Episode 1: King Theoden of Rohan
July 10, 2021
Tolkien, JRR. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. 50th Anniversary Edition. HMH Books, 2005.
Solopova, Elizabeth. Languages, Myths and History: An Introduction to the Linguistic and Literary Background of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Fiction, New York City: North Landing Books.
See Also:
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Th%C3%A9oden
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Th%C3%A9oden
Episode 2: The Black Princesses of Montenegro and the Rise of Rasputin
July 17, 2021
Smith, Douglas. Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs. Picador, 2017.
See Also:
https://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/rasputin-romanovs-meeting.php
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/rasputin-who-mad-monk-russian-royal-family-imperial-tsarina-alexandra/
Episode 3: The Princess Bride’s Fezzik
July 26, 2021
Goldman, William. The Princess Bride. Harcourt Inc., 30th Anniversary Edition. 2007.
William, Goldman, writer. The Princess Bride. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Communications, 1987.
Episode 4: Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons
August 1, 2021
Gottlieb, Karla. The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons. Africa Research & Publications, 2000.
Woodward, Colin. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007.
See Also:
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/queen-nanny-maroons-1733/
https://jamaicans.com/queennanny/
Episode 5: Cho Chang and the Imperfect World of Harry Potter
August 8, 2021
Rowling, JK. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Scholastic, 1999.
Rowling, JK. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Scholastic, 2000.
Newell, Mike, director. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Performance by Katie Leung, Warner Brothers, 2005.
See Also:
https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Cho_Chang
https://www.tor.com/2017/03/22/harry-potter-cho-chang-knows-how-it-feels-to-be-an-outsider-in-the-magical-world/
http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2013/10/to-jk-rowling-from-cho-chang-responding-to-asian-american-stereotyping-in-popular-culture.html
Episode 6: Stanislav Petrov, The Great Unsung Hero
August 17, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/coldwar/shatter021099b.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20110721000030/http://www.worldcitizens.org/petrov2.html
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Top-Ten-Most-Powerful-Nuclear-Bombs-in-History
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/18/551792129/stanislav-petrov-the-man-who-saved-the-world-dies-at-77
Episode 7: Eowyn of Rohan
August 26, 2021
Tolkien, JRR. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. 50th Anniversary Edition. HMH Books, 2005.
Dickerson, Matthew. Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in the Lord of the Rings. Bravos Press, 2003.
See Also:
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/%C3%89owyn
https://www.charactour.com/hub/characters/view/Eowyn.The-Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Age
https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-explained-plot-cast/cb/
Episode 8: Of Mouse and Men, the Legacy of Ub Iwerks
September 5, 2021
Iwerks, Don. Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks. Disney Editions, 2019.
Ryan, Jeff. A Mouse Divided: How Ub Iwerks Became Forgotten, and Walt Disney Became Uncle Walt. Post Hill Press, 2018.
See Also:
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/07/1013645653/remembering-ub-iwerks-the-father-of-mickey-mouse
https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/ub-iwerks-master-animation-and-technology
https://insidethemagic.net/2019/11/leslie-iwerks-the-imagineering-story-ro1/
Episode 9: George Wilson and the End of Jay Gatsby
October 2, 2021
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner, 1925.
See Also:
Corrigan, Maureen. So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why it Endures. Little, Brown, & Company, 2014.
https://blog.prepscholar.com/george-wilson-great-gatsby-character-analysis-quotes
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210209-the-worlds-most-misunderstood-novel
Under-Studies Podcast 