with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University and former professorial lecturer of history at American University.  

with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at The Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
 

with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University and former professorial lecturer of history at American University. (This talk remains free, but please share with friends to tell them about Profs and Pints Online.)

with Richard Bell, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland.  

with John Hadidian, urban wildlife expert and instructor in natural resources for Virginia Tech. 

with Cara Frankenfeld, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at George Mason University.  

a discussion of prohibition and its boozy effects, with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University and former professorial lecturer of history at American University.

a look at history underlying the hit Hamilton musical, with Denver Brunsman, associate professor of history at George Washington University and lecturer at Mount Vernon.  

with Mikki Brock, associate professor of history at Washington and Lee University and scholar of demonology, witchcraft, and early modern Scotland. 

with Olufemi Taiwo, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and scholar of postcolonialism and issues related to environmental justice. 
 

a discussion of the enigmatic water spirits of Russia, with folklorist Philippa Rappoport of George Washington University.  

with Sara Matthiesen, professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University.  

a look at H.P. Lovecraft’s race problem, with Peter Herman. lecturer of theology and religious studies at Marymount University and scholar of religious and social themes in science fiction.  

with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology.  

with Trevor Jackson, assistant professor of economic history at George Washington University and teacher of courses on inequality and economic crises.  

with Olufemi Táíwò , assistant professor of political philosophy and ethics at Georgetown University and scholar of activism and the black radical tradition.  

a look at cats in folklore and fairy tales, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at The Ohio State University and co-founders of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 

a look at America’s “Gilded Age” and how it compares to our current time, with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University and former professorial lecturer of history at American University.  

with Lisa Lipinski, assistant professor of art history at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and teacher of a graduate art history seminar on Duchamp and his legacy there. 

with Justin M. Jacobs, associate professor of history at American University and author of Indiana Jones in History: From Pompeii to the Moon.  

with Ashley Howard, assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Iowa, former assistant professor of history at Loyola University New Orleans, and scholar of urban unrest in the 1960s. 
 

with Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.  

a look at women and sexuality in premodern Europe, with Amy Leonard, associate professor of history at Georgetown University and author of Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany.  

with Joseph Osmundson, professor of biology at New York University, expert on molecular microbiology, author, and queer activist.  

a feminist exploration of how we think about felines, with Crys Stuvland, lecturer at Howard University and scholar of cats in popular culture. 
 

with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and scholar of activism, anti-colonial thought, and the Black Radical Tradition. 
 

an introduction to the basics of ornithology, with Peter English, scholar of avian biology and behavior, bird guide, and assistant professor of biology at the University of Texas at Austin. 
 

with Dean Haycock, neurobiologist, former instructor at Brown University, and author of both Tyrannical Minds and Murderous Minds. 
 

a critical look at the musical and the people and events it depicts, with Richard Bell, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. (Talk on sale for $10. Ticket sales have been suspended pending several live staging of this talk.)
 

with Fred Bohrer, professor of art and archaeology at Hood College, art historian, and creator of the website Monumental Anxiety: An Anti-Guide to the Monuments of Washington, D.C. 
 

with Sam Droege, biologist at the U.S.G.S. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, developer of online identification guides to native bees, and guest lecturer at colleges and universities. 
 

with Cassandra Good, assistant professor of history at Marymount University and author of Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic. 
 

with David Shiffman, marine conservation biologist, environmental policy consultant, and adjunct instructor at Arizona State University’s New College.
 

a guide to understanding the current pontiff, with Brian Flanagan, associate professor of theology at Marymount University and author of Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church. 
 

a look at feminism's role and rise in France’s transformative conflict, with Amy Leonard, associate professor of history at Georgetown University. 
 

a discussion of Satan over the ages, with Mikki Brock, associate professor of history at W & L University and scholar of demonology, witchcraft, and early modern Scotland. 
 

a look at Brexit, baking shows, and other ingredients of a troubled empire, with Sam Wetherell, lecturer on British and World History at the University of York. 
 

a look at racism and other harsh realities in the idealized 1950s American suburb, with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University. 
 

with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology. 
 

with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at The Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 
 

a deep dive into the troubling hidden history of the 1787 federal Constitution, with Rick Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland. 
 

with Dean Haycock, neurobiologist, former instructor at Brown University, and author of Murderous Minds, Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain. 
 

with Mary McCord, visiting professor and legal director at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. 
 

with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology. 
 

a dramatic look at the life of the greatest American of the 19th century, with Rick Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland.  
 

an introduction to game theory as a tool for navigating crises, with Anna Weltman, former graduate instructor at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Supermath: The Power of Mathematics For Good and Evil. 
 

an introduction to the concepts of police defunding and police abolition, with Alex S. Vitale, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing. 
 

with Denver Brunsman, associate professor of history at George Washington University. 
 

