Meet Harry Burleigh! A multi-talented singer, composer, and performer who not only helped break racial barriers in the early 1900s but helped create a new musical scale and became the first person to compose :American: classical music. Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
This is the story of Katherine Switzer, the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon, but if you haven't seen the famous pictures, what she had to escape while on the course is what cemented her in the history books. Have a story we should hear> Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmaill.com
Dino-fans, unite! Check out what archaeologists found in China- an Oviraptorosaur like they had never seen before... Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Over 10,000 women worked secretly in Washington, DC, breaking codes and helping win WWII. Sworn to secrecy and threatened with execution is they ever shared what they were working on, their stories, although almost eighty years old, are only now coming to light. Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Josephine Baker was a nazi-spying, anti-racist world-famous burlesque dancer who wore a banana skirt. Hard to fit it all in ten minutes! Have a story you think we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
This is the story of Christine Jorgensen, a trailblazing writer, activist, and performer who, in the 1950s, became the first trans person in the world to enter the public eye. Have a story you think we should hear? Email us at StaceyandJonah@gmail.com
If you missed hearing about how someone in Stacey's life was brought back to life by something trying to kill him, jump in! It's the story of Nate and the wild boar. Have a story you think we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Cataract removal, isolating blood-forming stem cells, THE MURPHY BED?! And even one more. In honor of women's history month, check out the story of these four women inventors you may have never heard of.
How did YouTube take over the world in a few short years? Take ten minutes to find out! Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Mohawk men from a small reservation in Canada were responsible to building almost every iconic building and bridge in New York City including the Empire State building, the World Trade Center, and the Chrysler building. How did such a small group of men make such an enormous impact? That's what the next ten minutes are all about! Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Gerda Lerner was a scholar, writer, activist, and a founder of the academic field of women's history.
Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, was the first person to recognize the potential of a computer, and as the author of the first computer algorithm, is widely considered to be the first computer programmer ever. Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Through her investigative journalism covering southern lynchings, Ida B Wells not only set the groundwork for the way news is reported today, she was also a founding member of the NAACP as well as a pioneer in the civil rights movement. She also scared racists so bad they destroyed her newspaper. Did that stop her? Listen to find out! (OK of course it didn't but there's still more to hear!) Have a story for us? Email StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Operation Acoustic Kitty! This is the story of how the CIA attempted to use cats as spies. How? It is absolutely bonkers and you have to listen. Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Julie D’Aubigny, as the title says, is the cross-dressing, opera-singing, sword dueling, bisexual globetrotter of the 1600s. What, you needed more info? Email us as always at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned endangered species in the United States! How'd it happen? Why Elizabeth? What kind of animal IS she? Listen on... Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
This is the story of Charles Jackson French who, in WWII, saved an entire life raft full of his crew-mates by towing them with his own body through shark-infested waters, past enemy soldiers, and finally to safety. Have a story we should hear> Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
This is how one GIANT ship and some classical music saved the lives of over 2,000 Beluga whales trapped in the Arctic Ocean. Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Erik the Red was named after the color of his beard, but it may as well have been after the murders this famous viking committed before discovering Greenland. Which led his son to be the first European to discover North America, nearly 500 years before Columbus. This is the 10 minute story of Erik the Red! have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com
Finally archaeologists found something other than a mummy! Recently in Egypt, the oldest brewery on the planet was unearthed. Again. Who built it? Was it for party time or sacrificial offering time? How was it discovered twice? Let's learn. Have a story we should hear? Email us at StaceyAndJonah@gmail.com