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Episode 145: Invention (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2020-06-22 07:00:02 +0000 UTCHuman ingenuity knows no bounds. Along with creating all manner of new technology, and ever more complex levels of knowledge, another thing we are good at inventing is ourselves. And sometimes that alteration can become the stuff of legend.
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Further Reading
- Danielle Oteri, “The Incredible Story of Eliza Jumel: Once America’s Richest Woman, Now a Ghost in Washington Heights,” Gothamist, 9/13/2014.
- “Belief in Ghosts Haunts a Historic Mansion,” New York Times, 10/31/1981.
- Margaret Oppenheimer, Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016).
- Harold Faber, “Spanning 220 Years to the Inaugural,” April 23, 1989, Section 1, Page 34.
- James Grant Wilson, ed., Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, (1887).
- William Henry Shelton, The Jumel Mansion: Being a full history of the house on Harlem Heights built by Roger Morris before the Revolution (Houghton Mifflin, 1916).
- Greene, et al., The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 34-35, 1903.
- “About New York; Belief in Ghost Haunts a Historic Mansion,” New York Times, October 31, 1981, Section 2, Page 31.
- Sarah Laskow, “The Haunting of a Heights House,” Lapham’s Quarterly, July 30, 2019.
- Hans Holzer, Ghosts (Open Road Media, 2012).
- Maggie MacLean, “Theodosia Burr Alson,” History of American Women, 11/5/2012.
- Dale L. Walker, The Calamity Papers: Western Myths and Cold Cases (Macmillan, 2006) pp. 75–76.
