This 2014 episode covers the story of how in 1859, the United States and Great Britain nearly went to war over an American settler shooting a Canadian pig that was rooting around his garden.
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Conjecture and Child Actors
The Clifton Star Chamber Case and Kidnapped Child Actors
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
SYMHC Classics: W.C. Minor
Behind the Scenes Minis: War of the Words
Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 2
Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 1
SYMHC Classics: Julian Eltinge
Behind the Scenes Minis: Square Dancing on a Wire
Square Dancing
Vander Clyde Broadway, aka Barbette
SYMHC Classics: George Sand
Behind the Scenes Minis: Music and Tomatoes
Nix v. Hedden and Tomatoes as Vegetables
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
SYMHC Classics: Frederick Douglass
Behind the Scenes Minis: Lucy and Ruth
Ruth Benedict
Lucy Stone
SYMHC Classics: Zoot Suit Riots
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