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In which the Historians learn about how to think about scandal and the relationship between sexuality and Evangelical and Pentecostal religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century America, and how RHOP and RHOSLC can help us understand cheating and sexuality in these church communities. Recommended Reading Suzanna Krivulskaya, “A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination,” The Revealer, March 2, 2020. Wallace Best, “Lessons from the Rev. Eddie Long Scandal: Some Historical Context,” Huffpost, October 10, 2010. Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). Ambre Dromgoole, “Pastor Mary Cosby, Arranged Pentecostal Marriages, and the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Revealer, February 4, 2021. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (New York: Liveright, 2020). Megan Goodwyn and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “Keeping It 101” podcast. Ahmad Greene-Hayes, “New Birth and Jamal Bryant: Time for the Black Church to Address Its Culture of Sexism, Misogyny and Homophobia,” The Root, December 4, 2018. Emily Suzanne Johnson, “A Theme Park, a Scandal, and the Faded Ruins of a Televangelism Empire,” Religion & Politics, October 28, 2014. Bravo Insider, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Answer ALL Your Questions About Mormonism." Mathew Schmalz, “Why the Label ‘Cult’ Gets in the Way of Understanding New Religions,” The Conversation, April 10, 2018. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss public history, the Bronze Age Mari and curse tablets in Roman Britain, the connections between soap operas with Bravo shows like Vanderpump Rules and RHOBH, contemplate Real Housewives' curses on each other, what Jax Taylor has to do with a legal record from 3,000 years ago, paralleling Yolanda's treatment of the Hadid sisters with imperial alliances of the Bronze Age, consider the relationships between ancient cure-alls and housewives' use of IV drips, rating travel journalism, and much, much more! For more from our guest, check out: CarlySilver.com IG: @bespectacledlegend Twitter: @CarlyASilver Recommended Reading Carly Silver, "Do You Want to Build an Icehouse?: On the refrigerated innovations of ancient rulers," Laphams Quarterly, September 28, 2021 Carly Silver, "How Ancient Cure-Alls Paved the Way for Drug Regulation," The Atlantic, January 10, 2017 Carly Silver, "This Corrupt Boss Was Charged With Sexual Harassment—3,000 Years Ago," Narratively, April 4, 2018 Greg Jenner, You’re Dead to Me podcast Atlas Obscura JStor Daily Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“I’m that misbehaving Nasty Wench, writing and creating history, making the good wives and patriarchs anxious” with Dr. Kristalyn Shefveland The personal legacies of Kathleen Brown, William Byrd ancestry, tips for scholars and graduate students researching in the archive, Walt Disney’s failed Slavery-themed theme park, ethnic foldaways in Indiana, discussing how reality television can be used to teach historical memory and the Lost Cause myth, and much, much more!  Kristalyn Shefveland's twitter: @kristalynmarie Recommended Reading Anglo-Native Virginia: Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018). Classic Restaurants of Evansville (Charleston, S.C.:The History Press, 2020) Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1996) Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975) Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)   Social Media Twitter: @HistoriansH Etsy Shop: HistoriansHousewives Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss connections between lynching photography and the power of television, the racial politics of Bravo touching on current events and hypocrisies in reality television storylines, historical contexts for cultural liberalism and its limits, Max takes over the Bonko Party game, and we all come to grips with the end of a really long semester, and much, much more! Recommended Readings KateFlach.com Kate Flach Op-Eds: “Thanks to conservative politicians and the media, the education wars echo the 1960s,” Washington Post, November 19, 2021 “The ‘Wonder Years’ remake resurrects a 1970 tactic to diversify TV viewing,” Washington Post, October 1, 2021: “Television is already moving to address racism—but will the effort last?,” Washington Post, June 11, 2020: Daniel Widener, Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2010) Allison Perlman, Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television (Rutgers University Press, 2016) Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007). Elana Levine, Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020). Ruth Feldstein, “I Wanted the Whole World to See" Social Media Twitter: @HistoriansH Etsy Shop: HistoriansHousewives Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss family law, poverty law, and divorce law and how they come up on the Real Housewives, “high-wealth families” legal regulations around high-wealth exceptionalism, the Girardi divorce, the differences between trusts and estates and much, much more! Further Readings Allison Tate, Home of the Dispossessed, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (2022).  Allison Tate, Inheriting Privilege, 116 Minnesota Law Review (2022).  Allison Tate, Custom of The Country: Trusts and Marriage Planning in High-Wealth Families, 34 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Journal 219 (2021). Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh Rachel Sherman,  "'A Very Expensive Ordinary Life': Consumption, Symbolic Boundaries, and Moral Legitimacy among New York Elites." Socio-Economic Review 16(2): 411-433 (2018) Sources Lisa Vanderpump in ABC's "Poison Arrow" Clip from Real Housewives of New York, Season 10 Episode 12: "Every Mayflower Has Its Thorn" Social Media Twitter: @HistoriansH Etsy Shop: HistoriansHousewives Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the historians discuss the long history of Native sovereignty and the encroachment of state and federal government onto Native lands, issues of sovereignty, wardship and citizenship for Indigenous people, and how issues of Native identity are represented on the Real Housewives of New York, Potomac, and Atlanta, as well as much, much more! For the article we reference in this episode, see: Sarah Viren, “The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t,” The New York Times Magazine (May 25, 2021) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians kick off season 3 by discussing Season 1 of RHOSLC, reminisce about what it was like taking classes with Coach and Jen Shah, what it means to be the perfect Mormon woman and wife, being divorced and LDS, debate fast food preferences and learn a dark secret about Utah fast food, Bret takes us on an ethnographic journey to LVP's Vanderpump Gardens, and much, much more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss the ongoing Erika Jayne scandal, celebrity culture and the production of reality tv, the art of interviewing Housewives, and much, much more! Image courtesy of Medium Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians pick up where they left up… with a Bonko Party Game Break, unpack Porsha’s infamous underground railroad comment, build on more connections between the Real Housewives and Black women’s understanding of freedom and liberty in the Revolutionary Era, allege some wild things about Patty Stanger’s Millionaire Matchmaker, and much, much, more! Image courtesy of the African American Intellectual History Society Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss the historiography of enslaved women and the importance of slavery scholarship circa 2004, gab about Flavor of Love and the Real World, the origins of the JMIL-McNeil crossover, Adam’s fabulous New Books in African American Studies podcast, shoutout Mumia, and much, much more!  Image courtesy of the African American Intellectual History Society Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians start off with a Bonko Party game break before segueing into a discussion comparing the musicals 1776 and Hamilton, the experiences of enslaved people in Virginia's Chiswell Lead Mines, Loyalism in the Revolution, whether the American Revolution was indeed revolutionary, Star Trek, and much, much more! Image courtesy of University of California, Davis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean Gallagher is a historian of enslaved people and state slaveholding in the American Revolution. He will be starting a postdoc at the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society in Fall 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss how our guest got into reality television and Bravo, play two games, hear a pitch on cord-cutting, discuss the CosmicDoc, spirituality and ghosts on RHOD, and much, much more! Image courtesy of University of Washington in St. Louis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss enslavement at sea, the metaphysical presence of the ghosts of the enslaved, spirit channelling and Tyler Henry, Sowande’ Mustakeem’s band Amalghemy, and much, much more! Image courtesy of University of Washington-St. Louis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians conclude their interview with the Dr. Oz of Historians on Housewives, Dr. Emily Baum. They discuss all things traditional Chinese medicine, it’s regional influence in the United States, researching and writing history in the time of Covid-19, what the hell Aaron Phypers was saying he does at that dinner party, reiki healing on reality TV, and much, much more! Image courtesy of University of California, Irvine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians talk about the history of traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), how Chinese medicine became popular in the US, how Chinese medicine became so popular with wealthier women, and much, much more! Image courtesy of University of California, Irvine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the historians discuss medieval source material, dig more into a fight between the RHOA husbands in Mexico, debate whether or not the Real Housewives is a feminist franchise, and allege wildly about Dorit and PK’s newest venture into the world of restaurants and fine Italian cuisine.  Courtesy of UC Davis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians learn about Medieval France and the unique genre of French farce then play a game that puts your ears to the test, literally and figuratively, plus much, much more! Image courtesy of UC Davis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians continue their discussion with Gwendolyn Fowler about all things RHONJ, RHOBH, segregation in New Jersey, the women of the Welfare Rights Movement, and play Allegedly with RHOP! Image courtesy of Rutgers University Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which the Historians discuss pandemic life, first forays into reality tv, RHONJ and representation, segregation in Bergen county, and take a Bonko party game break.  Image courtesy of Rutgers University Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.