Latest Southernhistory Podcast Episodes

A Martha Trousdale Mystery

Compelling History of an American Other - September 03, 2020 16:30 - 28 minutes
Who was Sister Martha Trousdale and did she have a famous relative? Follow this Shaker's story through a series of surprising twists and turns.  

Rediscovering the Creative Work of African American Shaker Eunice Freehart

Compelling History of an American Other - June 06, 2020 10:00 - 17 minutes
Artists of all kinds continue to make their discovery of the Shakers and draw creative inspiration from their work. Hear how members of the Progressive Folk band Winterbirds have been inspired by Shaker material culture. Learn about the remarkable history of African American Shaker Eunice Freeha...

Shaker Village as a Refuge

Compelling History of an American Other - April 16, 2020 17:02 - 22 minutes
Throughout the 19th century South Union stood as a refuge to children in crisis. Learn how the Shakers bestowed mercy and grace on history's most innocent refugees. 

What kind of museum is South Union Shaker Village? Just who are the Shakers?

Compelling History of an American Other - April 02, 2020 20:39 - 6 minutes
An introduction to South Union Shaker Village. Includes a brief summary of Shaker history. 

Doctors Orders

Southern Hollows - November 23, 2019 21:42 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
In the Spring of 1944, the town of New Iberia, Louisiana, threatened, beat, and expelled key leaders of the town’s black community – leaders who had recently formed a new NAACP branch and were in danger of getting, by some accounts, the “upper hand.” Among the expelled were the town’s only black...

Breaking Down

Southern Hollows - June 19, 2018 14:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
On a cold, rainy afternoon in 1968 a Memphis garbage truck malfunctioned and killed the two "garbage packers" riding inside. It was the last straw for the city's more than 1,000 sanitation workers, who walked off the job in protest of the conditions. But they ran head-on into an immovable Mayor,...

Moving Pictures

Southern Hollows - February 06, 2018 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
When filmmaker D.W. Griffith released Birth of a Nation in 1915, the revolutionary film changed the way America thought about the movies, and in many respects launched the modern film industry. But lesser known is the role Birth of a Nation had in the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. Long eradicated...

Fire and Bones

Southern Hollows - October 10, 2017 09:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
The short-lived period of Reconstruction in the former Confederacy was met with defiance, violence, and a growing sense of chaos and danger — and that powder keg exploded on Easter Sunday in 1873, when the residents of tiny Colfax, Louisiana went to war with each other. This is the little-known ...

Kindly Reply

Southern Hollows - July 28, 2017 09:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
After emancipation decimated the labor supply of a Nashville-area plantation, its struggling master offers a former slave the chance to return. The response he received is one for the history books. Get the episode extras for this episode at www.southernhollows.com, where you can also sign up ...

Broad Daylight

Southern Hollows - June 19, 2017 08:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
A city conspires to vengeance in 1917 after a local schoolgirl is murdered. Law enforcement is all but suspended as an organized committee forms to abduct a suspect from police custody and stage a gruesome public spectacle. After you've listened, learn more on the Episode Extras page. 

The Mayor's Mob

Southern Hollows - May 09, 2017 08:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
In this episode, we go back in history to a sunny Saturday morning in 1891, when as many as 10,000 New Orleans citizens from all walks of life storm the Parish Prison to lynch a dozen Italian immigrants who had been rounded up as suspects in a local murder. RATE AND REVIEW US ON ITUNES | GET T...

Routine Papers

Southern Hollows - April 25, 2017 08:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
Meet Georgia Tann, the notorious Memphis matron of baby trafficking. Hear the tragic stories of her victims and the powerful Southern political machine that made it all possible. It's a little-known story from Southern history, but one that we shouldn't forget.  RATE AND REVIEW THE EPISODE ON ...

Out of Sight

Southern Hollows - April 11, 2017 08:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
Join a busload of determined Civil Rights marchers as they venture into a Georgia County equally determined to preserve a 75-year history of racial purity. It's another dark-but-important story from Southern history.   RATE AND REVIEW US ON ITUNES | GET THE EPISODE EXTRAS   Get your FREE...