George Eliot: Making Life Less Difficult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BKUTsnxAAQ Written by Deb Vosejpka with Muse (Meta AI) In Their Own Words, Volume 1: Timeless Wisdom, Truly Said. One of thirteen voices, every one...
Louisa May Alcott: Learning to Sail Her Ship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BKUTsnxAAQ Written by Deb Vosejpka with Muse (Meta AI) In Their Own Words, Volume 1: Timeless Wisdom, Truly Said. One of thirteen voices, every one...
Jailed for Being Poor: The Debtors’ Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5zfEGWjUVY On March 23, 1792, William Duer was arrested for civil debt. He was not a criminal. He owed money. Duer was one of the...
Gas Lamps Didn’t Leave Overnight: The Slow Death of Gaslight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RvVja0haAY Quick: picture the arrival of electric light. What do you see? Probably Thomas Edison, flipping a switch. A bulb flares. The gas lamps gutter...
Sputnik: 96 Minutes That Terrified Washington
https://youtu.be/M5remMIfi84 Picture this: it's October 4, 1957. You're a ham radio operator, fiddling with your shortwave set late at night, when a new signal fades...
Cold For Sale: How Frederic Tudor Shipped Winter Around the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ceg31TMUuo In February 1806, the Boston Gazette printed a short item that read like a joke: "No joke. A vessel has cleared at the Custom...