Footnoting History's Favorite Historical Footnotes

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It's our birthday! Footnoting History first launched in February of 2013. To celebrate turning ten, all of our current hosts (yes, all!) picked out their favorite historical footnotes to share. This episode contains anecdotes from a variety of centuries covering things like music, fruit, medieval royalty, and presidential inaugurations. We hope you'll enjoy them as much as we do.
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Hosts: Christine, Kristin, Josh, Lucy, Samantha

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Further Reading
Christine's Footnotes

• Matthew Strickland, Henry the Young King, 1155-1183, Yale University Press, (2016).
• W.L. Warren, Henry II, University of California Press, (1973).
• "A Bevy of Ladies" from Whereas: Stories from the People's House, US House of Representatives Blog (31 May 2013).
• "The Rare Privilege of the House Floor Awarded to Former First Lady Dolley Madison" from Historical Highlights, US House of Representatives.
  

Lucy's Footnotes

• Galbert of Bruges, The Murder of Charles the Good, Trans. James Bruce Ross, Columbia University Press (2005).
  

Samantha's  Footnotes

• Susan Broomhall, “The Game of Politics,” Early Modern Women 12 (2017):104-18.
• Mark Taylor, “How Did the Queen Go Mad?” in Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World, ed. Daniel O’Sullivan. Berlin: De Gruyter, 175-89.
• Marilyn Yalom, Birth of the Chess Queen: A History, Harper Collins, (2004).
• James Connor, Kepler’s Witch: An Astronomer’s Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Harper, (2004).
• ​Ulinka Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for his Mother, Oxford University Press, (2015).

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Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)​