Episodes

  • Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

    Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
    Feb 19 2026

    Episode 147. For this week's Black History Month episode, Emileigh and Morgan honor the amazing life of Harriet Tubman and the complexity of the Underground Railroad. Her good deeds weren't limited to the Underground Railroad and she spent her entire life helping those around her.

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    https://www.history.com/articles/underground-railroad

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXGK2wi5oM

    https://www.biography.com/activists/harriet-tubman-timeline-facts

    https://azpbs.org/2022/09/harriet-tubman-visions-of-freedom/
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • George Washington Carver: The Peanut Man

    George Washington Carver: The Peanut Man
    Feb 12 2026

    Episode 146. Morgan and Emileigh dive into the life of one of America's most famous scientists, George Washington Carver. He is most well known for his work with peanuts, but he did much more for the benefit of southern farmers and people around the world.

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    Sources

    “George Washington Carver” by History.com Editors (Oct 27 2009, updated Jan 23 2026)

    https://www.history.com/articles/george-washington-carver

    “George Washington Carver, The Black History Monthiest of Them All” by Gene Demby (Feb 11 2014)

    https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/02/11/275330069/george-washington-carver-the-black-history-monthiest-of-them-all

    “George Washington Carver”

    https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/george-washington-carver/

    “George Washington Carver”

    https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/carver.html

    “George Washington Carver”

    https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/george-washington-carver/

    “Innovative Iowans: Etta Budd” (Feb 2023)

    https://history.iowa.gov/media/122/download?inline

    “A Brief History of Peanut Butter” by Kate Wheeling (Jan 2021)

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-peanut-butter-180976525/

    Sound Credits:

    Music by soundoffreedom from Pixabay

    https://pixabay.com/music/ambient-film-ambient-atmosphere-413097/

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

    Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
    Feb 5 2026

    Episode 145. Emileigh and Morgan honor the life and Legacy of the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks.

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    https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/rosa-parks

    https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-jim-crow-laws

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Nixon

    https://www.history.com/articles/rosa-parks

    https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/rosa-parks

    https://blogs.loc.gov/families/2021/02/young-rosa-parks/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVybKqkPWuI
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Smell-O-Vision

    Smell-O-Vision
    Jan 29 2026
    Episode 144. For thousands of years, the art of the visual medium has entertained audiences. But is sight and sound enough? What if you could smell the story, too? Hans Laube developed a system for incorporating smell into film in the 1930s, and worked to get his invention into theaters. Morgan and Emileigh explore the history of smell and other senses into film, and the highs and lows of each. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources Stupid History: A Collection of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Through the Ages by Leland Gregory, 2019. Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC. Kansas City. “Hollywood And Its Efforts to Introduce the Wacky World of Smell-O-Vision” by Gilles Messier (Apr 3 2023) https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2023/04/hollywood-and-its-efforts-to-introduce-the-wacky-world-of-smell-o-vision-2/ “The Idea of Smell-O-Vision Has Been Around for Over a Century. AI May Finally Make It Work” by Michael Wolf (Aug 20 2024) https://thespoon.tech/the-idea-of-smell-o-vision-has-been-around-for-over-a-century-ai-may-finally-make-it-work/ “Smell-O-Vision: The Curious Case of Cinema’s Forgotten Sense” by Kate Holtz (Aug 7 2025) https://www.massiveactionmedia.com/post/history-of-smell-o-vision “The Story of the Smell-O-Vision Wars” https://hyscent.com/the-story-of-the-smell-o-vision-wars/ https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/SPEC/belknap/exhibit2002/smell.htm “A Brief History about Hans Laube” by Carmen Laube (Jan 01 2016; updated Dec 21 2025) https://www.in70mm.com/presents/1960_smell_o_vision/library/hans_laube/index.htm “In Glorious Smell-O-Vision! scented documentary” https://scentedstorytelling.com/2020/10/01/in-glorious-smell-o-vision-the-true-story-of-the-godfather-of-scented-cinema/ “Smell-o-vision screens let you really smell the coffee” by Hal Hodson (Mar 26 2013) https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729105-900-smell-o-vision-screens-let-you-really-smell-the-coffee/ “Best ever April Fools’ pranks” (Mar 30 2007) https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/best-ever-april-fools-pranks-2mcmmb8hlwn “Smell O vision 2026” (Jan 3 2026) https://olorama.com/smell-o-vision/ Sound Credits: Music by Julius H. from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/marching-band-cheerful-march-happy-march-music-292405/
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    57 mins
  • The Forty Elephants: London's all Woman Gang

