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EARLY RELEASE: Mother’s Day: Presidential Mothers

Becca and Rebecca share (what we know, hello patriarchy in historical research) about some Presidential Moms.

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

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Show Notes:

• First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped The Presidents by Bonnie Angelo

• Presidents and Their Moms: A Short History (Politico): https://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2017/11/03/presidents-mothers-photo-gallery-000755/?slide=0
• Mount Vernon - Mary Ball Washington: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/mary-ball-washington/
• National Park Service - Martha Bulloch Roosevelt: https://www.nps.gov/thrb/learn/historyculture/marthabullochroosevelt.htm
• National Park Service - Sara Delano Roosevelt: https://www.nps.gov/people/sara-delano-roosevelt.htm
• Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home - Ida Stover Eisenhower: https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/Chapter%204%20Mother.pdf
• Georgia Women of Achievement - Lillian Gordy Carter: https://www.georgiawomen.org/lillian-gordy-carter

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Produced / Edited by: Canden Arciniega & Matt Schleigh
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

 

PATRON ONLY: Folger Shakespeare Library

For you, our dear patrons, an April treat: all things Shakespeare for his birthday! We have wanted to talk about the Folger Shakespeare Library (and Rebecca’s Shakespeare obsession) for quite a long time and that time is now! Join us as we discuss the Bard and his DC home!

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall
• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/
• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• The Folger Library: https://www.folger.edu
• You can also find the Folger on instagram @folgerlibrary
• And their own pod is Shakespeare Unlimited
• An article about the buildings expansion and renovation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/folger-shakespeare-library-plans-underground-expansion/2019/04/10/deb3227c-5ae8-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Produced / Edited by: Canden Arciniega & Matt Schleigh Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio HEro

 

EARLY RELEASE: Gunfight at the OK Corral

This week we head to Tombstone, Arizona and back to the Wild West. You've heard the names Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, the Claytons - Becca and Rebecca sort through fact and fiction to talk about one of the most famous gunfights - the OK Corral.

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall
• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/
• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• Visit the OK Corral!: https://www.ok-corral.com/
• Arizona State Library - Gunfight at the OK Corral: https://azlibrary.gov/dazl/learners/research-topics/gunfight-ok-corral
• The Day That Brought Infamy: https://www.dental.umaryland.edu/museum/exhibits/online-exhibits/doc-holliday-dds/the-day-that-brought-infamy/
• Tombstone (1993), Gunfight clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpEkaGJnkAk

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Produced / Edited by: Canden Arciniega & Matt Schleigh  Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

PATRON ONLY: Washington National Cathedral with Andy Bittner

We are excited to have Andy Bittner, author of Building the Washington National Cathedral, as our guest for this patron-only episode. 

 

Join Andy for a tour with DC by Foot - https://freetoursbyfoot.com/national-cathedral-guided-tour/

 

or purchase his book - https://www.amazon.com/Building-Washington-National-Cathedral-America/dp/1467134546

 

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall
• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/
• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• Crucial Soviet war time assets: https://www.history.com/.amp/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night
• Marina Raskova, their commander: https://russianlife.com/stories/online/soviet-terror-of-the-skies-marina-raskova-and-the-night-witches/
• Vanity Fair Article on them: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots/amp
• There is a graphic novel about them by Garth Ennis

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Produced / Edited by: Canden Arciniega & Matt Schleigh 
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio HEro

EARLY RELEASE: Clara Harris

Clara Harris and her fiancé were witness to one ofnthe most famous episodes in American history but are little known and less discussed themselves. 

Join Rebecca and Becca as they discuss how much more there was to this fascinating woman than just her trip to the theater in 1865.

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall
• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/
• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• First and most importantly, if you want to learn more, come on our Lincoln Assassination tour with DC By Foot where we discuss all the events of that tragic April evening! Book a spot at www.dcbyfoot.com
• The tragic lives of Clara and Henry: https://blog.nyhistory.org/attending-fords-theater-with-the-lincolns-the-tragic-lives-of-clara-harris-and-henry-rathbone/
• Their life after the assassination: https://www.thegettysburgexperience.com/a-christmas-murder
• Haunted Henry Rathbone: https://www.americanheritage.com/haunted-major

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Produced / Edited by: Canden Arciniega & Matt Schleigh 
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio HEro

 

PATRON ONLY: The Night Witches

Hello Patrons! We are concluding our Women's History Month episodes with a patron request! We take a look at some very brave and extremely interesting women: Female Soviet bombers during World War 2.

