We’re starting this season off with a bang…or at least Natalie is, as she traumatizes Cass with a harrowing tale from Chicago history: The Wingfoot Air Express Disaster before Cass shares the fashion and racism behind the Zoot Suit Riots.
Wingfoot Express Leaving Grant Park
Inside bank after crash
Diagram of crash
Composite illustration of wingfoot explosion
City of Scoundrels by Gary Krist (Nat's book rec)
Pachuco Style
Zoot Suits
Service members acting as a self-appointed zoot suit patrol
Men arrested for rioting in LA county (aka being attacked for wearing zoot suits)
Defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case upon acquittal
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103 - Everday War (feat. Dr. Greta Uehling)
102 - Jazz Goddess, Gypsy Queen
101 - Celebrities, They're Just Like Us! (feat. Lanny Jones)
100 - In Da Club: A Shared History Musical Spectacular!
099 - The Most Interesting Man in the World (feat. Michael MacBride)
098 - This Little Horse Lord Hates Disco
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096 - Chasing Waterfalls (feat. Alex DiVirgilio)
095 - The History Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
094 - Cheers, Beers & Queers (feat. Nicholas Ryan of Herbiery)
093 - Stay Socialist, Not Toxic
092 - The Last Badass (feat. Tehya from For The Love of History)
091 - Nobby Nat & The Unwashed Casses
090 - Don't Wake Daddy Disney (feat. Caitlin Cadieux)
089 - Scared History 4: Scared 4 History
088 - Like an Icon in the Sky (feat. Thomas Betti)
087 - That Peasant's Poisonnnnn
086 - Big Impact, Little History (feat. Dr. Natalia Molina)
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