Tour Guide Tell All

I have a dream... That is the most famous moment from the March on Washington in 1963, but Rebecca and Becca will tell you all about the whole event.   Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall Check out...

In May 1886, workers in Chicago were rallying for an 8 hour workday when a bomb changed the course of labor rights, the working class and labor unions. Becca and Rebecca talk more about the Haymarket Affair.   Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: Want to send a one off donation to support the...

We are headed out west again, talking about perhaps the quintessential battle in the Plains Wars: The Battle of Little Bighorn, aka Custers Last Stand   Join Becca and Rebecca as we discuss Custer, his great head of hair, his fascinating wife and his date with his own mortality   Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Suppo...

Tour Guide Tell All is BACK for the fall! We are starting with a pivotal moment at the end of world war 2, the Yalta Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin discussing war aims and peace negotiations   Join Rebecca and Becca as we discuss the fate of the post-war world.   Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com S...

Melissa brings the story of Helen Hayes as our special July episode as Tour Guide Tell All takes a short summer break. We'll be back in August with all new episodes. Helen Hayes is remembered in DC as the name of the theatre awards, but there is a lot more to know about this theatre pioneer.  Follow Becca's Disney journey at @disneygrawlgirls on Instagram!  Comments or Questions? Or have an idea f...

Heads up, y'all - we've been doing so many tours (yay for work! boo for having time to record). We're going to take a break for a few weeks. We'll have a Patron Only episode in July and then we'll be back in August.   We are excited to have Andy Bittner, author of Building the Washington National Cathedral, as our guest for this patron-only episode.    Join Andy for a tour with DC by Foot - https:...

 Grover Cleveland married a (MUCH) younger woman 136 years ago today - June 2, 1886. There have been a handful of wedding ceremonies in the White House, but this is the only Presidential Wedding. Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? W...

Do you know how many Astronauts are honored at Arlington National Cemetery? Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to st...

Becca and Rebecca share (what we know, hello patriarchy in historical research) about some Presidential Moms. Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast...

This week we head to Tombstone, Arizona and back to the Wild West. You've heard the names Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, the Claytons - Becca and Rebecca sort through fact and fiction to talk about one of the most famous gunfights - the OK Corral. Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: Want to send a...

Clara Harris and her fiancé were witness to one ofnthe most famous episodes in American history but are little known and less discussed themselves.  Join Rebecca and Becca as they discuss how much more there was to this fascinating woman than just her trip to the theater in 1865. Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Suppo...

Women’s History Month continues with a woman who embodies so many of the contradictions of the women's movement: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont   Join Rebecca and Becca as they discuss this paragon of NY society and funder of the suffrage movement: heroine, villainess, pampered society matron, champion of women, and so much more!     Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtoth...

Anne of Cleves was one of Henry VII's wives ... she was known as the Ugly One. But was she?   Each month patrons get TWO special episodes of Tour Guide Tell All, but we're releasing this month's episode to everyone, as a teaser of what you're missing if you're not a Patron.   BECOME A PATRON NOW: The next special episode with Becca and Rebecca will be the "Night Witches" so if you want to hear tha...

As we march into Women's History Month (see what we did there?), the Rebeccas wanted to highlight one of the more fascinating but definitely lesser known heroes of the Suffrage Movement, Helen Hamilton Gardener   Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: • Want to send a one off donation to support...

Familiar names such as MLK, FDR, Wilberforce University appear in this week's episode about a figure who you may not know a lot if anything, about. Becca and Rebecca remember Bayard Rustin, a black American leader for civil rights, gay rights, and pacifism. Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All:...

It’s Black History Month and we are ready for you with some amazing history! We are celebrating one of the most important women in American history, Mary Church Terrell. Activist, writer, suffragist, educator, DC Statehood advocate and much more. Join Rebecca and Becca as they discuss a towering figure who intersects with so many different and important activist causes. Comments or Questions? Or h...

Becca, a Texan, and Rebecca, a New Englander, talk about a place you've heard of but maybe don't know much about - The Alamo.   Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall Become a Patron for bonus episode...

With the one-year anniversary of the January 6th attack, we thought a fitting way to remember that day would be to discuss the only other time the US Capitol has been attacked. The War of 1812 is under-studied and forgotten but important in the development of our nation. Join Rebecca and Becca as they discuss America's most forgotten war and its effects on DC. Comments or Questions? Or have an ide...

For December’s patron episode, we are chatting about something of interest to both the Rebecca’s: the intersection of women and prohibition.  Join us as we chat a little about this fascinating aspect of the 18th and 21st amendments to the Constitution and how they both entwine with the 19th. Thank you to ALL our Patrons for your support in 2021. LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE BY BECOMING A PATRON: htt...

Presidents, and patriots, and foreign princes, and all kinds of cool people have stayed at the Willard. It's one of the oldest hotels in DC so we're going to give it a little bit of history and talk about some holiday decorations.   Join Becca and Rebecca for the final regular episode of 2022 to talk about the Willard Hotel in Washington DC.   Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future epis...

We love an anniversary here at the Tour Guide Tell All and this is a big one. This year, 2021 is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the sneak attack on US Naval forces by the Empire of Japan. This is one of the most pivotal days in American history and we wanted to honor it.   Join Becca and Rebecca as we discuss the conditions and outcomes of the Attack on Pearl Harbor   Comm...

Y'all, we've had 100 Episodes of Tour Guide Tell All. We could not have done it without our Patrons.   If you want to help support us and become a patron yourself (which gives you voting rights for upcoming episodes), find out more - https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall   Becca, Rebecca and Canden met IN PERSON to talk about having 100 episodes last month in prep for this episode while it was...

Let’s talk about some groundbreaking and scandalous sisters: Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin. These 2 sisters went from rags to riches to rags to affairs with Vanderbilts and free love and running for president. Neither saints nor sinners but possibly both, their lives are one heck of a ride. Join Becca and Rebecca as we discuss two fascinating and often vilified women, The Beguiling Brokers,...

Our first episode of November is always going to be about an election! Becca and Rebecca talk about the pivotal election of 1860, which led to President Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us  tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: • Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast tea...

What is scarier than the end of the world? For your spooky October listening we have an episode about what nearly became a real nuclear apocalypse, the Cuban Missile Crisis. It even took place around this time of year!   Join Becca and Rebecca as they discuss possibly the scariest moment of the 1960s, when the world nearly came to the brink of the abyss and made it through.    Comments or Question...