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
ACT UP
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power was founded in 1987 to press government and religious authorities to take HIV/AIDS seriously at a time when it was dismissed as "the Gay Plague."
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Tue 10 Dec 2024
Company K of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters
There was plenty of prejudice against Native Americans in the 1860s, yet as the Civil War raged on, a group of Native American soldiers from Michigan mobilized to fight for the Union.
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Tue 10 Dec 2024
Emma of Normandy
Sometimes, one woman can change the course of history. One such woman was Emma of Normandy.
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Wed 20 Nov 2024
Margaret of Beverley
Margaret of Beverly was an English pilgrim who took up the sword when she found herself caught up in Saladin's siege of Jerusalem.
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Wed 13 Nov 2024
Shirley Chisholm
"Unbought and unbossed," according to her campaign slogan, Shirley Chilsholm was a powerhouse in Congress and a groundbreaking politician.
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Tue 05 Nov 2024
Queen Amanirenas
After neighboring Egypt fell to Julius Caesar, Amanirenas of Kush led her army against the Romans, stopping Caesar in his tracks.
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Wed 30 Oct 2024
Fannie Lou Hamer
In the 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer fought not for the right to vote, but for the ability to exercise that right.
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Tue 22 Oct 2024
Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls committed one of the most audacious acts of the Civil War—escaping slavery by sailing a Confederate ship to freedom.
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Sun 13 Oct 2024
Alice Garoute
While Haiti won its independence in the 19th century, its fight for women's rights would be a 20th century struggle, fought by women such as Alice Garoute.
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Tue 08 Oct 2024
Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
The 1964 torture and murder of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner by the Ku Klux Klan was a horrific example of domestic terrorism.
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Sun 29 Sep 2024
La Chevalière d'Éon de Beaumont and Joseph Bologne
If a movie set in 18th century London included a fight scene involving a trans woman and a Black man, it might be dismissed as historically inaccurate, except that it actually occurred in 1787.
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Thu 19 Sep 2024
Agatha Christie
Before murder shows, there was the cozy crime novel, pioneered by the bestselling author of modern time, Agatha Christie.
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Fri 13 Sep 2024
Fred Korematsu
Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American at the heart of the Supreme Court case over the legality of internment camps during WWII.
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Tue 03 Sep 2024
Kamehameha I
We share the story of King Kamehameha I, founder of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
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Tue 25 Jun 2024
Bertrice Small
We look at Bertrice Small, a romance author who wrote over 50 novels, including the Skye O'Malley novels.
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Tue 25 Jun 2024
Hazel Ying Lee
Hazel Ying Lee was a trailblazer who navigated the skies and the social norms of the 1940s.
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Thu 02 May 2024
Joseph & Mary Tape
Before Brown v. Board of Education, a case brought forward by Chinese immigrants looked at how "public" our public schools are.
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Tue 30 Apr 2024
Sephardic Jews
The Sephardic Jews lived in Spain and Portugal during the Middle Ages, but the Spanish Inquisition sent them across several continents in search of a home.
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Tue 02 Apr 2024
Sharron Frontiero
Sharron Frontiero was a lieutenant in the US Air Force who sued to receive a dependent's allowance for her husband that were regularly approved to male service members for their wives.
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Fri 29 Mar 2024
Erna Schneider Hoover
Erna Schneider Hoover reputedly sketched her computerized telephone switching system in the hospital after giving birth to one of her three daughters.
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Tue 19 Mar 2024
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