American Shadows
— Episode Sources —
Episode 5: Body of Truth
Gerald Sanders. Abraham Lincoln Fact Book and Teacher's Guide. Eastern Acorn Press, 1997.
Martha Elizabeth Hods. Mourning Lincoln. Yale University Press, 2016.
Richard Wightman Fox. Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History. WW Norton & Co, 2016.
Thomas J. Craughwell. Stealing Lincoln's Body. Belknap, 2008.
“Capturing History.” WHHA (En-US), www.whitehousehistory.org/capturing-history.
“The Pittsburgh Soldiers Who Carried the Dying President.” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9 Apr. 2015, www.post-gazette.com/local/2015/04/12/the-area-men-who-carried-Lincoln-after-he-was-shot/stories/201504120093.
“The Strange History (And Future) Of Lincoln's Funeral Train.” Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, 2 July 2015, www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strange-history-and-future-of-lincoln-s-funeral-train.
“6 Famous Coincidences.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 June 2015, www.history.com/news/6-famous-coincidences.
“10 Things You May Not Know About the Lincoln Assassination.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 14 Apr. 2015, www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-lincoln-assassination.
“John Wilkes Booth's Abduction Plot Gone Wrong.” Boundary Stones: WETA's Washington DC History Blog, 2 March 2018, boundarystones.weta.org/2018/03/02/john-wilkes-booths-abduction-plot-gone-wrong#:~:text=The%20story%20is%20well%20known,Abraham%20Lincoln%20at%20Ford's%20Theater.&text=He%20wanted%20to%20abduct%20Lincoln,in%2Dlaw%2C%20John%20S.
“East Room,” White House Museum, http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/floor1/east-room.htm.
“Oak Ridge Cemetery,” Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ridge_Cemetery.
“Oak Ridge Cemetery,” Oakridge Cemetery, http://www.oakridgecemetery.org.
“Lincoln’s Final Appeal: The Last Speech of Abraham Lincoln,” History Net, https://www.historynet.com/lincolns-final-appeal-the-last-speech-of-abraham-lincoln.htm.
Episode 4: Misguided
America in the Grip of Terrorism (and the Fateful Year Is 1886). The Kansas City Star, 22 Sept. 2016, www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/syndicated-columnists/article103333377.html.
Crimes Of The Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O.J. Simpson. Northeastern University Press, 2016.
Gillian O'Brien. Blood Runs Green the Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago. Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2016.
Gillian O'Brien. "How the English Spy Who Sought to Destroy Parnell Tore Irish America Apart." The Irish Times, The Irish Times, 11 May 2015, www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/how-the-english-spy-who-sought-to-destroy-parnell-tore-irish-america-apart-1.2207837.
The Crime of the Century, or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin: Prepared by the Noted Journalist, Henry M. Hunt, of Chicago. Chase Publishing Co., 1889.
'A Diabolical Murder': Clan Na Gael, Chicago and the Murder of Dr Cronin." History Ireland, 26 Mar. 2019, www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/a-diabolical-murder-clan-na-gael-chicago-and-the-murder-of-dr-cronin/#:~:text='A%20diabolical%20murder'%3A%20Clan,the%20murder%20of%20Dr%20Cronin&text=Sullivan%20was%20a%20controversial%20figure,leaders%20of%20radical%20Irish%20America.
“An Irish Army Invaded Canada in 1866. Here's What Happened." Time, Time, 12 Mar. 2019, time.com/5549199/irish-invade-canada/.
"Did a Premature Obituary Inspire the Nobel Prize?" History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Dec. 2016, www.history.com/news/did-a-premature-obituary-inspire-the-nobel-prize.
"Famous Mystery Cases in Review: #4, The Slaying of Dr. Patrick H. Cronin of Chicago in Bitter International Strife." The Chicago Tribune, 5 May 1929.
"Fenian Battle Centenary." The Windsor Star, 6 June 1966.
“Fenian Raids: Invasions of British-Ruled Canada.” HistoryNet, 8 Aug. 2016, www.historynet.com/fenian-raids-invasions-of-british-ruled-canada.htm.
“Heritage Moments: Buffalo, the Fenian Invasion and the Making of Canada.” WBFO, 23 May 2016, news.wbfo.org/post/heritage-moments-buffalo-fenian-invasion-and-making-canada.
“Scrapbook: The Battle of Ridgeway.” The Altoona Times, 2 June 1916.
“The Battle at Ridgeway.” The Ohio Statesman, 4 June 1866.
“The Explosive Origins of the Nobel Prizes.” National Geographic, 5 Oct. 2017, www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2017/07-08/Alfred_Nobel_Founder_Prize/.
