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  • Untangling Historical Rumors Pt. 1 | Catherine the Great

    Untangling Historical Rumors Pt. 1 | Catherine the Great
    Sep 3 2026

    Did Catherine the Great really die having sex with a horse?

    No. But the stranger question is: where did that story come from and why did anyone believe it?

    In the first installment of a new series on Historical Rumors, we’re going back to eighteenth-century Russia to look at the woman behind one of history’s most persistent and outrageous legends.

    Catherine’s real life hardly needed embellishment. Born a minor German princess, she came to Russia as a teenager, overthrew her husband, seized the throne, ruled an empire for more than three decades, corresponded with some of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment, expanded Russia’s territory, and yes, had a very real and very public succession of lovers.

    Those relationships helped create a sexual reputation that Catherine’s political enemies were already weaponizing during her lifetime. But the infamous horse story is much harder to trace than you might expect. In fact, recent scholarship raises the possibility that the version so many of us have heard may be far more modern than Catherine herself.

    So where does a historical rumor like this begin? How does it change over time? And how does a woman with one of the most consequential reigns in European history become remembered for something that never happened?

    This is Untangling Historical Rumors Pt.1: Catherine the Great.

    Attribution Notes:

    • Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.
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    This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.

    Sources

    British Museum. An Imperial Stride! April 12, 1791. Satirical print. British Museum Collection. British Museum collection record

    British Museum. The Northern Bugga Bo. April 14, 1791. Satirical print. British Museum Collection. British Museum collection record

    Carretta, Vincent. “‘Petticoats in Power’: Catherine the Great in British Political Cartoons.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 1 (1994). LSU Scholarly Repository

    Catherine II, Empress of Russia. Mémoires de l’Impératrice Catherine II. Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg edition

    Catherine II, Empress of Russia. Nakaz [Instruction to the Commission for the Compilation of a New Code]. 1766–67. Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. Digitized by the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Presidential Library

    de Madariaga, Isabel. Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981.

    Menchinger, Ethan. “Contemporary Ottoman Views of Catherine the Great.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 1 (2019): 84–100. University of Manchester research record

    Solly, Meilan. “The True History Behind ‘The Great’ and Catherine the Great.” Smithsonian Magazine, May 15, 2020. Smithsonian Magazine

    Voltaire Foundation. “Launching CatCor: Towards a Digital Edition of the Letters of Catherine the Great.” December 16, 2021. Voltaire Foundation

    Zitser, Ernest A. “The Myth of Catherine the Great and the Horse: A Critical Review of the Historiography.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 25, no. 1 (2024).
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    25 min
  • The Dark Patterns in Child Institutions | Foundling Schools, The Dozier School for Boys, and Modern Echoes

