Vegan History and Other Oddities: Recent Episodes
Dodo History
The forgotten inventor of the board game Monopoly--a tale of forgotten women and capitalist greed.
Part II on the life of Victoria Woodhull: her run for presidency, her jail arrest for "indecency," her time in England, and her death.
Part I: Early life and upbringing of Victoria Woodhull, feminist icon and known for being the first woman to ever run for the US Presidency.
Helen Keller was more than a passive figurehead that simply overcame her deafness and blindness--she spent her life fighting on behalf of the disabled, and when she realized the ties between poverty, bad working conditions, and disabilities, she fought hard and unpopular battles to improve working conditions and fight against socioeconomic inequality.
Al Ma'arri was an Arabic poet and philosopher at the turn of the first millennium, and the first recorded vegan in human history.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was more than the author of Alice in Wonderland. In fact, his real name was Charles Dodgson, and he was a professor of mathematics by day, as well as an accomplished photographer.