Historians on Housewives

In which the Historians talk about the role of trauma on the Real Housewives, race and identity on Top Chef, ethnography on social media, the most iconic BravoTV moments, and much, much more!

In which the Historians launch a new show - Into the Archives - and discuss the Great British Bake-Off, and histories of settler colonialism, early modern medicine and humoralism, and food.  

In which the Historians talk Sister Wives and learn about polygamy, First Wives, Warren Jeffs and the FLDS, and much much more!

In which sickness falls upon the Historians and Max once again has to pick up the slack and break some bad news. Tune in next week!

In which the Historians discuss the Creek's and Cherokees’ gunpowder trades during the Revolutionary War, contextualize the Creek Confederacy and Native interests and alliances during the war, analyze the role of gunpower as a gendered commodity and what that meant for Native American women’s power in shaping regional and and global market structures, converse about the matriarchal social structures depicted on the Real Housewives, confer about the ways commodities reveal "the dark underbelly" of Housewives franchises, and deliberate about the historical crossovers between Bravo franchises and Native womens' practices, and much, much more!

In which the Historians promote the new season and other fun stuff on the horizon for HonH.

In which the Historians discuss public history, the Bronze Age Mari and curse tablets in Roman Britain, the connections between soap operas with Bravo shows like Vanderpump Rules and RHOBH, contemplate Real Housewives' curses on each other, what Jax Taylor has to do with a legal record from 3,000 years ago, paralleling Yolanda's treatment of the Hadid sisters with imperial alliances of the Bronze Age, consider the relationships between ancient cure-alls and housewives' use of IV drips, rating travel journalism, and much, much more!For more from our guest, check out:CarlySilver.comIG: @bespectacledlegendTwitter: @CarlyASilverRecommended ReadingCarly Silver, "Do You Want to Build an Icehouse?: On the refrigerated innovations of ancient rulers," Laphams Quarterly, September 28, 2021 Carly Silver, "How Ancient Cure-Alls Paved the Way for Drug Regulation," The Atlantic, January 10, 2017Carly Silver, "This Corrupt Boss Was Charged With Sexual Harassment—3,000 Years Ago," Narratively, April 4, 2018Greg Jenner, You’re Dead to Me podcastAtlas ObscuraJStor Daily

“I’m that misbehaving Nasty Wench, writing and creating history, making the good wives and patriarchs anxious” with Dr. Kristalyn ShefvelandThe personal legacies of Kathleen Brown, William Byrd ancestry, tips for scholars and graduate students researching in the archive, Walt Disney’s failed Slavery-themed theme park, ethnic foldaways in Indiana, discussing how reality television can be used to teach historical memory and the Lost Cause myth, and much, much more! Kristalyn Shefveland's twitter: @kristalynmarieRecommended ReadingAnglo-Native Virginia: Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).Classic Restaurants of Evansville (Charleston, S.C.:The History Press, 2020)Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 1996)Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975)Alan Gallay, The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)  Social MediaTwitter: @HistoriansHEtsy Shop: HistoriansHousewives