Notable People in History

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She worked on social, education, and cultural issues and in 1947 was elected head of the 18-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission. She even published her own newspaper column, called “My Day,” which ran in newspapers across the country, six days a week for nearly 30 years.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Henry Ford. Founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited with casting the engine as single piece. Introducing the assembly line to its manufacturing practices, Ford kept costs down and made cars affordable to consumers

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of African American lecturer, poet, abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer Frances Ellen Watkins. Born September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, she emphasized that Black women faced the double burden of racism and sexism, therefore the fight for women’s suffrage must include suffrage for African Americans.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Thomas Edison, whose inventions who during his lifetime had over 1,000 patents to his name. His inventions include the photograph, the lightbulb, a kinetographic theater, the magnetic iron ore separator, along with the electrographic vote recorder.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Maggie Walker. In 1903, she founded St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, offering checking and savings accounts, mortgages, and loans to provide economic empowerment to women and help strengthen Richmond's emerging black middle class.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Abraham Lincoln. Born February 12, 1809 in a cabin with one window, one door, and a chimney three miles south of Hodgenville, Kentucky… he became the 16th President of the United States and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within e rebellious states “are, and hencefor...

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Madam C.J. Walker. Born in a one-room cabin with a fireplace, she would build a beauty empire employing 40,000 African American women and men in the US, Central America, and the Caribbean and found the National Negro Cosmetics Manufacturers Association in 1917.  “It [perseverance] gave us the telegraph, telepho...

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mustafa Kemal. He would introduce the Latin alphabet in 1928. He founded the Turkish History society April 15, 1931, the Turkish Language Society July 12, 1932.Under his presidency, on December 8, 1934, women became eligible to vote in parliamentary elections, and to become members of the Parliament. “I don’t act fo...

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Harriet Tubman. She worked for the union army as a nurse from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War. She would become a supporter of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, joining their cause in campaigning for women’s the right to vote. “We saw the lightning, and that was the guns; then we heard thunder...

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Suleiman I, son of Selim I. He became sultan at the age of 26 and during his reign, the Ottoman empire extended from Morocco in the East to the tip of Arabia in the Indian Ocean.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of abolitionist and women's rights activist, Soujourner Truth. Born Isabella Baumfree around 1797 in New York, she overcame the challenges of slavery, illiteracy, poverty, prejudice, and sexism in her own lifetime, she worked for freedom, to end racism by mobilizing thousands to supp...

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He believes that a prudent investor should be more concerned about what’s going on inside of a business than in the stock market. Known as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Lise Meitner, the Austrian-Swedish physicist credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. On August 7, 1945, she received a call from a reporter with a Swedish newspaper. He would tell her that the first uranium bomb had been used over Hiroshima. A second would be dropped on Nagasaki.

In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Bill Gates who in 1975 founded the company then known as Microsoft with childhood friend, Paul Allen. The two would later write the Altair BASIC programming language and licensed its use to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry System (MITS), makers of the Altair 8800.

In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Amelia Earhart. Born July 24, 1897 in Atchinson, Kansas she was the first flier to cross the Pacific Ocean solo, the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California and the first woman to fly an autogyro.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Jeff Bezos, the founder of online bookstore, Amazon.com and artificial intelligence platform and aerospace company Blue Origin, that is developing rockets for commercial use.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Wangari Maathai. Born April 1, 1940 small village in the central highlands of what was then British Kenya, she founded the Green Belt Movement mobilizing women to plant nearly 30 million trees. “Every African, from the head of state to the sustenance farmer, needs to embrace cultures of honest, hard work, fairness,...

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Elon Musk... the South African entrepreneur involved in reinventing automotive, aerospace, solar energy, energy storage, satellite, high-speed ground transportation and multi-planetary expansion.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Maya Angelou. She was the first African-American woman to recite her poetry at a US presidential inauguration, the first African-American women to make the non-fiction bestseller’s list, the first African-American woman to have an original screenplay produced for the movie Georgia, Georgia in 1972, and the...

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Chiune Sugihara. He was a Japanese diplomat who disregarded government ordered and issued transit visas to thousands of Jews permitting them to escape the Nazis who hunted them.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Helen Keller. She was the first deaf/blind person to earn a bachelor's of arts degree from Radcliff College, and spent a large portion of her life working on behalf of the blind.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Stefan Banic. Slovak immigrant inventor who patented an early parachute design.  He allegedly jumped from the top of a 15-story building to prove that it worked.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Cleopatra. Born of Macedonian heritage, she broke with tradition in establishing herself as sole ruler issuing coins with her head alone, exercising her power as an independent Queen. She was the first of the Ptolomies to learn the Egyptian language.

In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of African American inventor and businessman, Garrett Augustus Morgan.  Born in Paris, Kentucky 12 years following the end of the civil war, his inventions would include the Morgan Safety Hood and a three-way traffic signal.

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nefertiti—wife, mother, sister. The Queen who ruled Egypt alongside Akhenaten.