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 Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Emileigh and Morgan discover the wild and wacky in all 50 states.
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Sources:
https://www.50states.com/state-animals/
Book: Fifty States Every Question Answered by Lori Baird, Marcel Brousseau, and Amber Rose
https://www.arlingtontours.com/dc-historical-facts
https://www.abouttown.io/features/5-interesting-facts-about-alabama
https://www.arizonahighways.com/blog/arizonas-london-bridge-brief-history
https://bestlifeonline.com/craziest-state-facts/
https://www.businessinsider.com/one-weird-fact-about-every-state-2017-9#connecticut-the-first-phone-book-in-the-us-was-printed-in-new-haven-in-1878-7
https://www.loveexploring.com/gallerylist/108084/bizarre-but-brilliant-facts-about-every-us-state
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/iowa/13-surprising-ia-facts/
https://www.coolkidfacts.com/maine-facts/
https://mntrips.com/facts-minnesota/
https://www.providentmetals.com/north-carolina/nc-facts.html
https://www.thefactsite.com/washington-facts/
https://www.movoto.com/guide/wi/wisconsin-facts/
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Morgan and Emileigh dive into the story of Cheng Shih, one of the most notorious and successful pirates of all time.
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Sources:
“Ching Shih: The Pirate Widow Menace of the South China Sea” by Biographics on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acojc6aZjgE
“One Woman’s Rise to Power: Cheng I’s Wife and the Pirates” by Dian Murray. Historical Reflections, Vol. 8, No. 3, WOMEN IN CHINA: Current Directions in Historical Scholarship (Fall 1981), pp. 147-161
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41298765
“Tay Son Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam” by Ku Boon Dar
https://www.iias.asia/the-review/tay-son-uprising-society-and-rebellion-eighteenth-century-vietnam
“The Chinese Female Pirate Who Commanded 80,000 Outlaws” by Urvija Banerji (2016)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ching-shih-chinese-female-pirate
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Emileigh and Morgan discuss the catastrophe that was suppose to be one of the biggest festivals in history and how it tainted the Woodstock reputation forever.
Jimmy Fallon Performance
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Sources:
Woodstock 99 Mojo Video
https://www.setlist.fm/festival/1999/woodstock-99-13d6fd81.html
https://consequence.net/2019/08/the-lost-woodstocks/3/
Trainwreck Documentary
https://www.wcvb.com/article/this-day-in-history-woodstock-music-festival-1969/40887372
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_50
https://consequence.net/2019/08/the-lost-woodstocks/4/
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Morgan and Emileigh continue the crazy tale of the Watergate scandal, focusing on the Senate hearings, the releasing of the tapes, and Congress' steps towards Nixon's impeachment.
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Ep. 2 Sources
Documentary: Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal series by CNN (discovery+) 2022
“Watergate: Who Did What and Where Are They Now?” Alice Popovici, history.com. (updated 2023)
https://www.history.com/news/watergate-where-are-they-now
https://watergate.info/
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/watergate.htm
“The Watergate Files” presented by the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/Watergate_files/content.php?section=1&page=a
“The Watergate Hearings,” American Archive of Public Broadcasting
https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/watergate
“Watergate and the Constitution” (2017)
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/watergate-constitution
“How federal impeachment works” (2024)
https://www.usa.gov/impeachment
“The Saturday Night Massacre: How our Constitution trumped a reckless President,” by Ken Gormley (2015)
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-saturday-night-massacre-40-years-later-how-our-constitution-trumped-a-r
“Nov. 17, 1973 | Nixon Declares ‘I Am Not a Crook’” (2011)
https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/nov-17-1973-nixon-declares-i-am-not-a-crook/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Haldeman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
“Smoking Gun” audio recording: https://watergate.info/1972/06/23/the-smoking-gun-tape.html
Sound Credits:
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Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Join Morgan and Emileigh as they dive into the Nixon administration in the United States. Learn how the President and his loyal cronies would do whatever it took to keep power, including one of the most notorious constitutional violations in American history.
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Ep 1 Sources:
Documentary: Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal series by CNN (discovery+) 2022
“Richard Nixon.” Biography.com (2021)
https://www.biography.com/political-figures/richard-nixon
https://www.enemieslist.info/
https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers
“How The Pentagon Papers Changed Public Perception Of The War In Vietnam” Terry Gross, NPR (2021)
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1007573283/how-the-pentagon-papers-changed-public-perception-of-the-war-in-vietnam
“Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92” Robert D. McFadden, New York Times. (2023)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/daniel-ellsberg-dead.html
“Lawrence F. O’Brien, 73; He Was Target of 1972 Watergate Break-In” Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Times. (1990)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-29-mn-1122-story.html
“5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here” Alfred E. Lewis, Washington Post (1972).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/061872-1.htm
“The Democrat who cried (maybe) in New Hampshire and lost the presidential nomination” Robert Mitchell, Washington Post (2020)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/09/new-hampshire-ed-muskie-tears-primary/
“Nixon Debated Paying Blackmail, Clemency: ‘Keep Cap on Bottle’” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post (1974)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nixon-debated-paying-blackmail-clemency-keep-cap-on-bottle/2012/06/04/gJQABnH1IV_story.html
https://watergate.info/
“American Social Policy in the 1960’s and 1970’s” Jerry D. Marx
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/war-on-poverty/american-social-policy-in-the-60s-and-70s/
“The Nation: White House Intrigue: Colson v. Dean” Time Magazine. (1973)
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,879211-1,00.html
“Watergate: Who Did What and Where Are They Now?” Alice Popovici, history.com. (updated 2023)
https://www.history.com/news/watergate-where-are-they-now
“Cancer on the Presidency” recording: https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/index.php/media/33365
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Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Emileigh and Morgan leap into the world of wonky calendars, the science behind leap days, and major events that have happened on the rare February 29th.
