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Notable People in HistoryEp. 101 Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: Gastronomic Writer, Lawyer, and PoliticianIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, considered one of the most influential food writers of all time.
2023-12-2303 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 98 Sarah Livingston Jay: Wife of American Founding Father John JayIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Sarah Livingston Jay, wife of American Founding Father John Jay. Considered one of the first socialites in the United States, she was exposed to American politics at an early age.
2023-12-0203 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 97 Plutarch: Obtaining Knowledge through Suspension of JudgementIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Plutarch. Born in Boeotia, educated in Athens, and made a priest at Delphi, Plutarch wrote over 200 works, among them Parallel Lives and the Morals.
2023-11-2503 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 96 Dolley Madison: Wife of American Founding Father James MadisonIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martha Jefferson, wife of James Madison. She is often credited with saving the portrait of George Washington when the British attacked the Capitol in 1814 when 4,000 British troops began landing in Maryland during the War of 1812.
2023-11-1801 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 95 John Jay: Founding Father & First Chief Justice of the United StatesIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of James Madison. He was the fourth American president, and the chief author of the Bill of Rights.
2023-11-1105 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 94 Martha Jefferson: Wife of American Founding Father Thomas JeffersonIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martha Jefferson, wife of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. During the Revolutionary War, she raised money and made clothing for the soldiers of the Continental Army in Virginia at the suggestion of Martha Washington.
2023-11-0403 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 93 James Madison: First Amendment and Freedom of SpeechIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of James Madison. He was the fourth American president, and the chief author of the Bill of Rights.
2023-10-2803 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 92 Martha Washington: Wife of American Founding Father George WashingtonIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martha Washington, the first First Lady. As first lady, she initiated a weekly reception, held on Friday evenings hosting members of Congress, visiting dignitaries, and men and women from the local community.
2023-10-2103 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 91 Thomas Jefferson: President, Secretary of State, Gardener & ScientistIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Thomas Jefferson. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States, he also delivered the first inaugural address.
2023-10-1405 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 90 Elizabeth Hamilton: Wife of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Elizabeth Hamilton, wife of Alexander Hamilton, American Founding Father and 1st U.S Secretary of the Treasury. She helped found New York's first private orphanage in 1806.
2023-10-0702 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 89 George Washington: Farmer & First President of the United States
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of American Founding Father, George Washington. He was the first American president, commander of the Continental Army, president of the Constitutional Convention, and a farmer.
2023-09-3004 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 88 Abigail Adams: Remember the Ladies
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Abigail Adams, the first woman to serve as Second Lady of the United States and the second woman to serve as First Lady. She was also the mother of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams.
2023-09-2301 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 87 Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father, First Secretary of Treasury
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Alexander Hamilton, American Founding Father and the 1st U.S Secretary of the Treasury.
2023-09-1602 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 86 Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Zora Neal Hurston. During her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston published four novels; Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays.
2023-09-0903 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 85 John Adams: America’s 2nd President & 1st Vice President
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of American Founding Father and the 2nd President of the United States, John Adams. He served as the first Vice President under President George Washington.
2023-09-0206 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 84 Marian Anderson: An Easter Sunday Performance at Lincoln Memorial
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Marian Anderson. Considered one of the best contraltos of the 20th century, Marian Anderson was still subject to the racial bias of the time. Denied the opportunity to perform in DAR Constitution Hall because of her race, she performed at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 75,000 on Easter Sunday 1939 in Washington, D.C.
2023-08-2602 minNotable People in HistoryEp. 83 Medgar Evers: World War II Veteran & Civil Rights Leader
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Medgar Evers, World War II veteran, civil rights leader, and NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi. He filed lawsuits and led initiatives to break down barriers of segregation, becoming a significant voice in fighting for civil rights and social justice before being assassinated at the age of 37.
2023-08-1904 minNotable People in HistoryEp 82. Susan B. Anthony: Women Their Rights and Nothing LessIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Susan B. Anthony. Throughout the 1850s and 1860s, Susan B. Anthony honed her speaking and organizing skills, continuing her involvement with the temperance movement, fighting for equal wages, abolition of slavery and suffrage.