with Nick Haddad, who researches butterflies as a professor of integrative biology at Michigan State University and senior terrestrial ecologist at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station and is the author of The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature. 

or what we can learn from our nation’s past in a time of culinary crisis, with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University and former professorial lecturer of history at American University. 
 

with Marcia Chatelain, professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University and author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. 

with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at The Ohio State University and co-founders of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 
 

look at panic-buying, hostility to outsiders, and other evolved responses to crises, with Stephanie D. Preston, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. 

with Lara Bazelon, law professor and director of the criminal and juvenile justice and racial justice clinics at the University of San Francisco and author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction. 
 

a look at Russian beliefs in supernatural creatures and their homes, with folklorist Philippa Rappoport of George Washington University. 

a look at how Kennedy vs. Nixon changed American presidential politics, with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University and former professorial lecturer of history at American University. 

with James Danckert, who researches boredom as a professor of psychology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo. 

an autumnal exploration of the Chinese tradition’s myths, folktales, and Moon Festival, with Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States and frequent lecturer on Chinese culture. 

with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University’s College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology. 

with David Fontana, professor of law at the George Washington University, scholar of the Supreme Court, and frequent writer on constitutional issues. 

with Mark Bray, lecturer in history at Rutgers University, political organizer, and author of Antifa and Translating Anarchy. 

with Elizabeth Schmidt, professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and author of Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War. 

with David Wilt, professorial lecturer in film studies at George Washington University. 
 

a discussion of courage and sacrifice in the summer of 1918, with Edward Lengel, chief historian of the National Medal of Honor Museum, former professor at the University of Virginia, and author of several books on World War I military history.

with Trevor Jackson, assistant professor of economic history at George Washington University. 

an assumption-shattering look at the political behavior of young African Americans, with David Barker, professor of government and director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. 
 

a look at the role of advising the highest office, with Lindsay Chervinsky, scholar of the presidency and professorial lecturer at the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. 

with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 

a look at truly frightening Buddhist beliefs and rituals, with Justin McDaniel, professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, founder of the Penn Ghost Project, and former Buddhist monk. 
 

with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 

a look at the hunt for male witches in early modern France, with Thomas Rushford, professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College and scholar of witch trials in France and England. 

a look at religion in science fiction and fantasy, with Peter Herman, lecturer of theology and religious studies at Marymount University and scholar of religious and social themes in those genres. 

an evening with Baba Yaga and other dark denizens of the imagination, with folklorist Philippa Rappoport of George Washington University. 
 

with Hal Poe, professor of faith and culture at Union University, former president of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum of Richmond, and author of Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories and Evermore: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery of the Universe. 
 

with Bruce McClelland, former instructor at the University of Virginia and author of Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead. 
 

a look at the origins of Europe and North America's witch trials, with Richard Kieckhefer, professor of religious studies and history at Northwestern University and author of European Witch Trials and Magic in the Middle Ages. 

with Adam Shprintzen, associate professor of history at Marywood University and author of The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform. 

with Jason Wright, professor of astronomy and astrophysics and director of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center at Pennsylvania State University. 

with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 

a biology-based look at how humans have long made sense of their worlds, with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University’s College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology. 

with Olufemi Taiwo, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and scholar of Black political movements.
 

a discussion of Krampus and other dark holiday lore, with William Egginton, professor of humanities and director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. 
 

a look at the big questions posed by the emergence of artificial intelligence, with Colin Allen, professor of history and philosophy of science and adjunct in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh. 
 

a look at terrifying holiday folklore around the world, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 
 

a discussion of the tales and traditions of Slavic winters, with folklorist Philippa Rappoport of George Washington University. 
 

an examination of an extraordinary silent night in World War I, with Simon Jones, a historian and battlefield guide who has written books about the war and taught courses on it at Liverpool and Leicester Universities. 
 

with Michael Manson, former lecturer on literature at American University and past president of the Robert Frost Society. 
 

an evening among ghosts, snow queens, and friendly bears, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 
 

with John Pfordresher, a professor of English at Georgetown University who has taught courses on Charles Dickens for 50 years. 
 

with Kris Mecholsky, English instructor, crime narrative scholar, and associate director of research advancement at Louisiana State University. 
 

a look at child friendships in a time of social distancing, with Julie Wargo Aikins, child clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Wayne State University. 
 

with Erik Villard, military historian, former instructor at the University of Washington, and author of Staying the Course: U.S. Army Combat Operations in Vietnam, Oct. 1967 to Sept. 1968. 
 

a look behind the data at Enslaved.org, a groundbreaking effort to bring to light the lives of individuals in the transatlantic slave trade, with Daryle Williams, history professor at the University of Maryland and co-principal investigator for this open-source database project. 
 

with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University's College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology. 
 

with Dr. Sally J. Foote, instructor at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine and veterinary behavior consultant. 
 

