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From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Ed Ayers speaks with historian Rebecca Edwards about how both Republicans and Democrats argued about the tariff in the terms of domesticity.
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- Added: Apr 15, 2013
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The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford was in danger of being shut down back in 2008 after years of bad financial management. But the struggl...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 13:00
In her first critically-acclaimed book, “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” British-born Alexandra introduced us to her fam...
- Added: Mar 09, 2013
- Length: 10:02
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 28:58
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Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...
Bought by KUOW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 59:00
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Catskin is part two of our series on tales of the persecuted heroine. If you think Cinderella had it rough, this girl's dad will do anything to mar...
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 18:18
Radio Curious visits with Chautauqua scholars Sally Wagner & Charles Pace who portray Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Frederick Douglass. The two friends...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 29:01
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...
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- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 02:37
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Tituba (March 1, 1692): A 17th-century slave. She is one of the first to be accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch trials in 1692.
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Elizabeth Veale Macarthur (March 2, 1795): Perhaps one of the greatest figures of Australia’s history. Her husband is known as “the father of Aust...
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Sarah Kemple Knight (March 3, 1705): Since its publication in 1825, Knight's journal, composed as an account of her round trip journey from Boston ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Wetamo and Mary Rowlandson (March 4, 1676): Mary, a Puritan minister's wife, was captured during the war in an Indian raid on Lancaster, Massachuse...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Abigail Stoneman (March 5, 1770): Newport Rhode Island's first woman Inn owner and a remarkably ambitious and versatile business person for her day...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Pauline Leon (March 6, 1792): She addressed the National Assembly on behalf of Parisian women, suggesting that a female militia be formed so that ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Marie Dorion (March 7, 1814): the only female member of the Astor Expedition, also known as the Wilson Price Hunt Expedition. Dorion was a member ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Jeanne Baret (March 8, 1769): a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Etoile in 1766–1769. Baret is re...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Maria Ann Smith (March 9, 1870): It’s called the “Granny Smith.” Maria noticed a seedling apple growing on her property. The seedling had developed...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Elizabeth Coxen Gould (March 10, 1832): An accomplished artist when she married John Gould in 1829, Elizabeth was the chief artist and lithographer...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Sacagawea (March 11, 1805): From the Lemhi Shoshone tribe, Sacagawea has become an important part of the Lewis and Clark legend in the American pub...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Jane Colden (March 12, 1759): An American botanist described as the "first botanist of her sex in her country.” Contemporary scholarship maintain...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Martha Turnstall Smith (March 13, 1707): She used her inheritance as the widow of a wealthy landowner to establish a successful whaling business. S...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Esther Abrahams Johnston (March 14, 1802): Abrahams was tried in London in 1786 for stealing lace valued at 50 shillings. Esther was found guilty o...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Hannah Duston (March 15, 1697): A 40-year-old colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of 12 who was taken captive by Native American’s with her newbo...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Mercy Short (March 16, 1693): This 15-year-old, orphaned servant girl, is one of the most puzzling and intriguing figures to emerge from the witch...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Sally Hemings (March 17, 1826): Born in Virginia around 1773, Sally Hemings was a slave owned by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. After his wife's...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