2023-08-1204 minNotable People in HistoryEp 81. Malcolm X: A Tree Without Roots is DeadIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Malcolm X. Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, he was a major voice for Black Nationalism in the 1960s.
2023-08-0503 minNotable People in HistoryEp 80. Indira Gandhi: India’s First Woman Prime Minister
In this
week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life Indira
Ghandi, India’s third prime minister and the first woman to lead the nation’s
millions from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
2023-07-2904 minNotable People in HistoryEp 79. Yuan Mei: Qing Dynasty Poet, Painter, GastronomeIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Yuan Mei. One of China’s most influential poets and painters, he was an advocate for women's education and helped publish their poetry at a time when it was suppressed.
2023-07-2202 minNotable People in HistoryEp 78. Madeleine Albright: First Woman Secretary of StateIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Madeleine Albright, the 64th U.S Secretary of State. The journey to her confirmation spanned two continents and 20 years of government service.
2023-07-1504 minNotable People in HistoryEp 77. Nelson Mandela: First Black South African PresidentIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and the country’s first black president.
2023-07-0805 minNotable People in HistoryEp 76. Florence Kelley: Advocate for Working Women & ChildrenIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Florence Kelley, the first woman factory inspector in the United States. She fought for government regulation to protect working women and children.
2023-07-0103 minNotable People in HistoryEp 75. Bernard Baruch: Financier & Advisor to PresidentsIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of a successful Wall Street businessman and advisor to various US Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt.
2023-06-2402 minNotable People in HistoryEp 74. Emily Dickinson: American PoetIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Emily Dickinson, regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Some time after her death, her sister Lavinia found a locked box containing more than 1,700 short poems.
2023-06-1703 minNotable People in HistoryEp 73. Franklin D. Roosevelt: President During the Great Depression and World War IIIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. His presidential administration coped with two of the most important events of the 20th century... the Great Depression and World War II.
2023-06-1004 minNotable People in HistoryEp 72. Mary Riddle: Native American Pilot and ParachutistIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mary Riddle. She felt that public opinion was that women would never be successful pilots. She made her first solo flight on May 10, 1930 then earned her commercial pilot’s license in 1933.
2023-06-0302 minNotable People in HistoryEp 71. Nat Turner: Slave, Preacher, Leader of a RebellionIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nat Turner. Deeply committed to his Christian faith, Nat Turner believed that he received messages from God through visions and signs in nature and led one of the bloodiest rebellions in American history. The rebellion, which took place on August 21, 1831 is said to have expedited the coming of the Civil War.
2023-05-2704 minNotable People in HistoryEp 70. Ruth Elder: Aviator & ActressIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Ruth Elder. She held pilot license number 675 and was determined to become the female Charles Lindbergh... a title that went to Amelia Earhart wit her solo transatlantic crossing in 1932.
2023-05-2002 minNotable People in HistoryEp 69. Ernest Hemingway: Write One True Sentence
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of American novelist Ernest Hemingway. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway was a Nobel & Pulitzer Prize winner who almost died in 1954 after two plane crashes. In 1961, he died with his favorite shotgun lodged between his teeth, the top of his head blown off.
2023-05-1302 minNotable People in HistoryEp 68. Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes: America’s First Female Stunt PilotIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes. Born Florence Leontine Lowe, she went on to become Hollywood’s first female stunt pilot and was Lockheed’s first female test pilot. In 1930, she broke Amelia Earhart's air speed record and assumed the title of World’s Fastest Woman.
2023-05-0603 minNotable People in HistoryEp 67. Andrew Carnegie: Patron Saint of Libraries
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Andrew Carnegie. A Scottish-American industrialist who helped build the American steel industry, he believed that many of the world's problems came about because people didn't have enough education.
2023-04-2906 minNotable People in HistoryEp 66. Ruth Rowland Nichols: Pioneer in American AviationIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Ruth Rowland Nichols. Nichols set a transcontinental record in 1930, beating that of Charles Lindbergh's set earlier that year, flying from New York to Burbank, California in 16 hours, 59 minutes. On her return flight, she flew even faster: 13 hours, 22 minutes.
