Frequently (Un)Asked Questions is a bi-weekly history podcast that discusses all aspects of history that make you pause and ask "what the f.u.q. is going on?"
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Frequently (Un)Asked Questions is a bi-weekly history podcast that discusses all aspects of history that make you pause and ask "what the f.u.q. is going on?"
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June 3, 2021
You'll Hang For This
<p>Guess who’s back, back again? This week we’re talking about one very historically important lady: Mary Surrat. Guilty or innocent, she has made her mark on history textbooks. Born in southern Maryland in either 1820 or 1823, Mary Surrat really only became historically important in 1865 after being linked to the plot to assassinate then President Abraham Lincoln. Starting with her birth, the date of which isn’t 100% confirmed and a bit of a joking matter for Mikaela, we delve into the childhood of Mary Surrat before moving onto her marriage and family life. At first it almost sounds like Mary was just in the wrong place at the wrong time but as we always say, history is a whole lot weirder than we think.</p> <p>In antebellum Maryland, Mary was involved in a lot of pro-Confederate talk and following the election of Lincoln her eldest son joined the Confederate Army in Texas while her youngest son John Jr. became a Confederate spy and remained close by her side throughout the war. In 1864, Mary moved from southern Maryland to her boarding house in D.C., citing economic expenses as her reasoning. After moving into the D.C. boarding house, John Jr. starts to host a lot of Confederate allies and befriends John Wilkes Booth who starts to frequent the house in addition to other known co-conspirators. From there things just start to go downhill for Mary’s claim to innocence and the girls discuss Booth’s failed attempt to kidnap Lincoln, the evidence that piled against her in month leading up to the assassination, and her subsuquent trial and death sentence. But perhaps the most important part of today’s episode are Becca’s hot takes that John Wilkes Booth and Mary Surrat were “for sure boning” and that you can’t execute pretty people.</p> <p>Lots of articles were used to create today’s episode but perhaps the most helpful was the NY Times 1865 article about Mary Surrat which can be found here: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1865/07/08/archives/end-of-the-assassins-execution-of-mrs-surratt-payne-herrold-and.html"><u>https://www.nytimes.com/1865/07/08/archives/end-of-the-assassins-execution-of-mrs-surratt-payne-herrold-and.html</u></a></p>
May 5, 2021
Bloody Mary: Ghost Story, God Awful Drink, or English Monarch?
<p>Imagine if your dad came home one day and said “Hey I’m divorcing your mom! Also forget the religious teachings we’ve instilled in you over the last 15 years because I’m creating my own religion!” That’s basically the childhood of Queen Mary I. In today’s episode we discuss the historic reign of Mary I of England, known also by her nickname “Bloody Mary.” Before diving into the history of England’s first queen, our historians do get into a side discussion about the myth and the multiple mirrors they have in front of them and a little bar which serves some interesting Bloody Mary drinks.</p> <p>But refocusing on the history lesson, we start with a brief background into the only surviving child of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Discussing both Mary’s early days and the giving a bare bones rundown of the creation of the Church of England. Moving then to Mary’s adolescents we discuss her fall from grace and later return to the court before her eventual coup and successful, if short lived, rule.</p> <p>Come check us out on social media!</p> <p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fuqhistory</p> <p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fuqhistory/</p> <p>Twitter: https://twitter.com/fuqhistory</p>
April 23, 2021
Doctor Doctor Give Me The News
<p>No, we didn't miss a comma in the title, history actually has a man named Doctor Doctor. In today’s episode “Doctor Doctor Give Me The News” Becca guesses the topic is snake oil salesmen and is once again woefully misinformed about American history. Today’s topic instead focuses on the death of Mikaela’s first crush, former President James A Garfield. Before focusing on the short lived tenure of America’s “most promising president of the era,” Mikaela gives a brief look into Garfield pre-presidency focusing on his abolitionist views and dedication to equal rights for all citizens. In 1880, Garfield attended the Republican convention with no intention to run but was given the ticket as a sort of middle ground for the party and won by a narrow victory to the Democratic nominee Hancock.</p> <p>Once in the office, Garfield tried to put an end to political favors but his life was ended on July 2, 1881 when Charles Guiteau felt poltical slights so awful he took to murder. Guiteau wrote a failed, never publicly circulated pamphlet called “Grant Versus Hancock” that Guiteau believed was the key to Garfield’s presidential success. Hoping for the consulship to Vienna, Guiteau loitered around the Republican Headquarters in New York before following Garfield to Washington, D.C. and bouncing between the State Department and White House in hopes of gaining some form of political compensation. After many failed attempts at gaining a foreign position, Guiteau believed it was his god given destiny to kill the President and spent the next month stalking President Garfield in an attempt to pull off the perfect assassination. Spending June following Garfield around Washington, learning to shoot a gun, and sending off letters asking for later political favors, Guiteau put his plan into action on July 2nd and put the then President into a state of mortal peril for the next 79 days awaiting death as he was attended by the (not so esteemed) Doctor Doctor Willard Bliss. </p> <p>While many articles were helpful with writing this episode, we found Evan Andrews’ “The Assassination of President James A. Garfield” and Kenneth D. Ackerman’s “The Garfield Assassination Altered American History, But Is Woefully Forgotten Today”</p> <p><a href="https://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-president-james-a-garfield"><u>https://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-president-james-a-garfield</u></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/garfield-assassination-altered-american-history-woefully-forgotten-today-180968319/"><u>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/garfield-assassination-altered-american-history-woefully-forgotten-today-180968319/</u></a></p> <p><strong>Come check us out on social media!</strong></p> <p>Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fuqhistory</p> <p>Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fuqhistory/</p> <p>Twitter: https://twitter.com/fuqhistory</p>
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