Unsung History

By Kelly Therese Pollock

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A podcast about people and events in American history you may not know much about. Yet.

Episode Date
The Enslaved Mariners on the Crews of Brazilian Slave Ships
Mar 31, 2025
Ruth Reynolds & Puerto Rican Independence
Mar 24, 2025
Wages for Housework
Mar 17, 2025
Amelia Bloomer
Mar 10, 2025
The Color Line
Mar 03, 2025
The Women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Feb 24, 2025
The Racist History of Property Taxes in the United States
Feb 17, 2025
Ericka Huggins & the Black Panther Party
Feb 10, 2025
Land Displacement & the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Feb 03, 2025
The History of Interracial Marriage in Mississippi
Jan 27, 2025
The Panama Canal
Jan 20, 2025
The Women of the Rendezvous Plantation on Barbados in the 17th Century
Jan 13, 2025
Henry Christophe: The King of Haiti
Jan 06, 2025
The Surprisingly Salacious History of the Modern Restaurant
Dec 30, 2024
Frances Perkins
Dec 23, 2024
Florence Price & the Black Chicago Renaissance
Dec 16, 2024
The Women Physicists who Fled Nazi Germany
Dec 09, 2024
The Women who Entered the Federal Workforce during the Civil War Era
Dec 02, 2024
The Northern Manufacturers of Southern Plantation Goods
Nov 25, 2024
Lily Dale
Nov 18, 2024
Isabel Kelly
Nov 11, 2024
The History of the Electoral College
Nov 04, 2024
Baseball & the Chinese Educational Mission of the 1870s
Oct 28, 2024
Ryan White & the CARE Act of 1990
Oct 21, 2024
The Sanders Family of Philadelphia
Oct 14, 2024
Education & Reconstruction in the Washington DC Region
Oct 07, 2024
A History of Postpartum Depression in the United States
Sep 30, 2024
Segregation Scholarships
Sep 23, 2024
Doug Williams, Vince Evans & the History of Black Quarterbacks in the NFL
Sep 16, 2024
Jewish Patriots in the American Revolution
Sep 09, 2024
Abigail Adams
Sep 02, 2024
Hair and the American Presidency
Aug 26, 2024
Margaret Chase Smith
Aug 19, 2024
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Aug 12, 2024
Sigrid Schultz
Aug 05, 2024
The History of Synchronized Swimming
Jul 29, 2024
The FTA & Antiwar Protests in 1971
Jul 22, 2024
The Incorruptibles & Organized Jewish Crime in New York City in the Early 20th Century
Jul 15, 2024
Dr. Claudia Hampton & the History of Affirmative Action in California
Jul 08, 2024
Josephine McCarty: Mother, Lobbyist, Spy & Abortionist
Jul 01, 2024
The Auburn Prison System & the Case of William Freeman
Jun 24, 2024
Quilting & the New Deal
Jun 17, 2024
The Federal Theatre Project
Jun 10, 2024
The Red Summer of 1919 & Black Resistance
Jun 03, 2024
The Reconstruction Era & its Aftermath
May 27, 2024
The Southern Plantation System
May 20, 2024
Slavery & Incarceration in New Orleans
May 13, 2024
The Jazz Maestros of Jim Crow America
May 06, 2024
Negro League Baseball
Apr 29, 2024
Log Cabin Republicans and the Gay Right
Apr 22, 2024
American Posture Panic
Apr 15, 2024
The History of DARE
Apr 08, 2024
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Apr 01, 2024
Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to the Pacific Theatre during World War II
Mar 25, 2024
Eliza Scidmore
Mar 18, 2024
Foreign Missionaries & American Diplomacy in the 19th Century
Mar 11, 2024
Tammany Hall, FDR & the Murder of Vivian Gordon
Mar 04, 2024
The Combahee River Raid of 1863
Feb 26, 2024
The History of Ice in the United States
Feb 19, 2024
The History of Blue Jeans
Feb 12, 2024
The History of Pinball
Feb 05, 2024
The History of US Foreign Disaster Relief
Jan 29, 2024
LSD, the CIA & the History of Psychedelic Science
Jan 22, 2024
Clotilda: The Last U.S. Slave Ship
Jan 15, 2024
The History of Mormonism
Jan 08, 2024
The History of College Radio
Jan 01, 2024
Love Actually & the Healing Power of Christmas Films
Dec 25, 2023
Mollie Moon
Dec 18, 2023
Jewish War Brides of World War II
Dec 11, 2023
Merze Tate
Dec 04, 2023
Black Civil Rights before the Civil Rights Movement
Nov 27, 2023
The Long History of the Chicago Portage
Nov 20, 2023
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy
Nov 13, 2023
Gun Capitalism & Gun Control in the U.S. after World War II
Nov 06, 2023
The History of the Nutrition Facts Label
Oct 30, 2023
The History & the Present of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe
Oct 23, 2023
The Borinqueneers of the Korean War
Oct 16, 2023
The Student Right in the late 1960s
Oct 09, 2023
The History of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
Oct 02, 2023
The Murder of Maria Cornell
Sep 25, 2023
The Great New York City Fire of 1776
Sep 18, 2023
The History of Drag in New York City
Sep 11, 2023
Thomas Smallwood and the Underground Railroad
Sep 04, 2023
Phillis Wheatley
Aug 28, 2023
Gladys Bentley
Aug 21, 2023
Anna May Wong
Aug 14, 2023
Anna Rosenberg
Aug 07, 2023
Pullman Porters & the History of the Black Working Class
Jul 31, 2023
The History of Black Women & Physical Fitness in the United States
Jul 24, 2023
Enslaved Women who Murdered their Enslavers
Jul 17, 2023
Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the Founder of Chicago
Jul 10, 2023
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"
Jul 03, 2023
1970 Hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Jun 26, 2023
W. E. B. Du Bois & African American Contributions to World War I
Jun 19, 2023
The Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II & the Role of Attorneys at the Relocation Centers
Jun 12, 2023
Racial Conflict in the U.S. Army During the Vietnam War Era
Jun 05, 2023
Black Soldiers & their Families in the Civil War
May 29, 2023
The Oneida Perfectionist Religious Community
May 22, 2023
The Diversity Visa Lottery
May 15, 2023
Women & the Law in Revolutionary America
May 08, 2023
Project Confrontation: The Birmingham Campaign of 1963
May 01, 2023
The Plant Revolution and 19th Century American Literature
Apr 24, 2023
The 1972 Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Apr 17, 2023
The Southern Strategy
Apr 10, 2023
Harold Washington
Apr 03, 2023
The 1968 White House Fashion Show
Mar 27, 2023
Madame Restell, "The Wickedest Woman in New York"
Mar 20, 2023
The National Women's Conference of 1977
Mar 13, 2023
Lydia Maria Child
Mar 06, 2023
The Eastland Disaster
Feb 27, 2023
The History of Polish Chicago
Feb 20, 2023
John H. Johnson & Ebony Magazine
Feb 13, 2023
The History of the Cook County Jail
Feb 06, 2023
The Green Book
Jan 30, 2023
American Women Writers in Italy in the 19th Century
Jan 23, 2023
The 1968 Student Uprising at Tuskegee Institute
Jan 16, 2023
Shirley Chisholm
Jan 09, 2023
The Aerobics Craze of the 1980s
Jan 02, 2023
Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate
Dec 26, 2022
Smallpox Inoculation & the American Revolution
Dec 19, 2022
The Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893
Dec 12, 2022
The Rise of the Labor Movement & Employer Resistance in the Late 19th Century
Dec 05, 2022
Single Irish Women & Domestic Service in late 19th Century New York City
Nov 28, 2022
Keeping Secrets in the 1950s
Nov 21, 2022
Gordon Merrick
Nov 14, 2022
Elsie Robinson
Nov 07, 2022
The Politics of Reproductive Rights in 1960s & 1970s New York
Oct 31, 2022
The 1966 Division Street Uprising & the Puerto Rican community in Chicago
Oct 24, 2022
Bert Corona
Oct 17, 2022
The Effect of the Mexican Revolution on Mexican Immigration to the U.S.
