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3:10 Holly Frey? Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of iHeartRadio.
3:21 Holly Frey? Hello and happy Friday. I'm Holly Frey.
3:23 Tracy V. Wilson? And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
3:26 Holly Frey? We talked about greeting cards this week.
3:28 Tracy V. Wilson? We did. When you said, like, the outline of the episode just said something to the effect of, like, I'm working through my feelings on greeting cards. And I thought that meant something very different than what you actually talked about on
3:43 Holly Frey? Yeah, no.
3:44 Tracy V. Wilson? the, in the introduction to the episode. I thought your feelings about greeting cards was going to be about, I don't know, their content, or any time I go to buy one, I can't find one with a sentiment that I like, so I always wind up getting blank ones. I thought it was going to be something along those lines and not
4:01 Holly Frey? No.
4:02 Tracy V. Wilson? what you were actually talking about.
4:04 Holly Frey? Yeah, trying to make space in my life. Yeah. Uh, it kind of did help me make some rules about what stays and what goes. I also think I might make myself a rule that they have to get integrated into some kind of art. They can't just be sitting in a drawer somewhere, but that's weird, too. One of the things that really struck me, I didn't mention it, but it was in that report we talked about the, at the end, about the current status of the greeting card industry. And one of the people from the greeting card association made this very good point of like, you can send electronic greetings as much as you want, but you can't in the same way, hold like a text from a loved one that has passed in your hand.
4:49 Holly Frey? The way you can a card that they've sent you and like, keep it as a memento. And like the sentimental value of them is, I think, also a part of what's driving new interest among younger purchasers, which is really interesting.
5:02 Tracy V. Wilson? That has been a factor in ones that I have kept, that I might not have kept otherwise.
5:06 Holly Frey? Hundred percent. I mentioned in that Duque d'Orléans poem translation that I
5:13 Tracy V. Wilson? Oh, yeah.
5:13 Holly Frey? translated part of it because here is why. There are a lot of translations I see of it that translate a section of it literally. And the way it conveys to the English ear, the English speaking ear, is not really in line with what he is saying. And that is, instead of saying, I am lovesick,
5:40 Holly Frey? it says, I am sick of love. And that makes it sound more negative. And so I switched it. But I didn't, I'm like, no, he's obviously like very sad to not be with her. It makes it sound like he's like down with love. I don't have time for it. So that's, if you go looking for a translation and you're like, that's not what this says. That's what's going on there. Yeah, because you would say in French, it would be mal d'amour. Sick of love, but it's like sick from love, not Yeah. Not tired of it. Here was another cool thing that I didn't get into and debated about getting into that I really, really liked about the Egyptian
6:24 Holly Frey? use of scarabs. Oh, yeah. As a greeting and as a way to show people you cared about them, which is that unlike, we talked about the development of greetings in China and in, you know, the US and England, really, where it starts out as something that like rich people are doing and eventually becomes affordable for everybody else. Right. Scarabs, it appears have always been something that like were used this way across all of the the social and economic strata of that culture. Like it was something that was available to everyone as a means of showing other people that you love them, which I really, really like. Just cool. Yeah.
7:07 Holly Frey? I read a listener mail about figure drawing. Yeah, yeah. And how ballet dancers are perfect for it, which is a really good idea. Thank you again, Kieran. So J C Horsley, John Calcott Horsley, who designed what is often called the first Christmas card. I didn't know until I was looking up information on him.
7:30 Holly Frey? Was sometimes called Mr. J Clothes Horsley. Okay. Not for the reason you might think, because I read that and I was like, oh, was he a dandy? No, apparently he was a little bit of a puritan and he didn't, he refused to do life drawing with nudes. Okay. And as a consequence, like throughout his career, that's one of the things that gets criticism is like, he didn't really know how the human body works. He's not very good at proportions on human body because he was like so worried about seeing somebody without clothes on that he would never do a nude drawing class or a nude drawing study, which is so fascinating to me, right?
8:10 Holly Frey? You think about all of the great artists in history who are known for their understanding of how the human body works. Michelangelo pops to mind, of course, and it's because they did so many nude studies like. Even a thin layer of clothing is gonna change your perception of like, how the muscles and tendons and everything are connecting to one another. And I'm like, horsely. Oh, baby, you could have been even better.
8:36 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
8:36 Holly Frey? Just made me laugh. The only other thing I wanted to talk about was end of year letters.