    The Dark Patterns in Child Institutions | Foundling Schools, The Dozier School for Boys, and Modern Echoes
    Aug 13 2026
    For more than six hundred years, societies have created institutions designed to rescue, protect, discipline, and reform children. Foundling hospitals took in abandoned infants. Houses of refuge promised to save children from crime and poverty. Reform schools claimed they could turn troubled boys and girls into productive adults. And eventually, residential treatment centers and therapeutic programs promised something more modern: treatment. Many of these institutions represented genuine progress. Many helped children. But across centuries, remarkably similar problems kept appearing behind their walls. In this episode, we trace the history of institutionalizing children from Renaissance Florence to nineteenth-century reformatories, the notorious Dozier School for Boys, and today's residential treatment industry. Along the way, we look at buried graves, children confined without committing crimes, allegations of abuse that went ignored for decades, and modern systems where regulators can still struggle to determine who is responsible for keeping children safe. Because the most unsettling part of this history isn't simply that institutions sometimes failed. It's how often the conditions that allowed those failures to happen survived the reforms meant to fix them. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust. Sources and Further Reading: Historical Foundations and Foundling Institutions Istituto degli Innocenti. “History.” Istituto degli Innocenti. https://www.istitutodeglinnocenti.it/en/about-us/historyFoundling Museum. “History of the Foundling Hospital.” Foundling Museum. https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/our-story/history/Harris, W. V. “Child-Exposure in the Roman Empire.” Journal of Roman Studies 84 (1994): 1–22. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/childexposure-in-the-roman-empire/3410A0618E4B37F1CF1EE52B11DC89F4Levene, Alysa. Scholarship on mortality and child survival at the London Foundling Hospital. The original Deep Research relies on Levene's scholarship for the mortality discussion but does not preserve a sufficiently specific bibliographic link for me to give you a URL without reconstructing the citation independently. Houses of Refuge, Reformatories, and “Incorrigibility” Ex parte Crouse. 4 Whart. 9 (Pa. 1839).People ex rel. O’Connell v. Turner. 55 Ill. 280 (1870).Historical scholarship on houses of refuge and nineteenth-century juvenile reform. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44686761Chicago Reform School. Historical annual reports and institutional records. Library of Congress digitized collection. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/gdc/gdcebookspublic/20/21/75/86/21/2021758621/2021758621.pdf Development of Modern Child Protection The National Archives. “Children’s Homes and Orphanages.” The National Archives (UK). https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/children-care/United Kingdom. Children Act 1948, 11 & 12 Geo. 6 c. 43.United States. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974, Pub. L. No. 93-247, 88 Stat. 4. Dozier School for Boys University of South Florida. Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys Project. USF Libraries Digital Collections. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/dozier_school/1/University of South Florida Libraries. Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys Research Guide. https://guides.lib.usf.edu/dozier These are especially important for the forensic investigation, historical records, cemetery research, survivor material, and the discrepancy between the earlier official burial accounting and what archaeologists subsequently located. Synanon, Therapeutic Communities, and Behavior Modification De Leon, George, et al. Scholarship on the history and development of therapeutic communities. National Library of Medicine/PubMed Central. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3562581/Chatfield, Mark. Scholarship on totalistic youth programs and the historical development of the troubled-teen industry. The original Deep Research cites Chatfield's scholarship but does not preserve a sufficiently specific canonical URL for me to provide one without independently reconstructing the citation. Modern Residential Treatment and the Troubled-Teen Industry U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. Warehouses of Neglect: How Taxpayers Are Funding Systemic Abuse in Youth Residential Treatment Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, 2024. https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/rtf_report_warehouses_of_neglect.pdfU.S. Government Accountability Office. Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled ...
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    42 min
  • Elvis Presley, Jackie Robinson & Mary Tyler Moore | What Makes a Cultural Catalyst?

    Elvis Presley, Jackie Robinson & Mary Tyler Moore | What Makes a Cultural Catalyst?
    Jul 23 2026
    Today, Elvis Presley is the King of Rock and Roll. Jackie Robinson has an entire day dedicated to him across Major League Baseball. Mary Tyler Moore is remembered as one of the most influential women in television history. But before they became icons, they became arguments. In this episode, we explore what these three remarkably different people shared and why their stories followed such a similar path. Along the way, we'll examine the psychology behind cultural change, why societies often resist new ideas before eventually embracing them, and how a single visible person can accelerate that process. Because history isn't just shaped by the people who change culture. It's also shaped by the culture that decides, often reluctantly, it's ready to change. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust. Sources and Further Reading: Finnemore, Martha, and Kathryn Sikkink. “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change.” International Organization 52, no. 4 (Autumn 1998): 887–917. https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898550789 Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin. “Two Men and an Independent Woman.” Television Academy, April 23, 2014. Accessed July, 2026. https://www.televisionacademy.com/features/news/features/two-men-and-independent-woman. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. “Table 2. Employment Status of the Civilian Noninstitutional Population 16 Years and Over by Sex, 1970–2008 Annual Averages.” In Women in the Labor Force: A Databook, 2009 Edition. Accessed June, 2026. https://www.bls.gov/cps/wlftable2.htm. Jost, John T. A Theory of System Justification. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13qfw6w. Jost, John T., Mahzarin R. Banaji, and Brian A. Nosek. “A Decade of System Justification Theory: Accumulated Evidence of Conscious and Unconscious Bolstering of the Status Quo.” Political Psychology 25, no. 6 (2004): 881–919. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00402.x. Kuran, Timur, and Cass R. Sunstein. “Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation.” Stanford Law Review 51, no. 4 (April 1999): 683–768. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229439. Library of Congress. “Breaking the Color Line: 1940 to 1946.” In Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.loc.gov/collections/jackie-robinson-baseball/articles-and-essays/baseball-the-color-line-and-jackie-robinson/1940-to-1946/. Library of Congress. “‘The Jackie Robinson Story.’” In Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.loc.gov/collections/jackie-robinson-baseball/articles-and-essays/baseball-the-color-line-and-jackie-robinson/the-jackie-robinson-story. Major League Baseball. “Jackie Robinson Day.” MLB Together. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.mlb.com/mlb-together/jackie-robinson-day. Moore, Mary Tyler. Interview by Diane Werts. The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. Television Academy Foundation, October 23, 1997. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/mary-tyler-moore. Moore, Mary Tyler. “Mary Tyler Moore: The ‘Fresh Air’ Interview.” Interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air. Rebroadcast by WUNC, May 26, 2023. https://www.wunc.org/2023-05-26/mary-tyler-moore-the-fresh-air-interview. National Park Service. “Guide to National Historic Landmarks by State: Tennessee.” Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/guide.htm. PBS. “Elvis Presley.” Culture Shock: Flashpoints—Music and Dance. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/music/elvis.html. Television Academy. “Foundation Archive: Mary Tyler Moore.” Emmy Magazine, May 17, 2017. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://www.televisionacademy.com/features/emmy-magazine/articles/foundation-archive-mary-tyler-moore. Zajonc, Robert B. “Attitudinal Effects of Mere Exposure.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 9, no. 2, pt. 2 (1968): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0025848.
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    36 min
  • Pulling Back the Curtain: The American Revolution