2023-04-2203 minNotable People in HistoryEp 65. Fidel Castro: El Comandante en Jefe (The Commander in Chief)In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Fidel Castro, the polarized Cuban leader who improved education and health care for many Cubans and would deprive them of free speech and economic opportunity.
2023-04-1507 minNotable People in HistoryEp 64. Joan of Arc: “A Useless, Infamous, Dishonored Woman”
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Joan of Arc. Patroness of soldiers and of France, honored for her role in the siege of Orléans, she was burned at the stake on May 30, 1431.
2023-04-0803 minNotable People in HistoryEp 63. Robert Frost: The Road Less Traveled By
In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Robert Frost. Four time Pulitzer prize winner, author of “The Road Not Taken.”
2023-04-0102 minNotable People in HistoryEp 62. Emily Greene Balch: Peace As A Women's IssueIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Emily Greene Balch. She was a social worker, reformer, peace activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1946 who founded the Women’s International Committee for Permanent Peace, later known as the Women’s International League for Peace of Freedom.
2023-03-2504 minNotable People in HistoryEp 61. Leonardo da Vinci: Painter, Architect, Engineer, Philosopher, Mathematician, and ScientistIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance. Among the many subjects Leonardo studied, the possibility of human mechanical flight held particular fascination, which may have stemmed from his work on military technology.
2023-03-1803 minNotable People in HistoryEp 60. Autherine Lucy: Separate Educational Facilities are Inherently UnequalIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Autherine Lucy. On September 4, 1952, before the Brown v. Board of Education case, Autherine and Mollie Ann Meyers sent their applications to the University of Alabama. Realizing that Lucy and Myers were black, the university rescinded their decision saying that a mistake had been made and were not welcome.
2023-03-1104 minNotable People in HistoryEp 59. Toussaint L’Ouverture & the Haitian RevolutionIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture. One of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution which was sparked in part by the French colonization of the West Indies, the plantation system on Saint-Domingue, its brutal slave regime, as well as its colonial social and racial hierarchy.
2023-03-0404 minNotable People in HistoryEp 58. Pearl S. Buck: Nobel Prize Novelist & Cookbook AuthorIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pearl S. Buck. Author of over 80 books, she was the first woman to be awarded both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize in literature and active in American civil rights and women's rights activities.
2023-02-2506 minNotable People in HistoryEp 57. Genghis Khan: Founder of the Mongol EmpireIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Genghis Khan. He united Mongol tribes and carved out the largest contiguous land empire in world history, introduced writing to the Mongols, created their first law code, promoted trade and granted religious freedom by permitting all religions to be freely practiced.
2023-02-1804 minNotable People in HistoryEp 56. Helena Rubinstein: The Polish Eagle of the Beauty IndustryIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Helena Rubinstein. Driven by courage, intelligence, and a will to succeed that would make her neglect her husbands, children and family, Helena Rubinstein built a beauty empire. She was born Chaja Rubinstein, and at the age of 24 set off to Australia aboard the Prinz Regent Luitpol with twelve jars of face cream.
2023-02-1106 minNotable People in HistoryEp 55. Martin Luther: A Vow to St. Anna and the Protestant ReformationIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martin Luther who led the Protestant Movement with the publication of the 95 Theses, criticizing the Catholic church for allowing people to purchase a certificate of pardon for the punishment of their sins.
2023-02-0403 minNotable People in HistoryEp 54. Mahalia Jackson: "Didn’t It Rain" Gospel SongstressIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mahalia Jackson. Born October 26, 1911 in the Black Pearl section New Orleans, she would perform for kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers and kept going back to sing in churches for the people who loved her voice first.
2023-01-2804 minNotable People in HistoryEp 53. Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father, Inventor, Author, Printer, PostmasterIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of one of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, whose inventions include bifocals, the lightning rod, a library chair, swim fins, a long-reach device, the Franklin stove, and the catheter.
2023-01-2106 minNotable People in HistoryEp 52. Amelia Simmons: Author of American Cookery, the First American CookbookIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Amelia Simmons. Believed to be the first American cookbook by a European American, titled American Cookery, or the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plum to plain cake.
