Tour Guide Tell All

The Story of Clara Harris

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

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• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

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

• First and most importantly, if you want to learn more, come on our Lincoln Assassination tour with DC By Foot where we discuss all the events of that tragic April evening! Book a spot at www.dcbyfoot.com
• The tragic lives of Clara and Henry: https://blog.nyhistory.org/attending-fords-theater-with-the-lincolns-the-tragic-lives-of-clara-harris-and-henry-rathbone/
• Their life after the assassination: https://www.thegettysburgexperience.com/a-christmas-murder
• Haunted Henry Rathbone: https://www.americanheritage.com/haunted-major

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Produced / Edited by: Canden Arciniega & Matt Schleigh 
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio HEro

 

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

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 - #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 stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/

• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

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

• There are a couple of books about Alva, including her daughter's memoir

   

  • The Glitter and The Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
  • Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
  • Alva Vanderbilt Belmont by Silvia D. Hoffert
• Alva as social climber: https://www.tatler.com/article/how-alva-vanderbilt-conquered-new-york-society-and-then-europe
• Mother and daughter as celebrities: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5159494
• Belmont Paul Women's Equality monument: https://www.nps.gov/bepa/index.htm
• Marble House in Newport: https://www.newportmansions.org/explore/marble-house

SPECIAL MINI EPISODE: Anne of Cleves

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 that, join us at: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

You can join Margaret in the United Kingdom (London, Birmingham, Newcastle and York) at https://freetoursbyfoot.com/london-tours/

Helen Hamilton Gardener

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 the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall

• Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/

 

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

• Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly Hamlin’s
• The Fallen Woman Who Won The Vote - National Endowment for the Humanities: https://www.neh.gov/article/fallen-woman-who-won-vote
• The Woman Who Pushed The Smithsonian to Preserve the Victory for Suffrage: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-suffragist-helen-hamilton-gardener-worked-make-sure-movement-was-remembered-180974382/
• Iowa State University, Archives of Women’s Political Communication: https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/helen-hamilton-gardener/
• Eulogy for Helen Hamilton Gardener, delivered by Carrie Chapman Catt: https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2020/12/04/eulogy-for-helen-hamilton-gardner-july-28-1925/

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Edited by: Dan King

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bayard Rustin

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:

• 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 stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/

• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

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

• Civil Rights Biography: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/rustin-bayard
• AFL-CIO Biography: https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/bayard-rustin
• Bayard Rustin, The Man Behind the March: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/22/970292302/remembering-bayard-rustin-the-man-behind-the-march-on-washington
• National Park Service - The Places of Bayard Rustin: https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-places-of-bayard-rustin.htm
• 1979 interview with Bayard Rustin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grSbGG8uM-0
• 1962 debate between Bayard Rustin and Malcolm X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdbQKjr9Bu4 (clip from Brother Outsider)
• The Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJcUnXTaCgU
• Union Solidarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z66EZVtW_Q
• Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio

Brother Outsider documentary website: http://rustin.org/

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

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

Mary Church Terrell

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 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 stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/

• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

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

 

Womens history: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-church-terrell

 

Black history: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/terrell-mary-church-1863-1954/

 

DC history: How One Woman Helped End Lunch Counter Segregation in the Nation’s Capital - Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-one-woman-helped-end-lunch-counter-segregation-nations-capital-180959345/

Bio: https://www.biography.com/.amp/activist/mary-church-terrell

National Park Service info on her house: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/mary-church-terrell-black-suffragist-and-civil-rights-activist.htm

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Edited & Produced: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

Do You Remember the Alamo?

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 episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

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

 

• Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burroughs, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
• A Time to Stand by Walter Lord
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/10/myth-alamo-gets-history-all-wrong/
• https://www.thealamo.org/remember/myths-and-legends
• https://www.thealamo.org/remember/battle-and-revolution
• https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/alamo-battle-of-the

The Forgotten War of 1812

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 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 episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

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

• Full-length book about the war: 1812, the war that forged a nation by Walter Borneman

 

• Burning of Washington : https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/burning-washington-dc

 

• Dolley Madison to the rescue!  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-dolley-madison-saved-the-day-7465218/

 

• Fort McHenry shrine and site: https://www.nps.gov/fomc/index.htm

• Mary Pickersgill House: https://www.nps.gov/places/star-spangled-banner-flag-house.htm

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Editing and Production: Canden Arciniega
Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero

TEASER: Women in Prohibition Patron Only Episode

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: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

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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• Become a Patron for bonus episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

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

 

• Women's rights during Prohibition: https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/how-prohibition-changed-american-culture/womens-rights/

 

• Blaming women for prohibition: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/13/prohibition-women-blame-history-223972/

 

• Women changing their minds about Prohibition: https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/history/article/how-women-overturned-prohibition

 

• Links between prohibition and suffrage: https://time.com/5501680/prohibition-history-feminism-suffrage-metoo/?amp=true

 

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Editing and Production: Canden Arciniega

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero 

History & Holidays at the Willard Hotel

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 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 episodes and early release: https://www.patreon.com/tourguidetellall

 

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

• Canden's book, Wicked Georgetown, has a whole section on Antonia Willard
• White House Historical Association - Willard Hotel: https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-willard-hotel
• Intercontinental Willard Hotel History Timeline: https://washington.intercontinental.com/history/
• Holiday Tea at The Willard https://washington.intercontinental.com/willard-holidays-2021/holiday-afternoon-tea-in-peacock-alley/

You’re Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl

Editing & Producing: Canden Arciniega

Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero