylums. And she did all of this in the late-1800s; at a time when women still didn’t have the right

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01:01:13

EP 94: Hidden Presidential Illnesses

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2022/03/22

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing hidden presidential illnesses. Between the fact that most people had no idea during Franklin D. Roosevelt's lifetime that he was paralyzed from the waist down, John F. Kennedy's had chronic back pain and Addison's Disease which would lead to a heavy addiction to painkillers and anti-anxiety medications, OR that it wouldn’t be until after the death of Grover Cleveland that the nation would learn that - while he was president - he had undergone an

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00:47:50

EP 93: The Chernobyl Disaster

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2022/03/15

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Chernobyl Disaster. This was an incident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine where a test went disastrously wrong and resulted in a radioactive explosion. Two people would die as a direct result of the explosion with nearly thirty more people dying over the course of the next few months due to exposure to the radiation. What is particularly devastating about this incident in History was the lack of

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00:35:04

EP 92: The Murder of Vincent Chin

Hashtag History ·

2022/03/08

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Vincent Chin, a twenty-seven year old Chinese-American man that was beaten to death in Detroit, Michigan, on June 19, 1982. He was beaten by two white men that worked in the Detroit automobile industry. These men would beat Chin to death when they mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for their being out of work due to the recent influx in Japanese car imports. But the tragedy doesn’t stop there. Because, when these two men were tried for murder,

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00:44:06

EP 91: The Van Buren Sisters (and Other Slack-Wearing...

Hashtag History ·

2022/02/22

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing a few stories of what we like to call slack-wearing suffragettes. This episode has a heavy focus, however, on the Van Buren Sisters who were two sisters who rode 5,500 miles in 60 days to cross the continental United States on their own motorcycle! In 1916, they became the second and third women to drive motorcycles across the entire continent! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this

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00:09:32

Hasty History #7: The Bath Riots of 1917

Hashtag History ·

2022/02/08

As you all know, we are currently on a season break and working hard behind the scenes to bring you a very exciting Season Ten very soon! In the meantime, however, we thought it would be fun to give you some bonus content! We hope you enjoy! In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the 1917 Bath Riots. These were a series of riots that occurred in January of 1917 when seventeen-year-old Carmelita Torres refused to take a toxic bath in order to cross from Juarez, Mexico to El

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00:10:01

Hasty History #6: The Woman Who Was Arrested For Smoking

Hashtag History ·

2022/01/25

As you all know, we are currently on a season break and working hard behind the scenes to bring you a very exciting Season Ten very soon! In the meantime, however, we thought it would be fun to give you some bonus content! We hope you enjoy! In January of 1908, a woman named Katie Mulcahey was arrested when she was caught smoking in public. Just one day prior, a new ordinance was passed that banned women - and only women - from smoking in public places. Mulcahey, not knowing about the new ordinance,

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00:44:52

EP 90: The Osage Nation Murders (with Amber Hunt)

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2022/01/18

This week on Hashtag History, we are joined by Amber Hunt of the Crimes of the Centuries podcast as we discuss the Osage Nation Murders. The Osage Nation Murders were a series of murders that occurred over the course of decades in the early 1900s. Also know as the Reign of Terror, the Osage Nation Murders marks the murders of approximately sixty Osage Native Americans by those that wanted to take over their land and headrights to the lucrative oil it produced. The subsequent investigation was

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00:42:29

EP 89: The Forced Sterilization of Latina Women

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2022/01/11

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the forced sterilization of thousands of Latinas here in California throughout the 20th century. In 1909, California passed a eugenics law that allowed for the sterilization of people considered to be “unfit or feeble-minded” unquote. Of the 20,000 people forcibly sterilized in California between the years of 1909 and 1979, it was found that Latinas carried a nearly 60% higher risk of forced sterilization than any other racial group. Perhaps one of the

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00:34:22

EP 88: Papillion

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2022/01/04

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Henri Charriere - or, as he was nicknamed, Papillon - a condemned prisoner that was sent to one of the most infamous prisons in History in French Guiana known as Devil’s Island. After eight escape attempts, Charriere finally successfully escaped the notoriously impossible-to-escape prison, living the latter part of his life as a free man when he was pardoned by the French Justice System for his alleged crime. In 1968, when Charriere was sixty-two years

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00:38:40

EP 87: The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case

Hashtag History ·

2021/12/28

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Liebeck vs. McDonald’s Restaurants, more commonly known as the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case. In 1992, a seventy-nine-year old woman named Stella Liebeck bought a cup of coffee from a McDonald’s drive thru in Albuquerque, New Mexico. While in her car, she spilled the coffee in her lap and suffered severe burns. She took this matter to court and would be awarded close to $3 million dollars. When the story first came out, the general public was told the

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00:31:07

EP 86: Olga of Kiev

Hashtag History ·

2021/12/21

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Olga of Kiev, the first recorded female ruler of Russia who, in an effort to avenge her husband’s murder by the Drevilian, quite literally slaughtered the Drevlian people and burned their capital to the ground. Later in life, she would convert to Christianity and, some 600 years after her death, the Russian Orthodox Church would formally ordain her as a Saint. We will find in this episode a lot of Girl Power and badassery. But also the internal

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00:45:09

EP 85: The Satanic Panic

Hashtag History ·

2021/12/14

CONTENT WARNING: This week's episode contains mentions of child abuse, animal mutilation, suicide, and more. This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Satanic Panic, which spanned the 1980s and into the 1990s here in the United States. It was a phenomenon that alleged that mass child abuse across the United States all had ties back to satanic cults. This phenomenon originated with the 1980 publication of a book titled Michelle Remembers in which a woman wrote of her journey of undergoing

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00:37:30

EP 84: The Ford Pinto's Explosive History

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2021/12/07

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Ford Pinto’s Explosive History. The 1971 Ford Pinto was rushed into production for a myriad of reasons that we will be getting into in this episode. Because of this rushed turnaround time, Ford had to cut a lot of corners. And these corners included selling a car with a fuel tank that Ford KNEW carried a high risk of setting on fire during rear-end collisions. When Ford conducted a cost-benefit analysis, they found that it would cost them more to

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00:44:00

EP 83: Patty Hearst

Hashtag History ·

2021/11/30

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Patty Hearst who -- in 1974 at only nineteen-years-old -- was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California. A few days after her kidnapping, a tape was received by a Berkeley radio station from the Symbionese Liberation Army that stated that they were holding Hearst as a prisoner of war and demanded that the Hearst family give millions of dollars worth of food to needy Californians in exchange for their daughter. Dissatisfied with the family’s

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01:05:17

EP 82: Selena Quintanilla Perez

Hashtag History ·

2021/11/23

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Selena Quintanilla Perez, an American singer, businesswoman, and fashion designer that would be credited as one of the most influential Latin artists of all time at a time when the Tejano music industry was largely dominated by male artists. She would break through this glass ceiling and become by far one of the most well-known Mexican-American entertainers to ever exist. Tragically, on March 31, 1995, when Selena was only twenty-three years old, she

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00:40:39

EP 81: Andree de Jongh and The Comet Line

Hashtag History ·

2021/11/16

Welcome back for Season Nine! This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Andree de Jongh, a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II. She organized and led the Comet Line (or Le Réseau Comète, as it was called by it’s French-speaking members) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium. Between August 1941 and December 1942, she escorted an estimated 118 people, including more than 80 airmen, from Belgium to “neutral” Spain, where they were transported

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