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Dig: A History Podcast

Four women historians, a world of history to unearth. Can you dig it?

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Underwear: A History of Intimate Apparel

Underwear: A History of Intimate Apparel

Fashion #4 of 4. Underwear, the unseen garments which sit in close proximity to genitals, skin, and all sorts of unmenti... Read more

25 Jun 2018

1hr 1min

Ranked #2

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Tuberculean Chic: How White Plague Shaped Beauty Standards in the 18c & 19c

Tuberculean Chic: How White Plague Shaped Beauty Standards in the 18c & 19c

Fashion Re-Release. Marissa and Sarah discuss Georgians’ and Victorians’ love affair with Tuberculosis and the tubercule... Read more

27 May 2018

53mins

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Puritan Sex: The Surprising History of Puritans and Sexual Practices

Puritan Sex: The Surprising History of Puritans and Sexual Practices

Sex Series, Episode #4 of 4. Get a complete transcript and bibliography at digpodcast.org. We have an image of puritans ... Read more

11 Sep 2017

57mins

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Celia, A Slave: The True Crime Case that Rocked the American Slave Power

Celia, A Slave: The True Crime Case that Rocked the American Slave Power

True Crime Series #3 of 4.  Today, we’re talking about a very real murder that was committed by a very real woman who li... Read more

28 Jan 2018

57mins

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Syphilis: Origin Story. Or, Early Modern Europeans Don’t Know Where It Came From, Current Scholars Don’t Know Where It Came From, and a Lot of Poxy Penises and Vulvas Suffered in Between

Syphilis: Origin Story. Or, Early Modern Europeans Don’t Know Where It Came From, Current Scholars Don’t Know Where It Came From, and a Lot of Poxy Penises and Vulvas Suffered in Between

Bodies Episode #2 of 4. From whence came the poxiest of poxes? Averill and Marissa dive into the debates surrounding the... Read more

27 Jan 2019

1hr 10mins

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Seduction, Prostitution, Bastardy, and Child Abandonment in Georgian London

Seduction, Prostitution, Bastardy, and Child Abandonment in Georgian London

Georgian London was the epicenter of urban pleasure culture. Harlots leveraged their assets, rakes indulged in licentiou... Read more

1 Apr 2019

1hr 9mins

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The Black Death: Dancing with Death in the Medieval World

The Black Death: Dancing with Death in the Medieval World

Death Series. Episode #2 of 4. The Black Death raged across Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia in the mid 14th ce... Read more

24 Nov 2019

1hr 11mins

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The Age of Crime! Civil War Veterans and Crime in America

The Age of Crime! Civil War Veterans and Crime in America

Original Research #4 of 4. Get a complete transcript and see the show notes at digpodcast.org The nation first had to tr... Read more

5 Aug 2018

1hr 2mins

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Rape and Race in Early America

Rape and Race in Early America

 In the age of #MeToo, rape and sexual assault have been consistently in the news. Debates abound about what counts as r... Read more

17 Mar 2019

1hr 16mins

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Who Else but the Illuminati? Conspiracy Theories, French Revolutions, and Historian Heroes

Who Else but the Illuminati? Conspiracy Theories, French Revolutions, and Historian Heroes

Clubs #2 of 4. If the internet is to be believed, the Illuminati are everywhere, controlling everything. They killed JFK... Read more

24 Jun 2019

1hr 1min

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La Petite Mort: Investigating the History of Orgasm, aka The Little Death

La Petite Mort: Investigating the History of Orgasm, aka The Little Death

Death Series, Episode #4 of 4. If you were fluent in French and mingling at a French dinner party and your snooty acquai... Read more

9 Dec 2019

57mins

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Sadism, Sex & the French Rev

Sadism, Sex & the French Rev

Sex Series #1 of 4. The Marquis de Sade is a notorious figure in the history of the French Revolution. Some see him as a... Read more

3 Sep 2017

57mins

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The Rise of Natural History Museums

The Rise of Natural History Museums

Environment #1 of 4. Many natural history museums, in America and in the western world, were developed during the ninete... Read more

30 Apr 2018

48mins

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Anthony Comstock: Sex, Censorship, and the Power of Policing the Subjective

Anthony Comstock: Sex, Censorship, and the Power of Policing the Subjective

Sex 2.0: Episode #3 of 4. Today’s episode is part of our sex series 2.0 and  a continuation of one of our earliest episo... Read more

25 Mar 2019

1hr 2mins

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Little Ice Age: Weird Weather, Witchcraft, Famine & Fashion

Little Ice Age: Weird Weather, Witchcraft, Famine & Fashion

Winter Series #1 of 4. Today we are discussing the ways the theoretical Little Ice Age impacted the people who lived thr... Read more

27 Nov 2017

41mins

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Secret Societies of Sapphos: Faro Ladies, Bluestockings, and Gendered Insults of Women’s Societies in 18th- and 19th-Century Britain

Secret Societies of Sapphos: Faro Ladies, Bluestockings, and Gendered Insults of Women’s Societies in 18th- and 19th-Century Britain

Secret Societies & Clubs #4 of 4. London was a colorful place in the 1790s, full of vices that the Victorians took g... Read more

8 Jul 2019

52mins

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Cannibalism, Frostbite, and The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Cannibalism, Frostbite, and The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Creepy, Occult, and Otherworldly Episode #4 of 4. Get a complete transcript of this episode at digpodcast.org. Today we ... Read more

5 Nov 2018

1hr 15mins

Ranked #18

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Cult of the Dead: Anglo American Death Practices, Spiritualism, and Speaking with the Dead

Cult of the Dead: Anglo American Death Practices, Spiritualism, and Speaking with the Dead

Death Series. Episode #1 of 4. Today we delve into the new book, Speaking with the Dead in Early America, by historian a... Read more

18 Nov 2019

40mins

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Marriage in America: A Brief History

Marriage in America: A Brief History

Womyn, #2 of 4. Marriage - the word alone is loaded. Marriage is the butt of jokes, the “old ball and chain,” the end of... Read more

1 Apr 2018

37mins

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Selling Sex in 19th C. NYC

Selling Sex in 19th C. NYC

 In 19th century New York City, sex was for sale and it wasn’t hard to find it. Commodified sex was everywhere and avail... Read more

4 Sep 2017

56mins

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