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

In part two, Margaret talks with Robert Evans one more time about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.

Original Air Date: 3.20.2024

In part two, Margaret talks with Robert Evans one more time about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.
Original Air Date: 3.20.2024

CZM Rewind: Part Two: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/1667ea79-8638-4ca3-9576-b3a5016c48af/transcript

Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.

Original Air Date: 3.18.24

 

Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.
Original Air Date: 3.18.24
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CZM Rewind: Part One: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/921c79fa-2ac3-4fea-802f-b3a5016c4133/transcript

Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.

Sources:

https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html

https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4

https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre

https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-adamites/

https://www.reformedhistory.com/Content/Confessions/ArticlesOfPrague

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/naked-truth-about-seventies-streaking-craze

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iph4ag/why_did_the_czech_lands_remain_catholic_rather/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160223035154/http://www.moravian.org.uk/index.php/the-moravian-church/moravian-history

https://www.nrafamily.org/content/throwback-thursday-nonhelema-s-tale/

https://www.nationsandcannons.com/blog/nonhelema-chieftess-warrior-and-advocate-for-neutrality-in-the-revolutionary-war

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/metis

https://web.archive.org/web/20240624093053/https://lssse.indiana.edu/blog/guest-post-native-american-exclusion-as-a-form-of-paper-genocide/

https://frontierpartisans.com/281/the-shawnee-resistance/

https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/pontiacs-rebellion/

https://bushyrunbattlefield.com/battle-of-bush-run-history/

https://battlefieldtravels.com/battle-of-bushy-run/

https://archive.wvculture.org/hiStory/journal_wvh/wvh56-5.html

https://www.midstory.org/over-240-years-later-an-ohio-community-remembers-its-founding-massacre/

https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/download/60205/60154

Personal correspondence

Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.
Sources:
https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html
https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4
https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre
https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-adamites/
https://www.reformedhistory.com/Content/Confessions/ArticlesOfPrague
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/naked-truth-about-seventies-streaking-craze
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iph4ag/why_did_the_czech_lands_remain_catholic_rather/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160223035154/http://www.moravian.org.uk/index.php/the-moravian-church/moravian-history
https://www.nrafamily.org/content/throwback-thursday-nonhelema-s-tale/
https://www.nationsandcannons.com/blog/nonhelema-chieftess-warrior-and-advocate-for-neutrality-in-the-revolutionary-war
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/metis
https://web.archive.org/web/20240624093053/https://lssse.indiana.edu/blog/guest-post-native-american-exclusion-as-a-form-of-paper-genocide/
https://frontierpartisans.com/281/the-shawnee-resistance/
https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/pontiacs-rebellion/
https://bushyrunbattlefield.com/battle-of-bush-run-history/
https://battlefieldtravels.com/battle-of-bushy-run/
https://archive.wvculture.org/hiStory/journal_wvh/wvh56-5.html
https://www.midstory.org/over-240-years-later-an-ohio-community-remembers-its-founding-massacre/
https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/download/60205/60154
Personal correspondence

Part Two: Nonhelema: The Six Foot Six Warrior Woman of the Shawnee Who Fought the Empire

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/b26152d1-fb3d-406d-a536-b3a1001d4e74/transcript

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

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