Hashtag History

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Sacramento Good Guys Hostage situation, an incident that occurred on April 4, 1991, in Sacramento, California where 39 employees and customers of the Good Guys electronics store were held hostage for more than eight hours by four hostage takers. By the time this event ended, more than a dozen of the hostages would be injured and three of the host...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Anna Anderson, probably the most well-known Grand Duchess Anastasia impostor. After the Romanov family was executed by firing squad in 1918, it was widely believed that two of the bodies (more specifically, the body of the Romanov’s only son, Alexei, and the body of the youngest daughter, Anastasia) had not been located which led many to believe that...

We're back for Season Seven! And as tradition dictates, the first episode of each season is a Leah Takeover Episode!  This week on Hashtag History, Leah takes a deep dive into the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, an infamous disaster that struck the coast of Northern California on an early April morning in 1906 with an estimated magnitude of 7.9. It was felt as far north as Eureka, Californi...

In a special, bonus, collaboration episode, the ladies of Hashtag History teamed up with the lovely ladies of the Murder History Girls podcast to discuss what is often referred to as the most infamous unsolved murder in American History, the Black Dahlia. Because there was just so much information to cover, we split this episode into two parts! To hear Part Two of our coverage of the Black Dahlia,...

This week on Hashtag History, we are so honored and so excited to have the lovely Kaitlin Calogera on the podcast! Kaitlin is the founder and owner of A Tour of Her Own, the first tourism company in Washington, D.C. to focus exclusively on Women's History. Kaitlin shares all about TOHO, the amazing tours and events they put on, how they have pivoted and adjusted business during COVID-times, and wh...

This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Anita Hill and the infamous event that thrust her into the spotlight when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991 about accusations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, while in his capacity as her manager at both the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, had sexually...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park Bombing, an absolutely tragic incident in which a pipe bomb was placed at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia during the Summer Olympics that would take the life of one person and injure another 111. This bomb was placed by Eric Rudolph, an American terrorist, who would go on to plant three more bombs over the...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Apollo 13. Apollo 13 was the third spacecraft of the Apollo Missions that was meant to land on the moon. However, when an oxygen tank exploded on their way to the moon, the crew had to instead loop around the moon, returning to Earth a week after they took off. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentio...

This week on Hashtag History, we are completing our coverage of the Heaven's Gate cult. They were/are a religious cult centered around the idea that God is an extraterrestrial being and that, in order to reach the highest level (what they call “the next level”) was to be swept up by a Comet. The most tragic part about this story though is that, in 1997, 39 cult members (including their leader, Mar...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Heaven's Gate cult. They were/are a religious cult centered around the idea that God is an extraterrestrial being and that, in order to reach the highest level (what they call “the next level”) was to be swept up by a Comet. The most tragic part about this story though is that, in 1997, 39 cult members (including their leader, Marshall Applewhite...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Burke and Hare murders. These were a series of murders that occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland in the year 1828 in which William Burke and William Hare killed sixteen different people and then turned around and sold the corpses to an anatomist for his dissections. In essence...getting paid to murder. Yikes! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hasht...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Hartford Circus Fire. This was a fire that occurred on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut and would be marked as one of the worst fires in US History. The fire happened during a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey performance that was attended by close to 8,000 people! It would result in the deaths of 168 people and injury to another 700...

This week on Hashtag History, we are doing a deep dive into the history of the Titanic (no pun intended...), a timeline of its fateful maiden voyage, a spotlight on a few important characters, what has changed as a result of the sinking of the Titanic...and then, of course, we will also be discussing a few of the conspiracy theories surrounding the sinking of the Titanic. Because, of course, there...

We're back for Season Six! And as tradition dictates, the first episode of each season is a Leah Takeover Episode! And this episode will not disappoint if you are into serial killers, blood, gore, lost hopes, and dead dreams. Welcome! This week on Hashtag History, Leah takes a deep dive into the story of Elizabeth Bathory, the blood countess, and her unfortunate victims. She follows this story up...

For our Season Five Finale episode, we are joined by Allie and Katie, the lovely ladies of the HERstory on the Rocks podcast! In this super special collaboration episode, we covered one of those most contested, debated, and controversial women out there...Tonya Harding! Allie and Katie take us through Harding's rough childhood, whirlwind love life, and early skating career leading up to the Olympi...

This week on Hashtag History, we are talking about Alcatraz! Alcatraz was a maximum security federal prison located on Alcatraz Island which is just a mile and a half off of the San Francisco coast. Between the location, the weather, and the horrifically cold waters that surrounded it, it was considered to be the “strongest prison” in America. Alcatraz housed some of America’s worst and most notor...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the true story of Pocahontas and John Smith. While we love Disney's 1995 Pocahontas movie for the nostalgia and bangin' musical numbers, we all know it is wildly inaccurate. But while most people blame Disney for our misunderstanding of the true story, we actually have John Smith himself to thank for it!  Just a few of the things you will learn...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Cheryl Araujo Rape Case which became the first ever televised rape case. In 1983, Araujo was gang-raped by four men when she was only 21 years old. People stood around, watched it happen, and did nothing. Even worse, when her case was brought to trial, the narrative was flipped to essentially "blame the victim", to say Araujo brought it on hersel...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Tuskegee Experiment which was a clinical study conducted by the United States Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 in which the U.S. Public Health Service told the hundreds of Black men that were a part of this study that, by participating, they would be treated for “bad blood” and would receive free healthcare.  But, instead of receiving...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing John Demjanjuk. In 1975, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service received a list of individuals living in the United States that were suspected of having supported Germany during the Second World War. One particular name on this list was that of John Demjanjuk, a fifty-five year old naturalized US citizen living in the suburbs of Sev...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft. Occurring in March of 1990, this incident is the largest unsolved case of museum theft in History! To this day, we still do not know who was responsible for the theft. No arrests have ever been made and none of the artwork has ever been recovered.   At 1:20 AM on a Sunday morning, two men dressed a...

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the American Indian Boarding Schools. The American Indian Boarding Schools were government-funded boarding schools operated from 1860 to 1978 with the sole purpose of killing Native American cultures and forcing Native American children to assimilate to white, Christian society. These children oftentimes had their long hair cut, their cultural clothi...

In what may be one of Rachel's favorite episodes ever, we are discussing two infamous boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling that took place in 1936 and 1938. We talk about how these fights were more than just boxing matches; they were nation versus nation, American versus Nazi, white man versus Black man. Louis would go on to become a symbol of freedom, democracy, and national pride i...

We're back! Thank you all for joining us for our Season Five premiere! As tradition dictates, the first episode of every season is a Leah Takeover Episode! This week on Hashtag History, Leah introduces us to Catherine the Great. Although we all know of her, how much do we know about her? In this episode, we cover Catherine's rough childhood, loveless marriage to Peter the Great, and an arranged co...

No, that was not a typo. We really meant to say "Porn" Flakes and not Corn Flakes. Because... In this Hasty History episode, we are talking all things John Harvey Kellogg and the creation of Kellogg's cereal. Did you know that the cereal creator intended for corn flakes to taste bland and boring as a means of preventing...masturbation? You heard that correctly. Kellogg was a weirdo that never cons...