2023-01-1404 minNotable People in HistoryEp 51. Charles Strite: Inventor of the Pop-Up ToasterIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Charles Strite, credited with the invention of the pop-up toaster. In 1921, he received U.S. patent 1,394,450 for the device, he called it the "Toastmaster."
2023-01-0702 minNotable People in HistoryEp 50. Hetty Green: Queen of American FinanceIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Hetty Green, the lone woman among 19th century tycoons such as Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, her holdings ranged from real estate in New York to buildings in downtown Chicago; gold, copper, iron mines out west; diamonds and pearls.
2022-12-3103 minNotable People in HistoryEp 49. Reginald Fessenden: What If Sound Waves Were Continuous Like Ripples on a Lake?In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Reginald Fessenden, considered the “Father of Voice Radio.” On December 23, 1900, he became the first to transmit human speech over radio waves and is best known for discovering AM radio.
2022-12-2403 minNotable People in HistoryEp 48. Lorraine Hansberry: Playwright, Dramatist, ActivistIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Lorraine Hansberry. The first African American, the youngest playwright, the fifth woman to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best play of the season on April 7, 1959 for her play A Raisin in the Sun.
2022-12-1703 minNotable People in HistoryEp 47. Mozart: The Musician & ManIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, considered to be one of the two top composers of the Classical era. During his lifetime, he composed more than 600 works that include operas, string quartets, piano and violin sonatas, and many concertos.
2022-12-1003 minNotable People in HistoryEp 46. Mary Anning: The Girl Who Unearthed the First Complete IchthyosaurusIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mary Anning. Born in 1799, she was a pioneering paleontologist and fossil collector. At the age of 12, she unearthed the first complete ichthyosaur fossil.
2022-12-0302 minNotable People in HistoryEp 45. Socrates: A One Day Trial Leading to ExecutionIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Socrates, the Greek philosopher from Athens famous for saying the wrong things at the wrong time and considered to be “famously ugly.”
2022-11-2604 minNotable People in HistoryEp 44. Olive Ann Beech: The First Lady of AviationIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Olive Ann Beech. Born in Waverly, Kansas, her career spanned 50 years prior to her retirement in September 1982. She was the first woman to head a major aircraft company.
2022-11-1903 minNotable People in HistoryEp 43. Frederick Douglass: Contributions to the Abolitionist MovementIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Frederick Douglass. Born a slave, he learned to read, and became one of the foremost African American leaders of the nineteenth century.
2022-11-1206 minNotable People in HistoryEp 42. Annie Turnbo Pope Malone: Founder of Poro College & Pioneer Manufacturer of Cosmetics ProductsIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Annie Minerva Turnbo. Considered to be one of the first African American women to become a millionaire, she took an interest in developing a better way to straighten African American hair without damaging it. By 1920, her hair care empire employed 300 people locally and 75,000 agents nationally.
2022-11-0503 minNotable People in HistoryEp 41. Mahatma Ghandi: Pioneer of Mass Nonviolent Civil DisobedienceIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mahatma Ghandi. Leader of India's non-violent independence movement, he would inspire for civil rights and freedom leaders across the world.
2022-10-2903 minNotable People in HistoryEp 40. Josephine Baker: The “Black Venus” from Boxcar TownIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Josephine Baker. She was a world renowned performer, World War II spy, and civil rights advocate who took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with 250,000 other civil rights supporters.
2022-10-2204 minNotable People in HistoryEp 39. Winston Churchill: Statesman, Soldier, WriterIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Winston Churchill, the politician, artist, bricklayer, historian, soldier, biographer, essayist who led Great Britain through World War II.
2022-10-1505 minNotable People in HistoryEp 38. Elizabeth Freeman: First Enslaved African American Freed Under the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mumbet. Ruled in their favor, Mumbet and Brom became the first enslaved African Americans to be freed under the Massachusetts constitution of 1780 in Brom & Bett v. Ashley which was argued before a county court in August 1871.
2022-10-0802 minNotable People in HistoryEp 37. Martin Luther King: : The Walk Towards Freedom & Equal RightsIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the second African American to have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
2022-10-0104 minNotable People in HistoryEp 36. Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of FranceIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of France’s last queen, Marie Antoinette. She became a widow when her husband, Louis Auguste, was guillotined to death after being tried and convicted of treason in January 1793.
