Tour Guide Tell All

WELCOME BACK! Let’s Tour the White House!

Greetings and apologies to our amazing listeners. April showers brought us some May technical glitches as well as a very full tour schedule, but we are back and kicking off June in style as the Rebeccas take us back to our tour guide roots and describe their recent tour of the White House! 

 

Listen to this episode to learn how you yourself can get to tour the East Wing of the White House, what you might see, and some pro tips along the way.  But stick around also as the Rebeccas were also able to get a special (so not for the general public!) tour of the West Wing as well!

 

 

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If you are looking for more information, check out our page on the DC By Foot site on How to Tour the White House

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

The Art of the Capitol Building

April rolls along with a discussion about art in the United States Capitol. There is a lot of art and some of it is great! And some of it is.... less great!

 

Join Rebecca and Becca as we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly with respect to the art in our Capitol. 

 

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If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• The Architect of the Capitol is officially in charge of all the art: https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art
• Capitol Historical Society: https://capitolhistory.org/explore/united-states-capitol-artwork-collection/
• The article that inspired this episode, art depicting enslavers in the Capitol: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/capitol-art-slaveholders-confederates/
• Statuary Hall Collection: https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/statuary-hall-collection-by-location
• Removing confederate art: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1011303611/the-house-votes-to-remove-confederate-statues-in-the-u-s-capitol
• OpEd by fellow tour guide Tim Krepp: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/22/keep-confederate-statues-in-congress-they-let-us-know-some-states-are-proud-of-racism/

 

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

The Life of William Seward

April kicks off a little late for us, as the famous DC Cherry Blossoms have meant lots of tours and a very busy schedule. But fear not! To make up for it, we bring you an extra long episode as we take a deep dive on yet another Lincoln-adjacent person of great importance to the history of our nation: Secretary of State William Henry Seward.

 

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If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• DC By Foot Lincoln Assassination Tour 
• Lincoln’s Last Day Video Series
• Seward House Museum
• NPR - How Lincoln’s Fiercest Rival Became His Closest Ally
• American Battlefield Trust - William Seward
• US Senate - Seward’s “Higher Law” speech
• National Constitution Center - Remembering William Seward’s Alaska “Folly”
• The Hill is Home - Olive Risley Seward

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Admin/Advertising Extraordinaire: Canden Arciniega

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

The Real Story of the Real Helen Keller (Yes, She’s Real!)

Women’s History Month continues with someone you think you know all about, but do you really?

 

Join Rebecca and Becca as we discuss Helen Keller, why she’s famous, and what else she probably should be famous for. 

 

 

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

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If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• Keller's biography from the American Federation for the Blind

   

• YouTube clip of Keller speaking out

   

• What you didn’t learn in school (Time article)

   

• Forgotten radical

• DC By Foot Guide to the National Cathedral

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Admin/Advertising Extraordinaire: Canden Arciniega

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

Happy International Women’s Day!

We wanted to pop into your feed to wish all our listeners a Happy International Women's Day! 

Sharing Women's History is important to us at Tour Guide Tell All - half of our episodes are about a woman we think more people should know about! 

Thanks for being part of this journey with us. 

Oveta Culp Hobby: American Trailblazer

We begin Women's History Month by of course acknowledging that women's history is American history and American history is women's history, while also taking the opportunity to take a deep dive into one of the hardest working women in history that you've probably never heard of (unless you live around Houston, Texas): Oveta Culp Hobby

 

Join Becca and Rebecca as they dive into the life of one of the most important and most humble of American leaders during World War II and beyond. 

 

 

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

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If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• National Women’s History Museum
• Humanities Texas
• “Oveta Culp Hobby” by Kay Bailey Hutchinson
• National Museum, United States Army
• “The Last of the Great Ladies”, Texas Monthly
• Oveta Culp Hobby, Houston Life

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

The Amazing Marian Anderson

Black History Month continues with singer and Civil Rights activist Marian Anderson. Called "The Voice of the Century," she not only broke boundaries, and did it with flair and style, but she also helped inspire many of the people who would take up the cause of Civil Rights in America with her brilliant example. 

 

Join Rebecca and Becca as we discuss one of the most iconic moments in the history of the Lincoln Memorial and the woman whose talent and tenacity made it happen. 

 

 

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

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If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful:

• YouTube link of PBS's "American Experience" highlighting the Lincoln Concert. Skip to 2:50 to hear "Let Freedom Ring" but the entire clip is good.
• YouTube link of Anderson performing "Ave Maria" on The Ed Sullivan Show
• The Marian Anderson Historical society
• Smithsonian Magazine article about Anderson
• 5 "firsts" that made her famous

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

The Legacy of Dred Scott

The famous Supreme Court decision delivered by Chief Justice Roger Taney was supposed to settle the "question of slavery" once and for all, but instead, it quickened the pace of the nation tearing itself apart.  As we begin Black History Month, join the Rebeccas as they examine not only the impact of this exceptionally flawed legal decision, but also the human beings behind this pivotal case. 

 

Have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

 

 

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Some links you might find helpful:

• National Archives: Dred Scott vs Sandford: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dred-scott-v-sandford
• PBS - Dred Scott’s Fight for Freedom: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
• Justice Stephen Breyer on the Dred Scott Case, 2009: https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_06-01-09.html
• National Museum of African-American History & Culture - The Human Factor of History: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/human-factor-history-dred-scott-and-roger-b-taney
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You’re Listening To: Becca Crawl and Rebecca Fachner

Produced and Edited by: Dan King
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

(MINI) The Controversy of the Korean War Memorial

For this week's Minisode, we lost Canden but have Dan to explain the latest controversy swirling around the new addition to the Korean War Memorial on the Mall in Washington, DC. $22 million dollars to make an addition to add all the names of those lost in the war, making it more like the Vietnam Veterans' War Memorial nearby.  What could be wrong with that?  Lots!

 

 

Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com

Support Tour Guide Tell All:

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Some links you might find helpful:

 

• National Park Service site on the original memorial design 
• Washington Post article from 1992 on the original controversies surrounding the monument. 
• New York Times article on the controversy over the new addition.
• The Barker Brothers' Korean War Project

You’re Listening To: Dan King

Produced and Edited by: Dan King
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

The Tragedy of Leo Frank

The sad case of Leo Frank is a good window into the supposedly "New South" of the early 20th century.  Join Becca and Rebecca as they delve into the horrific case of a young girl brutally murdered in Atlanta, a case that ultimately would lead directly to both the creation of civil rights mainstay the Anti-Defamation League, and the reformation of the KKK in Georgia.  

 

 

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

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Some links you might find helpful:

 

• Library of Congress Research Guide - Trial and Lynching of Leo Frank: https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-leo-frank
• Brandeis University - Leo Frank Trial Collection: https://www.brandeis.edu/bnc/philanthropy/honoring-our-history/collections/leo-frank-trial.html
• Jewish Virtual Library - Leo Frank: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/leo-frank (warning - graphic imagery)

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Produced and Edited by: Canden Arciniega and Dan King
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero