Who was Irene Morgan Kirkaldy? John Stark? Frances Perkins? Or, more famously, Levi Strauss? This episode of The American Tapestry Project explores yet another new thread in the stories of how Americans weave the common objects of their love into the fabric of their national story by introducing you to some Unsung American Heroes. The Cambridge Dictionary defines unsung as “not noticed or praised for hard work, courage or great achievements”. An unsung hero does great deeds but receives little or no recognition for them.
We’ll begin correcting that by telling you their story and the contribution they made to America’s tapestry of stories from Fred Harvey to Elizabeth Peratrovich, from Sergey Brin to Lydia Maria Child. While we’re at it, we’ll also answer listener questions about some books of interest behind the series: Jill Lepore’s The Case for the Nation, Joseph Ellis’ His Excellency and John Lewis Gaddis’ The Landscape of History.
