Tour Guide Tell All

The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

Most of us have at least heard of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania being one of the proximal causes of the United States entering WWI, but that isn't *entirely* true.  As usual, there is more to the story!

 

Join the Rebeccas this week as they delve into the tragedy of this loss and learn how it differed in many ways from the other major maritime catastrophe of the era, the sinking of the Titanic.

 

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

• The Lusitania Disaster, Library of Congress 
• RMS Lusitania: 18 Minutes That Shocked the World, Imperial War Museum 
• Lost Liners: Lusitania, PBS
• Rewriting the Rules of War: Terror Aboard the Lusitania, The Pulitzer Prizes 

 

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

SPECIAL ANNOUNCMENT: For the weekend of Sept. 16-17!

Listen up Tour Guide Tell All fans, we've got a special announcement about the exciting Literary Hill BookFEST taking place here in DC at Eastern Market on Sunday, September 17, 2023.

 

Take a listen to the quick announcement to learn how TGTA and associated history buffs will take part!

 

Link --->. Literary Hill BookFEST!

Planting Seeds: The Washerwomen of Atlanta Strike

The beginning of September marks the end of summer, and though we all enjoy that last 3-day weekend to get those summer plans checked off, it's important to remember the WHY of Labor Day.  

 

Join the Rebeccas as they dive into one of the earliest organized labor strikes, all the more remarkable because it was driven by mostly formerly enslaved women who could largely neither read nor write, just as Jim Crew began to raise its ugly specter on the "New South." 

 

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

• History from one of the nation's top labor organizations, the AFL-CIO 
• Blog post from New America 
• Article from The Progressive Magazine 

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 Dollar Princesses of the Gilded Age

This week, we take a look at a social phenomenon that took the Gilded Age by storm; young, rich, American women marrying into the titled aristocracy of the fading British Empire, also known as "Dollar Princesses."

 

Join Rebecca and Becca as we discuss wealth, patriarchy, and a very specific type of international relations. 

 

 

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

 

Books:

• How to Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl and Carole McD Wallace
• Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
• The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
• The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton 

Links:

• Real Life Dollar Princesses (CBS News) 
• History Tea Time YouTube Doc on the Dollar Princesses
• Ancestry.com blog post on how Dollar Princesses affected the genealogy of British Nobility 

 

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

 

Digging Deeper: The Hamilton - Burr Duel

Join the Rebeccas this week as we get into heat of the spicy beef between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr and look a little bit past the musical's interpretation and looking at what really lead to this odd bit of "civilized" murder. 

 

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Show Notes

• PBS American Experience, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr’s Duel: 
• National Park Service, Hamilton Grange National Memorial
• Library of Congress
• Smithsonian Magazine, Duel! History
• Burr Bust in the Senate Collection

 

 

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 Corrupt Bargain

(APOLOGIES IF YOU DOWNLOADED BEFORE FRIDAY 7/28...the wrong file was posted.  Try again and let us know if there are any problems!?

 

If you think that corruption in politics is new, goodness do we have the pod for you! Corruption in politics is not at all new and has never been more fun than this, marking the nearly 200 year anniversary of this event. 

 

Join Rebecca and Becca as we break down the Election of 1824 and The Corrupt Bargain!

 

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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:

• Some scholarly info about "The Bargain" from The Miller Center
• Andrew Jackson's partisanship from The Hermitage website (Jackson's plantation home and museum)
• Historic opposition to corruption from The Library of Congress 
• There’s even a board game!! (Rebecca wants this so badly!) 

 

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 Day...the Music... Died...

Join the Rebecca's as we veer away from our DC roots and tackle an important event in modern cultural history, an event that would come to become known as "The Day the Music Died" after a tribute song by Don McLean hit the charts 12 years after the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson changed music history forever. 

DON'T FORGET DEAR PATRONS! We'd love to see you on tour, and you get some GREAT tour perks by being a Patron and making it to DC this summer. Contact us to find out more!

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

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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 Articles of Confederation: America’s Training Wheels

Join the Rebeccas before we start making July 4th plans to hear about what came after the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation. Most of us remember the important conversations held during the Constitutional Convention that would come a few years after the adoption of the Articles, but sometimes we aren't clear on why those questions came up in the first place, and the answer is our experience of government under the Articles.

DON'T FORGET DEAR PATRONS! We'd love to see you on tour, and you get some GREAT tour perks by being a Patron and making it to DC this summer. Contact us to find out more!

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If you are interested in seeing the National Archives mentioned in this episode, we have a "DC In a Day" Private Group Tour for you at DC By Foot (along with a few other tours!)

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

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