2022-09-2402 minNotable People in HistoryEp 35. John D. Rockefeller: The Octopus of Standard OilIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of John D. Rockefeller, the businessman and philanthropist who founded the General Education Board in 1902 with a $1,000,000 donation to “sponsor and support aid to education in the United States without distinction of race, sex or creed.”
2022-09-1704 minNotable People in HistoryEp 34. Eleanor Roosevelt: Politician, Diplomat, and ActivistIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She worked on social, education, and cultural issues and in 1947 was elected head of the 18-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission. She even published her own newspaper column, called “My Day,” which ran in newspapers across the country, six days a week for nearly 30 years.
2022-09-1005 minNotable People in HistoryEp 33. Henry Ford: Inventor of the QuadricycleIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Henry Ford. Founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited with casting the engine as single piece. Introducing the assembly line to its manufacturing practices, Ford kept costs down and made cars affordable to consumers
2022-09-0306 minNotable People in HistoryEp 33. Henry Ford: Inventor of the QuadricycleIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Henry Ford. Founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited with casting the engine as single piece. Introducing the assembly line to its manufacturing practices, Ford kept costs down and made cars affordable to consumers
2022-09-0306 minNotable People in HistoryEp 32. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: First African American Woman to Publish a Short StoryIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of African American lecturer, poet, abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer Frances Ellen Watkins. Born September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, she emphasized that Black women faced the double burden of racism and sexism, therefore the fight for women’s suffrage must include suffrage for African Americans.
2022-08-2703 minNotable People in HistoryEp 31. Thomas Edison: Inventor of the Electric AgeIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Thomas Edison, whose inventions who during his lifetime had over 1,000 patents to his name. His inventions include the photograph, the lightbulb, a kinetographic theater, the magnetic iron ore separator, along with the electrographic vote recorder.
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Notable People in HistoryEp 30. Maggie Walker: First Female African-American Bank President in the United StatesIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Maggie Walker. In 1903, she founded St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, offering checking and savings accounts, mortgages, and loans to provide economic empowerment to women and help strengthen Richmond's emerging black middle class.
2022-08-1303 minNotable People in HistoryEp 29. Abraham Lincoln: Issuing the Emancipation ProclamationIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Abraham Lincoln. Born February 12, 1809 in a cabin with one window, one door, and a chimney three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky… he became the 16th President of the United States and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within e rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.
2022-08-0606 minNotable People in HistoryEp 28. Madam C.J. Walker: From the Cottonfields to Building a Beauty Business EmpireIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Madam C.J. Walker. Born in a one-room cabin with a fireplace, she would build a beauty empire employing 40,000 African American women and men in the US, Central America, and the Caribbean and found the National Negro Cosmetics Manufacturers Association in 1917.
“It [perseverance] gave us the telegraph, telephone, and wireless. It gave the world n Abraham Lincoln, and to a race freedom.”
2022-07-3004 minNotable People in HistoryEp 27. Mustafa Kemal: Founder of the TurksIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mustafa Kemal. He would introduce the Latin alphabet in 1928. He founded the Turkish History society April 15, 1931, the Turkish Language Society July 12, 1932.Under his presidency, on December 8, 1934, women became eligible to vote in parliamentary elections, and to become members of the Parliament.
“I don’t act for public opinion. I act for the nation and my own satisfaction.”
2022-07-2304 minNotable People in HistoryEp 26. Harriet Tubman: Humanitarian and Civil Rights ActivistIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Harriet Tubman. She worked for the union army as a nurse from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War. She would become a supporter of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, joining their cause in campaigning for women’s the right to vote.
“We saw the lightning, and that was the guns; then we heard thunder, and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling, and that was drops of blood falling. And when we went to go...
2022-07-1603 minNotable People in HistoryEp 25. Suleiman the Magnificent: Sultan of the Ottoman EmpireIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Suleiman I, son of Selim I. He became sultan at the age of 26 and during his reign, the Ottoman empire extended from Morocco in the East to the tip of Arabia in the Indian Ocean.
