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Unsung History — 223 episodes

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1

Policing Slavery & Black Rebellion in the American South

2

The Frontier Myth and the People of the Western United States

3

Magnus Hirschfeld, Dora Richter, and the Institute for Sexual Science in Weimar Germany

4

The Feliciana Parishes of Louisiana

5

The Academy Awards

6

Slavery and the Complicated Legacy of George Washington

7

Black History Month

8

Reed Peggram

9

Charles C. Diggs, Jr.

10

All in the Family

11

Christmas Films, the Early Cold War & the FBI

12

An American History of Coffee

13

The History of Rum

14

Street Food and Public Markets in New Orleans

15

The Girl Scouts of the USA

16

Zoe Anderson Norris

17

Marguerite Cartwright

18

Black Women's Anti-Rape Activism

19

Ideological Exclusion & Deportation

20

Genealogy in Early America

21

Catholicism in the American Colonies

22

Madeleine Pollard, Jane Tucker, and the Sex Scandal that Brought Down a Congressman

23

The Enslaved Mariners on the Crews of Brazilian Slave Ships

24

Ruth Reynolds & Puerto Rican Independence

25

Wages for Housework

26

Amelia Bloomer

27

The Color Line

28

The Women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

29

The Racist History of Property Taxes in the United States

30

Ericka Huggins & the Black Panther Party

31

Land Displacement & the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

32

The History of Interracial Marriage in Mississippi

33

The Panama Canal

34

The Women of the Rendezvous Plantation on Barbados in the 17th Century

35

Henry Christophe: The King of Haiti

36

The Surprisingly Salacious History of the Modern Restaurant

37

Frances Perkins

38

Florence Price & the Black Chicago Renaissance

39

The Women Physicists who Fled Nazi Germany

40

The Women who Entered the Federal Workforce during the Civil War Era

41

The Northern Manufacturers of Southern Plantation Goods

42

Lily Dale

43

Isabel Kelly

44

The History of the Electoral College

45

Baseball & the Chinese Educational Mission of the 1870s

46

Ryan White & the CARE Act of 1990

47

The Sanders Family of Philadelphia

48

Education & Reconstruction in the Washington DC Region

49

A History of Postpartum Depression in the United States

50

Segregation Scholarships

51

Doug Williams, Vince Evans & the History of Black Quarterbacks in the NFL

52

Jewish Patriots in the American Revolution

53

Abigail Adams

54

Hair and the American Presidency

55

Margaret Chase Smith

56

The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

57

Sigrid Schultz

58

The History of Synchronized Swimming

59

The FTA & Antiwar Protests in 1971

60

The Incorruptibles & Organized Jewish Crime in New York City in the Early 20th Century

61

Dr. Claudia Hampton & the History of Affirmative Action in California

62

Josephine McCarty: Mother, Lobbyist, Spy & Abortionist

63

The Auburn Prison System & the Case of William Freeman

64

Quilting & the New Deal

65

The Federal Theatre Project

66

The Red Summer of 1919 & Black Resistance

67

The Reconstruction Era & its Aftermath

68

The Southern Plantation System

69

Slavery & Incarceration in New Orleans

70

The Jazz Maestros of Jim Crow America

71

Negro League Baseball

72

Log Cabin Republicans and the Gay Right

73

American Posture Panic

74

The History of DARE

75

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

76

Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to the Pacific Theatre during World War II

77

Eliza Scidmore

78

Foreign Missionaries & American Diplomacy in the 19th Century

79

Tammany Hall, FDR & the Murder of Vivian Gordon

80

The Combahee River Raid of 1863

81

The History of Ice in the United States

82

The History of Blue Jeans

83

The History of Pinball

84

The History of US Foreign Disaster Relief

85

LSD, the CIA & the History of Psychedelic Science

86

Clotilda: The Last U.S. Slave Ship

87

The History of Mormonism

88

The History of College Radio

89

Love Actually & the Healing Power of Christmas Films

90

Mollie Moon

91

Jewish War Brides of World War II

92

Merze Tate

93

Black Civil Rights before the Civil Rights Movement

94

The Long History of the Chicago Portage

95

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy

96

Gun Capitalism & Gun Control in the U.S. after World War II

97

The History of the Nutrition Facts Label

98

The History & the Present of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe

99

The Borinqueneers of the Korean War

100

The Student Right in the late 1960s

101

The History of the National Organization for Women (NOW)

102

The Murder of Maria Cornell

103

The Great New York City Fire of 1776

104

The History of Drag in New York City

105

Thomas Smallwood and the Underground Railroad

106

Phillis Wheatley

107

Gladys Bentley

108

Anna May Wong

109

Anna Rosenberg

110

Pullman Porters & the History of the Black Working Class

111

The History of Black Women & Physical Fitness in the United States

112

Enslaved Women who Murdered their Enslavers

113

Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the Founder of Chicago

114

"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"