    The Forty Elephants: London's all Woman Gang
    Jan 22 2026

    Episode 143. Emileigh and Morgan dive into the underbelly of London in the late 1800s to explore the world of the city's most notorious all woman gang. The Forty Elephants were terrorizing shop owners, the police, and the citizens with crimes and violence for decades.

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    Sources

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79K0MpXxFY

    https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/forty-elephants-south-londons-supreme-shoplifters/

    https://sagasofshe.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/the-forty-elephants/#:~:text=She%20also%20created%20the%20Hoister's,a%20percentage%20of%20their%20takings.

    https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/forty-elephants-gang-who-real-mary-carr/

    https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/40-elephants/28301/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants#Leadership
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • 142: Madam CJ Walker: America's First Female Millionaire

    142: Madam CJ Walker: America's First Female Millionaire
    Jan 21 2026
    The story of Madam CJ Walker is a true rags-to-riches tale. Sarah Breedlove was born on a cotton plantation just after slavery was abolished in the south. After being orphaned at a young age, she struggled until she finally had an idea - create her own brand of hair care products for black women. Sarah Breedlove became Madam CJ Walker, who had a brand that would last decades, and arguably make her America's first female millionaire. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Madam C.J. Walker” by A’Lelia Bundles https://www.britannica.com/money/Madam-C-J-Walker “Madam C.J. Walker” https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/madam-c-j-walker/ “Self Made: What Happened to Madam C.J. Walker’s Hair-Care Empire?” by Yohana Desta (Mar 23 2020) https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/03/self-made-madam-cj-walker-company-true-story “How Madam C.J. Walker Invented Her Hair Care Products” by Sara Kettler (Jan 19 2021) https://www.biography.com/inventors/madam-cj-walker-invent-hair-care-products “The Sharecopper’s Daughter Who Made Black Women Proud of Their Hair” by Hunter Oatman-Stanford (Aug 31 2015) https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/madam-walker/ “Madam C.J. Walker” https://indianahistory.org/education/education-resources/educator-resources/famous-hoosiers/madam-c-j-walker/ “Madam C.J. Walker” (Jan 23 2024) https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/madam-cj-walker “Madam Walker, the First Black American Woman to Be a Self-Made Millionaire” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/madam-walker-the-first-black-american-woman-to-be-a-self-made-millionaire/ “Madam C.J. Walker” by Debra Michals (2015) https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/madam-cj-walker “Madam C.J. Walker, the first U.S. self-made female millionaire, gets her own Barbie” by Wynne Davis (Aug 27 2022) https://www.npr.org/2022/08/27/1119699259/madam-c-j-walker-barbie "Netflix's ‘Self Made’ suffers from self-inflicted wounds” by A’Lelia Bundles (May 12 2020) https://andscape.com/features/netflixs-self-made-suffers-from-self-inflicted-wounds/ “Netflix’s Self Made Makes a Mess Out of Madam C.J. Walker’s Extraordinary Life” by Judy Berman (Mar 18 2020) https://time.com/5805147/self-made-review-madam-cj-walker/ Sound Credits: Music by music_for_video from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/comedy-%d1%81omedy-21407/ Knock 7x.aif by lth_stp -- https://freesound.org/s/120491/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
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    57 mins
  • 141: The Nuremberg Trial

