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 In the final episode of Season 4, Hollie is joined by Brianna Buller. Brianna earned her B.A. in History at FHSU and went on to a M.A. in Public History at Royal Holloway in London. The two discuss her time at both universities, her Threads of Herstory Project, and adventures in Europe. 

 In this episode, Dr. Rob Lane, ENT Physician and current FHSU M.A. in History student, joins Hollie to discuss epidemic disease and medical relief during the Irish Potato Famine. 

Senior history major Chelsea Kiefer joins Hollie Marquess to discuss women who chose to remain childless in the first half of the 20th century. She unpacks rates of childfree women, methods to prevent pregnancy (including reusable condoms), and Eugenic postcards and other images.

Hollie Marquess is joined by Dr. Kim Perez of the FHSU history program and several of her students that went on a Study Abroad to Prague and Florence over the summer. Savanna Baumgart, Rachel Waddell, Becca Balzan, and Erin Adams discuss all things Prague and Florence in this episode. 

 Kayla Nelson, graduate Public History major at FHSU, joins Hollie to discuss female aviation pioneer Jacqueline Cochran, who advocated that women had women pilots had the skills and abilities to fly for the war effort during WWII. She formed the Women Flying Training Detachment and eventually headed the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs). 

 Ashlynn Kelly, senior history major at FHSU, joins Hollie Marquess to talk about Anthony Comstock, how the Supreme Court tried to define obscenity, and  Kansas's relationship with obscenity law. 

Host Hollie Marquess visits with history department alumnus Chris Dinkel as well as FHSU History faculty Dr. Kim Perez. Chris discusses his experience in the FHSU M.A. program, studying for the LSAT,  Columbia law, and his case that recently went to the Supreme Court. 

For our last episode of this semester, Dr. Guha is joined by Dr. Amber Nickell and Hollie Marquess, as well as three students who accompanied them to Poland as part of a Study Abroad trip earlier this year. Alex White, Sarah Keiss, and Ashlyn Carlson discuss the experience of studying Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland. They also discuss pierogis, of course! 

Hollie Marquess is joined by Lucy Martin, a Junior at FHSU, to discuss Edythe Eyde and how her contributions to queer media at mid-century helped shape and inspire LGBTQ rights. 

Sophomore Megan Householter joins Hollie Marquess to discuss how the tactics of Vice Squads, like entrapment, led to the forming of the Mattachine Society at mid-century and, ultimately, to a modern gay rights movement. 

Prof. Manamee Guha is joined by FHSU History junior Jason Rivera to discuss his paper Fatherhood Among Ancient Gods. The podcast explores the life cycle of father-son relationships through the lens of three different father-son pairs across three different mythologies,  Zeus and his father Cronos, Odin and Thor and God and Jesus. 

US Army Major Ben Peeler, alumnus of Fort Hays State University History Department joins Hollie Marquess to discuss his time at FHSU and how his degrees from Fort Hays prepared him for his successful military career.

In the second episode of the season, History Education student Keith Kuehn joins Dr. Manamee Guha to discuss the ways Nintendo and the beloved character of Mario transformed the culture of video games in America. 

Sophomore history education majors Lizbeth Guardado and David Solis join Hollie Marquess to discuss the Zoot Suit Riots, the Sleeply Lagoon Murder, and a lesser known group involved, Las Pachucas. 

In this episode, graduate student Erin Adams joins Hollie Marquess to discuss the sale of patent medicines in the west and how they used Native American imagery to sell their potions. They also discuss how the Great British Bake Off relates to Turner's theory of the West. 

In this episode, our online Master's student Miranda Edwards joins Dr. Manamee Guha to talk more about Nicholas II and World War I. How much did his autocratic ideals clash with revolutionaries who were looking for large-scale reforms? Miranda also discusses the role Nicholas II's wife Alexandra Feodorovna  and her ally Rasputin played in pushing Russia into the throes of World War I.

In this episode, Hollie Marquess is joined by senior history major Shelby Oshel to discuss "Cartoons and Communism: Understanding Themes of Gender and Nationalism in Soviet Animations." Shelby uses the lens of gender to analyze Soviet animated cartoons and films from their infancy through the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

In the years 1932-1933, Ukraine suffered a famine that historians estimate killed over four million Ukrainians. As a result of the famine, women had to come up with different survival strategies and methods for procuring and preparing food for themselves and their families. Senior history major Alissa Zajac joins Hollie Marquess to discuss women's roles in food procurement and preparation dur...

In this episode Dr. Manamee Guha is joined by Drew Legere, a Junior at Fort Hays State University to discuss her research project on the tense relationship between the British and the Chinese leading up to the Opium Wars. As the British involved themselves in the opium trade, which brought British controlled Indian opium to China, both the opium merchants and Christian missionaries argued in suppo...

In this episode, Lizz Dobmeyer, a master's student in the FHSU History Department online, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss "Nursing Under Fire: The Experiences and Achievements of World War I Allied Nurses on the Western Front.”

Join Dr. Manamee Guha as she chats with Dr. Amber Nickell and Prof. Hollie Marquess discuss plans for their upcoming trip to Poland as part of a study abroad program during Spring of 2023.  Food, finances, enrollment requirements are just some of the questions they address in this podcast. Get all the answers you need about this trip, right here in this podcast. Better still, if you have further q...

In our final episode of season one, FHSU graduate student in history, Alison Helget, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss her master's thesis "'You Wanna Play Rough?': The Italian Mafia and Butch Lesbian Partnership in Greenwich Village, 1945-1968." We visit about the role of Anna Genovese, wife of mob boss Vito Genovese, in gay nightlife and the surprising partnership between...

In our penultimate episode, join us with Colton Wagner, Master's student in History at Fort Hays State University, for a chat on the history of African Americans in the West, African American rodeo in the Jim Crow era, and the inclusion of African Americans into professional rodeo.  Image of Myrtis Dightman. Courtesy:  https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/rodeo-hall-of-fame/5237/

In episode seven of Victor E History podcast, we are in conversation with Chelsea Kiefer, a sophomore history major at Fort Hays State University, to discuss how Britain developed its tea obsession and how it led to two opium wars fought between Britain and China. Image courtesy: © duncan1890/iStock.com

Episode Six of the Victor E History podcast features Larry Zimmerman, a junior History major at Fort Hays State University. In this episode he discusses his original research on Lucy Parsons, anarchism, the Haymarket affair, and the labor movement during the 19th century.