This 2019 episode covers Sylvia of Hollywood, famous in the 1920s and 1930s for shaping up starlets, cementing the idea that Hollywood's beauties were aspirational figures for the average woman.
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Balloons and the Mixed Bag
G. K. Chesterton’s Fight Against Eugenics
Balloons of World War II
SYMHC Classics: The Kallikaks and the Eugenicists
Behind the Scenes Minis: Ellen and Eliza
The Case of Eliza Fenning
Ellen Swallow Richards
SYMHC Classics: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Behind the Scenes Minis: Susie and Rip
Old Rip, Famous Texas Horned Lizard
Susie King Taylor, Civil War Teacher and Nurse
Introducing: The Last Soviet
SYMHC Classics: U.S. Contraband Camps
SYMHC Classics: The Eruption at Heimaey
Behind the Scenes Minis: Chocolate and Rabbits
Scarlet Fever
Eponymous Foods: All Chocolate
SYMHC Classics: Constance Markievicz
Behind the Scenes Minis: Colette, a Mixed Bag
Colette, Part 2
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