037 - Happy Healthy History (feat. Courtney Rioux)

037 - Happy Healthy History (feat. Courtney Rioux)

Warning: Your cheeks will hurt after this episode. Actor, coach and host of The Whole Artist, Courtney Rioux brightens up our heavy history podcast…

036 - Scared History 2: Electric Spoopaloo

036 - Scared History 2: Electric Spoopaloo

Spoop season is upon us and strange forces took control of Cass and Nat to compel them to share some scary stories...or rather, some history of scary stories…

035 - History Uncorked (feat. Patrick Serrano)

035 - History Uncorked (feat. Patrick Serrano)

Set the DVR because this episode's got it all: heartache, tears, drama, light misogyny and Lacey Chabert. That's right, TV Movie Expert Patrick Serrano joins…

034 - Banana Propaganda

034 - Banana Propaganda

Banana Republic: Overpriced khaki-wear or bloody capitalist coups d'etat? Yes. Nat peels into the sordid history of bananas, republics…

031 - Shuffle off to Iowa (feat. Vania Boland)

031 - Shuffle off to Iowa (feat. Vania Boland)

Step back in time with National History Day State Coordinator, Vania Boland, as she tells us how Iowa got a head start on a major civil rights issue…

030 - Captain Spicy Fingers (feat. Sean Ely)

030 - Captain Spicy Fingers (feat. Sean Ely)

Grab a glass of milk because Sean Ely is serving up history en fuego with the history of hot sauce! Then, Cass cools us down with a trek on the high seas…

027 - Trade, Treachery & Murder on the Yukon River (feat. Jon Hansen)

027 - Trade, Treachery & Murder on the Yukon River (feat. Jon Hansen)

We're hitting the microfiche to bring you a slice of Alaskan history that is very special to our special guest, WCIU & WGN’s Jon Hansen. And then Nat is bringing us back home to 1987 Chicago…

023 - This Episode Sponsored By... (feat. Linze Rice)

023 - This Episode Sponsored By... (feat. Linze Rice)

Maybe she's born with it, maybe she was founded in Chicago. Writer and entrepreneur, Linze Rice, comes on to tell us about Thomas Lyle Williams, founder of Maybelline & then Cass takes us on a journey…

021 - Qvit Playing Games Vis Meine Heart (feat. Garreth Spinn)

021 - Qvit Playing Games Vis Meine Heart (feat. Garreth Spinn)

Time to get unintentionally uber German. Musician, Garreth Spinn, joins us as a special guest and teaches us about pianist and virtuoso Clara Schumann, then Cass tags in with some board game history?

018 - Selective Memory History

018 - Selective Memory History

From a Parisian atrocity to a Malagasy monarch, both of our stories today feature challenges in storytelling. In one, because the French would rather forget it happened, in the other, because of unreliable narrators...