The 1968 Student Uprising at Tuskegee Institute
Days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and after months of increasing tension on campus, the students at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama occupied a building on campus where the Trustee...
16 Jan 202346min
Shirley Chisholm
Throughout her life, Shirley Chisholm fought for coalitional change. She was the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968, the first Black woman to run for President of the Unit...
9 Jan 202349min
The Aerobics Craze of the 1980s
In the late 1960s, Air Force surgeon Dr. Kenneth Cooper was evaluating military fitness plans when he realized that aerobic activities, what we now call cardio, like running and cycling, was the key t...
2 Jan 202343min
Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate
Stede Bonnet lived a life of luxury in Barbados, inheriting from his father an over 400-acre sugarcane plantation, along with 94 slaves. But in late 1716, when he was 29 years old, Bonnet decided to l...
26 Dec 202244min
Smallpox Inoculation & the American Revolution
In 1775, a smallpox outbreak struck the Continental Northern Army. With many of the soldiers too sick to fight, their attempted capture of Quebec on December 31, 1775, was a devastating failure, the f...
19 Dec 202248min
The Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893
On August 27, 1893, a massive hurricane struck the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, battering the Sea Islands and Lowcountry through the next morning. Around 2,000 people in the thriving African A...
12 Dec 202249min
The Rise of the Labor Movement & Employer Resistance in the Late 19th Century
After the Civil War, the simultaneous shift in the labor economy of the Southern United States and the second industrial revolution led to a growing interest in labor organizing. Newly formed labor or...
5 Dec 202240min
Single Irish Women & Domestic Service in late 19th Century New York City
As many as two million Irish people relocated to North America during the Great Hunger in the mid-19th Century. Even after the famine had ended, Irish families continued to send their teenaged and 20-...
28 Nov 202243min