    Pulling Back the Curtain: The American Revolution
    Jul 3 2026

    In this episode of This, Again, we pull back the curtain on the hidden infrastructure that made American independence possible. From communication networks and local committees to supply chains, intelligence operations, diplomacy, and the ordinary people whose names rarely appear in history books, we explore how a revolution was held together long before it was won. Because history remembers the cannon fire. But the real miracle may be that the cannonballs showed up at all.

    Attribution Notes:

    • Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.
    • If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow

    Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow

    This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.

    Primary Sources

    Founders Online. National Archives and University of Virginia Press. Accessed July 2, 2026. https://founders.archives.gov/.

    Commager, Henry Steele, and Richard B. Morris, eds. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.

    Boyle, Joseph Lee. Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army: December 19, 1777–June 19, 1778. 2 vols. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2001.

    Bray, Robert C., and Paul E. Bushnell, eds. Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775–1783: An Annotated Edition of the Military Journal of Jeremiah Greenman. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

    Secondary Sources

    Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

    Breen, T. H. The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

    Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.

    Ferling, John. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

    Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

    Raphael, Ray. A People's History of the American Revolution. New York: New Press, 2001.

    Rose, Alexander. Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring. New York: Bantam Books, 2006.

    Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650–1750. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

    Kathleen DuVal, Independence: The Revolutionary War in the Lives of Ordinary Americans, 1763–1789 (2024).

    Government and Archival Resources

    Founders Online. National Archives and University of Virginia Press. https://founders.archives.gov/.

    Library of Congress. "American Revolution: A Resource Guide." https://www.loc.gov/collections/.

    National Archives. "The Declaration of Independence." https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration.

    National Park Service. "Valley Forge National Historical Park." https://www.nps.gov/vafo/.

    National Park Service. "Yorktown Battlefield." https://www.nps.gov/colo/.

    Central Intelligence Agency. Intelligence in the War of Independence. Center for the Study of Intelligence. Intelligence in the War of Independence - CIA.
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    33 min
  • Who Gets to be Believed? The Navy Surgeon Who Wasn't, The Forgotten Fossil Hunter, and The Man Who Discovered Hand-Washing

    Who Gets to be Believed? The Navy Surgeon Who Wasn't, The Forgotten Fossil Hunter, and The Man Who Discovered Hand-Washing
    Jun 19 2026

    Who gets to be believed?

    A fake doctor performs surgery without a medical degree. A fossil hunter makes discoveries that reshape science but struggles to be taken seriously. A physician uncovers a lifesaving medical practice, only to be ignored by much of the medical establishment.

