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Hashtag History

Hashtag History

Hashtag History

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The ultimate History podcast for History Nerds and History Haters alike! Here at Hashtag History, we dive into History's greatest stories of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Hashtag History episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Hashtag History for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Hashtag History episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

This week on Hashtag History for our Season Twelve Finale, we have the wonderful Gillian Pensavalle (of True Crime Obsessed the The Hamilton) on the show to discuss her new podcast series titled Let the Women. This series focuses on highlighting trailblazing women in the true crime space. And trust us; you do not want to miss this one!

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

Check out Macy’s delicious wine here → https://glnk.io/rpln/hashtaghistory-podcast #macyswineshop

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Hashtag History - EP 102: Enron

EP 102: Enron

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06/21/22 • 53 min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the Enron Scandal, a major accounting fraud that took place in late-2001 when Enron Corporation - who, only the year prior, was considered to be one of the most successful companies in the world - announced that it was posting a $638 billion dollar loss in the third quarter...and then followed up that up shortly thereafter by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In only a few months, the company’s stock price - which, at its height, was $90 per share - fell to less than $0.26 per share. Along with the demise of the company also came the demise of nearly $2.1 billion dollars in pension plans for its thousands of employees. In fact, as higher-ups in the company were selling off their stock - aware that things were going to tank soon - they were simultaneously telling lower-level employees to invest in more company stock. The Securities and Exchange Commission investigated what happened at Enron and found that they had been conducting shady accounting practices, such as writing future gains (that had not yet been received) into current income statements and transferring their bad assets into special purpose entities in order to keep them off the books. Essentially, Enron was lying about their profits, defrauding investors, their employees, and Americans as a whole.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

Check out Macy’s delicious wine here → https://glnk.io/rpln/hashtaghistory-podcast #macyswineshop

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Hashtag History - EP 101: The 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
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06/14/22 • 46 min

Welcome back for Season Eleven!

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing War of the Worlds. And not necessarily the novel, The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells, which is about aliens from Mars invading the Earth. No, more specifically, we are discussing an incident that occurred the day before Halloween in 1938 when actor Orson Welles (no relation to author H.G. Wells) read aloud an adaptation of The War of the Worlds on live radio. Innocent enough, right? HOWEVER, Welles delivered this adaptation of the story in a “breaking-news”, news-reporting alert type method. So when he told of Martians landing on Earth, Americans took him seriously. When this radio program - in the style of a news broadcast - played audio from people who appeared to be live witnesses to aliens landing on the Earth and using a heat ray to burn up American citizens, listeners went nuts. Americans became so alarmed that the results of this broadcast led to traffic jams, an outrageous amount of calls to local law enforcement, and a significant fleeing from the site of the alleged invasion, New Jersey. Following the incident, when it was realized that this had all just been a fictional tale (that all of these witnesses had actually been paid actors), there was complete outrage directed at the radio program for what many perceived to be a deceptive delivery of the tale of the War of the Worlds.

It is worth noting though that more modern historians believe that this was not quite as large-scale as was originally reported. Many believe now that the mass hysteria resulting from this incident was actually grossly exaggerated by the media. But regardless, this whole thing - however big or small - was a hot mess.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

Check out Macy’s delicious wine here → https://glnk.io/rpln/hashtaghistory-podcast #macyswineshop

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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Hashtag History - EP 124: Joan of Arc

EP 124: Joan of Arc

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02/28/23 • 46 min

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is of course most well-known for leading the French army to victory during the Hundred Years War when she was only a teenager. She claimed that she had been sent visions by God and that she was fulfilling a prophecy by leading France to victory. She would later be captured, however, by the enemy that considered her a heretic and she would be burned at the stake for her alleged crimes. About twenty years after her death, she would be vindicated of these allegations and, in 1920, she would officially be declared a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She is now considered a patron saint of France.

So was Joan of Arc a heroine? Was she a heretic? Or was she just a really confused - but also, very passionate, and rather impressive - young woman?

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Rudy Kurniawan, a world famous wine connoisseur, collector, seller...and total fraudster. In 2012 when the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided Kurniawan’s Arcadia, California home, they found the place littered with empty wine bottles, detached labels, corking tools, wax for sealing bottles, and extensive wine tasting notes. It would appear that Kurniawan was mixing cheaper wines, studying his tasting notes to blend the tastes as seamlessly as possible, and then putting them in bottles with expensive labels and passing them off as rare, vintage wines. Kurniawan would become the first person in the United States to be tried and convicted of wine fraud.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Rachel and Leah

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Hashtag History - EP 82: Selena Quintanilla Perez
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11/23/21 • 65 min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Selena Quintanilla Perez, an American singer, businesswoman, and fashion designer that would be credited as one of the most influential Latin artists of all time at a time when the Tejano music industry was largely dominated by male artists. She would break through this glass ceiling and become by far one of the most well-known Mexican-American entertainers to ever exist. Tragically, on March 31, 1995, when Selena was only twenty-three years old, she would be shot and murdered by a friend of hers’ that had managed her fan club.