115

1970 Hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

116

W. E. B. Du Bois & African American Contributions to World War I

117

The Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II & the Role of Attorneys at the Relocation Centers

118

Racial Conflict in the U.S. Army During the Vietnam War Era

119

Black Soldiers & their Families in the Civil War

120

The Oneida Perfectionist Religious Community

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121

The Diversity Visa Lottery

122

Women & the Law in Revolutionary America

123

Project Confrontation: The Birmingham Campaign of 1963

124

The Plant Revolution and 19th Century American Literature

125

The 1972 Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

126

The Southern Strategy

127

Harold Washington

128

The 1968 White House Fashion Show

129

Madame Restell, "The Wickedest Woman in New York"

130

The National Women's Conference of 1977

131

Lydia Maria Child

132

The Eastland Disaster

133

The History of Polish Chicago

134

John H. Johnson & Ebony Magazine

135

The History of the Cook County Jail

136

The Green Book

137

American Women Writers in Italy in the 19th Century

138

The 1968 Student Uprising at Tuskegee Institute

139

Shirley Chisholm

140

The Aerobics Craze of the 1980s

141

Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate

142

Smallpox Inoculation & the American Revolution

143

The Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893

144

The Rise of the Labor Movement & Employer Resistance in the Late 19th Century

145

Single Irish Women & Domestic Service in late 19th Century New York City

146

Keeping Secrets in the 1950s

147

Gordon Merrick

148

Elsie Robinson

149

The Politics of Reproductive Rights in 1960s & 1970s New York

150

The 1966 Division Street Uprising & the Puerto Rican community in Chicago

151

Bert Corona

152

The Effect of the Mexican Revolution on Mexican Immigration to the U.S.

153

Southwest Borderlands in the 19th Century

154

The Pacific Coast Abortion Ring

155

Mary Ware Dennett & the Birth Control Movement

156

Abortion in 18th Century New England

157

Agatha Christie

158

Mary Seacole

159

Henrietta Maria

160

Anne Bonny & Mary Read, Pirate Queens

161

The Women who Programmed the ENIAC

162

Filipino Nurses in the United States

163

The Townsend Family Legacy

164

The Unusual Codicil in Benjamin Franklin's Will

165

Dale Evans, Queen of the West

166

Independence Day

167

The 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot

168

Two-Spirit People in Native American Cultures

169

The Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village

170

The Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

171

Chinese Grocery Stores in the Mississippi Delta

172

Patsy Mink

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173

The US-Born Japanese Americans (Nisei) who Migrated to Japan

174

Thai Americans & the Rise of Thai Food in the United States

175

Mary Paik Lee

176

French Fashion in Gilded Age America

177

The Cabinet

178

The Abolition Movement of the 1830s

179

The 1913 Ascent of Denali

180

Cordelia Dodson Hood

181

The National Women's Football League

182

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

183

Yellowstone National Park

184

Freedpeople in Indian Territory

185

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

186

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

187

Julia Chinn

188

Who was Carol Lane?

189

The Amerikadeutscher Volksbund & the Newark Minutemen in the 1930s

190

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

191

The 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike

192

The Suffrage Road Trip of 1915

193

Women-Led Slave Revolts

194

The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II

195

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

196

Loïs Mailou Jones

197

The Yakama War

198

The Wampanoag & the Thanksgiving Myth

199

Treaty Rights of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe

200

Alaska Territorial Guard in World War II

201

The Stockbridge-Munsee Community & their Removal History

202

Fashion, Feminism, and the New Woman of the late 19th Century

203

The Original Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment

204

Zitkála-Šá

205

Women in the U.S. Military during the Cold War

206

Freedom Suits in Maryland & DC, 1790-1864

207

Chef Lena Richard

208

African American AIDS Activism

209

The Coors Boycott

210

Phrenology & Crime in 19th Century America

211

Chesapeake Bay Pirates & the 19th Century Oyster Wars

212

Prohibition in the 1850s

213

The Nativist Riots of Philadelphia in 1844

214

Elizabeth Packard

215

Mary Mallon (The Sad & Complicated Story of "Typhoid Mary")

216

The El Centro Hunger Strike of 1985

217

Black Teachers & The Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina

218

Homosexuality and the Left Before 1960

219

Sophonisba Breckinridge

220

Susie King Taylor

221

The Jackson State Shootings in May 1970

222

Knitting Brigades of World War I

223

Introducing Unsung History