Historium Unearthia: Unearthing History's Lost and Untold Stories Podcast
1) Episode 10: In 1648, this Trailblazing Feminist Demanded Her Right to Vote
Outside of the home, Colonial America was a man’s world. Women were mostly excluded from power in the church and could not take part in town meetings, which meant they could not vote. But one woman de...Show More
2) Episode 34: The Government Program that Imprisoned "Promiscuous" Women
In the United States, the war against women took a particularly dark and secretive turn in the early 1900s—around the start of World War I. Under a government-sponsored “social hygiene” campaign, to p...Show More
3) Episode 33: This Influential Female Author and Anthropologist Blazed a Trail for Women
This trailblazer became the most successful and significant black woman writer of the first half of the 20th century. In the 1970s, during the second wave of feminism, Alice Walker helped revive inter...Show More
4) Episode 32: This Strange Civil Disturbance Changed How Americans Study Medicine
In the US, doctors are held in high esteem. But that wasn’t always the case. There was time when the medical field was riddled with controversy and public scrutiny. Tensions between the world of medic...Show More
Episode 32: This Strange Civil Disturbance Changed How Americans Study Medicine
42:21 | Mar 13th, 2019
5) Episode 31: Before Modern Medicine, These Female Healers Cured What Ailed
In the days before modern medicine, the sick, injured, and expecting often relied on community healers to perform the services of doctors and midwives. Women largely fulfilled these roles. Whether the...Show More
6) Episode 30: The Mysterious Life and Supposed Murder of Vincent van Gogh
On July 27, 1890, a painter sustained a single gunshot wound to the abdomen and died a few days later. This infamous event has carried through time as a suicide. After his death, the deceased became o...Show More
7) Episode 29: All You've Needed to Know and Then Some Since 1818
Throughout history there have been countless methods for forecasting the weather. In 1818, David Young, a poet and an astronomer from Morristown, New Jersey, launched a publication that would help tak...Show More
8) Episode 28: A Doctor Claimed the Springs Could Cure in This Lost Missouri Town
Greene County, Missouri was once home to many bustling communities that slowly withered away. One town had quite an intriguing story. There it was said the springs could cure; that a bit of heaven had...Show More
Episode 28: A Doctor Claimed the Springs Could Cure in This Lost Missouri Town
26:18 | Dec 21st, 2018
9) Episode 27: The Flying Santas Who Airdrop Christmas Cheer to America’s Lighthouse Keepers
In the 1920s, one aviation pioneer launched a thank-you project for the families that keep coastal ships safe. He propelled a goodwill tradition that’s lasted longer than he ever imagined. One that ha...Show More
10) Episode 26: This Double-Crossing General Deceived America and Walked Away
After the Revolutionary War, at a pivotal moment when Washington and Spain were fighting for control of North America, one American war hero deflected from honor and signed a secret allegiance with Sp...Show More