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Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler: The Mathematician Who Explored Infinite Dimensions
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Continue reading →: Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler: The Mathematician Who Explored Infinite DimensionsAnna Johnson Pell Wheeler, pioneering functional analyst and first woman to lecture at the American Mathematical Society, discusses her groundbreaking work in infinite-dimensional mathematics, her famous disagreement with David Hilbert at Göttingen, and her determination to establish women’s place in pure mathematics despite systematic academic barriers.
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Continue reading →: Winds of War and WonderYoung diarist reflects on Washington’s burning, childhood magic lantern memories, and shifting political winds from their domestic parlour in 1814.
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Continue reading →: What We WatchedYoung Marie-Claire witnesses Paris’s dramatic liberation in 1944, realising her true childhood entertainment was watching ordinary people become extraordinary heroes.
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Mamie Phipps Clark: The Psychologist Who Proved Segregation’s Damage
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Continue reading →: Mamie Phipps Clark: The Psychologist Who Proved Segregation’s DamageDr Mamie Phipps Clark discusses her groundbreaking doll test methodology that quantified segregation’s psychological damage on Black children. The pioneering psychologist reveals how rigorous scientific methods became powerful weapons for social justice, leading to crucial Brown v. Board testimony. She reflects on founding Northside Center and transforming community applied psychology.
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Continue reading →: Faith Forged in Sacred SteelA teenager’s hopeful reflections on survival, faith, and dawn’s promise while sheltering in church during England’s economic hardship of 1891.
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Continue reading →: Turning the GlassVenice, 1609. Galileo’s telescope demonstration secures his fortune – but when he turns the instrument skyward, everything changes forever.
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Dorothy Hansine Andersen: The Pathologist Who Gave Hope to Dying Children
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33–49 minutes
Continue reading →: Dorothy Hansine Andersen: The Pathologist Who Gave Hope to Dying ChildrenPathologist Dorothy Andersen discusses her 1938 discovery of cystic fibrosis through meticulous autopsy work, development of diagnostic tests including the sweat test, and navigation of medical sexism. She reflects on bridging pathology with clinical medicine, her systematic approach to rare diseases, and the lasting impact on modern precision medicine and…
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Continue reading →: Sacred Doubts in Secret PlacesA teenager’s secret refuge beneath chapel stairs becomes sanctuary for forbidden doubts during England’s tumultuous religious reforms in 1551.
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Continue reading →: Recipe for SurvivalWhen British forces burn Washington in 1814, Dolley Madison discovers that certain treasures can never truly be destroyed by fire.
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Florence Bascom: The Stone Lady Who Mapped America
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28–43 minutes
Continue reading →: Florence Bascom: The Stone Lady Who Mapped AmericaFlorence Bascom, America’s first female geological surveyor, revolutionised earth science by integrating fieldwork with microscopic analysis. Despite facing institutional discrimination – forced to sit behind screens during lectures – she systematically mapped the Appalachians with unprecedented precision, trained generations of women geologists at Bryn Mawr, and established methodologies still fundamental…
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