Feel Familiar? Emotionally Intelligent History
"Feel Familiar? Emotionally Intelligent History" explores important but sometimes overlooked events from the past to gain a clearer understanding of the present day. It connects broad, macro-level developments in politics and society to relatable, individual feelings and thoughts.
Feel Familiar? Emotionally Intelligent History
Latest Episodes
Bankers, Secessionists, and Airplane Riders: The Kind of Guys Who Loved Drag in the Early 1900s.
We’ve come to the end of the road—a crazy, winding trail that’s had a lot of twists. Who can even say what was happening back in August when the first episode went up? We can’t. It’s nowhere in the historical record. What we do
It’s All Good Fun Until Someone Commits Gendercide: Womanless Shows and Castration Anxiety
Did Womanless Weddings and all-male drag shows allow regular dudes to avoid feeling castration anxiety? Come to think of it, why were (mostly male) psychologists and psychiatrists a hundred years ago so worried that their winkies might get cut ...
Discount Debutantes: How Clementine Miller Rescued New York’s Elite Daughters
It wasn't just men who needed help with weddings and such. In the 1950s and 1960s, Clementine Miller staged elaborate balls for Manhattan debutantes who hadn't yet found Mr. Good-Enough. Meanwhile, Joshua shares an exchange he had with Don Lemo...
Draggin’ for Dixie: How the United Daughters of the Confederacy Gave Womanless Weddings Their Big Start
Full disclosure: We had wanted to title this episode "Dixie Chicks With D*cks," but then thought the better of it. Did you know that no less a conservative stalwart than the United Daughters of the Confederacy gave Womanless Weddings their star...
Parlor Games, Journeymen, and Jilted Brides (and Seances!): The Roots of Womanless Weddings
No one's really sure where Womanless Weddings came from. They seem to have sprung into existence in the mid-1910s in the South. But other amusements, from rowdy Medieval rituals, to vaudeville songs about cheating spouses, to peculiar goings-on...
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