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“It's too easy to look back at sciences of the past and say they were all fools. The exact same thing is gonna happen two hundred years from now when people look back at us.” — Paul Stob on the lessons of phrenology Step right up. Over the road from P.T. Barnum's American Museum in 19th century New York stood the city's more metaphorical circus — the Phrenological Cabinet, where admission was free and you could hold a murderer's skull in your hand. After the Barnum museum, it was the second most popular show in town. Although back then phrenology — the supposed science of skull size and head bumps — wasn't seen as the province of tricksters or clowns. So who created this 19th century American obsession with skulls, who created the phrenology phenomenon? In his new book, Empire of Skulls, the Vanderbilt scholar Paul Stob tells the phrenology story through the wealthy Fowler family — Orson, Lorenzo, and Charlotte — who financed and promoted this American circus. It was the Fowlers, Stob explains, who shaped phrenology into the intellectual glue of 19th century American progress and convinced reformers like Walt Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, John Brown, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton of its social value. The appeal was self-improvement, that most American ideal. In Europe, your skull was your fate; in Fowler's America, you could supposedly reshape your brain like a bicep in order to grow new bumps. A gym for skulls. And, in P.T. Barnum fashion, it toured, bringing replica skull collections to the utopian communes of mid 19th century America. And in good (or bad) American fashion, this bunk often had a darker subtext with skulls pilfered from native burial mounds and, inevitably, a slaveholding phrenologist wing. Not everyone bought a ticket. Mark Twain visited Lorenzo Fowler's London depot incognito and was told his skull shape indicated an absence of humor. Three months later, he reappeared, this time as Twain, and got the reverse prognosis. But what finally killed phrenology wasn't Twain but the hitherto unparalleled bloodshed of the Civil War. Not even the Fowlers could glean much positive from the mountains of actual skulls at Gettysburg or Antietam. The circus had ended. Now it's the Fowlers who are the freaks. We gawk at them rather than their skulls. Step right up. The show must go on. Five Takeaways •       The Intellectual Glue of American Reform. From the 1830s to the 1860s — the era of reform — practically every movement to improve the young republic was led by believers in phrenology: abolition, women's suffrage, temperance, prison and education reform. Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, John Brown, Stanton, and Mott were all sympathetic; Orson Fowler barnstormed Massachusetts with his Amherst friend Henry Ward Beecher, who swore by phrenology for the rest of his life; John Brown Jr. worked at the Fowlers' Phrenological Cabinet until Bleeding Kansas called him west. The reason was one word: improvement. Even the enslaved, the phrenologists argued, must be freed — because every human being deserves the chance to improve.•       Curl Your Brain Like a Bicep. European phrenology said your skull was your fate. The Fowlers Americanized it: exercise a mental faculty, they taught, and the brain deposits new gray matter that literally pushes out the skull — self-improvement you could measure with calipers. Parents brought children for readings, returned years later, and found the head had grown just as prescribed: to the Fowlers, concrete proof. The ideal male head measured twenty-three inches around, the female twenty-two — women started in a different place, but nothing said they couldn't climb. And in 1843's Hereditary Descent, Orson made an argument radical for his century: that race mixing was a positive good for humanity.•       Second Only to Barnum. For three decades the Fowlers' Phrenological Cabinet at Clinton Hall — free of charge, unlike the American Museum kitty-corner across the street — was the second most visited tourist attraction in New York City. Visitors could hold a murderer's skull and feel for themselves why he killed, or trace the bumps of statesmen and writers. The empire was literal: the global skull trade of the era, from Samuel Morton's Crania Americana to skulls pilfered from native burial mounds, stocked the shelves. The Fowlers were millionaires, not billionaires — and Orson spent his share on a sixty-room octagon mansion, flagship of the 500-odd octagon houses he inspired across America.•       Twain's Two Visits — and the Birth of “Pseudoscience.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. said reading a brain through a skull was like reading the inside of a safe by feeling the knob — and coined the word “pseudoscience” specifically for the phrenologists. Mark Twain ran the experiment: visiting Lorenzo Fowler's London depot incognito, he was told his organ of mirthfulness was a divot; three months later, business card presented, it was off the charts. Stob still insists on calling phrenology a science — because that is how its era understood it, because it was more accurate than much of the competition, and because one of the fathers of American neurology emerged from the Fowlers' own circle.•       We Are the Phrenologists Now. What killed phrenology was the Civil War: three decades of promising heaven on earth ran skull first into carts of actual skulls, and the utopia of self-improvement died on the battlefield. But the impulse never did. Phrenology, Stob argues, was self-help before the word existed — and its descendants fill the airport bookstore: astrology, Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram, the genetic ancestry kit, all of them, in his words, scientifically garbage yet enormously significant in people's lives. The uncharitable reading of the past is a trap. In two hundred years, Stob warns, they will look back at our sciences of the self exactly the way we look at the Fowlers. About the Guest Paul Stob is Director of the Program in American Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he also teaches in the Department of Communication Studies and the Program in the Communication of Science and Technology. His research focuses on nineteenth-century American intellectual culture — religion, democracy, populism, and social movements. He is co-author, with Stephen Lucas, of The Art of Public Speaking, now in its fourteenth edition. His first trade book is Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind (Counterpoint, April 14, 2026). References: •       Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind by Paul Stob (Counterpoint, April 2026). Jennifer Wright in The New York Times Book Review: “A thoroughly researched and intriguing work.”•       The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby by Michael Blanding — the recent Keen On episode on the Greens, this show's previous installment of ...

