Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the United States Minor Outlying Islands are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on TikTok
- Katie Goldin on Twitter
- @ProBirdRights
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
- The Smithsonian and the 19th century guano trade: This poop is crap (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
- This 1856 law makes it legal to seize islands for America if they have lots of bird crap (Vox.com)
- Atoll: An atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or series of islets. The atoll surrounds a body of water called a lagoon. (National Geographic Education)
- Navassa Island (U.S. Department of the Interior)
- Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Palmyra Atoll
- Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Baker Island
- Hawaiian Colonists on Jarvis, Howland, and Baker Islands (Ka’iwakiloumoku Pacific Indigenous Institute)
- The American Home Front During World War II: A Date That Will Live in Infamy (National Park Service)
- History of Jarvis Island (JarvisIsland.info)
- Johnston Island (Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum)
- World Heritage Convention: Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site (UNESCO)
- The Messy Reality of Elon Musk’s Space City (The Atlantic)
- Downwinders and the Radioactive West (PBS Utah)
- The Liberation of Peru (HistoryToday.com)
- Poop Dreams: It’s a guano-covered rock in the sea. So why do so many people want a piece of Navassa Island? (archived version of article from The Baltimore City Paper)
- U.S. Supreme Court — Jones v. United States, 137 U.S. 202 — 1890 (Justia)
- Court declines to take up petition seeking to overturn Insular Cases (SCOTUSblog)
- Fitisemanu v. United States (SCOTUSblog)
- Growing Up Cousteau (National Geographic Newsroom)
- Turnaround as Bush creates huge aquatic Eden (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- How do you say Papahānaumokuākea? (NOAA Sanctuaries / YouTube)
- The Albatrosses of Midway Island by Sylvia A. Johnson and Frans Lanting
- Red-Footed Booby (Cornell Lab Of Ornithology)
- Photo Ark: Albatross (National Geographic)
- Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
- Obama Creates World’s Largest Protected Marine Area Off Hawaii (Honolulu Civil Beat)
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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