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Sources:
The Longest Year in History
Live Science: Why do we have leap year
Leap day Events: Business Insider
8 Things that Happened on Leap Day
Columbus and his trickster ways
Salem Witch Trials
Salem Witch Museum
Panama Canal
Hattie McDaniel
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Join Morgan and Emileigh as they discuss one of the most amazing women athletes of all time, Wilma Rudolph. Growing up in the Jim Crow south, Wilma, with the support of her loved ones, overcame a debilitating disability to become a triple gold medalist.
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Sources:
(Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph by Rita Liberti and Maureen M. Smith (2015)
“Rudolph, Wilma Glodean (1940- )”. Famous American Women A Biographical Dictionary from Colonial Times to the Present. (1980). Edited by Robert McHenry. G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers (Merriam-Webster Inc.)
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/wilma-rudolph
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/11/newsid_3554000/3554568.stm
“50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph’s triple gold in 1960” by Rob Bagchi. The Guardian, Jun. 1 2012
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/jun/01/50-stunning-olympic-moments-wilma-rudolph
“Leaders of Afro-American Nashville. Wilma Rudolph and the TSU Tigerbelles” by Bobby L. Lovett (1997)
https://www.tnstate.edu/library/documents/Rudolph.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Rudolph
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
Sound Credits:
GregorQuendel Attribution 4.0
snapssound
Kyster Attribution 4.0
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Emileigh, Morgan, and their guest go on a high speed journey through the history of NASCAR from the humble beginnings as moonshine runners to today's cars that exceed 200 MPH.
Videos from the Episode:
Jocko Flocko
Ross Chastain's video game move to advance to the Championship 4 | NASCAR
https://www.tiktok.com/@dana_beers/video/7238596440036150574?lang=en
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Sources:
https://www.nascar.com/nascar-history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc-sv-w4yeA
https://www.britannica.com/sports/stock-car-racing
https://www.nascarhall.com/blog/nascar-cars-through-the-generations
https://www.nascar.com/nascar-cup-series/2024/schedule/
https://sportsnaut.com/best-nascar-drivers-all-time/
https://dailydownforce.com/every-2024-nascar-track-from-oldest-to-youngest/
https://www.biography.com/athletes/dale-earnhardt
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history#:~:text=Here%20are%20a%20few%20of,got%20to%20win%20every%20race.%22
https://sportsnaut.com/worst-wrecks-nascar-history/
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/691527-the-30-best-quotes-in-nascar-history
https://www.talladegasuperspeedway.com/news-media/2021/09/16/where-to-build-bill-france-sr-s-vision-becomes-reality-as-alabama-international-motor-speedway-comes-to-life-in-1969/
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
In the 1890s, the tiny island of Zanzibar became a protectorate of Great Britain. Not everyone agreed with this move, and the tensions between two entities resulted in the Anglo-Zanzibar war, history's shortest recorded war.
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Sources:
Johnson, Ben. “The Shortest War in History.” (March 1 2015). Historic UK Website. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Shortest-War-in-History/
Saud Turki, Benyan. “Sayyid Khalid Bin Barghash, Britain and the Throne of Zanzibar.” Oct. 2009. Anaquel de Estudios Arabes, 21. 35-53.
https://www.academia.edu/22075854/Sayyid_Khalid_Bin_Barghash_Britain_and_the_throne_of_Zanzibar_Sayyid_Khalid_Bin_Barghash_Gran_Breta%C3%B1a_y_el_trono_de_Zanzibar
Anglo-Zanzibar War: History’s Shortest War by Warographics on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8ZHb2z-4V8
https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Tanzania
https://www.britannica.com/place/Zanzibar-Tanzania
https://www.african-adventures.co.uk/a-brief-history-of-zanzibar/
https://diplomacy.state.gov/encyclopedia/protectorate/
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
In 1914, Shackleton and his crew, aboard two ships, voyaged to Antarctica with the purpose of crossing the frozen landscape from end to end. The expedition didn't go as planned and the resulting story is one of survival, bravery, and true endurance.
Links you'll need to reference:
Map of Expedition
List of Crew
Footage of their voyage
Underwater footage of the Endurance
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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYzfGGG-BGU
https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_ships/endurance.php
https://people.howstuffworks.com/why-is-it-bad-luck-to-change-name-ship.ht
https://swmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Endurance_Map_swmaps.jpg
https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/the-heart-of-the-great-alone/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace/elephant-island-1916
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/hero-who-rebelled-against-shackleton-is-honoured-with-statue-of-beloved-cat-733172.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mrs-chippy-monument
https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_ships/aurora.php#google_vignette
https://endurance22.org/history-of-endurance
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Henry-Shackleton