2022-07-0903 minNotable People in HistoryEp 24. Sojourner Truth: A Quest for a More Equal Society for African Americans and WomenIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of abolitionist and women's rights activist, Soujourner Truth. Born Isabella Baumfree around 1797 in New York, she overcame the challenges of slavery, illiteracy, poverty, prejudice, and sexism in her own lifetime, she worked for freedom, to end racism by mobilizing thousands to support the abolition of slavery and support women's suffrage.
2022-07-0204 minNotable People in HistoryEp 23. Warren Buffett: The Michelangelo of BusinessIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He believes that a prudent investor should be more concerned about what’s going on inside of a business than in the stock market. Known as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.
2022-06-2507 minNotable People in HistoryEp 22. Lise Meitner: Co-Discoverer of Nuclear FissionIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Lise Meitner, the Austrian-Swedish physicist credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. On August 7, 1945, she received a call from a reporter with a Swedish newspaper. He would tell her that the first uranium bomb had been used over Hiroshima. A second would be dropped on Nagasaki.
2022-06-1803 minNotable People in HistoryEp 21. Bill Gates: Co-Founder of Microsoft & Co-Developer of the Altair BASIC LanguageIn today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Bill Gates who in 1975 founded the company then known as Microsoft with childhood friend, Paul Allen. The two would later write the Altair BASIC programming language and licensed its use to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry System (MITS), makers of the Altair 8800.
2022-06-1106 minNotable People in HistoryEp 20. Amelia Earhart: First Aviator to Cross the Pacific OceanIn today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Amelia Earhart. Born July 24, 1897 in Atchinson, Kansas she was the first flier to cross the Pacific Ocean solo, the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California and the first woman to fly an autogyro.
2022-06-0405 minNotable People in HistoryEp 19. Jeff Bezos: Abracadabra, The Internet’s First Online Book StoreIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Jeff Bezos, the founder of online bookstore, Amazon.com and artificial intelligence platform and aerospace company Blue Origin, that is developing rockets for commercial use.
2022-05-2808 minNotable People in HistoryEp 18. Wangari Maathai: Founder of the Green Belt Movement, Nobel Prize WinnerIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Wangari Maathai. Born April 1, 1940 small village in the central highlands of what was then British Kenya, she founded the Green Belt Movement mobilizing women to plant nearly 30 million trees.
“Every African, from the head of state to the sustenance farmer, needs to embrace cultures of honest, hard work, fairness, and justice, as well as the riches—cultural, spiritual, and material—of their continent.”
2022-05-2104 minNotable People in HistoryEp 17. Elon Musk: Colonizing Mars with 1 Million InhabitantsIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Elon Musk... the South African entrepreneur involved in reinventing automotive, aerospace, solar energy, energy storage, satellite, high-speed ground transportation and multi-planetary expansion.
2022-05-1405 minNotable People in HistoryEp 16. Maya Angelou: Poetry is Music Written for the Human VoiceIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Maya Angelou. She was the first African-American woman to recite her poetry at a US presidential inauguration, the first African-American women to make the non-fiction bestseller’s list, the first African-American woman to have an original screenplay produced for the movie Georgia, Georgia in 1972, and the first African-American to work on the streetcars in San Francisco.
2022-05-0703 minNotable People in HistoryEp 15. Chiune Sugihara: The Japanese Diplomat Whose Actions Saved Thousands of JewsIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Chiune Sugihara. He was a Japanese diplomat who disregarded government ordered and issued transit visas to thousands of Jews permitting them to escape the Nazis who hunted them.
2022-04-3007 minNotable People in HistoryEp 14. Helen Keller: An Advocate for the BlindIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Helen Keller. She was the first deaf/blind person to earn a bachelor's of arts degree from Radcliff College, and spent a large portion of her life working on behalf of the blind.
2022-04-2304 minNotable People in HistoryEp 13. Stefan Banic: The Slovak Coal Miner Who Patented An Early Parachute (No. 1,108,484)In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Stefan Banic. Slovak immigrant inventor who patented an early parachute design. He allegedly jumped from the top of a 15-story building to prove that it worked.
