Historians on Housewives

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 learn about how to think about scandal and the relationship between sexuality and Evangelical and Pentecostal religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century America, and how RHOP and RHOSLC can help us understand cheating and sexuality in these church communities. Recommended ReadingSuzanna Krivulskaya, “A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination,” The Revealer, March 2, 2020.Wallace Best, “Lessons from the Rev. Eddie Long Scandal: Some Historical Context,” Huffpost, October 10, 2010.Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).Ambre Dromgoole, “Pastor Mary Cosby, Arranged Pentecostal Marriages, and the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Revealer, February 4, 2021.Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (New York: Liveright, 2020).Megan Goodwyn and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “Keeping It 101” podcast.Ahmad Greene-Hayes, “New Birth and Jamal Bryant: Time for the Black Church to Address Its Culture of Sexism, Misogyny and Homophobia,” The Root, December 4, 2018.Emily Suzanne Johnson, “A Theme Park, a Scandal, and the Faded Ruins of a Televangelism Empire,” Religion & Politics, October 28, 2014.Bravo Insider, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Answer ALL Your Questions About Mormonism."Mathew Schmalz, “Why the Label ‘Cult’ Gets in the Way of Understanding New Religions,” The Conversation, April 10, 2018.