Mollie Moon
Stories of the Civil Rights Movement don’t often center the fundraisers, often Black women, whose tireless efforts made the movement possible; today we’re featuring one of those women. Mollie Moon, bo...
18 Dec 202345min
Jewish War Brides of World War II
In the ravages of post-World War II Europe, some Jewish women survivors of the Holocaust found the beginnings of a new life when they met – and married – American (and Canadian and British) men servin...
11 Dec 202346min
Merze Tate
Scholar Merze Tate, born in Michigan in 1905, overcame the odds in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world,” to earn graduate degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University on her ...
4 Dec 202347min
Black Civil Rights before the Civil Rights Movement
The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement is often dated to sometime in the middle of the 1950s, but the roots of it stretch back much further. The NAACP, which calls itself “the nation's largest and...
27 Nov 202348min
The Long History of the Chicago Portage
When Europeans arrived in the Great Lakes region, they learned from the Indigenous people living there of a route from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, made possible by a portage connecting the Chicago R...
20 Nov 202347min
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy
Before Europeans landed in North America, five Indigenous nations around what would become New York State came together to form the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. When the Europeans arrived, the French ca...
13 Nov 202354min
Gun Capitalism & Gun Control in the U.S. after World War II
In 1945, the population of the United States was around 140 million people, and those Americans owned an estimated 45 million guns, or about one gun for every three people. By 2023, the population of ...
6 Nov 202353min
The History of the Nutrition Facts Label
If you go to a grocery store in the United States and pick up a box of cereal, you expect to find a white box on the back of the package with information in Helvetica Black about the food’s macronutri...
30 Okt 202344min
