Fantastic Footnotes Podcast

<p>By some estimates, over 3,000 steamboats sank on America’s waterways between 1820 and 1860. Even more were lost into the early 1900s after the heyday of steamboats had already started to fade. Most of those sinkings...

<p>This week, we’re introducing two new series on Fantastic Footnotes.This is the first episode of one of them—The Note Stack.</p><p>The Note Stack is our space to talk about new research and news stories in history and...

<p>The Shroud of Turin is one of the most studied—and most debated—objects in history. Believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus, the linen measures roughly 14 feet long and bears the faint image of a man who...

<p>On June 9, 1865, Charles Dickens’ life changed forever. He was involved in a train crash that killed 10 people, injured 49, and stuck with him the rest of his life.</p><p>In this episode we tell the story of the...

<p>This week was the 50th Anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and this tragic story has been highlighted on news stories and podcasts across the country. If you haven’t heard the story, on November 9...

<p>On September 8, 1934, the Morro Castle caught fire on its return trip from Havana to New York. The disaster was a potpourri of startling circumstances, from the captain dying to the ship being caught between two...

<p>On September 8, 1934, the Morro Castle caught fire on its return trip from Havana to New York. The disaster was a potpourri of startling circumstances, from the captain dying to the ship being caught between two...

<p>Bardstown: Hospitality, History, and Bourbon by Dixie Hibbs</p><p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardstown,_Kentucky</p><p>https://talbotttavern.com/</p><p>https://www.invent.org/inductees/john-fitch</p><p>https://www...

<p>Here we are, back with Part 2. When last we left our intrepid explorers, David Livingstone was “lost” in Africa and Henry Morton Stanley had convinced a newspaper to finance a search for the good doctor. If you...

<p>Here we are for the second episode of Fantastic Footnotes! This week we tackle a saying that many of us have heard, but few of us know the origins of. This story will follow two men, both with different, but very...

<p>Well, after months of researching, recording, and making ready, I finally present our very first episode of Fantastic Footnotes!</p><p>In this episode we talk about the story of the Pied Piper, some of the different...