Vegan History and Other Oddities

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Weekly history podcast on unusual, unknown, or misunderstood episodes of history

  1. 12/23/2020

    McLibel

    Two vegetarian activists take on the biggest corporation in the world--and win!

    31 min
  2. Chiune Sugihara

    01/30/2020

    Chiune Sugihara

    Chiune Sugihara by Mian

    26 min
  3. Elizabeth Magie and the History of Monopoly

    12/05/2019

    Elizabeth Magie and the History of Monopoly

    The forgotten inventor of the board game Monopoly--a tale of forgotten women and capitalist greed.

    39 min
  4. Victoria Woodhull Part II

    11/12/2019

    Victoria Woodhull Part II

    Part II on the life of Victoria Woodhull: her run for presidency, her jail arrest for "indecency," her time in England, and her death.

    39 min
  5. Victoria Woodhull Part I

    11/12/2019

    Victoria Woodhull Part I

    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.

    41 min
  6. Upton Sinclair

    07/12/2019

    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair by Mian

    34 min
  7. Helen Keller

    06/19/2019

    Helen Keller

    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.

    30 min
  8. Al Ma'arri

    06/07/2019

    Al Ma'arri

    Al Ma'arri was an Arabic poet and philosopher at the turn of the first millennium, and the first recorded vegan in human history.

    32 min
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