Following her tragic death, her English crossover record, titled Dreaming of You, would reach the top of the Billboard 200, the first Latin artist to ever do so. Since then, nearly 18 million Selena records have been sold and several movies and shows have been made to document Selena’s life, namely the 1997 film that starred Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla that would propel Lopez, also a Latin American artist, into the spotlight in a major way.

This episode touches on all of our favorite things: A badass woman in History shrouded in controversy and corruption and tragedy.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Rachel and Leah

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Hashtag History - EP 65: The 1916 Shark Attacks
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04/27/21 • 44 min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the 1916 shark attacks. These were a series of attacks over the course of two weeks in the summer of 1916 in New Jersey which resulted in the deaths of four people and one other injured. This series of shark attacks is what really initiated American fear of sharks and the misconstrued belief that they are these evil “man-eaters”. And, although the writer denies it, many believe that it was these tragic incidents in 1916 that would inspire Peter Benchley to publish an infamous book in 1974 titled Jaws.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Rachel and Leah

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Hashtag History - EP 109: The Racist History of the State of Oregon
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08/09/22 • 42 min

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the racist History of the State of Oregon. While many states across the United States have incredible racist History, Oregon is the only state in the country to enter the Union with a Black exclusion law, quite literally banning Black people within its borders. When they became a State in 1859, they entered as a Free State - meaning that slavery would not be permitted within its borders - but that’s not because these people were on the right side of History. No, Oregon was so deeply racist that they didn’t even want to look at Black people; enslaved or not.

Oregon would not ratify the Fourteenth Amendment - the Amendment that provided equal protection of the law and gave citizenship to all Black people, including those formerly enslaved - until 1973! They also didn’t ratify the Fifteenth Amendment - which gave Black men the right to vote - until 1959!

And although Portland, Oregon’s most populous city, has long had the reputation of being very liberal and progressive, it continues to rank as one of the whitest big cities in America. According to the most recent national census, Oregon’s demographics show that nearly 83% of the state population is white with less than 2% Black. For Portland specifically, about 75% of the city is white and less than 6% is Black.

We are going to be diving into all the things this week: How Oregon was quite literally established as a White Utopia from the onset, how white surpremacy hate groups (particularly the Ku Klux Klan) thrived - and continue to thrive - there, the gentrification and displacement of Black Americans (particularly in Portland), and what the State has done to combat this dark History.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

Check out Macy’s delicious wine here → https://glnk.io/rpln/hashtaghistory-podcast #macyswineshop

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In a special, bonus episode, we had the honor of having Ian from Necronomipod on the podcast to discuss the St. Valentine's Day Massacre! On February 14, 1929, Chicago's North Side Gang (well known to be a rival of infamous Mob Boss, Al Capone) was gunned down in a garage in Chicago, Illinois. Although Capone has been linked to the incident and many believe him to be directly responsible for the murders, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre technically remains unsolved to this day.

Join Rachel, Leah, and Ian as we discuss Al Capone and the rise of gangs during Prohibition, the rivalry between Capone and George "Bugs" Moran, the massacre itself and how it changed History forever, the downfall of Capone, and where things stand now (which may or may not involve some paranormal activity!).

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast and Necronomipod @necronomipod.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, you will receive a card and stickers, and you will have access to weekly bonus Hashtag Hangout episodes.

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Rachel and Leah

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Hashtag History - EP 92: The Murder of Vincent Chin
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03/08/22 • 35 min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Vincent Chin, a twenty-seven year old Chinese-American man that was beaten to death in Detroit, Michigan, on June 19, 1982. He was beaten by two white men that worked in the Detroit automobile industry. These men would beat Chin to death when they mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for their being out of work due to the recent influx in Japanese car imports. But the tragedy doesn’t stop there. Because, when these two men were tried for murder, they would end up instead being convicted of manslaughter and would receive only a fine of $3,000...and no jail time. The judge in this case was quoted as saying, in reference to the light sentence he had given the men, “These aren’t the kind of men you send to jail. You fit the punishment to the criminal, not the crime.”

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

Rachel and Leah

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How many episodes does Hashtag History have?

Hashtag History currently has 166 episodes available.

What topics does Hashtag History cover?

The podcast is about History and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Hashtag History?

The episode title 'EP 102: Enron' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Hashtag History?

The average episode length on Hashtag History is 41 minutes.

How often are episodes of Hashtag History released?

Episodes of Hashtag History are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Hashtag History?

The first episode of Hashtag History was released on Jul 10, 2019.

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