8:42 Tracy V. Wilson? Oh, sure.
8:43 Holly Frey? I can't even get my act together to send cards.
8:47 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
8:48 Holly Frey? I don't know how people do it. And yet, the people in my life that do it, I love those letters every year. Like, they're often super funny. And I'm like, oh, that's such a great thing. And then I'm like, I don't. I'm sure it would only take a couple hours at most.
9:05 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
9:06 Holly Frey? But like, my brain is so resistant to the idea.
9:10 Tracy V. Wilson? I feel like there's been a year of my adult life when I sent Christmas cards, not letters, just cards, to a lot of friends and relatives.
9:23 Holly Frey? Yeah.
9:24 Tracy V. Wilson? And I managed to do that once. When we bought our house, I, ahead of time of actually buying the house and moving, used one of those, you know, services where you can design your own cards to put together a change of address card. And I already had those printed. And if I recall correctly, they also had an addressing service. And so I might have had them address it for me, largely based on the address list that I had developed for our wedding, uh, which was a few years before, like, I went and updated that list. And I sent those cards out so quickly after I moved that a friend of mine said it made her angry.
10:09 Tracy V. Wilson? She, because she could not imagine having been that on the ball in the middle of a move. And that's the only time that I've managed to be that on the ball. I have much more often done things like bought Christmas cards with the intent of sending them and not sending them.
10:25 Holly Frey? Oh, yeah. Still in a, still in a thing.
10:27 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, once I bought a variety pack of those Love Pop pop-up cards.
10:34 Holly Frey? Oh, they're beautiful. I love them so much.
10:36 Tracy V. Wilson? I think they were flowers. It was like 12 months of flowers. And my intention was that I was gonna send my mom. A flower card every month. And that's how much I didn't have my act together. I didn't get it together to send a card every month to my mom. And then the pandemic started and everything shut down. And I was like, I have this dozen cards. And so I sent greeting cards to like, a lot of friends and family that like, when everything shut down. And then because it was at that time of the pandemic, when we really didn't know what was happening and we didn't know how it spread and people were washing their gross threes and whatever.
11:15 Holly Frey? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:16 Tracy V. Wilson? I sealed it with a wet paper towel and I wrote across the seal sealed with a wet paper towel.
11:22 Holly Frey? So careful. So careful and good. I mean, in a good way. Yeah, I am. The only time I've ever been even moderately okay at it. Some years back, we had a sponsor that printed custom cards. And I had New Year's cards that had my wonderful and horrible cat, Mr. Burns on them.
11:46 Holly Frey? And then, um, this is a little sad, but Mr. Burns died kind of early that year.
11:52 Tracy V. Wilson? No.
11:53 Holly Frey? And I had not sent a lot of the cards and they're still in a drawer somewhere because I can't.
11:57 Tracy V. Wilson? Oh.
11:58 Holly Frey? Don't have it in me to toss them.
11:59 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
12:00 Holly Frey? Again, maybe they'll become an art project.
12:02 Tracy V. Wilson? Maybe.
12:03 Holly Frey? We can draw something Halloweeny on it and make it like ghost Mr. Burns. I don't know. We'll do something. Uh, Mr. Burns. Mr. Burns. I, this also did kind of inspire me to think about like, is there a way I can make the card thing happen?
12:19 Tracy V. Wilson? Uh huh.
12:19 Holly Frey? Because my, here's my holdup. I think I would be okay with it, except this sounds so cockamamie when I say it. It's like, how lazy are you? Getting to the post office from our house is weird.
12:32 Tracy V. Wilson? Uh huh.
12:33 Holly Frey? We have a post office that's quite close, less than half a mile away, but it's not walkable.
12:39 Tracy V. Wilson? Mm hmm.
12:40 Holly Frey? And it's in like a shopping center that getting into and out of it is a real pain in the neck. So I'm always like, I want to do that. And then we have another one. The next closest one is actually where my P O. Box is, but I don't go there super often.
12:54 Tracy V. Wilson? Mm hmm.
12:54 Holly Frey? It's kind of like one of those things where I'm like, oh yeah, I'm having dinner over there. I'll stop by there.
12:58 Tracy V. Wilson? Mm hmm.
12:59 Holly Frey? I'm just terrible at going to the post office. That's the biggest problem.
