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.
Episodes
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Emileigh and Morgan have the pleasure of talking about the life of Davy Crockett. He was the true King of the Wild Frontier, the Coon Skinned Congressman, and even a bit of a hopeless romantic.
YouTube Link to Song: Ballad of Davy Crockett
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Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/davy-crockett#birthplace
Audio Book: Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies, The real West written by David Fisher
https://www.softschools.com/timelines/davy_crockett_timeline/225/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett#Marriages_and_children
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5757233/davy-crockett
Book: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
For the span of about 60 years in the United Kingdom, political and religious unrest led to a series of rebellions by the Jacobites, a group of Highland Scots that wanted their own back on the throne. Morgan and Emileigh dive into the decades prior to the rebellions, the rebellions themselves, and the aftermath.
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Sources:
Bonanzas and Jacobites: The Story of the Silver Glen by Stephen Moreton (2007)
Inglorious Revolutions: Explaining the Jacobite Cause by The Munros: A Personal Voyage on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzFlCbngR4s
Captivating History on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztXHMg_bdoc
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-queen-of-Great-Britain-and-Ireland
https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Stuart
https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Hanover
https://www.britannica.com/event/Massacre-of-Glencoe
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-III-king-of-England-Scotland-and-Ireland/King-of-England
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Boyne
https://www.britannica.com/facts/War-of-the-Austrian-Succession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation#United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1715
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745
https://www.scottishhistory.org/articles/battle-of-killiecrankie/
https://www.scottishhistory.org/blog/battle-of-sheriffmuir/
https://www.scottishhistory.org/on-this-day/battle-of-glenshiel/
https://www.thoughtco.com/jacobite-rebellion-4766629
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-war-of-jenkins-ear/
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-culloden
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Emileigh and Morgan comb through the incredible life of Rube Waddell. He was not only known for his talents in the game but the wild life he led.
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Sources:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wadderu01.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k1BaJcZmyU
https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/waddell-george-edward-rube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXuPQfv0ljY
https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/waddell-rube
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/rube-waddell/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Waddell#Pitching_style
https://glennrmillerwrites.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/the-legend-of-rube-waddell/#:~:text=A's%20first%20baseman%20Harry%20Davis,a%20kind%20and%20lovable%20disposition.%E2%80%9D
http://rubewaddell.net/
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Thursday Aug 24, 2023
Morgan and Emileigh discuss the history of the Maya and Chichén Itzá, one of the 7 Wonders of the World and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Sources:
“Buried Truth of the Maya” documentary by National Geographic (2019)
Expedition Unknown “Mayan Apocalypse” (2015)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/article/chichen-itza
https://www.chichenitza.com/ruins
https://www.britannica.com/place/Chichen-Itza
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Maya-people
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Toltec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C4%81lchit%C5%8Dnatiuh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacmool
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/483#:~:text=After%20the%2013th%20century%20no%20major%20monuments%20seem,The%20ruins%20were%20not%20excavated%20until%201841%20A.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Thursday Aug 17, 2023
Emileigh and Morgan dive into the fight for American Women's right to Vote and the person who had the deciding vote on the 19th Amendment.
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Sources:
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage#background
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-man-and-his-mom-who-gave-women-the-vote
http://teachtnhistory.org/File/Harry_T._Burn.pdf
https://tag.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/suffrage-by-state.pdf
The Vote: Documentary by PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpe2qb1KQg
https://www.nps.gov/people/harry-t-burn.htm
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-paul
https://cattcenter.iastate.edu/home/about-us/carrie-chapman-catt/
https://nynpa.com/docs/nie/nielawday/9_LawDay2020_CarrieChapmanCatt.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/17/902345079/the-nudge-and-tie-breaker-that-took-womens-suffrage-from-nay-to-yea
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Morgan and Emileigh discuss drug use by the Nazi regime during World War II.
WARNING: This episode contains mature content. Listener discretion is advised.
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Sources:
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/methamphetamine https://www.verywellhealth.com/oxycodone-5093105 https://time.com/5629999/operation-valkyrie-july-plot/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hermann-Goring https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heinrich-Himmler
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
Thursday Aug 03, 2023
On this episode Emileigh and Morgan go back thousands of years to when beer was first discovered to all the way through current times. You might even catch a few personal and hilarious stories involving beer you don't want to miss!
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Sources:
https://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/raley_timetable.shtml
https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/UqfrcsPoAI/
https://www.thetravel.com/history-of-beer-where-to-learn-about-it/
https://beer-studies.com/en/world-history/Birth-of-brewing/Combined-fermented_beverages/European-beer-brewing-bassin
https://www.australianhomebrewing.com.au/learn/beer/origins-of-stout-beer-styles/#:~:text=Where%20did%20Stout%20come%20from,popular%20among%20the%20working%20class.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/wheat-beer-profile-353432#:~:text=Wheat%20beer%20is%20a%20category,that's%20popular%20around%20the%20world.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lager-beer-worlds-favorite-was-invented-by-accident-400-years-ago/
https://www.citybrewtours.com/blog/not-from-india-5-facts-about-the-india-pale-ale/#:~:text=India%20Pale%20Ale%20was%20not%20invented%20in%20India&text=But%20the%20IPA%20was%20not,Hodgson%20of%20London's%20Bow%20Brewery.
https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/prohibition-potpourri/prohibition-products/
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/223/beer-in-the-ancient-world/
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/23/craft-beer-boom-pushes-number-of-uk-breweries-past-2000
https://www.brewersassociation.org/press-releases/brewers-association-releases-annual-craft-brewing-industry-production-report-and-top-50-producing-craft-brewing-companies-for-2022/
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Anne Bonny and Mary Read were two pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy. Join Emileigh and Morgan as they discuss the lives of these two legendary women.
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Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Read https://www.britannica.com/facts/Anne-Bonny https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/if-theres-a-man-among-ye-the-tale-of-pirate-queens-anne-bonny-and-mary-read-45576461/ https://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/10-Mary-Read-Anne-Bonny.pdf https://www.worldhistory.org/Golden_Age_of_Piracy/ https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/golden-age-piracy
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Join Emileigh and Morgan as they dive into the unbelievable story of the 17th century ship that was destined to sink from the very beginning.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/
https://www.simscale.com/blog/vasa-ship-sank/
https://pages.vassar.edu/realarchaeology/2022/10/01/the-vasa-shipwreck-a-rare-glimpse-into-life-in-17th-century-sweden-with-the-help-of-bioarchaeology/Vasa Museum Website- https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/about-the-vasa-museum
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Morgan and Emileigh discuss the richest man in human history.
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Sources:
“Sun of the Soil” documentary on Netflixhttps://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/mansa-musa-musa-i-mali/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Musa-I-of-Mali https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47379458 (2019) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1068950.stm https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/mansa-musa-33307.php https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/musa-mansa-1280-1337/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nasir_Muhammad https://amazingbibletimeline.com/blog/mansa-musas-pilgrimage-mecca/ https://muslimheritage.com/the-university-of-sankore-timbuktu/