Exploring the intersection between history and popular fiction. If you've ever watched a historical movie, TV show, or read a piece of fiction that pulled into its story people, places, and times from our history and wondered "Was it really like that?" this is a podcast for you.
We explore the larger world during the time period, explore the context of the age, its people, places, societies with a grimdark tone and twist. And then compare and contrast the reality of the time period vs what we have on our piece of fiction being reviewed.
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Exploring the intersection between history and popular fiction. If you've ever watched a historical movie, TV show, or read a piece of fiction that pulled into its story people, places, and times from our history and wondered "Was it really like that?" this is a podcast for you.
We explore the larger world during the time period, explore the context of the age, its people, places, societies with a grimdark tone and twist. And then compare and contrast the reality of the time period vs what we have on our piece of fiction being reviewed.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
From 1910-1919 New Orleans would undergo a period of rapid social change. WWI would break out, Prohibition was just around the corner. The Spanish Flu was ravaging the country. And, the famed Storyville would be shut down causing an exodus of jazz musicians to the famed Second City of jazz, Chicago. Through this turbulent era of increasing mob violence, increasing prohibition era political activities, the Spanish flu, and the Great Migration of black family from the US South to North a serial killer stalked the streets of New Orleans. For 9 years the killer would break into homes in the middle of the night and attack sleeping families with a hatchet.
In this episode we explore the infamous Axman of New Orleans at the close of the Storyville era. The murders, the police investigation, and trials and uncover this bloody part of New Orleans past.
Sources Used: Empire of Sin, a Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the battle for Modern New Orleans
Author: Gary Krist
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