 

Nicknamed the Night Witches by their German opponents, these women were utterly fearless and extremely deadly, terrorizing the Germans from the skies. 

 

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall
• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/
• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• Crucial Soviet war time assets: https://www.history.com/.amp/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night
• Marina Raskova, their commander: https://russianlife.com/stories/online/soviet-terror-of-the-skies-marina-raskova-and-the-night-witches/
• Vanity Fair Article on them: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots/amp
• There is a graphic novel about them by Garth Ennis

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Produced / Edited by: Canden Arciniega & Matt Schleigh 
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio HEro

EARLY RELEASE: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Women’s History Month continues with a woman who embodies so many of the contradictions of the womens movement: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

 

Join Rebecca and Becca as they discuss this paragon of NY society and funder of the suffrage movement: heroine, villainess, pampered society matron, champion of women, and so much more!

 

 

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall

• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/

• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• There are a couple of books about Alva, including her daughter's memoir
  • The Glitter and The Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
  • Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
  • Alva Vanderbilt Belmont by Silvia D. Hoffert
• Alva as social climber: https://www.tatler.com/article/how-alva-vanderbilt-conquered-new-york-society-and-then-europe
• Mother and daughter as celebrities: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5159494
• Belmont Paul Women's Equality monument: https://www.nps.gov/bepa/index.htm
• Marble House in Newport: https://www.newportmansions.org/explore/marble-house

 

EARLY RELEASE: Helen Hamilton Gardener

As we march into Women's History Month (see what we did there?), the Rebeccas wanted to highlight one of the more fascinating but definitely lesser known heroes of the Suffrage Movement, Helen Hamilton Gardener

 

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall

• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/

 

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly Hamlin’s
• The Fallen Woman Who Won The Vote - National Endowment for the Humanities: https://www.neh.gov/article/fallen-woman-who-won-vote
• The Woman Who Pushed The Smithsonian to Preserve the Victory for Suffrage: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-suffragist-helen-hamilton-gardener-worked-make-sure-movement-was-remembered-180974382/
• Iowa State University, Archives of Women’s Political Communication: https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/helen-hamilton-gardener/
• Eulogy for Helen Hamilton Gardener, delivered by Carrie Chapman Catt: https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2020/12/04/eulogy-for-helen-hamilton-gardner-july-28-1925/

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Edited by: Dan King

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PATRON SPECIAL: Belle daCosta Greene

Our Patron episode for February is a patron request! For Black History Month, we were asked to talk about Belle daCosta Greene, an African American woman who passed as white to become the librarian to JP Morgan!

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall

• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/

• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• Here is her information page from the Library that she created: https://www.themorgan.org/belle-greeneNPR article about the book on her life: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/08/31/1031802246/the-story-of-j-p-morgans-personal-librarian-and-why-she-chose-to-pass-as-whiteThe Fictionalized book about her life is called The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher MurrayHer Obit from The NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1950/05/12/archives/belle-d-greene-morgan-librarian-noted-figure-in-field-holder-of.html

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl Produced & Edited by: Canden Arciniega Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

EARLY RELEASE: Bayard Rustin

Familiar names such as MLK, FDR, Wilberforce University appear in this week's episode about a figure who you may not know a lot if anything, about. Becca and Rebecca remember Bayard Rustin, a black American leader for civil rights, gay rights, and pacifism.

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

• Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall

• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/

• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• Civil Rights Biography: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/rustin-bayard
• AFL-CIO Biography: https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/bayard-rustin
• Bayard Rustin, The Man Behind the March: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/22/970292302/remembering-bayard-rustin-the-man-behind-the-march-on-washington
• National Park Service - The Places of Bayard Rustin: https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-places-of-bayard-rustin.htm
• 1979 interview with Bayard Rustin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grSbGG8uM-0
• 1962 debate between Bayard Rustin and Malcolm X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdbQKjr9Bu4 (clip from Brother Outsider)
• The Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJcUnXTaCgU
• Union Solidarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z66EZVtW_Q
• Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio

Brother Outsider documentary website: http://rustin.org/

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Edited and Produced by: Canden Arciniega Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero