Aviatrix Lilian Bland
Miss Bland was a jockey, a sports photographer, a journalist, a car dealer and a pioneer farmer. She also built Ireland's first powered airplane, entirely by hand, and successfully piloted it. Learn ...
13 Jul 201629min
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
She was a black Canadian-American who became the first woman in North America to publish and edit a newspaper. She advocated against slavery, for better lives for free black people, and for women's ri...
11 Jul 201636min
The Late Victorian Manure Crisis
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many cities were facing the same issue: so much horse manure, they couldn't keep up with it. It created unhygienic conditions, and very real problems. Learn more ab...
6 Jul 201632min
The Jacobite Rising of 1745
Portrayals of this piece of Scottish and English history are often simultaneously romanticized and oversimplified. It's a great deal more complicated than any one event, and is instead the result of m...
4 Jul 201635min
The Discovery of 'Planet' Ceres
For a long time, astronomers believed that there must have been a planet lurking in the gap between Mars and Jupiter. What they found was Ceres, and this object's story is one of scientific cattiness ...
29 Jun 201626min
The Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire was founded by Cyrus II in the 6th century B.C.E., and it became an empire unlike any the world had seen up to that point. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheart...
27 Jun 201631min
Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement (Part 2)
Because of his previous ties to the Communist Party, his race, and his sexual orientation, the McCarthy era was extremely dangerous for Rustin. This was one of many reasons why his activism focused on...
22 Jun 201634min
Bayard Rustin, 'Angelic Troublemaker' (Part 1)
Bayard Rustin was an openly gay black man born in 1912. He spent his life working tirelessly for equal rights, peace, democracy, and economic equality, including being one of the primary planners of t...
20 Jun 201630min
