Presidents Behaving Badly: Duels, Dirty Letters, and Stolen Corpses
Forget the eagles and the Boston Tea Party. This 4th of July we're chasing the stories hiding next to the story.Amanda and JoLynne hand out America's most cursed historical awards, dig into the presid...
1 Heinä 45min
The Whittakers of West Virginia | When the Family Tree Folded Back on Itself
What happens when one family tree becomes less of a tree… and more of a wreath?This week on Barely Historical, we’re tackling one of the internet’s most infamous families: the Whittakers of West Virgi...
25 Kesä 1h 17min
Juneteenth | Why Freedom Was Delayed in Texas
Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, the day Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that enslaved people there were free more than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation....
17 Kesä 43min
Cleopatra | It's the Trojan Horse, but Horny
Hot take to start the show: every man who has ever lost his entire mind over a woman has blamed her for it. Two thousand years ago that energy started a civil war, ended with Julius Caesar getting sta...
15 Touko 1h 18min
De Clare: Too Much Power, Too Few Cousins
This week, we’re diving into the chaotic world of the De Clare sisters, one of medieval England’s most powerful families. What starts as inheritance drama quickly turns into royal favoritism, politica...
6 Touko 49min
Sid & Nancy | Punk Isn't Dead But These Two Sure Are
Patreon Bonus Episode. The year is 1978, and apparently the hottest relationship trend is mutual destruction.JoLynne and Amanda ruin history with the chaotic, toxic, and wildly overrated romance of SI...
29 Huhti 1h 19min
Gilded Age Mansions: Wealth, Labor, & Dark Truths
What were Gilded Age mansions really hiding?In this episode of Barely Historical, we dive into the outrageous world of America’s most extravagant homes—built during the late 1800s by names like the Va...
23 Huhti 51min
Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919 | Brown Paint, Horses, & Bed Rafts
The year is 1919. Boston is minding its business when a 50-foot tank full of molasses says, “absolutely not.”JoLynne and Amanda ruin history with a literal syrup tsunami, corporate negligence, and the...
15 Huhti 32min
