Dig: A History Podcast

Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals

Drugs Episode #4 of 4. For centuries, psychiatrists searched for the cure to mental illness,...

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"More like a dust heap than a nose": The Global History of Smokeless Tobacco

Drugs Series. Episode #3 of 4. Tobacco smoking is definitely the default way to consume tobacco....

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“The Americans Can Fix Nothing without a Drink”: Alcohol in Early America

Drugs Series. Episode #2 of 4. Today we’re going to discuss alcohol consumption in early America....

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The Sacred Bark: A History of Quinine

Drugs, Episode 1 of 4. Quinine, the alkaline derived from the bark of the quina-quina tree, would...

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W.I.T.C.H.: Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell

Witches Series. Episode #4 of 4. On a brisk autumn day in New York City, 1968, roughly 13 women...

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“Wicked Practises and Sorcerye”: Cunning Folk, Witch Trials, and the Tragedy of Joan Flower and Her Daughter

Witches Series, #3 of 4. In 1618, the Earl of Rutland and his wife accused three women of...

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Both Man and Witch: Uncovering the Invisible History of Male Witches

Witches Series. Episode #2 of 4. Since at least the 1970s, academic histories of witches and...

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Doctor, Healer, Midwife, Witch: How the the Women’s Health Movement Created the Myth of the Midwife-Witch

Witches, Episode #1 of 4. In 1973, two professors active in the women’s health movement wrote a...

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Slavery & Soul Food: African Crops and Enslaved Cooks in the History of Southern Cuisine

Food Series. Episode #4 of 4. In June 2020, Quaker Oats announced they were revamping their...

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The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast Program: Feeding a Movement

Food Series #3 of 4. The Black Panthers are often misrepresented or their significance is...

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A History of Medicinal Cannibalism: Therapeutic Consumption of Human Bodies, Blood, and Excrement in “Civilized

Food Series. Episode #2 of 4. Cannibalism gave imperial powers compelling justifications for...

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Hot for Chocolate: Aphrodisiacs, Imperialism, and Cacao in the Early Modern Atlantic

Food Series, Episode #1 of 4. When the Spanish conquered Mesoamerica, they conquered cacao....

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Sex & Soldiers: Combating Sexually Transmitted Infection in the US Military

Commemorative Sex Series. Episode 4 of 4. Wherever you have a military, you will have sex....

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Steaming the “Nefarious Sin”: Bathhouses and Homosexuality from the Victorian Era to the AIDS Epidemic

Commemorative Sex Series: Episode 3 of 4. When and where public baths have been popular, they’ve...

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Recogimiento: Virginity, Enclosure, and Female Virtue in Colonial Latin America

Commemorative Sex Series: Episode 2 of 4. Today’s show is focused on the Hispanic concept of...

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Honeymoon in Niagara Falls: Heterosexuality and Place

Commemorative Sex Series: Episode 1 of 4. It's our 100th EPISODE!!! Welcome to the start of...

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Three Year Anniversary Live Recording!

This is a special episode, a recording of a live Anniversary episode in which we answer questions...

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79 and Counting: Women of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising

Violence Series #4 of 4. Though they’re rarely at the fore of the story, the women of Ireland’s...

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Blood on the Ravenstone: Judicial Torture, Penal Violence, and Capital Punishment in Early Modern Europe

Violence Series. Episode #3 of 4. This week we're delving into penal violence in early modern...

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Honor, Manhood, Slavery: Political Violence from Alexander Hamilton to John Brown

Violence Series, #2 of 4. Dueling seems crazy to us today. Two men take ten paces, turn to face...

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