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Maybe Water Maybe VodkaTermsAllison and Eugene explain some of the standard terms we use in our field.Music by John Scott LLC2025-07-172h 01Maybe Water Maybe VodkaAlmost AmericanStory of the 671st Tank Battalion, the real Black Panthers.Music By John Scott 2025-07-101h 24Maybe Water Maybe Vodka4th of JulyAllison and Eugene discuss what the Fourth of July means, and how it is more than just a cookout and fireworks, as well as why many minority groups don’t celebrate the Fourth of July in the same way as white communities do.2025-07-0435 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaAmerican GenocideAllison and Eugene take a look at the genocide, the history behind the word, and discuss if the Indigenous experience in America qualifies as a genocide.Sources Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995.Anderson, Gary C. Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian. Norman, OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 2014.Churchill, Ward. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present2025-06-261h 46Maybe Water Maybe VodkaMary DohertyThe girl who was accused, tried, and found innocent of killing her father. SourcesAlshuler, L.L., J. L. Cummings, and M.J. Mills. “Mutism: Review, Differential Diagnosis, andReport of 22 Cases.” American Journal of Psychiatry 143, no. 11 (November 1986): 1409–14. Beecher, Catherine E. Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or the Bible and the People. NewYork: Harper and Brothers, 1857. Beecher, Catherine E. Religious Training of Children in the...2025-06-191h 27Maybe Water Maybe VodkaHarpe BrothersAmerica’s first recognized serial killers. Two brothers whose brutality and ruthlessness sowed fear in politicians and ministers alike. Born to loyalist parents in North Carolina, Micajah and Wiley Harpe terrorized Trans-Appalachia from 1790 to 1804, killing 28 people in at least four states.Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.SourcesT. Marshall Smith, Legends of the War of Independence and of the Earlier Settlements in the WestSmith, Legends of the War of IndependenceCa...2025-06-131h 32Maybe Water Maybe VodkaBathshebaBathsheba Spooner first person to be executed by the New American Republic. Not to be confused with Mary Suratt, the first woman executed by the US government in 1865Sourceshttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxta6b&seq=1https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwxjih&seq=11https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/48055767.pdfhttps://historicipswich.net/2021/06/19/the-hanging-of-bathsheba-spooner-july-2-1778/https://www.masshist.org/publications/rtpp/index.php/view/RTP4dg1https://newenglandhistoricalsociety...2025-06-0547 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaSalem Witch TrialsAllison breaks down the most infamous witch trial in American history, with a focus on the lives and the circumstances of the women who were accused of witchcraft. Looking past the obvious and drilling down into the details of the women charged, Allison and Eugene break down the social, political, and religious reasons that led to the Salem Witch Trials. 2025-05-211h 30Maybe Water Maybe VodkaIntroductionAllison and Eugene talk about how we met and why we decided to do a podcast.2025-05-1917 min