    This week, we explore the strange and often uncomfortable gap between expertise and credibility. Why do some people earn trust they haven't earned, while others struggle to be heard despite being right? From impostors and overlooked experts to the psychology of authority itself, this episode examines how humans decide who deserves to be believed.

    Attribution Notes:

    • Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.
    • If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow

    Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow

    This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust.

    Semmelweis, Ignaz. The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Translated by K. Codell Carter. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 (original publication 1861).

    Carter, K. Codell. Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

    Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

    Semmelweis, Ignaz. The Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever. Translated by K. Codell Carter. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

    Best, M., and D. Neuhauser. "Ignaz Semmelweis and the Birth of Infection Control." Quality and Safety in Health Care 13, no. 3 (2004): 233–234.

    https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/13/3/233

    Nuland, Sherwin B. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

    Carter, K. Codell. Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignnaz Semmelweis. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

    Gillispie, Charles Coulston, ed. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 12. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Entry: "Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp."

    Emling, Shelley. The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

    Torrens, Hugh. Mary Anning of Lyme Regis: Fossilist. Bournemouth: British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995.

    Goodhue, Thomas W. Fossil Hunter: The Life and Times of Mary Anning (1799–1847). Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2004.

    Crichton, Robert. The Great Impostor. New York: Random House, 1959.
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    31 min
  • Assassinations and Accessibility: Mckinley, JFK, Reagan, & Shinzo Abe

    Assassinations and Accessibility: Mckinley, JFK, Reagan, & Shinzo Abe
    Jun 10 2026
    After every assassination, the same questions seem to follow. How did this happen? Why wasn't it prevented? What warning signs did people miss? From William McKinley in 1901 to John F. Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1981, and Shinzo Abe in 2022, each attack exposed vulnerabilities that suddenly seemed obvious in hindsight. Security systems changed. Procedures evolved. New lessons were learned. But what if the deeper story isn't about the attacks themselves? In this episode, we explore how societies learn from catastrophe, why institutions often become experts at preventing the last disaster, and what psychologists call the availability heuristic: our tendency to focus on the risks we can easily imagine while overlooking the ones we can't. Because the future rarely arrives in the form we expect. And sometimes the most important blind spots are hiding inside assumptions that feel perfectly reasonable today. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust. Sources and Further Reading: William McKinley Merry, Robert W. President McKinley: Architect of the American Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. Library of Congress – William McKinley Papers https://www.loc.gov/collections/william-mckinley-papers/about-this-collection/ Miller, Scott. The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century. New York: Random House, 2011. John F. Kennedy Blaine, Gerald, and Lisa McCubbin. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York: Gallery Books, 2010. President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report Ronald Reagan Wilber, Del Quentin. Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan. New York: Henry Holt, 2011. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum https://www.reaganlibrary.gov Shinzo Abe BBC News – Shinzo Abe assassination coverage https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62089486 https://www.bbc.com/news/62095447 National Police Agency of Japan https://www.npa.go.jp/english/ Psychology, Risk & Organizational Learning Availability Heuristic Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. "Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probability." Cognitive Psychology 5, no. 2 (1973): 207–232. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(73)90033-9 High Reliability Organizations Weick, Karl E., and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe. Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World. 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015. Publisher: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119175834?msockid=205e866215186a7d34b4951214346b54 Normal Accident Theory Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7srgf Organizational Failure & Challenger Vaughan, Diane. The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo22781921.html Horizon Scanning & Future Risk National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Enhancing Horizon Scanning and Foresight Capacity of the Federal Government. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2020. Free Full Report: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25729/enhancing-horizon-scanning-and-foresight-capacity-of-the-federal-government Black Swan Events Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. 2nd ed. New York: Random House, 2010. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/176226/the-black-swan-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb/
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    29 min
  • Pocahontas, Galileo, and Isaac Newton: Why We Change the Stories (1600s)

