Ill-Equipped History
Two non-historians with a passion for history tell stories of the past in a way that will make you laugh.
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After over two decades of friendship, one of the many things we have in common is loving to learn everything we can about what happened in the times before us. We love making each other laugh and have a healthy competition of who can make the better (or worse) pun.
We are so excited to be able to take our passion for history and give it life outside of our weekly documentary dates. We are even more excited to be able to share these stories with you, our lovely audience.
Thank you again for being so supportive of two silly-gooses (silly-geese?) who love history.
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4 days ago
It's part two of the Hundred Years War. After a 28-year peace treaty, England and France are back at it again and taking land from each other. An unexpected hero, however, helps turn the tide for France.
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Sources:
“Hundred Years’ War - Full Story, Every Battle - Animated Medieval History” on the Kings and Generals channel (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvoejM-cls0
“Hundred Years’ War” by history.com editors (Sept 3 2024)
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/hundred-years-war
“Isabella of Valois Was Just Six When She Married King Richard II” by Cecilia Boggard (Dec 14 2022)
https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/isabella-valois-0017656
“Treaty of Paris 1259” by Calvin Hartley (Nov 14 2024)
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryofEngland/Treaty-Of-Paris-1259/
“The Hundred Years’ War”
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-westerncivilization/chapter/the-hundred-years-war/#:~:text=Historians%20commonly%20divide%20the%20war,Joan%20of%20Arc%20in%201429.
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Music by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/nesrality-22721863/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=8429">Trygve Larsen</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/music//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=8429">Pixabay</a>
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Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Holy crap y'all, we've made it to episode 100! Thank you so much for sticking by us and continuing to provide your support! <3
Today's episode covers the first 50 or so years of the Hundred Years War between England and France. It started with land and title claims, which continued for the duration of the war. Tune in to learn about petty squabbles that turned into absolute horrors in medieval Europe.
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Sources:
“Hundred Years’ War - Full Story, Every Battle - Animated Medieval History” on the Kings and Generals channel (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvoejM-cls0
“Hundred Years’ War” by history.com editors (Sept 3 2024)
https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/hundred-years-war
“Isabella of Valois Was Just Six When She Married King Richard II” by Cecilia Boggard (Dec 14 2022)
https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/isabella-valois-0017656
“Treaty of Paris 1259” by Calvin Hartley (Nov 14 2024)
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryofEngland/Treaty-Of-Paris-1259/
“The Hundred Years’ War”
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-westerncivilization/chapter/the-hundred-years-war/#:~:text=Historians%20commonly%20divide%20the%20war,Joan%20of%20Arc%20in%201429.
Sound Credits
Sound Effect by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/freesound_community-46691455/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=39405">freesound_community</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/sound-effects//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=39405">Pixabay</a>
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HARDER RAVE FINAL BY KRIS KLAVENES.wav by klavo1985 -- https://freesound.org/s/388278/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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Music by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/deuslower-45666444/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=236809">Vlad Bakutov</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/music//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=236809">Pixabay</a>
https://pixabay.com/music/ambient-medieval-ambient-236809/
ethereal violin.wav by ERH -- https://freesound.org/s/163515/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/ERH/sounds/163515/?
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
In honor of episode 99, we will be partying like it's 1999! to better discuss why everyone was so panicked about Y2K, we have a very special guest! Below are some links to videos we discussed in the episode!
Grace Hopper Lecture Part 1 and 2:
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7ZHpKuqZg
Leonard Nimoy Y2K Survival Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhEQEG43RU
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Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/24-hour-clock
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/28/nx-s1-5116271/y2k-year-2000-preparations
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0CKNP2SDM/ref=atv_dp_sign_suc_3P?tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_ovf__hbomax-20
https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_of_Montana
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-18-mn-47795-story.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/y2k-dry-run/
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant and traveler who was in the very good graces of the Mongolian Emperor, Kublai Khan. He traveled up and down the Silk Road and had so much fun, he wrote a book about what he saw (while in prison!). Join Morgan and Emileigh as they discuss the life and times of one of the most famous namesakes!
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Sources:
“Silk Road” by history.com editors (Nov 3 2017, updated Jun 6 2023)
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/silk-road
“Marco Polo” by history.com editors (July 30 2012; updated June 6 2023)
https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/marco-polo
“Marco Polo: The travel writer who shocked medieval Europe”, adapted from interview by Christina Burack with Margaret Kim, edited by Elizabeth Grenier (Mar 30 2024)
https://cmrs.ucla.edu/news/marco-polo-the-travel-writer-who-shocked-medieval-europe/
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo. Fourth Edition (1919)
Sound Credits:
Music by Samuel F. Johanns from Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/users/samuelfjohanns-1207793/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=119039
https://pixabay.com/music/main-title-ancient-rhythm-119039/
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
For our final Black History Month Episode we will be discussing the amazing story of the 6888 Battalion in the Woman's Army Corps. Through hard work and determination, they defied the odd placed against them and helped the allies win WW2.
Check out the movie about them on Netflix!
https://www.netflix.com/title/81590591
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Sources:
https://www.americanairmuseum.com/stories/real-history-six-triple-eight
https://www.pbs.org/video/lift-connecting-humanity-6xizfc/
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
We're continuing Black History Month with the story of a powerful Baltimore lawyer who helped pave the way to desegregating public schools. Thurgood Marshall was an extremely talented lawyer who helped ensure the Civil Rights Movement had stable ground to move on. He fought relentlessly for equal rights in ways you may not expect!
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Sources:
“Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP” PBS Documentary (2014)
“History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment”
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/educational-activities/brown-v-board-education-re-enactment/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment
“How Thurgood Marshall helped bring justice to a Tennessee town and was nearly jailed” by Jessica Bliss (Oct 13 2017)
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2017/10/13/how-thurgood-marshall-helped-bring-justice-tennessee-town/762624001/
“Columbia Race Riot, 1946” by Carroll Van West (Oct 8 2017)
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/columbia-race-riot-1946/
“Thurgood Marshall” (updated Jan 11 2021)
https://www.biography.com/legal-figures/thurgood-marshall
“About Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)”
https://marshall.ucsd.edu/about-us/about-our-namesake.html
“Thurgood Marshall”
https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/thurgood-marshall
“Justice Thurgood Marshall”
https://www.tmcf.org/about-us/who-we-are/justice-thurgood-marshall/
https://vault.fbi.gov/Thurgood%20Marshall
“Justice Thurgood Marshall Profile - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment”
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/educational-activities/brown-v-board-education-re-enactment/justice-thurgood-marshall-profile-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment
“Thurgood Marshall”
https://www.oyez.org/justices/thurgood_marshall
“Thurgood Marshall”
https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/history/thurgood-marshall/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall_(disambiguation)
“Brown v Board of Education (1954)”
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/brown-v-board-of-education#:~:text=On%20May%2017%2C%201954%2C%20U.S.,amendment%20and%20was%20therefore%20unconstitutional.
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Inspiring-Violon-149075 by SIMO https://audio.com/simo-1817043924430465/audio/inspiring-violon-149075
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Emileigh and Morgan have the privilege of telling the story of one couple's love that pushed the Supreme Court to banish all anti-miscegenation laws in the United States.
Documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1759682/
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Sources:
https://www.biography.com/legal-figures/richard-loving
https://www.biography.com/legal-figures/mildred-loving
https://co.caroline.va.us/308/The-Lovings
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
We're kicking off Black History Month with some pizzazz! The history of jazz has a rich culture within the Black community and beyond, and has been beloved the world over for more than a century!
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Sources:
“The Origins of Jazz”
https://jazzobserver.com/the-origins-of-jazz/
“A Brief History of Jazz” (Sept 22 2022)
https://www.levinemusic.org/about/news/a-brief-history-of-jazz/
“What is Jazz?”
