Lucretia Mott: Behind the Barrier in London, Then Seneca Falls
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lucretia Mott was born in 1793 on Nantucket, where whaling kept men at sea for years and women l...
26 Okt 20min
Lewis Latimer: Drafting the Telephone Patent and Fixing the Light Bulb
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Boston in September 1848 to George and Rebecca Latimer, who had...
26 Okt 20min
Laurens de Graaf: From Enslaved Captive to the Blue-Flag Scourge of Spain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Laurens de Graaf was born around 1653 in Dordrecht, Holland, and as a youth was seized by Spanis...
26 Okt 21min
Josephine Baker: Banana Skirt Star, Resistance Spy and Civil Rights Voice
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis in June 1906. Her mother spent si...
26 Okt 17min
John Wesley Powell: Grand Canyon Boats and the 100th Meridian Warning
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Wesley Powell was born in New York in 1834, the son of a poor itinerant Methodist preacher ...
26 Okt 21min
John Moses Browning: From an Ogden Workbench to the M2 Machine Gun
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Moses Browning built his first gun from scrap at 13 in his father Jonathan's shop in Ogden,...
26 Okt 18min
John L. Sullivan: 75 Bare-Knuckle Rounds and America's First Sports Star
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John L. Sullivan was born in 1858 in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood to Irish immigrants from Coun...
26 Okt 21min
John Colter: The Naked Run From the Blackfeet and Colter's Hell
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Colter was born in Virginia sometime between 1770 and 1775, moved to Kentucky, and likely s...
26 Okt 20min
