Historians on Housewives

In which the Historians talk about the role of trauma on the Real Housewives, race and identity on Top Chef, ethnography on social media, the most iconic BravoTV moments, and much, much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians launch a new show - Into the Archives - and discuss the Great British Bake-Off, and histories of settler colonialism, early modern medicine and humoralism, and food.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians talk Sister Wives and learn about polygamy, First Wives, Warren Jeffs and the FLDS, and much much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which sickness falls upon the Historians and Max once again has to pick up the slack and break some bad news. Tune in next week! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss the Creek's and Cherokees’ gunpowder trades during the Revolutionary War, contextualize the Creek Confederacy and Native interests and alliances during the war, analyze the role of gunpower as a gendered commodity and what that meant for Native American women’s power in shaping regional and and global market structures, converse about the matriarchal social structures depicted on the Real Housewives, confer about the ways commodities reveal "the dark underbelly" of Housewives franchises, and deliberate about the historical crossovers between Bravo franchises and Native womens' practices, and much, much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians promote the new season and other fun stuff on the horizon for HonH. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians learn about how to think about scandal and the relationship between sexuality and Evangelical and Pentecostal religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century America, and how RHOP and RHOSLC can help us understand cheating and sexuality in these church communities. Recommended ReadingSuzanna Krivulskaya, “A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination,” The Revealer, March 2, 2020.Wallace Best, “Lessons from the Rev. Eddie Long Scandal: Some Historical Context,” Huffpost, October 10, 2010.Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).Ambre Dromgoole, “Pastor Mary Cosby, Arranged Pentecostal Marriages, and the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Revealer, February 4, 2021.Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (New York: Liveright, 2020).Megan Goodwyn and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “Keeping It 101” podcast.Ahmad Greene-Hayes, “New Birth and Jamal Bryant: Time for the Black Church to Address Its Culture of Sexism, Misogyny and Homophobia,” The Root, December 4, 2018.Emily Suzanne Johnson, “A Theme Park, a Scandal, and the Faded Ruins of a Televangelism Empire,” Religion & Politics, October 28, 2014.Bravo Insider, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Answer ALL Your Questions About Mormonism."Mathew Schmalz, “Why the Label ‘Cult’ Gets in the Way of Understanding New Religions,” The Conversation, April 10, 2018. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss public history, the Bronze Age Mari and curse tablets in Roman Britain, the connections between soap operas with Bravo shows like Vanderpump Rules and RHOBH, contemplate Real Housewives' curses on each other, what Jax Taylor has to do with a legal record from 3,000 years ago, paralleling Yolanda's treatment of the Hadid sisters with imperial alliances of the Bronze Age, consider the relationships between ancient cure-alls and housewives' use of IV drips, rating travel journalism, and much, much more!For more from our guest, check out:CarlySilver.comIG: @bespectacledlegendTwitter: @CarlyASilverRecommended ReadingCarly Silver, "Do You Want to Build an Icehouse?: On the refrigerated innovations of ancient rulers," Laphams Quarterly, September 28, 2021 Carly Silver, "How Ancient Cure-Alls Paved the Way for Drug Regulation," The Atlantic, January 10, 2017Carly Silver, "This Corrupt Boss Was Charged With Sexual Harassment—3,000 Years Ago," Narratively, April 4, 2018Greg Jenner, You’re Dead to Me podcastAtlas ObscuraJStor Daily Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“I’m that misbehaving Nasty Wench, writing and creating history, making the good wives and patriarchs anxious” with Dr. Kristalyn ShefvelandThe personal legacies of Kathleen Brown, William Byrd ancestry, tips for scholars and graduate students researching in the archive, Walt Disney’s failed Slavery-themed theme park, ethnic foldaways in Indiana, discussing how reality television can be used to teach historical memory and the Lost Cause myth, and much, much more! Kristalyn Shefveland's twitter: @kristalynmarieRecommended ReadingAnglo-Native Virginia: Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).Classic Restaurants of Evansville (Charleston, S.C.:The History Press, 2020)Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1996)Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975)Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)  Social MediaTwitter: @HistoriansHEtsy Shop: HistoriansHousewives Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss connections between lynching photography and the power of television, the racial politics of Bravo touching on current events and hypocrisies in reality television storylines, historical contexts for cultural liberalism and its limits, Max takes over the Bonko Party game, and we all come to grips with the end of a really long semester, and much, much more!Recommended ReadingsKateFlach.comKate Flach Op-Eds:“Thanks to conservative politicians and the media, the education wars echo the 1960s,” Washington Post, November 19, 2021“The ‘Wonder Years’ remake resurrects a 1970 tactic to diversify TV viewing,” Washington Post, October 1, 2021: “Television is already moving to address racism—but will the effort last?,” Washington Post, June 11, 2020: Daniel Widener, Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2010)Allison Perlman, Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television (Rutgers University Press, 2016)Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).Elana Levine, Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020).Ruth Feldstein, “I Wanted the Whole World to See"Social MediaTwitter: @HistoriansHEtsy Shop: HistoriansHousewives Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.