a look at how folklore influenced Star Wars and the fan culture that arose around it, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 
 

a look at the changing role of male genitalia in Hollywood movies, with Peter Lehman, professor emeritus of film and media studies at Arizona State University and author of Running Scared: Masculinity and The Representation of the Male Body, Expanded Edition. 
 

with Justin Jacobs, associate professor of history at American University and scholar of ancient China and the Silk Road. 
 

a look at the city's progression from mob-ruled to model for a new nation, with Jessica Chopin Roney, associate professor of history at Temple University and author of Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia. 
 

a look at how the first peoples of that region found and settled its islands, with Scott M. Fitzpatrick, professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and leader of numerous archeological digs on islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific. 
 

a look at a failed 1925 cave rescue that transfixed and inspired America, with Alyssa Warrick, public historian and former guide at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. 
 

with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University’s College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology. 
 

a look at thinkers who have changed our conception of reality, with William Egginton, professor of humanities and director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
 

a look at what fairy tales actually say about love, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic. 
 

featuring death, curses, and iron shoes, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
 

with Cassandra Good, assistant professor of history at Marymount University and author of Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic. 
 

a look at the little-known history of the place where we spend a third of our lives, with archaeologist Brian Fagan, distinguished emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara and author of What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History. 
 

with Laura Papish, associate professor of philosophy at George Washington University and teacher of a seminar on the philosophy of love, sex, and friendship. 
 

with Denver Brunsman, associate professor of history at George Washington University, lecturer at Mount Vernon, and co-author of Leading Change: George Washington and Establishing the Presidency. 
 

a provocative look at how our identities get packaged and consumed online, by Jenna Drenten, associate professor of marketing at Loyola University Chicago and scholar of digital consumer culture. 
 

or how to shop for fish like a marine biologist, with David Shiffman, an adjunct professor at Arizona State University's Washington, D.C. Center and fisheries biologist at the Marine Stewardship Council.
 

a look at Tulpamancers who create other beings

in their minds, with Samuel Veissière, assistant professor, cognitive anthropologist, and co-director

of the Culture, Mind, and Brain Program at

McGill University. 
 

with Julie Taddeo, professor of British history at the University of Maryland at College Park. 
 

a look at how J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis together invented the genre of modern fantasy, with Hal Poe, professor of faith and culture at Union University and author of a three-volume C.S. Lewis biography. 
 

a look at the social and cultural history of a powerful board game, with Jenny Adams, associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts and author of Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages. 
 

a serious, scholarly examination of how our brains produce and process what folks find funny, with

Janet Gibson, professor of psychology at Grinnell College and author of An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor. 
 

with Rui Diogo, associate professor of anatomy at Howard University’s College of Medicine and resource faculty member at George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology. 
 

a look at how such stories guide our nation, with

Kate Koppy, author of Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them. 
 

a look at the hidden history of an event that

you probably heard mythologized in school, with Richard Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park. 
 

a deep exploration of World War I’s subterranean conflicts, with Simon Jones, historian and battlefield guide, lecturer at Liverpool and Leicester Universities, and author of Underground Warfare, 1914–1918. 
 

with Jessica M. Floyd, scholar of sea shanties during the Great Age of Sail. 
 

with Sam Fisher, assistant professor of history at the Catholic University of America. 
 

with John Donoghue, associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago and scholar of Irish American history.

with Jennifer O’Riordan, native of Cork and former assistant director of Irish Studies and Irish language instructor at Catholic University. 

a look at how Americans came to see foods as either feminine or masculine, with Paul Freedman, professor of history at Yale University and author of American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way. 

a look at extreme events in our universe, with Alexander J. van der Horst, associate professor of astrophysics at George Washington University.

with Andrew Latham, professor of political

science at Macalester College and author of Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades. 

with Jamie L.H. Goodall, professor at history at Southern New Hampshire University, scholar of piracy in and around the Atlantic, and author of Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay. 
 

with Jennifer Tucker, associate professor of history and science in society at Wesleyan University and scholar of early balloon voyages.

a look at the history of a beloved American pastime, with Adam Ruben, science comedian, adjunct instructor at Johns Hopkins University, and author of Pinball Wizards: Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball. 
 

a look at the science of sex differences, gender, and sexual orientation, with Bradley M. Cooke, adjunct associate professor of neuroscience and psychology at Georgia State University.                     

a look at the ancient origins and remarkable evolution of a venerable performance art, with Shreeyash Palshikar, an assistant professor of history at Albright College who teaches a class on magic in world history. 

an introduction to the Greek goddess Persephone

in her many incarnations, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of the Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
 

a guide to spotting our winged arrivals from the south and understanding how they got here, with Peter English, scholar of avian biology and behavior, bird guide, and assistant professor of biology at the University of Texas at Austin.