13:02 Tracy V. Wilson? Mm hmm.
13:03 Holly Frey? One day.
13:05 Tracy V. Wilson? You've suddenly reminded me that I'm pretty sure I got an email about my P O. Box renewal and I'm like, that I handled that.
13:15 Tracy V. Wilson? I'm on top of it. I'm on top.
13:17 Holly Frey? Yeah.
13:17 Tracy V. Wilson? I'm not actually on top of things.
13:19 Holly Frey? Yeah, yeah. And then I actually feel, especially having listened to this and it being inspired by me trying to clear out my house, there's also part of me that's like, do I want to dump more things in other people's lives? What if they don't want cards?
13:32 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
13:34 Holly Frey? Treachery. Maybe I'll ask everybody, do you want cards this year? I don't want to give you things you don't want to deal with.
13:40 Tracy V. Wilson? We have a number of friends that tend to send either letters or cards. And a lot of our friends who have kids have been sending like little pictures of their kids. And I had done some tidying and I had discarded like the envelopes, things that came in, that the envelopes that the things had come in, the things that like were not actually necessary. So I had the pictures and the cards.
14:04 Tracy V. Wilson? But the pictures had become separated from the cards.
14:08 Holly Frey? Uh huh.
14:08 Tracy V. Wilson? And there was a moment where Patrick came and looked at a picture of a child and was like, who is this?
14:14 Holly Frey? Whose baby is this?
14:17 Tracy V. Wilson? We had to like match it up, figure out who was who.
14:22 Holly Frey? Yeah. I, I'm pretty lucky in that regard. I'm trying to think through like my good friends that would send me pictures of their kids. And one couple in particular, their kids look so much like either one of the other of them that I could easily go, oh, I know whose kid that is.
14:39 Tracy V. Wilson? Well, and in our defense, this particular picture did not look as much like the other pictures of the child or the child.
14:48 Holly Frey? Yeah, yeah, that happens.
14:50 Tracy V. Wilson? For whatever reason, it was just an angle that didn't look the same, I guess.
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18:03 Tracy V. Wilson? We talked about the Memphis massacre. Oof, yeah, we did. We have several similar massacres in the archive. We're going to have a related Saturday Classic coming up, and several of them are episodes I wrote. And I got to this point that I felt like we were telling essentially the same story over and over, but that it wasn't adding anything new or additional to what we were talking about. It's just sort of felt like we were revisiting the same trauma repeatedly. Right. With this one, my intent had been to have an episode that was about Frances Thompson,
18:47 Tracy V. Wilson? because I thought there was more information about her than there was. Gotcha. And I sort of understood that to do the episode, I would need to talk about the massacre as part of the context. And so I was thinking between what we know about her and the massacre, there's probably a whole episode there. But then I realized that apart from her testimony that she gave before the House Select Committee, what we know about her is basically entirely in horrifying, incredibly disrespectful news articles. If the episode had been about
19:24 Tracy V. Wilson? her, since our show is on Netflix now and we need some visual things to go on Netflix, we probably would have needed to use those illustrations of her, which were not things, like she was not in control of her own. Right. Depiction there. Right. It was something that like she was forced to do. And then these are, these are pictures that were being printed to make her look bad. And I just felt like there was not a way to really focus the episode on her.
19:57 Tracy V. Wilson? Without having to draw from this incredibly disrespectful and offensive source material. And I, like, we have said before, it is incredibly important to acknowledge the reality that for all of history, there have been people who have lived in whatever way outside of their, their society's standards for things like sex and gender. But it's also really important to do that in a way that doesn't feel like we are disrespecting the people of the past, or, or trans people living today. Yeah. And so, like, as I read just a series of awful articles, I was like, I think the
20:40 Tracy V. Wilson? focus here needs to be about the massacre. Because this massacre does have some aspects that don't feel like we're just repeating the same trauma when we get into the part about the influence on things like the 14th amendment. And then also spend some time talking about her and what happened to her. That's how we sort of arrived at the episode that we wound up doing. A sort of bit of information that I could not find a good place in the structure of the episode to include is Mary Church Terrell, who was a journalist and a suffrage advocate, a civil rights activist also. She wrote a memoir
21:21 Tracy V. Wilson? that was published in 1940. And she talks about this massacre in that memoir because her father was there. And her father was shot and left for dead. And in her description of this, she refers to it as the Irish Riot. And that's something that she wrote in 1940, so decades later, after it had happened. Which to me was just an, an illustration of how
21:49 Tracy V. Wilson? How tightly it was still connected to the idea of the Irish community and not former Confederates or
21:57 Holly Frey? Right.
