Margaret talks with comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.

Margaret talks with comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus about Baba Yaga, the Slavic legend who eats children and occasionally helps people.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

As long as there&rsquo;s been oppression, there&rsquo;ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be&mdash;and fight to be&mdash;free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Part One: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/25b714d1-aa08-4336-979f-af43014f9d7c/transcript

Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan.

Source:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html 
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill 
https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ 
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html 
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d 
The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield 
https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery 
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill 
https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf 
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill 
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https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ 
https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm 
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm 
https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ 

Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan.
Source:
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill">https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/">https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html">https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d">https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d</a>&nbsp; The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield&nbsp; <a href="https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery">https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill">https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf">https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill">https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948">https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/">https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass">https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/">https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm">https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm">https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/">https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/</a>&nbsp;

Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/a538dfcb-8c4c-4822-a6f1-b493017cd531/transcript

Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was.

Sources:

https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html
https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak
https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889
https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html
https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/
https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/
https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode
https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero
https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood

Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was.
Sources:
https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/ https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889 https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/ https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/ https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood

Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/dce2342a-90f0-4db6-b4ac-b48f002cc8a4/transcript

Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was

Sources:

https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html
https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak
https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889
https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html
https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/
https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/
https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode
https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero
https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood

Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was
Sources:
https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/ https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889 https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/ https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/ https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood

Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/a936774d-d192-4799-97c6-b48c01699a3c/transcript

Part One: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore

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