The 10 Best Unsung History Podcast Episodes
1) The 1968 White House Fashion Show
On February 29, 1968, Lady Bird Johnson hosted the first–and last–White House Fashion Show. The fashion show, intended both to highlight the fourth largest industry in the United States and to promote...Show More
2) Racial Conflict in the U.S. Army During the Vietnam War Era
In September 1969, African American journalist Wallace Terry reported on “another war being fought in Vietnam — between black and white Americans.” After the 1948 integration of the military, the U.S....Show More
3) Black Soldiers & their Families in the Civil War
As soon as the first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter, free Black men in the North rushed to enlist, but they were turned away, as President Lincoln worried that arming Black soldiers ...Show More
4) The 1972 Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
While voters were casting their ballots in the 1972 presidential election, Native demonstrators had taken over the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington, DC, barricading themselves in with o...Show More
5) Jewish War Brides of World War II
In the ravages of post-World War II Europe, some Jewish women survivors of the Holocaust found the beginnings of a new life when they met – and married – American (and Canadian and British) men servin...Show More
6) The History & the Present of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe
During the 19th Century, the Northern Cheyenne people made a number of treaties with the United States government, but the U.S. repeatedly failed to honor its end of the treaties. In November 1876, th...Show More
7) The Borinqueneers of the Korean War
In 1950, President Harry Truman ordered US troops to the Korean peninsula to help the South Koreans repel the invading North Korean People’s Army, which was supported by the communist regimes of the S...Show More
8) The History of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
At the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women, a group of women, led by writer Betty Friedan and organizer and attorney Pauli Murray, decided that to make progress they needed...Show More
9) Pullman Porters & the History of the Black Working Class
In the early 20th century, career options for Black workers were limited, and the jobs often came with low pay and poor conditions. Ironically, because they were concentrated in certain jobs, Black wo...Show More
10) W. E. B. Du Bois & African American Contributions to World War I
Over 350,000 African American men joined the United States military during World War I, serving valiantly despite discrimination and slander. Historian and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois had h...Show More
W. E. B. Du Bois & African American Contributions to World War I
38:25 | Jun 19th, 2023
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