Historia - Delta College Public Radio
History is filled with interesting events and fas…
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Title IX
How Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act opened doors for women to compete in sports and fully participate in education.
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Tue 16 Sep 2025
Alice Wheeldon
A hundred years after the fact, most people would agree that World War I was a colossal waste of human life. But at the time, voices for peace were few in number, isolated, and faced political persec…
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Tue 02 Sep 2025
Cataline Conspiracy
Today's story is about a Roman aristocrat and his failed attempt to overthrow the republic.
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Wed 30 Apr 2025
Chef Boyardee
Although Italian food was at first seen as foreign and odd, by the mid-20th century Italian food became an integral part of America’s culinary landscape. One person influential in this change was Ett…
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Tue 22 Apr 2025
Easter 1916: Dublin Rises Against British Rule
In 1916, as World War I raged, a small group of Irish rebels struck a blow for freedom against the might of the British Empire. The Easter Rising in Dublin was a tragic failure, but it marks the star…
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Tue 22 Apr 2025
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde was a Black lesbian feminist poet and activist who used the written word to share her experiences living between the American dream and its reality.
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Wed 09 Apr 2025
The Black Sox Scandal
In 1919, the golden image of baseball was tarnished when eight members of the Chicago White Sox were implicated in a scandal that rocked the nation—fixing the World Series.
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Wed 09 Apr 2025
Jackie Mitchell
You may be familiar with the WWII-era women's pro baseball league, famously featured in "A League of Their Own." But women were playing professionally long before then, including a 17-year-old pitche…
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Mon 24 Mar 2025
Cricket’s Jacky Robinsons: Frank Worrell and Basil D’Oliveira
As Black and Asian subjects of the British Empire took to the game, they - like Jackie Robinson in American baseball – had to fight against racism and segregation.
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Tue 11 Mar 2025
Langston Hughes
One of our great American poets shared his struggles with the dreams of America and the realities of living amongst the historical shades that created and sometimes betrayed them.
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Tue 11 Mar 2025
Audra Francis
Growing up in Saginaw, for decades I heard the name Audra Francis. She is memorialized in the Saginaw Hall of Fame. Several buildings have been named after her. And at least once Saginaw celebrated a…
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Tue 04 Mar 2025
Henry Marsh
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1921, Henry Marsh was an attorney, community leader, civil rights activist, and Saginaw, Michigan’s first Black mayor.
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Mon 17 Feb 2025
Hannah Arendt
In Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt traced the history of anti-Semitism in the west and repeatedly pointed out that the horrors of totalitarianism were possible because ordinary people did nothing …
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Sun 16 Feb 2025
The Public Universal Friend
In 18th century America, a Quaker preacher known as the Public Universal Friend declared themselves to be neither a man nor a woman and challenged contemporary views on race and gender.
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Thu 13 Feb 2025
The Maroons: Escaping to Freedom
Free Black communities living on the margins of colonized America were not unusual. Indeed, they were common enough that their members were given a name: Maroons.
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Tue 21 Jan 2025
Plautilla Nelli, Dominican Nun and Renaissance Painter
Within the convent, some Renaissance women could find a degree of independence and power, and even pursue the male-dominated field of art.
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Tue 14 Jan 2025
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
A 1990 law allows Native tribes to reclaim remains and other items taken from indigenous graves and put in museums. But more than 110,000 remains and funerary remains have yet to make their way home.
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Mon 13 Jan 2025
Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls
When medieval mystic Marguerite Porete came under attack from the church for her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls, she did what would infuriate church leaders the most. She refused to acknowledge the…
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Fri 10 Jan 2025
Isabella d'Este and Historians Looking the Other Way
As historians try to fill in the gaps and magnify stories from marginalized groups, how do we reconcile victories that came from stepping on other marginalized groups?
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Thu 09 Jan 2025
Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance Woman
Artemisia Gentileschi was the most celebrated female painter of the 1600s. She channeled the traumas of her life, including sexual assault by her tutor and the harrowing trial that followed, into evo…
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Mon 16 Dec 2024
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