Oct 10, 2022
Southwest Borderlands in the 19th Century
Oct 03, 2022
The Pacific Coast Abortion Ring
Sep 26, 2022
Mary Ware Dennett & the Birth Control Movement
Sep 19, 2022
Abortion in 18th Century New England
Sep 12, 2022
Agatha Christie
Sep 05, 2022
Mary Seacole
Aug 29, 2022
Henrietta Maria
Aug 22, 2022
Anne Bonny & Mary Read, Pirate Queens
Aug 15, 2022
The Women who Programmed the ENIAC
Aug 08, 2022
Filipino Nurses in the United States
Aug 01, 2022
The Townsend Family Legacy
Jul 25, 2022
The Unusual Codicil in Benjamin Franklin's Will
Jul 18, 2022
Dale Evans, Queen of the West
Jul 11, 2022
Independence Day
Jul 04, 2022
The 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot
Jun 27, 2022
Two-Spirit People in Native American Cultures
Jun 20, 2022
The Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village
Jun 13, 2022
The Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Jun 06, 2022
Chinese Grocery Stores in the Mississippi Delta
May 30, 2022
Patsy Mink
May 23, 2022
The US-Born Japanese Americans (Nisei) who Migrated to Japan
May 16, 2022
Thai Americans & the Rise of Thai Food in the United States
May 09, 2022
Mary Paik Lee
May 02, 2022
French Fashion in Gilded Age America
Apr 25, 2022
The Cabinet
Apr 18, 2022
The Abolition Movement of the 1830s
Apr 11, 2022
The 1913 Ascent of Denali
Apr 04, 2022
Cordelia Dodson Hood
Mar 28, 2022
The National Women's Football League
Mar 21, 2022
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Mar 14, 2022
Yellowstone National Park
Mar 07, 2022
Freedpeople in Indian Territory
Feb 28, 2022
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Feb 21, 2022
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Feb 14, 2022
Julia Chinn
Feb 07, 2022
Who was Carol Lane?
Jan 31, 2022
The Amerikadeutscher Volksbund & the Newark Minutemen in the 1930s
Jan 24, 2022
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Jan 17, 2022
The 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
Jan 10, 2022
The Suffrage Road Trip of 1915
Jan 03, 2022
Women-Led Slave Revolts
Dec 27, 2021
The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
Dec 20, 2021
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Dec 13, 2021
Loïs Mailou Jones
Dec 06, 2021
The Yakama War
Nov 29, 2021
The Wampanoag & the Thanksgiving Myth
Nov 22, 2021
Treaty Rights of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe
Nov 15, 2021
Alaska Territorial Guard in World War II
Nov 08, 2021
The Stockbridge-Munsee Community & their Removal History
Nov 01, 2021
Fashion, Feminism, and the New Woman of the late 19th Century
Oct 25, 2021
The Original Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
Oct 18, 2021
Zitkála-Šá
Oct 11, 2021
Women in the U.S. Military during the Cold War
Oct 04, 2021
Freedom Suits in Maryland & DC, 1790-1864
Sep 27, 2021
Chef Lena Richard
Sep 20, 2021
African American AIDS Activism
Sep 13, 2021
The Coors Boycott
Sep 06, 2021
Phrenology & Crime in 19th Century America
Aug 30, 2021
Chesapeake Bay Pirates & the 19th Century Oyster Wars
Aug 23, 2021
Prohibition in the 1850s
Aug 16, 2021
The Nativist Riots of Philadelphia in 1844
Aug 09, 2021
Elizabeth Packard
Aug 02, 2021
Mary Mallon (The Sad & Complicated Story of "Typhoid Mary")
Jul 26, 2021
The El Centro Hunger Strike of 1985
Jul 19, 2021
Black Teachers & The Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina
Jul 12, 2021
Homosexuality and the Left Before 1960
Jul 05, 2021
Sophonisba Breckinridge
Jun 28, 2021
Susie King Taylor
Jun 21, 2021
The Jackson State Shootings in May 1970
Jun 14, 2021
Knitting Brigades of World War I
Jun 07, 2021
Introducing Unsung History
Jun 03, 2021