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Mary Ellen Pleasant built a fortune in Gold Rush San Francisco through business savvy, backed abolitionist causes, and fought racial exclusion in court. Discover the story of a formidable entrepreneur who shaped California civil rights history.
Before It Became History, a podcast series from the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute, explores the people and moments that shaped the American story. Each episode looks beyond the legend to examine the decisions, conflicts, and ideas that tested the promise of liberty and helped define our democracy.
This is history before it hardened into memory — and a conversation about what it means for us now.
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In 1871, an Iowa college made Harriette J. Cooke a full professor and reportedly paid her the same as the men. Was it the nation's first? We weigh the evidence, then trace her from preceptress to drill organizer to a Boston medical mission.
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Behind the Little House novels lies a federal paper trail: land claims, sworn testimony, survey lines, railroad jobs, and treaties. We follow the Ingalls family from Osage land in Kansas to De Smet homesteads in a West the government built.
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In 1862, Lincoln signed a law offering 160 acres to settlers who could live on it, farm it, and prove it up. We explore who could claim a homestead, what it actually took to keep one, and whose homelands became the public land it gave away.
Before It Became History, a podcast series from the Sandra…
Stephen Douglas wanted a railroad west. To get it, he let Kansas and Nebraska settlers vote on slavery, and the country cracked open: ballot fraud, a sacked town, a caned senator, the new Republican Party, and Lincoln's return to the fight.
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Orphaned by war, forged on the battlefield, and elected on a cry against elite corruption — Andrew Jackson reshaped the presidency itself. War hero, populist icon, slaveholder: his record is as consequential as it is contested.
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