Chevalière d’Éon: The Transgender Spy

Julia Child: Stirring Up America’s Appetite

Before food TV came to be, one woman taught America how to cook with joy… and lots of butter. From writing to working for the CIA, Julia Child’s path led her to Paris, where she discovered French cuisine and forever changed how America eats. Follow us on Instagram: @watchhercookpodcast  [https://www.instagram.com/watchhercookpodcast/?hl=en] Sources: * The history of chocolate | alimentarium [https://www.alimentarium.org/en/fact-sheet/history-chocolate] * The French Chef - SNL [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxv6IGBgFQ]  * French Onion Soup | The French Chef Season 1 | Julia Child [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU8BhMYpJaQ]  * Excerpt from 'A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS' » PopMatters [https://www.popmatters.com/139980-a-covert-affair-julia-child-and-paul-child-in-the-oss-2496045581.html]  * The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child | The New Yorker [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-passionate-progressive-politics-of-julia-child]  * Paul Child, Artist, Dies at 92 - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/14/obituaries/paul-child-artist-dies-at-92.html]  * JULIA CHILD / 1912-2004 - Los Angeles Times [https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-julia-child-obituary-s-story.html#:~:text=The%20woman%20who%20considered%20her,full%20of%20possibilities%20and%20pleasures.%E2%80%9D] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Violet Jessop: The Titanic Survivor Who Lived To Tell 3 Tales

She is known as “Miss Unsinkable.” Between the years 1908 and 1950, Violet Jessop worked as a stewardess and nurse aboard some of the most famous ships in history. Incredibly, she survived not one, not two, but three maritime disasters- including the Titanic itself.  Follow us on Instagram: @watchhercookpodcast  [https://www.instagram.com/watchhercookpodcast/?hl=en] Sources: * The Stunning Survival Story of Ernest Shackleton and His Endurance Crew | HISTORY [https://www.history.com/articles/shackleton-endurance-survival]  * Titanic survivor : the memoirs of Violet Jessop, stewardess [https://archive.org/details/titanicsurvivorm0000jess] * https://web.archive.org/web/20120117003457/http://www.biography.com/people/violet-jessop-283646 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120117003457/http://www.biography.com/people/violet-jessop-283646]  * Violet Constance Jessop : Titanic Stewardess (Survivor) [https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/violet-constance-jessop.html]  * The Woman Who Survived All Three Disasters Aboard the Sister Ships: the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic [https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/woman-survived-sinking-titanic-britannic-collision-olympic/]  * Unsinkable Violet Jessop: Survivor of the Titanic and two other ship disasters | Sky HISTORY TV Channel [https://www.history.co.uk/articles/unsinkable-violet-jessop]  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

The Black Angels: When Death Loomed Over NYC

In the early decades of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a shadow that loomed over New York City. Amid segregation and discrimination in American health care, a group of black nurses at New York’s Sea View Hospital rose to the occasion. Follow us on Instagram: @watchhercookpodcast  [https://www.instagram.com/watchhercookpodcast/?hl=en] Sources: * The Underground Railroad | Short History Of... | Noiser History Podcasts [https://www.noiser.com/short-history-of/the-underground-railroad]  * Tuberculosis [https://www.who.int/health-topics/tuberculosis#tab=tab_1]  * Virginia Allen, one of the last surviving “Black Angels”, is Graduation Keynote Speaker | NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing [https://nursing.nyu.edu/w/news/press-release/virginia-allen-one-last-surviving-black-angels-graduation-keynote-speaker]  * The ‘Black Angels’ who helped cure tuberculosis - The Emancipator [https://theemancipator.org/2024/05/09/topics/health-equity/the-black-nurses-who-helped-cure-tuberculosis/]  * (The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios) * The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis | Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-heroic-black-nurses-who-helped-cure-tuberculosis/]  * "Racial and Religious Democracy": Identity and Equality in Midcentury Courts by Elizabeth D. Katz :: SSRN [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3441367] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Chevalière d’Éon: The Transgender Spy

