Podcasts de tracy v. wilson

Henry Gerber and Chicago’s Society for Human Rights

In the 1920s, the Society for Human Rights was founded in Chicago with the intent to...

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Harvard Indian School

Holly chats with archaeologists Patricia Capone and Diana Loren about Harvard’s Indian College,...

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Olive Oatman

In 1851, Olive Oatman's family was attacked while traveling near the Gila River in Arizona. Olive...

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A Brief History of Harmonicas

The deceptively simple harmonica has roots as far back as ancient China, though it really came...

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Virginia Apgar

When babies are born, one of the tools doctors use to measure whether they’re thriving on their...

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Child Migrant Program

In the 19th and 20th centuries, 150,000 child migrants were sent from Britain to Canada,...

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A Brief History of Peanut Butter

Peanut butter got it's name in the 18th century, but it's been around in some form for hundreds...

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Dahomey and the Royal Palaces of Abomey

The Royal Palaces of Abomey are a series of earthen palaces in what is now Benin. The complex is...

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Greatest Hits: Nostalgia for the Good old Games

Both Tracy and Holly love new games, but they also fondly recall the early days of the video game...

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The Amazons of Dahomey

The kingdom of Dahomey may have had the world’s first full-time, all-female combat fighting...

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The Billion Dollar Spy with Author David E. Hoffman

During the Cold War, the CIA and KGB were in a constant game of cat and mouse to steal each...

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Joe Carstairs, Part 1

Marion Carstairs, who preferred the name Joe, was an early 20th-century heiress who bucked...

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Joe Carstairs, Part 2

As Carstair's speedboat racing career faltered, the heiress traveled the world and found other...

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The Franco-Mexican Pastry War

When a French pastry chef complained to King Louis-Phillippe that his shop in Mexico was...

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The Battle of Guilford Courthouse

In fall of 1778, British forces shifted their efforts in the American Revolutionary War to the...

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The Unsinkable Violet Jessop

We love to talk about shipwrecks, but Violet Jessop was a shipwreck survivor -- several times...

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Emmy Noether, Mathematics Trailblazer

In the early 20th century in Germany, Emmy Noether pursued a career in mathematics, despite many...

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Asia and the New World: An Interview with Dennis Carr

It's easy to think of globalization as a new invention, but it really has its roots in the 16th...

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The Black Hole of Calcutta

In 1756, after a skirmish between the British East India Company and the nawab of Bengal, dozens...

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The Black Hole of Calcutta

In 1756, after a skirmish between the British East India Company and the nawab of Bengal, dozens...

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