21:57 Tracy V. Wilson? the white community more broadly, even though at that point, it was not in public memory much anymore beyond people who had some kind of direct connection to it like she did through her father.
22:09 Holly Frey? I marvel and don't marvel at how quickly this did fall out of public memory.
22:16 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
22:16 Holly Frey? And I wonder, because we're watching the same thing happen to a lot of things today.
22:20 Tracy V. Wilson? Right.
22:21 Holly Frey? The difference being that today we're like inundated with a constant wild flow of information and news all the time. So it's kind of easy for your brain to like,
22:31 Holly Frey? cycle to the next thing. Whereas with this, you know, presumably there were not as many huge violent outbreaks going on on the daily being reported in papers. So I, I find myself being like, how much of this was sort of a purposeful? And how much of it, I mean, there's no one, there's no one answer either. Right. Like, how much of it is people just being like, that was so horrific? And this incredibly horrifying reminder of the capacity for human cruelty and violence is something that like, we almost can't deal with and process emotionally or intellectually.
23:12 Holly Frey? So let's put it aside versus people just like not caring. Like, those are all elements of the, the ways that people,
23:24 Holly Frey? I don't even know if they forget, but they just kind of don't engage with that information anymore. And I, I, it's terrifying.
23:33 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, there have been, there have been some episodes on other, especially very traumatic incidents, incidents of racist violence, where we have gotten more into like the how of how it fell out of public memory.
23:50 Holly Frey? Yeah.
23:50 Tracy V. Wilson? And sometimes there's been an aspect of The incident becoming a taboo among the people that it happened to and people not wanting to talk about it among their family members, not wanting to talk about it among their descendants. Right. Not really like wanting to revisit that trauma. But then there have also been times that the focus was a lot more on like intentionally burying the history of what happened, often on the part of whoever perpetrated the violence. But that's been part of a lot of these episodes that we have done before. Like I grew up in North Carolina, never heard about the Wilmington coup until I was an adult. If I remember correctly, what our episode about the Tulsa massacre, similarly, like
24:33 Tracy V. Wilson? the Tulsa massacre kind of was not in the public consciousness until it was resurrected by historians and activists and people trying to make sure that it it continued to be part of the history, became, re-became part of the history that was talked about. And then with the Tulsa massacre, specifically like the TV show Watchmen. Yep. It was part of that TV show and like that became how a lot of people heard about it. And like, I remember when that show was on, seeing a lot of people on social media discovering for the first time that that had happened and not really realizing that it wasn't just one thing. It was part of this pattern.
25:18 Tracy V. Wilson? Right. That has happened over and over and over again, all around the country at points over, you know, decades slash centuries. I really appreciated the, the fact that there was, you know, a conscious effort leading up to the 150th anniversary of the Memphis massacre to say, okay, we are going to have all of these events, we're going to hold a symposium. Yeah. We're going to, like, they made a website and a blog and a lot of stuff to just try to like, make people aware that this had happened, who might not have been aware of it before. Yeah.
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29:13 Holly Frey? The other thing I was, couldn't help but think about, which might be a weird line to draw between two things.
29:20 Tracy V. Wilson? Okay.
29:21 Holly Frey? Is, you know, we talked about Frances Thompson and her horrific treatment,
29:29 Holly Frey? which was in the mid to late 1870s, right? By the time she passed. And then just, you know, 45 years later, you get Gladys being famous as a person who is bucking gender and sexuality norms.
29:49 Tracy V. Wilson? Right.
29:50 Holly Frey? And I'm like, on the one hand, if you're a single person living through that, that feels like a very long time. But in the arc of history, that's a pretty short time. Granted, there are a lot of other variables, right? Not the same place, et cetera. But it is kind of an interesting thing to think about. When we talked about Gladys's story, Gladys Bentley, I wasn't really thinking about it in terms of like, just a few decades earlier.
