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: 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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