Annette Tells Tales

ANNETTE TELLS TALES A Very Victorian Revolution: Indigenous People Rise Up in the early 1880s to Reclaim Their Land, and it's Theatrical

Sep 24 •

ANNETTE TELLS TALES These Indigenous People Are Among the First to Get Back Their Land. Prepare to be amazed.

Sep 17 •

Britain: The Dragon Years (1915-2000), An Introduction

Two World Wars Led to Two Generations of Terrifying British Women. Let's get started on why that matters

Sep 7 •

Historian's Doomed Romance 💔

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Christine Heyrman's 19th Century Christian Love Triangle Scandal, plus Missionary Positions

Aug 20 •

Virginia Scrambled, with a Side of Bacon (twice)

THROWBACKS/ANNETTE TELLS TALES Conspiracy Theories. Racism. Gun Violence. And a Populist Uprising Called Bacon's Rebellion. Welcome to America in 1676!

Jul 30 •

Hate's Modern Masters 2

ANNETTE TELLS TALES The progressive men behind the racist Atlanta Massacre

Jul 16 •

Hate's Modern Masters 1

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Racist massacre in a hi-tech city, and the progressive men behind it

Jul 9 •

American Death Trip (2) English and Natives

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Making Friends (or not) and Influencing People Via Death, in Early Virginia

Apr 16 •

American Death Trip (1) Hurons and Fathers

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Death Has History! Riffing on a Historian's Stories of Death and Deadness in Early America

Mar 26 •

The Grifter, the Communist, the Wannabe Novelists

ANNETTE TELLS TALES How a Radical Upper-Class Brit and Talented Self-Taught Writer Caught A Powerful CEO (and Popular TV Star) in a Scam

Mar 12 •

Meet Black Patriots Fighting for Independence (their own)

ANNETTE TELLS TALES Americans Who Support the British for Their Own Freedom, and Keep Fighting After the Brits Leave

Feb 6 •

Stiff Upper Lip? 😐😢😭

ANNETTE TELLS TALES A Surprising History of British Crying Shows How Complicated Stereotypes, Identity, and People Can Be

Jan 30 •

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