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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037 - Happy Healthy History (feat. Courtney Rioux)
036 - Scared History 2: Electric Spoopaloo
035 - History Uncorked (feat. Patrick Serrano)
034 - Banana Propaganda
033 - Deep Deaf Impact
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032 - Tusslin' is Instinct (feat. DJ RIP!)
031 - Shuffle off to Iowa (feat. Vania Boland)
030 - Captain Spicy Fingers (feat. Sean Ely)
029 - If You Give a Puritan a Hatchet... (feat. Dr. Emily Romeo, PhD)
028 - It Was a Habberdash Smash
027 - Trade, Treachery & Murder on the Yukon River (feat. Jon Hansen)
026 - Not All Who Wander (& Wander) Are Lost
025 - The Spoopiest Place on Earth (feat. Sarah Cruz)
024 - Revenge of the Ancient Nerds
023 - This Episode Sponsored By... (feat. Linze Rice)
022 - Smelta Delta Phi (feat. Cassie Ballschmidt)
021 - Qvit Playing Games Vis Meine Heart (feat. Garreth Spinn)
020 - The Games Must Go On
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