“The Irish Republican Murder That Shocked Chicago.â” WTTW News, 17 Mar. 2015, news.wttw.com/2015/03/17/irish-republican-murder-shocked-chicago.
Measuring Worth, https://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare/.
Episode 3: Unbridled
Riess, Steven A. The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865-1913. Syracuse University Press, 2011.
“A Jockey's Hard Life.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/seabiscuit-jockeys-hard-life.
“Jockey Dies as He Wins His First Race: Hayes Collapses Passing the Winning Post.” The New York Times, 5 June 1923.
“Jockeys: Huge Risks for Little Pay.” CNNMoney, Cable News Network, money.cnn.com/2015/05/01/news/companies/jockeys-risks-pay/index.html.
“Jockey Who Refused to Stay in the Kitchen.” CNN, Cable News Network, 2 Oct. 2012, www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/sport/Diane-crump-first-female-jockey.
Macri, K. J. (2012). "Not Just a Game: Sport and Society in the United States." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse, 4(08). Retrieved from http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=1664.
“Off to the Races.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Aug. 2004, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/off-to-the-races-2266179.
“Penny Chenery, Owner of the Triple Crown Winner Secretariat, Dies at 95.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 17 Sept. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/sports/horse-racing/penny-chenery-dead.html#:~:text=Penny%20Chenery%2C%20who%20took%20over,She%20was%2095.
“Racing in the Depression.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/seabiscuit-racing-depression.
“Scientists Extract DNA From Seabiscuit's Hooves To Figure Out How He Was So Fast.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 29 Oct. 2018, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/scientists-extract-dna-from-seabiscuits-hooves-to-figure-out-how-he-was-so-fast-180970649.
“Scientists Extract DNA From Seabiscuit's Hooves To Figure Out How He Was So Fast.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 29 Oct. 2018, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/scientists-extract-dna-from-seabiscuits-hooves-to-figure-out-how-he-was-so-fast-180970649/.
“Seabiscuit’s Secret - Binghamton News.” News - Binghamton University, 17 Apr. 2019, www.binghamton.edu/news/story/1769/seabiscuits-secret.
“‘Seabiscuit-Itis.’” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/seabiscuit-seabiscuit-itis.
“TBT: Seabiscuit's Oddball Origin Story.” Boston Magazine, , 28 June 2018, www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/06/28/tbt-seabiscuit-racehorse.
“The Derby's First Female Jockey - Diane Crump.” WARHorses, 6 June 2019, womenofageridinghorses.com/training/features/the-derbys-first-female-jockey-diane-crump/.
“The Kentucky Derby's Forgotten Black Jockeys.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 3 May 2013, www.history.com/news/the-kentucky-derbys-forgotten-black-jockeys.
“The Only Dead Man in History to Win a Race at New York’s Belmont Park.” Curious History, web.archive.org/web/20130915043722/curioushistory.com/post/34500682889/dead-jockey-wins-race#.UkXrrcYm6k8.
“Where Is Seabiscuit Buried?” The LA Times , 31 Oct. 2012.
“Secretariat’s birthplace at The Meadow named to Virginia Landmarks Register,” The Meadow, https://www.meadoweventpark.com/secretariats-birthplace-at-the-meadow-named-to-virginia-landmarks-register/.
“How do so many jockeys survive when they’re earning so little?,” Thoroughbred Racing, https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/how-do-so-many-jockeys-survive-earnings-so-little/.
“Trainers, Vets Charged In Widespread Racehorse-Drugging Scheme,” San Francisco CBS Local, March 20, 2020.
Raymond G. Woolfe Jr. Secretariat (Chilton, 1974) p 120.
“In 1968, This Kentucky Derby Winner Lost its Crown for a Drug Most Horses Take Now,” History, https://www.history.com/news/kentucky-derby-disqualification-dancers-image-196.
“" DOPE" EVIL OF THE TURF; Jockey Club Stewards Keenly Watch for Horse Druggers. Notwithstanding the Care Taken General Belief Is That Stimulants Are Used on Metropolitan Tracks,” New York Times, October 19, 1903.
‘The Grim Future of America’s Racehorses,” Washington Post, May 18, 2018.
“Old Rosebud,” Daily Racing Form, https://www.drf.com/news/story-old-rosebud-american-tragedy.
Episode 2: Dark Hearts
Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage. The Penguin Group, 2005.
Onega, Susana. Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction. Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017.
Schurman-Kauflin, Deborah. The New Predator, Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers. Algora, 2000.
Spurlock, John C. Youth and Sexuality in the Twentieth-Century United States. Routledge, 2016.
Trestrail, John Harris. Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys. Humana Press, 2007.
