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Maybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 15 Voting Rights ActSend us a textThis week Allison and Eugene sit down to talk about the 1964 Voting Rights Act along with the results of various political races that took place on the 4th of November. Eugene springs a 1965 Alabama Literacy Test used to determine if Black people could vote.Sources https://kansasreflector.com/2021/07/07/in-kansas-the-fairest-congressional-election-map-might-have-no-lines-at-all/https://klrd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/m3_AdAstra_1-packet.pdfdistrict.https://lawrencekstimes.com/2025/09/04/ks-gop-might-redistrict-davids/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/05/virginia-election-democratic-sweep-what-next/Contact Us:Email: maybewatermaybevodka@gmail.comSocials: @maybewatermaybevodkaMusic:
2025-11-1343 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaVoting RIghts ActSend us a textThis week Allison and Eugene sit down to talk about the 1964 Voting Rights Act along with the results of various political races that took place on the 4th of November. Eugene springs a 1965 Alabama Literacy Test used to determine if Black people could vote.Sources https://kansasreflector.com/2021/07/07/in-kansas-the-fairest-congressional-election-map-might-have-no-lines-at-all/https://klrd.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/m3_AdAstra_1-packet.pdfdistrict.https://lawrencekstimes.com/2025/09/04/ks-gop-might-redistrict-davids/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/05/virginia-election-democratic-sweep-what-next/Contact Us:Email: maybewatermaybevodka@gmail.comSocials: @maybewatermaybevodkaMusic:
2025-11-1243 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 14 - Unplanned ConversationSend us a textThis week was an unplanned conversation about where we are with the upcoming episodes and where we are as a nation.Contact Us:Email: maybewatermaybevodka@gmail.comSocials: @maybewatermaybevodkaEditing:Allison JohnsonMusic:Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC
2025-11-0541 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 13 Part 2 - Scott EllsworthSend us a textThis week is a continuation of Eugene and Allison's talk with award-winning author and teaching professor, Scott Ellsworth, about his newly-released book, Midnight on the Potomac. Scott's book focuses on the last year of the Civil War, main characters like Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson Davis, and John Wilkes Booth while also utilizing several lesser-known players to tell the story. His writing draws the reader in, no matter their historical prerequisites, and brings riveting and important histories to the general population. This is a two-part episode, so tune in next week for...
2025-10-0854 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 13 Part 1 - Scott EllsworthSend us a textThis week Eugene and Allison talk to award-winning author and teaching professor, Scott Ellsworth, about his newly-released book, Midnight on the Potomac. Scott's book focuses on the last year of the Civil War, main characters like Abraham Lincoln, William Tecumseh Sherman, Jefferson Davis, and John Wilkes Booth while also utilizing several lesser-known players to tell the story. His writing draws the reader in, no matter their historical prerequisites, and brings riveting and important histories to the general population. This is a two-part episode, so tune in next week for the rest!
2025-10-0142 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 12 - Clementine BarnabetSend us a textThis week Eugene and Allison talk about a female, African American serial killer named Clementine Barnabet. From grizzly murders, to time served in one of the nations'e toughest prisons and a possible lobotomy, this story covers a lot of ground. Tune in and let us know what you think!Sources:The Toledo News-Bee - Google Books"NEGRO HELD IN JAIL AT CROWLEY FOR BUTCHERY OF FAMILY OF FOUR" · Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax MurdersHRWG Annual Symposium Proceedings“A Very...
2025-09-2446 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 11 - The BendersSend us a textThis week Eugene and Allison talk about a famous Kansas family and listener request, The Benders. Send us your recommendations and maybe we'll feature your request next!Sources:Library of Congress: https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/10/bloody-benders/Library of Congress: https://guides.loc.gov/homestead-act/introduction?loclr=blogserHumanities Kansas: https://www.humanitieskansas.org/get-involved/kansas-stories/people/true-crime-in-kansas-the-mystery-of-the-bendersKansas University Alumni: https://kansasalumnimagazine.org/magazine-article/bloody-benders-property/Historical Marker Database: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=275329Pittsburgh S...
2025-09-1057 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 9 Part 2 - Who Gets to do the Remembering, Forgetting, and Interpreting?Send us a textKayla is back with us again this week to close out last week's episode on who gets to do history: the remembering, the forgetting, and the interpreting. Email us with your questions!Book Mentions (cont. from Ep. 9 Part 1):The Power of Place by Dolores HaydenStanding Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk SavageSilencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph TrouillotThe Participatory Museum by Nina SimonA People's...
2025-08-201h 14Maybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 9 Part 1 - Who Gets to do the Remembering, Forgetting, and Interpreting?Send us a textThis week, Allison and Eugene are joined by Kayla Nelson, a public historian. She shares with us the details of who gets to do the remembering, forgetting, and interpreting of history and how those decisions are inherently non-neutral and often politically motivated. Book Mentions:The Power of Place by Dolores HaydenStanding Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk SavageSilencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michele-Rolph TrouillotThe Participatory Museum by N...
2025-08-131h 38Maybe Water Maybe VodkaAllison passed compsSend us a textAllison passed her comps. A conversation about Black women, the clothes we wore growing up, along with setting up next week's podcast about states' rights. Allison will be wrong for onceMusic by Jon Scott LLC
2025-08-061h 20Maybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 8 - A Conversation About WomenSend us a textAllison and Eugene talk about how society treats White women.Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.
2025-07-301h 47Maybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 7 - TermsSend us a textAllison and Eugene explain some of the standard terms we use in our field.Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.
2025-07-172h 01Maybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 6 - Almost AmericanSend us a textStory of the 671st Tank Battalion, the real Black Panthers.Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.
2025-07-101h 24Maybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 5 - 4th of JulySend us a textAllison 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.Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.
2025-07-0435 minMaybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 4 - American GenocideSend us a textAllison 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.Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.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.C...
2025-06-261h 46Maybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 3 - Mary DohertySend us a textThe girl who was accused, tried, and found innocent of killing her father.Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.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...
2025-06-191h 27Maybe Water Maybe VodkaEp. 2 - Harpe BrothersSend us a textAmerica’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...
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 VodkaEp. 1 - Salem Witch TrialsSend us a textAllison 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. Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.
2025-05-211h 30Maybe Water Maybe VodkaIntroductionSend us a textAllison and Eugene talk about how we met and why we decided to do a podcast.Music by Jon Scott, Jon Scott Media LLC.
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