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The Alley Cat Café opened its doors five years ago, after Browncoat Cat Rescue announced plans to build “a fantastic coffee shop, with delicious beverages, and tasty treats” in the front half of their original Seneca Street location, and “two rooms for fabulous feline frolicking” in the back half. They're celebrating their fifth birthday in a new location on North Cayuga Street, in the historic Clinton Hall building. https://www.14850.com/062032117-alley-cat-birthday/ Subscribe to the 14850 Dining Podcast in Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts, YouTube, RadioPublic, Spotify, Audible, or RSS Feed, or follow 14850 Dining on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter or sign up for our newsletter.

Rachel begins this episode with a brief statement on the #BlackLivesMatter movement; we all need to take on this mission wholeheartedly. Donate! After what can only be considered a jarring shift in tone, Rachel and Kevin kick off previously-recorded Episode 18 of the blogcast. After a brief intro to his new podcast in production "Devin and Kevin Stop Making Sense" (08:23), Kevin transitions into his h.e.r. reflections of the week (10:50). Kev and Rach touch on everything from perspective in times of hardshipw & Clinton Hall reminiscing, to quarantine hairstyles & Instagram bio politics. Next, Kevin requests his very own Swoon of the Week segment! At (24:52), Kev gushes about Camp Cope and the female Australian rocker of his dreams. Then, Rachel gives a rundown on the newest Bravoleb hottie on the block: Gavin Stewart of Camp Getaway. Next up: this week's Content Catchup (37:12) - Harry Potter, Avatar: The Last Airbender ("greatest story ever told"), Portlandia, Community, hyper-specific Spotify playlists, & coming-of-age NYC-set novels. Rachel and Kevin start to wrap up Part 1 at (44:27) with a discussion of Millennial vs. Gen Z. Are we all just terrified of repeating past generations' mistakes? Then, at (50:19), Rachel gives a brief Love Update: is the pandemic turning us all into f***boys? As always, thank you for listening! And be sure to tune in next week, when Kevin Verga is back to discuss all things PASSION!

This week we're joined by Aristotle “Telly” Hatzigeorgiou the CEO of The Lure Group. Telly's company owns New York City hotspots Clinton Hall and Slate. He tells Joe how his bars & restaurants have been effected by COVID-19 and the total shutdown of Gotham City.About Aristotle “Telly” Hatzigeorgiou, is CEO of The Lure Group:He is one of the most dynamic and charismatic forces in the hospitality industry today. He runs some of the city's most notable establishments in the city including Clinton Hall, which has five locations in NYC, The Lookup rooftop and Slate, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Telly began his career in investment banking, but made a career 180 when he dove into the hospitality business, opening Bayside Billiards Café in 1992. He has a talent for creating unique venues that offer endless layers of entertainment, and curating countless private events for corporate and private clients. Telly resides in Tribeca and is married to his wife Anahid. Together they have two children, Aris and Athan, who are his pride and joy.