2022-04-1602 minNotable People in HistoryEp 12. Cleopatra: Last Ruler of the Ptolemaic DynastyIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Cleopatra. Born of Macedonian heritage, she broke with tradition in establishing herself as sole ruler issuing coins with her head alone, exercising her power as an independent Queen. She was the first of the Ptolomies to learn the Egyptian language.
2022-04-0903 minNotable People in HistoryEp 11. Garrett Augustus Morgan: Inventor of the Three-Way Traffic Signal & Gas MaskIn today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of African American inventor and businessman, Garrett Augustus Morgan. Born in Paris, Kentucky 12 years following the end of the civil war, his inventions would include the Morgan Safety Hood and a three-way traffic signal.
2022-04-0205 minNotable People in HistoryEp 10. Nefertiti: A Beautiful Woman Has ComeIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nefertiti—wife, mother, sister. The Queen who ruled Egypt alongside Akhenaten.
2022-03-2603 minNotable People in HistoryEp 9. Heron of Alexandria: Michanikos, the Machine ManIn this week's Notable People in History podcast, we take a look at the life of Heron of Alexandria, the scientist and educator credited with inventing the first steam engine, the first automatic vending machine, and the first automaton.
2022-03-1904 minNotable People in HistoryEp 8. Frida Kahlo: The Iconic Unibrowed Mexican ArtistIn today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Frida Kahlo, the Mexican born artist who would produce about 200 paintings in her lifetime, and even had an affair with Leon Trotsky.
2022-03-1205 minNotable People in HistoryEp 7. Ctesibius (Ktesibios) of Alexandria: Inventor of the HydraulisIn today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Ctesibius, the hands-on engineer who crafted compressors still in use until this very day. Like Archimedes, and Heron of Alexandria, he too studied at the Library of Alexandria.
2022-03-0502 minNotable People in HistoryEp 6. Anne Frank: Her Life & Diary (Het Achterhuis)Anne Frank… the teenage Jewish girl who was gifted a diary for her 13th birthday and would be transported to Auschwitz on September 3rd, 1944. Hope that you enjoy learning about her as much as I did and that you subscribe and share.
2022-02-2605 minNotable People in HistoryEp 5. Galileo Galilei: Revolutionary Inventor, Scholar, and ResearcherGalileo Galilei, the Italian physicist & astronomer from Pisa. He challenged the presiding view of his time stating that the earth was the center of the universe and published the controversial book Galileo Galilei, wherein the meetings of four days, are discussed the two chief systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican which angered the Catholic church and landed him in house arrest.
2022-02-1906 minNotable People in HistoryEp 4. Marie Curie: The Scientist, A Woman of FirstsThis week, we meet Marie Curie. The first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice; for physics in 1903, and chemistry in 1911. During her lifetime, she would discover both polonium and radium. In 1994, a new element, Curium, would be named after her and husband, Pierre Curie.
2022-02-1206 minNotable People in HistoryEp 3. Archimedes: Give Me a Lever and a Place to Stand, I Will Move the EarthLet's take a look at the life of Archimedes… one of several great thinkers during the Hellenistic period. He’s credited with inventing the Archimedean screws, and the discovery of "Archimedes Principle,” which states that when an object is placed in a fluid, it is buoyed up by a force that is equal to the weight of the fluid is displaces. Hope that you enjoy learning about him as much as I did and that you subscribe and share.
2022-02-0507 minNotable People in HistoryEp 2. Valentina Tereshkova (Sea Gull): The First Woman in SpaceIn this episode, we meet Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to have traveled to space… and she’s quoted to have said, “My greatest joy would be to become the first woman to set foot on the moon.”
Did you know that her favorite perfume at the time was called “Red Moscow”?
2022-01-2906 minNotable People in HistoryEp 1. Albert Einstein: Ulmenses sunt mathematiciIn this premier episode of Notable People in History, we'll take a look at the life of Albert Einstein. Did you know that he had sweaty feet? Did you know that the theory of special relativity actually started off as L=MV^2? ...that he was socially conscious and concerned about injustice and inequality? He even published an essay, "The Negro Question," in which he called racism America's "worst disease."
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