    Pocahontas, Galileo, and Isaac Newton: Why We Change the Stories (1600s)
    May 21 2026
    This week on This, Again, we look at three figures from the 1600s whose stories became cleaner, simpler, and easier to pass down over time: Galileo GalileiPocahontasIsaac Newton Galileo becomes the ultimate symbol of science versus religion, even though the reality was tangled up in politics, ego, public pressure, and institutional instability. Pocahontas becomes a romantic bridge between worlds, despite the fact that much of her life survives only through English interpretation, political messaging, and a story later generations softened into something easier to emotionally live with. Newton becomes the image of effortless genius, reduced to an apple falling from a tree, while the obsessive, competitive, deeply complicated person underneath that myth slowly fades into the background. But this episode isn’t really about “debunking” history. It’s about asking why stories evolve this way in the first place. Do we simplify history because we’re trying to manipulate people? Or because human beings naturally remember stories better when they feel emotionally organized and easy to carry forward? And at what point does simplification stop being an introduction… and quietly become the final version? This episode explores historiography, memory, narrative psychology, and the uncomfortable reality that most of us were probably taught the first layer of history… without ever being brought back for the second one. Attribution Notes: Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.If you spot an error or have a source to suggest, DM @thisagainshow Follow This, Again on Instagram: @thisagainshow This, Again is written, produced, and hosted by Mallory Faust. Galileo Galileo Galilei. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Translated by Stillman Drake. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1t1nb0d5&chunk.id=d0e180&brand=ucpressGalileo Galilei. The Essential Galileo. Edited and translated by Maurice A. Finocchiaro. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2008. https://hackettpublishing.com/the-essential-galileoFinocchiaro, Maurice A. Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/retrying-galileo/paper Heilbron, J. L. Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Galileo - John L. Heilbron - Oxford University PressVatican Observatory. “The Galileo Affair.” https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/education/the-galileo-affair/ Pocahontas John Smith. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624). https://archive.org/details/generallhistorie00smit Camilla Townsend. Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780809077380/pocahontasandthepowhatandilemmaNational Park Service. “Pocahontas.” Jamestown Colonial National Historical Park. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/pocahontas-her-life-and-legend.htmEncyclopaedia Britannica. “Pocahontas.” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pocahontas-Powhatan-woman Helen C. Rountree. Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2782/William Apess. A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Edited by Barry O’Connell. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. https://www.umasspress.com/9781558491076/a-son-of-the-forest-and-other-writings/ Newton Isaac Newton. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520088177/the-principia Richard S. Westfall. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/never-at-rest/45515EFB2D1A3B1D8764A3558D3A4E4B Patricia Fara. Newton: The Making of Genius. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/newton/9780231128063The Royal Society. “Newton and Leibniz: The Calculus Controversy.” https://royalsociety.org/blog/2015/02/newton-leibniz-calculus-dispute/ Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/295742/isaac-newton-by-james-gleick/ Historiography / Philosophy / Historical Memory E. H. Carr. What Is History? New York: Vintage Books, 1961. https://archive.org/details/whatishistory00ehca Hayden White. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/metahistory Michel Foucault. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. https://monoskop.org/images/5/5d/...
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    38 min
  • Going Undercover: The People Who Entered and Exposed the Psychiatric System

    Going Undercover: The People Who Entered and Exposed the Psychiatric System
    May 7 2026

    What would it take to be labeled insane?

    In 1887, Nellie Bly checked herself into a New York asylum to find out. She got in with surprising ease. Getting out was something else entirely.

    Nearly a century later, David Rosenhan ran an experiment to see if anything had changed. Healthy people walked into psychiatric hospitals, claimed to hear a single voice, and were admitted. Once inside, they acted completely normal. It didn’t matter.

    This episode follows both investigations from the inside and looks at what they revealed about how systems make decisions and why those decisions are so difficult to reverse.

    Attribution Notes:

    • Every effort was made to cross-check primary sources and modern research. Where paraphrasing is used, it’s drawn from the texts below with narrative license for clarity and flow.
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    Bly, Nellie. Ten Days in a Mad-House. New York: Ian L. Munro, 1887. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59899

    Rosenhan, D. L. “On Being Sane in Insane Places.” Science 179, no. 4070 (1973): 250–258. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1735662

    Grob, Gerald N. The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

    Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

    Spitzer, Robert L. “On Pseudoscience in Science, Logic in Remission, and Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Critique of Rosenhan’s ‘On Being Sane in Insane Places.’” Journal of Abnormal Psychology 84, no. 5 (1975): 442–452. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1976-00177-001

    Zimbardo, Philip G. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. New York: Random House, 2007.

    Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

    Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
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