30:15 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
30:16 Holly Frey? These things were still playing out and the, the really like, direct ramifications of. You know, the, the ways that particularly people of color that were seen as outside of any of those norms were treated was very different and could be much harsher. Granted, we continue to see, you know, violence today. I don't want to act like everything's fine, but it is an interesting way that we look at the ebbs and flows of how things shift forward. We talked in this episode about like the, the wave that happens after that when progress is made. And then there's like a knee jerk towards a less, less fruitful and less tolerant, you know, environment.
30:58 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
30:58 Holly Frey? I mean, my hope always, which might be naive, is that like each progressive step forward gets us a little farther, but who knows?
31:05 Tracy V. Wilson? Right.
31:06 Holly Frey? Who knows? Trying to be hopeful today on, in a world where it's very hard.
31:11 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah. Which makes me feel bad for the next thing that I wanted to, I was gonna say, which is that one of the things that struck me about the news reporting around Frances Thompson was how similar some of it felt to news reporting now.
31:32 Holly Frey? Yeah.
31:32 Tracy V. Wilson? Where newspapers were basically manufacturing the idea that there was this epidemic sort of, of cross dressing.
31:42 Holly Frey? Right.
31:43 Tracy V. Wilson? Black people who were sexually deviant and like.
31:46 Holly Frey? Dangerous deviants.
31:48 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah. Manufacturing an emergency over it, which just feels like the same thing happening today.
31:58 Holly Frey? Oh, yeah.
31:59 Tracy V. Wilson? With how, like, maybe with fewer slurs and fewer.
32:04 Holly Frey? Barely.
32:06 Tracy V. Wilson? Fewer, like intentionally incorrect pronouns. Not saying that people are never called the wrong pronouns in reporting. Obviously that still happens.
32:14 Holly Frey? Right.
32:15 Tracy V. Wilson? But like, that was one of the things that, that was in a lot of these articles was like intentionally wrong pronouns and putting the pronouns in a way that to make it sound deviant. But like, we're still living through a time in which reporting is, has like manufactured, made up an emergency.
32:34 Holly Frey? Oh, 100%.
32:36 Tracy V. Wilson? About trans people that just, like, it's not real.
32:42 Holly Frey? I mean, I would say that the difference, if you want to keep it hopeful,
32:47 Holly Frey? is that more people recognize now that that is baloney.
32:51 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
32:52 Holly Frey? And will say so than probably would have during Frances Thompson's time.
32:57 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, for sure. That's true.
32:59 Holly Frey? Same dance, just different faces.
33:02 Tracy V. Wilson? It's like, this is, I feel like I'm reading an article about the need for bathroom laws.
33:08 Holly Frey? Right.
33:09 Tracy V. Wilson? But it's.
33:10 Holly Frey? No story time.
33:11 Tracy V. Wilson? Years ago.
33:11 Holly Frey? Don't let drag queens read books to kids. Except you should. You will never have a more fun day in your life. Those kids will have a great time. Yeah, I feel so, I feel so strongly about this. I, listen, I want a drag queen to try, read to me all the time. Can read me anything you want. It's great. It'll be fun. We'll all have a great time. I will tip you.
33:32 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
33:32 Holly Frey? Love it. Love it.
33:33 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
33:34 Holly Frey? If you've never been to a drag show, get your bed on to a drag show. You'll never have more fun in your life. Joy in abundance.
33:40 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
33:42 Holly Frey? And we all need it.
33:44 Tracy V. Wilson? I agree. I agree. We do need more joy. We need more joy just across the whole spectrum of everything.
33:51 Holly Frey? Yeah.
33:52 Tracy V. Wilson? I'm somehow reminded of like, having recently watched a live stream of an all trans table read of Ocean's Eleven.
34:04 Tracy V. Wilson? So much fun.
34:06 Holly Frey? Love it. Love it.
34:07 Tracy V. Wilson? Anyway, whatever's coming up on your weekend, I hope there's joy there. And if you're having trouble finding that joy, I hope you have a, a, an opportunity to make a little of it for yourself. And if joy is not possible, then maybe peace or some kind of little treat. And I hope everyone is kind to each other. What?
34:28 Holly Frey? In my head, I made a flow chart that was like joy, peace, ice cream.
34:34 Tracy V. Wilson? I mean, that could work.
34:36 Holly Frey? If you can't get to joy, at least get to chill. And if you can't get to chill, make yourself a dish of ice cream.
34:41 Tracy V. Wilson? Then get some ice cream. We will be back on Monday with a brand new episode. And we'll have a Saturday classic tomorrow.
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