“Swiping Right in the 1700s: The Evolution of Personal Ads.” Longreads, 25 Oct. 2014, longreads.com/2014/02/20/swiping-right-in-the-1700s-the-evolution-of-personal-ads/
“Harry Powers: Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers.” Harry Powers | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers, murderpedia.org/male.P/p/powers-harry.htm.
“Nannie Doss: Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers.” Nannie Doss | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers, murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm.
“The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell: Harry Powers, Clarksburg Serial Killer.” Charleston Gazette-Mail, 17 Mar. 2009, www.webcitation.org/62gVgIQbm?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wvgazette.com%2Fmediafiles%2Fdocument%2F2009%2F03%2F17%2FBluebeard_I090317193022.pdf.
“Lonely Hearts Murderer.” Nydailynews.com, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2019, www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/lonely-hearts-murderer-article-1.362857.
“This ‘Bluebeard’ Built a Deadly Dungeon and Inspired A Classic Thriller.” Gizmodo, Gizmodo, 6 Jan. 2016, gizmodo.com/this-bluebeard-built-a-deadly-dungeon-and-inspired-a-1714701533.
“History of Marriage: 13 Surprising Facts.” LiveScience, 26 June 2013, www.livescience.com/37777-history-of-marriage.html.
“The History of Dating and Communication.” Communication Studies, 10 Sept. 2012, www.communicationstudies.com/the-history-of-dating-and-communication.
“Nearly Half of All Murdered Women Are Killed by Romantic Partners.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 24 July 2017, www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/homicides-women/534306/.
“Honeymoon Murders: Story of West Virginia Bluebeard, Pt. II.” The Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 1935.
“The Honeymoon Murders: Story of West Virginia Bluebeard, Pt. I.” The Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 1935.
“NCADV: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.” The Nation's Leading Grassroots Voice on Domestic Violence, ncadv.org/statistics.
“The Chatty, Charming History of Personal Ads.” Medium, Timeline, 23 Sept. 2016, timeline.com/tinder-personal-ads-history-4c34c7d6dbcb.
“What Dating Looked like the Year You Were Born.” , Insider, 14 May 2018, www.insider.com/dating-evolution-through-the-years-2018-4#the-word-date-was-allegedly-coined-in-1896-by-a-forlorn-lover-1.
“The Scope of the Problem: Intimate Partner Homicide Statistics.” VAWnet.org, vawnet.org/sc/scope-problem-intimate-partner-homicide-statistics.
“Harry Powers,” Muderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/powers-harry.htm.
Episode 1: Glow
Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. (Turtleback Books, 2018).
“How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 7 Mar. 2013, www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/.
“The Blessings of Radium Water Made His Head Disintegrate.” Medium, Lessons from History, 18 Mar. 2019, medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-blessings-of-radium-water-made-his-head-disintegrate-3ac052cb8620.
“The Curies Discover Radium.” History Today, History Today Ltd. Company , 12 Dec. 1998, www.historytoday.com/archive/curies-discover-radium.
“The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands Of Lives.” BuzzFeed, 5 May 2017, www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie.
“The ‘Radium Girls' Literally Glowed from Their Work-and Then It Started Killing Them.” Medium, Timeline, 8 May 2017, timeline.com/radium-girls-kate-moore-2bc5746f9a6b.
"Get Me A Radium Highball!": New York and the Radium Craze. New-York Historical Society, 7 July 2015, blog.nyhistory.org/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze/.
“The Radium Girls.” Environmental History Timeline, 8 Apr. 2018, environmentalhistory.org/people/radiumgirls/.
“Personal Effects of 'the Mother of Modern Physics' will Be Radioactive for Another 1500 Years” Business Insider, 24 Aug. 2015, www.businessinsider.com/marie-curie-radioactive-papers-2015-8.
“Radithor (Ca. 1928).” Radithor (Ca. 1925-1928), Oak Ridge Associated Universities Museum Collection , www.orau.org/ptp/collection/quackcures/radith.htm.
“U.S. Radium Corporation - East Orange, NJ - Records, Ca. 1917-1940.” Rutgers University Libraries, www.libraries.rutgers.edu/history_of_medicine/manuscripts/us_radium_corporation.
“US Starts Probe of Radium Poison Deaths in Jersey.” The Brooklyn Eagle, 19 June 1925.
“When 'Energy' Drinks Actually Contained Radioactive Energy.” The Conversation, Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program, 11 Nov. 2019, theconversation.com/when-energy-drinks-actually-contained-radioactive-energy-67976.
“Health Risks of Radon and Other Internally Deposited Alpha-Emitters: Beir IV. #4: Radium,” NCBI, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218126/.