The Great Race

This week we're traveling back to the late nineteenth (?) or early twentieth (?) century with Blake Edwards' The Great Race! Join us as we get into bad fencing, parachutes, suffragists, car races, songs about domestic violence, and more! <p>Sources:</p> <p>Parachutes:</p> <p>"First Parachute Jump is Made Over Paris," History.com, available at https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-parachutist<br /> Jimmy Stamp, "An Early History of the Parachute," Smithsonian Magazine, available at <a href= "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/an-early-history-of-the-parachute-951312/"> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/an-early-history-of-the-parachute-951312/</a></p> <p>Suffragists:<br /> Krista Cowman, "Doing Something Silly: The Uses of Humour by the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914," International Review of Social History 52, 15 (2007)<br /> CJ Bearman, "An Army Without Discipline? Suffragette Militancy and the Budget Crisis of 1909," Historical Journal 50, 4 (2007)<br /> Laura E Nym Mayhall, "Defining Militancy: Radical Protest, the Constitutional Idiom, and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1908-1909," Journal of British Studies 39, 3 (2000)<br /> The Exploress Podcast, "Silent No More: American Womens' Fight for Their Rights," Available at <a href= "https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2020/10/28/silent-no-more-womens-suffrage"> https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2020/10/28/silent-no-more-womens-suffrage</a></p> <p>Car Racing:</p> <p>Karen Abbott, "Paris or Bust: The Great New York-to-Paris Auto Race of 1908," Smithsonian Magazine (March 7, 2012) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/paris-or-bust-the-great-new-york-to-paris-auto-race-of-1908-116784616/ <br /> Sherry J. Holladay and W. Timothy Coombs, "The great automobile race of 1908 as a public relations phenomenon: Lessons from the past," Public Relations Review 39, no.2 (June 2013): 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.12.002  <br /> "Omaha, a Stop on the Great Race of 1908," History Nebraska, ht