38 episodes
Abbreviated Bios Steven R. Yoder
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- History
Abbreviated Bios are short biographies of Americans and others, who made an impact on this country and who should be better known.
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Charles Curtis: Native American Vice President
Charles Curtis started out life on an Indian Reservation and made it all the way to the Vice-Presidency.
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George Bancroft: creating the U.S. Naval Academy
George Bancroft was America's first great historian but more importantly established the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Timothy Dwight: Standing against French Deism
Timothy Dwight, as president of Yale, resisted the influence of French Revolution ideas, which resulted in revival breaking out.
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Judith Reisman
Judith Reisman is the woman who exposed Alfred Kinsey's experiments as a fraud.
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John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope was one of the last neo-classical architects in the U.S. The buildings he designed are some of the most beautiful in the country.
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Robert Smalls: Using his slavery skills to escape
Robert Smalls, as a slave, was trained to be a wheelman on a steamboat. He would use those skills to escape and turn the ship over to the Union Navy.