Historia - Delta College Public Radio

Today's story is about a Roman aristocrat and his failed attempt to overthrow the republic.

Although Italian food was at first seen as foreign and odd, by the mid-20th century Italian food became an integral part of America’s culinary landscape. One person influential in this change was Ettore Boiardi, aka Chef Boyardee.

In 1916, as World War I raged, a small group of Irish rebels struck a blow for freedom against the might of the British Empire. The Easter Rising in Dublin was a tragic failure, but it marks the start of Ireland’s successful struggle for independence.

Audre Lorde was a Black lesbian feminist poet and activist who used the written word to share her experiences living between the American dream and its reality.

In 1919, the golden image of baseball was tarnished when eight members of the Chicago White Sox were implicated in a scandal that rocked the nation—fixing the World Series.

You may be familiar with the WWII-era women's pro baseball league, famously featured in "A League of Their Own." But women were playing professionally long before then, including a 17-year-old pitcher who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

As Black and Asian subjects of the British Empire took to the game, they - like Jackie Robinson in American baseball – had to fight against racism and segregation.

One of our great American poets shared his struggles with the dreams of America and the realities of living amongst the historical shades that created and sometimes betrayed them.

Growing up in Saginaw, for decades I heard the name Audra Francis. She is memorialized in the Saginaw Hall of Fame. Several buildings have been named after her. And at least once Saginaw celebrated an Audra Francis Memorial Day. Yet, I didn’t find much published about her.

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1921, Henry Marsh was an attorney, community leader, civil rights activist, and Saginaw, Michigan’s first Black mayor.

In Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt traced the history of anti-Semitism in the west and repeatedly pointed out that the horrors of totalitarianism were possible because ordinary people did nothing to stop them.

In 18th century America, a Quaker preacher known as the Public Universal Friend declared themselves to be neither a man nor a woman and challenged contemporary views on race and gender.

Free Black communities living on the margins of colonized America were not unusual. Indeed, they were common enough that their members were given a name: Maroons.

Within the convent, some Renaissance women could find a degree of independence and power, and even pursue the male-dominated field of art.

A 1990 law allows Native tribes to reclaim remains and other items taken from indigenous graves and put in museums. But more than 110,000 remains and funerary remains have yet to make their way home.

When medieval mystic Marguerite Porete came under attack from the church for her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls, she did what would infuriate church leaders the most. She refused to acknowledge their authority.

As historians try to fill in the gaps and magnify stories from marginalized groups, how do we reconcile victories that came from stepping on other marginalized groups?