a look at the British royal family’s long history of scandals, with Julie Taddeo, professor of British history at the University of Maryland at College Park.

a look at the sordid past of a widely followed genre, with Kris Mecholsky, scholar of crime fiction and film and administrator and English instructor at Louisiana State University.

with Rebecca Simon, professor of history at Santa Monica College and author of Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever.

on what can be done about the precarious state of elected governments in the U.S. and abroad, with Professors Victor Menaldo and James Long of the University of Washington, co-founders of the Political Economy Forum.

with Edward Lengel, former chief historian of the White House Historical Association, former professor at the University of Virginia, and author of books such as General George Washington: A Military Life.

on the quest to develop artificial intelligence that can explain its thought processes to teach us, with Forest Agostinelli, assistant professor in the AI Institute at the University of South Carolina.

a look at the literary roots of Buffy, Sabrina, and other popular hell-raising women, with Miranda Wojciechowski, associate instructor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.

an in-depth look at how the literary imagination drives scientific discovery and our response to it, with Anastasia Klimchynskaya, instructor at the University of Chicago and postdoctoral fellow at its Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.

a charting of electronic dance music’s journey from deviant subculture to culture industry, with Chris Conner, visiting assistant professor of sociology at the University of Missouri and author of the forthcoming book Electric Empires: A Social History of Electronic Dance Music.

as well as other riddles from the Book of Revelation, explained in historical context by Eric Vanden Eykel, associate professor of religion at Ferrum College and scholar of early Christian literature and apocryphal texts.

an exploration of psychology through literature and film, with Dean A. Haycock, neurobiologist, former instructor at Brown University, and author of Characters on the Couch.

an in-depth look at their emergence and mobilization, with Robert Futrell, professor of sociology at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, researcher of political extremism and the far right, and co-author of American Swastika: Inside the U.S. White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate.

with Diane Harris Cline, associate professor of classics and history at George Washington University and author of National Geographic’s The Greeks:

An Illustrated History.

with Theodore Karamanski, professor of history and public history at Loyola University Chicago and author of several histories of the lakes’ exploration, navigation, commerce, and infrastructure.

a look at the real figure’s legendary life and troubling legacy, with John Donoghue, an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago who researches colonial piracy and teaches a class on the subject.

a mapping of tales of loss and finding, with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
 

a look at the new science of sleep and dreams, with Antonio Zadra, professor of psychology at the Université de Montréal, researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, and co-author of When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep.
 

with Richard Bell, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and Nadine Knight, associate professor of African American literature at the College of the Holy Cross.
 

a discussion of the folklore and fairy legends underlying William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Central Connecticut State University professors of English Kara Russell and Kelly Jarvis.
 

a primer on the politics and leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in America in advance of a potentially pivotal abortion vote, with Brian Flanagan, associate professor of theology at Marymount University and scholar of church governance.
 

a look back at the political battles that shaped how Americans eat, with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University.
 

with Rachael Woldoff, professor of sociology at West Virginia University, and Robert Litchfield, associate professor of business at Washington and Jefferson College.
 

with Sara Matthiesen, assistant professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University and author of the forthcoming book Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade.
 

a research-based look at how Facebook and other social-media sites have reshaped American democracy, with Jaime Settle, associate professor of government and director of the Social Networks and Political Psychology Lab at the College of William & Mary.
 

with Jean Eddy Saint Paul, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and founding director of the City University of New York’s Haitian Studies Institute.
 

with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
 

on why people see spirits, with Frank McAndrew, professor of psychology at Knox College and scholar of things that creep us out.
 

with Jazmina Cininas, visual artist, lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and creator of The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame: Historical and Contemporary Figurations of the Female Lycanthrope.
 

with Bradley M. Cooke, adjunct associate professor of neuroscience and psychology at Georgia State University.
 

a look at how young ones distinguish fantasy from reality during the holidays and other times of the year, with Jacqueline D. Woolley, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and researcher of children’s development of faith and skepticism.
 

with Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, former instructors at Ohio State University and co-founders of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.
 

a look at what accounts of the holiday on the antebellum South’s plantations get wrong and why it matters, with Robert E. May, professor emeritus of history at Purdue University and author of Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory.
 

on German fascists’ attempts to remake the holiday to promote their agenda, with Joe Perry, associate professor of history at Georgia State University and author of Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History.
 

a look at the lessons and mysteries of ancient cave paintings, with Justin M. Jacobs, associate professor of history at American University and scholar of the history of archaeology.
 

a look at the psychological and biological basis of fear and how fear is exploited by politicians and businesses, with Arash Javanbakht M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety Research Clinic at Wayne State University.
 

a critical look at Disney’s depiction of race, gender, and heroines who were a lot stronger in the original tales, with Anne E. Duggan, a Wayne State University professor who teaches about fairy tales across history, media forms, and cultures.