Behind the Scenes Minis: Extreme Wealth and Wild Research
April 26, 2024 (duration 29m)

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, "Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching" (Verso, 2021)
February 15, 2022 (duration 57m)
[from description] ...a, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color a...
[from itunes:summary] ...a, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color a...
[from content:encoded] ...a, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens.Through hauntingly detailed full-color ar...

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)
February 2, 2022 (duration 53m)
[from title] Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)
[from description] On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Díaz opened the window of his st...
[from itunes:summary] On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Díaz opened the window of his st...

Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)
July 27, 2021 (duration 1h6m)
[from description] Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus, and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. Tufnell ach...
[from itunes:summary] Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus, and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. Tufnell ach...
[from content:encoded] Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus, and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. Tufnell ach...

Pamela Hamilton, "Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale" (Koehler Books, 2021)
May 28, 2021 (duration 35m)
[from description] The name of Dorothy Hale is not well known these days. In the 1920s, she enjoyed a career on Broadwa...
[from itunes:summary] The name of Dorothy Hale is not well known these days. In the 1920s, she enjoyed a career on Broadwa...
[from content:encoded] The name of Dorothy Hale is not well known these days. In the 1920s, she enjoyed a career on Broadwa...

Wendy Voorsanger, "Prospects of a Woman" (She Writes Press, 2020)
March 23, 2021 (duration 31m)
[from description] When Elisabeth Parker and her husband leave Massachusetts and arrive in California to join her father, she quickly learns that her father is not who she thought he was. It’s 1849, and she also real...
[from itunes:summary] When Elisabeth Parker and her husband leave Massachusetts and arrive in California to join her father, she quickly learns that her father is not who she thought he was. It’s 1849, and she also real...
[from content:encoded] When Elisabeth Parker and her husband leave Massachusetts and arrive in California to join her father, she quickly learns that her father is not who she thought he was. It’s 1849, and she also real...

Sofia Grant, "Lies in White Dresses" (William Morrow, 2019)
October 3, 2019 (duration 39m)
[from description] Francie Meeker and her best friend, Vi Carothers, bought into the promise offered to middle-class, especially white, women in the mid-twentieth...
[from itunes:summary] Francie Meeker and her best friend, Vi Carothers, bought into the promise offered to middle-class, especially white, women in the mid-twentieth...
[from content:encoded] Francie Meeker and her best friend, Vi Carothers, bought into the promise offered to middle-class, especially white, women in the mid-twentieth...

Abigail Perkiss, “Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia” (Cornell UP, 2014)
July 16, 2014
[from description] ...s morning, I’ve periodically looked up from my computer screen and out the window to see who the dog is barking at. Sometimes it’s a young mother pushing a stroller,...
[from itunes:subtitle] ... this morning, I’ve periodically looked up from my computer screen and out the window to see who the dog is barking at. Sometimes it’s a young mother pushing a stroller, sometim...
[from itunes:summary] ...s morning, I’ve periodically looked up from my computer screen and out the window to see who the dog is barking at. Sometimes it’s a young mother pushing a stroller,...

James Forrester, “Sacred Treason” (Sourcebooks, 2012)
December 18, 2013 (duration 1h1m)
[from description] London, December 1563. Elizabeth I–Gloriana, the Virgin Queen–has ruled England for five years, but her throne is far from secure. Even tho...
[from itunes:summary] London, December 1563. Elizabeth I–Gloriana, the Virgin Queen–has ruled England for five years, but her throne is far from secure. Even tho...

Yangsze Choo, “The Ghost Bride” (HarperCollins, 2013)
October 18, 2013 (duration 1h0m)
[from description] ...ful eighteen-year-old, has watched her Chinese merchant family decline since the death of her mother from smallpox during Li Lan’s early childhood. Her father lives in iso...
[from itunes:summary] ...ful eighteen-year-old, has watched her Chinese merchant family decline since the death of her mother from smallpox during Li Lan’s early childhood. Her father lives in iso...