    141: The Nuremberg Trial
    Jan 8 2026
    Emileigh and Morgan take a look at the Nuremberg Trials that held many of the upper Nazi officials accountable for their crimes against humanity. Disclaimer: mentions of suicide and other potentially triggering subjects such as genocide and concentration camps. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/film-at-the-nuremberg-trial https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/how-were-the-crimes-defined https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-doctors-trial-the-medical-case-of-the-subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings#:~:text=Case%20%231%2C%20The%20Medical%20Case,12%2C%20The%20High%20Command%20Case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-2-the-milch-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-3-the-justice-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-4-the-pohl-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-5-the-flick-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-6-the-ig-farben-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-7-the-hostage-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-8-the-rusha-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-9-the-einsatzgruppen-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-10-the-krupp-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-11-the-ministries-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-12-the-high-command-case https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/nuremberg-trials https://aboutholocaust.org/en/facts/what-happened-to-the-senior-nazi-leadership-after-the-end-of-world-war-ii https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/international-military-tribunal https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/project-paperclip-and-american-rocketry-after-world-war-ii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEX7jV2cx8 https://academic.oup.com/yale-scholarship-online/book/45090
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • 140: Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Hillary: Summiting Mount Everest

    140: Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Hillary: Summiting Mount Everest
    Jan 1 2026
    For over 100 years, people have tried to accomplish the ultimate feat; climbing to the peak of Mount Everest. The first two people to do it successfully were humble men with a passion for climbing. Tenzing Norgay was a Tibetan yak herder-turned-mountain climber extraordinaire. Edmund Hillary was a beekeeper from New Zealand who began climbing mountains at an early age. The two of them would go on to make history in the British Everest Expedition of 1953 on May 29th. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Learn About the First Men to Climb Mount Everest” by Jennifer Rosenberg (May 11 2025) https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-to-climb-mount-everest-1779350 “Everest 1953: First Footsteps - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay” by David Roberts (April 2003; updated May 4 2021) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/sir-edmund-hillary-tenzing-norgay-1953 “A History of Everest | What It Took to Reach the Roof of the World” by Steven Agar (May 29 2024) https://snowbrains.com/history-climbing-everest-highest-place-earth/#google_vignette “Edmund Hillary” by Britannica Editors (Oct 16 2025) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edmund-Hillary “‘This was a mountain that he had to climb’: How HIllary and Tenzing survived the ‘death zone’ to conquer Everest” by Myles Burke (May 26 2025) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250522-the-first-men-to-conquer-everests-death-zone “Edmund Hillary Biography” https://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hillary-Edmund.html “Edmund Hillary” https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/edmund-hillary “The Gentleman From Everest” https://tenzingsherpafoundation.com/about-tenzing/ “Tenzing Norgay” (Oct 16 2025) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tenzing-Norgay “Tenzing Norgay: the Mountaineer Who Refused to Be Categorized” by Imogen Lepere (Jul 17 2023) https://daily.jstor.org/tenzing-norgay-the-mountaineer-who-refused-to-be-categorized/ “Tenzing Norgay - Biography” https://biographyonline.net/adventurers/tenzing-norgay.html “Tenzing Norgay - The first sherpa to climb Mt. Everest” by Malika Tamang (Jan 18 2024) https://getlostforever.com/tenzing-norgay/ “Tenzing Norgay Sherpa: Biography and Facts” by Graham Hoyland (Jan 4 2022) https://mounteverest.info/tenzing-norgay-sherpa-bio-facts/ https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28432/wedding-day Sound Credits: Music track: Wings of Freedom by Alegend https://freetouse.com/music/alegend/wings-of-freedom Source: https://freetouse.com/music Free To Use Music for Videos Howling Wind by Kostas17 -- https://freesound.org/s/543449/ -- License: Attribution 3.0
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    1 hr and 27 mins