In 18th-century France, Chevalière d’Éon became famous as a brilliant spy and diplomat- and one of the first openly transgender figures in European history. Throughout their life, it was unknown if they were a man or a woman, living boldly between identities and loyalties, carrying out secret missions for both France and England. Follow us on Instagram: @watchhercookpodcast [https://www.instagram.com/watchhercookpodcast/?hl=en] Sources: * She went to the field : women soldiers of the Civil War : Tsui, Bonnie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/shewenttofieldwo0000tsui/mode/1up]  * The Incredible Chevalier d'Eon, Who Left France as a Male Spy and Returned as a Christian Woman - Atlas Obscura [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-incredible-chevalier-deon-who-left-france-as-a-male-spy-and-returned-as-a-christian-woman]  * D'Eon de Beaumont, his life and times; : Homberg, Octave, 1876-1941 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/cu31924024304762]  * Lettres, mémoires et négociations particuliéres du chevalier d'Éon : Misitre Plemipotentiaire aupres du Roi de la Grande-Bretagne; avec M.M. les Ducs de Praslin, de Nivernois, de Sainte-Foy, & Regnier de Guerchy, Ambassad. Extr. &c.&c.&c. : Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/lettresmmoires01eond]  * The Chevalière d'Eon, Transgender Autobiography and Identity - Morris - 2019 - Gender & History - Wiley Online Library [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0424.12405]  * The French Diplomat Who Lived as Both a Man and a Woman | HISTORY [https://www.history.com/articles/chevalier-d-eon-french-spy-man-woman]  * Charles, chevalier d’Éon de Beaumont | French secret agent, Eonism | Britannica [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-chevalier-dEon-de-Beaumont]  * French Revolution: Timeline, Causes & Dates | HISTORY [https://www.history.com/articles/french-revolution]  * Louis XIV | Palace of Versailles [https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/louis-xiv] * BBC - History - King Louis XV [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml]  * Le Secret du roi ou l'histoire d'une sottise on JSTOR [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40774514] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Mina Crandon and Rose Mackenberg: Exposing Fraudulent Mediums

During the height of spiritualism in the 1920s, Boston medium Mina "Margery" Crandon became a sensation with her dramatic séances and claims of spiritual contact. But not everyone was convinced. Rose Mackenberg, an investigator who worked alongside Houdini, went undercover to expose fraudulent mediums across the country - including mediums like Mina. Follow us on Instagram: @watchhercookpodcast  [https://www.instagram.com/watchhercookpodcast/?hl=en] Sources: * Hauntings - Series 1: 1. The Enfield Poltergeist - BBC iPlayer [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002389b/hauntings-series-1-1-the-enfield-poltergeist]  * Enfield Poltergeist | Skeptical Inquirer [https://skepticalinquirer.org/2012/07/enfield-poltergeist/]  * Overlooked No More: Rose Mackenberg, Houdini’s Secret ‘Ghost-Buster’ - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/obituaries/rose-mackenberg-overlooked.html]  * HOUDINI'S GREATEST NEMESIS — American Hauntings [https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/margery]  * Houdini's Greatest Trick: Debunking Medium Mina Crandon [https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53424/houdinis-greatest-trick-debunking-medium-mina-crandon]  * “The First Klansman”: Xenophobia, Faith, and Redemption in the Indiana Klan | Invisible Indianapolis [https://invisibleindianapolis.wordpress.com/2020/03/08/the-first-klansman-xenophobia-faith-and-redemption-in-the-indiana-klan/]  * Ghosts, apparitions, and poltergeists : an exploration of the supernatural through history [https://archive.org/details/ghostsapparition0000righ/page/52/mode/2up] * Article clipped from The Gazette [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette/159176746/] * The New York Times [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/02/27/98846926.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]