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/projects/smithsonian-jazz/education/what-jazz
“On the Instrumental Origins of Jazz” by Russell Roth (1952). American Quarterly, Vol 4(4). Pp. 305-312. https://doi.org/10.2307/3031415
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3031415?origin=crossref
“Jazz Origins in New Orleans”
https://www.nps.gov/jazz/learn/historyculture/history_early.htm
“‘Jazz’: A Tale of Three Cities” by Ben Zimmer (Jun 8 2009)
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/jazz-a-tale-of-three-cities/
“The Painful Birth of Blues and Jazz” by Stephanie Hall (Feb 24 2017)
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/02/birth-of-blues-and-jazz/
“Re-Revising ‘The History of Jazz’” by Natalie Weiner (July 15 2021)
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/15/1016020385/re-revising-the-history-of-jazz
“Women in Jazz, Part 1” by Margaret Howze
https://news.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/women_1.html
“The First Woman Trombonist in Big Bands | Melba Liston, 1926-1999”
https://www.cocosse.com/2019/04/woman-trombonist-in-big-bands-melba-liston/
“Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada 1914-1949” by Mark Miller
https://quillandquire.com/review/such-melodious-racket-the-lost-history-of-jazz-in-canada-1914-1949/
“15 Most Influential Jazz Artists” by ClassyKoehler (fact checked by Alex Hanton) (Feb 27 2010)
https://listverse.com/2010/02/27/15-most-influential-jazz-artists/
“The Evolution of the Saxophone in Jazz Music” (Jun 5 2024)
https://kgumusic.com/blogs/news/the-evolution-of-the-saxophone-in-jazz-music?srsltid=AfmBOopFYZ6IjKvSGMbf2N9oYgOyw_ADvrwWX4hxMHrVPpG6shJNa6eo
“Jews & Jazz Music”
https://bje.org.au/knowledge-centre/jewish-people/famous/jazz/
“The 1937 Yiddish song that kicked off the Swing Era is due for a comeback” by Arielle Kaplan (July 19 2020)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-1937-yiddish-song-that-kicked-off-the-swing-era-is-due-for-a-comeback/
“The 25 Best Female Jazz Singers Of All Time” by Charles Waring (Mar 15 2024)
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-female-jazz-singers-ever/
https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/faq/
Sound Credits:
“That Jazz” by Cold_Fire https://pixabay.com/music/traditional-jazz-that-jazz-260655/
NightCity-1.wav by Dr. Macak -- https://freesound.org/s/252690/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Thursday Jan 30, 2025
Thursday Jan 30, 2025
Emileigh and Morgan go back in time to Medieval England when one ship wreck not only took lives, but change the monarchy forever.
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCo0S_ceTnU
https://divernet.com/scuba-news/divers-find-tragic-white-ship/
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/King-Stephen-Anarchy/
https://www.normandythenandnow.com/no-ship-ever-brought-so-much-misery-to-england-from-barfleur/
Thursday Jan 23, 2025
Thursday Jan 23, 2025
This week's episode is about a health-obsessed doctor who also happened to invent one of the most famous breakfast foods of all time! Dr. John Kellogg had good ideas about health, questionable ideas about food, and unforgivable opinions about eugenics. Like many people covered on Ill-Equipped History, he's complicated!
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Sources:
“Dr. John Kellogg Invented Cereal. Some of His Other Wellness Ideas Were Much Weirder.” by Greg Daugherty (Aug 2 2019, updated May 17 2023)
https://www.history.com/news/dr-john-kellogg-cereal-wellness-wacky-sanitarium-treatments
“How the ‘Battling’ Kellogg Brothers Revolutionized American Breakfast” by Terry Gross (Aug 8 2017)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/08/542145177/how-the-battling-kellogg-brothers-revolutionized-american-breakfast
“John Harvey Kellogg, MD: Health Reformer and Antismoking Crusader” by Elizabeth Fee & Theodore M Brown (Jun 2002); American Journal for Public Health, 92(6):935. doi: 10.2105/ajph.92.6.935
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1447485/
“‘To Rid Society of Imbeciles’: The Impact of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s Stand for Eugenics” by Elizabeth Stout (Dec 12 2022)
https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2022posts/the-impact-of-dr-john-harvey-kelloggs-stand-for-eugenics.html
“John H. Kellogg”
https://www.invent.org/inductees/john-h-kellogg
“John Harvey Kellogg: The Controversial Scientist Who Became the Cereal King” by Shannon Callahan (Apr 8 2022)
https://www.historyhit.com/john-harvey-kellogg/
“J.H. Kellogg Dies; Health Expert, 91” Obituary for The New York Times (originally published Dec 16 1943)
https://web.archive.org/web/20020216231918/https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0226.html
“A Recipe for Good Health” by Hillary Mohaupt (Apr 12 2017)
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/a-recipe-for-good-health/
“Were Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Created as a ‘Anti-Masturbatory Morning Meal’?” by Dan MacGuill (Aug 16 2019)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kelloggs-corn-flakes-masturbation/
“The Simple Life in a Nutshell (‘Biologic Living’)” by Dr. J.H. Kellogg
https://web.archive.org/web/20090430201429/http://lifestylelaboratory.com/articles/simple-life-nutshell.html
Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg. Segner & Condit, Burlington, IA (1881).
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19924
“John Harvey Kellogg Biography”
https://www.infoplease.com/biographies/society-culture/john-harvey-kellogg
“How John Harvey Kellogg was wrong on race” by Nick Buckley (March 21 2019)
https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2019/03/21/john-harvey-kellogg-battle-creek-michigan-eugenics-race-nazis/3202628002/
“Kellogg, John Harvey (1852-1943)” by James L. Hayward (Jan 28 2020)
https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=89LQ
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crowd int high school cafeteria seniors busy1 Montreal, Canada.flac by kyles -- https://freesound.org/s/455699/ -- License: Creative Commons 0