Episode 246 - Holiday Show 2019 with Joel Shelton, Shelton Brothers Happy final Monday of 2019, Thieves! A couple years ago, we did a holiday show with Joel Shelton of Shelton Brothers importers over at Wurstbar in Jersey City. We had fond memories of that night, so we decided to invite Joel back to do it again in 2019, this time at Clinton Hall in lower Manhattan. We had a fun time recapping 2019 and hope you enjoy the conversation. Get at us and let us know what you think!**Want to support us? We have launched a PATREON Page. Click here to let us know you care!**As always, you can email your questions, complaints, whimpers, or whines to us at stealthisbeerpodcast@gmail.com. We read everything we get and we'll try to respond as quickly as we can. If not online, then on air. And THANKS!You can subscribe to STB on iTunes and PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW!!!Co-hosts: Augie Carton & John Holl Producer: Justin Kennedy Engineer: Brian Casse Music: "Abstract Concepts - What Up in the Streets" by Black Ant.

Episode 245 - Em Sauter, Pints & Panels, is back As we start to close out another year and a decade we wanted to sit down with Em Sauter, the editor and creator of Pints and Panels to talk about how beer has evolved over the last ten years. We also talk about her taking the Master Cicerone test and the role of beer education. We're posted up this week at Clinton Hall because Treadwell was closed for popcorn machine repairs. Thanks to them for hosting. Tune in and let us know what you think!**Want to support us? We have launched a PATREON Page. Click here to let us know you care!**As always, you can email your questions, complaints, whimpers, or whines to us at stealthisbeerpodcast@gmail.com. We read everything we get and we'll try to respond as quickly as we can. If not online, then on air. And THANKS!You can subscribe to STB on iTunes and PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW!!!Co-hosts: Augie Carton & John Holl Producer: Justin Kennedy Engineer: Brian Casse Music: "Abstract Concepts - What Up in the Streets" by Black Ant.

Mitch mixes dinner with dessert at Clinton Hall in NYC, ordering the "famous" doughnut grilled cheese. The sandwich is served on a hook, suspended over a pot of tomato soup. Could a sugary glazed crust be the only thing missing from a truly perfect mozzarella grilled cheese? Only one way to find out. Please subscribe in iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or Google Play. Leave a rating and review to help others find the podcast. Search for Mitch Goldich on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for food pictures.

We’ve got some great guests joining us tonight including our friends Zach Mack from ABC Beer Co., Mike Amidei from Torst, Brad Kesler from Clinton Hall, and Master Cicerone Rich Higgins all the way from San Francisco. Tune in to hear everyone discuss the importance of clean draft lines! Beer Sessions Radio is powered by Simplecast

It's the Holidays, and we'd like to share one of our traditions with you. Alaina tells us about the creation of a classic film, The Sound of Music. First, we delve into the creation of the fictional family Von Trapp, then look at their actual lives which inspired it. How much fidelity is owed to the truth in an adaptation? What lengths would you go to in resisting a fascist takeover? What unexpected benefits come with accepting refugees? It's also been exactly six months since episode 1! Thank you for all the love and support! Links! The Von Trapp family singers (current lineup) The Von Trapp Family Lodge The Sound of Music on IMDB Julie Andrews receiving the Kennedy Center Honors Lady Gaga's Sound of Music tribute at the 87th Academy Awards The Forgotten Entrance to Clinton Hall (thanks Sarah!) MadFuzz store use promo code HH2016 for 16% off until December 31st! Please help our show succeed by sharing it. Send a link to someone you know and tell them what you enjoy about History Honeys. Rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, or whatever other platform you use to hear us. It helps so very much and we do appreciate it. You can connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or by emailing us at historyhoneyspodcast at gmail. The episode 16 prompt is: holiday tradition/memory!   Logo by Marah Music by Thylacinus The Lonely Goatherd and Edelweiss by Oscar Hammersten II and Richard Rodgers