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Rose Greenhow, Confederate Spy – This Week Aug 19, 2012
By Edward T. O’Donnell Confederate spy, Rose O’Neal Greenhow 151 years ago this week, on August 23, 1861, Rose O’Neal Greenhow heard a knock at the front door of her fashionable Washington, DC home....
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Margaret Sanger — This Week Oct 14, 2012
InThePastLane by Edward T. O’Donnell October 14, 2012 96 Years Ago: Margaret Sanger Opens Her Clinic Margaret Sanger, women’s...
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The Original Demon Weed: The Great Anti-Cigarette Crusade – Nov 11, 2012
InThePastLane by Edward T. O’Donnell November 11, 2012 News this past week that voters in Washington state and Colorado approved...
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Episode 009 Taxes and Tax Revolts in US History and More
This week at In The Past Lane, in honor (if that’s the right word) of Tax Day, we take a close look at the history of the fraught relationship between Americans and their taxes. This episode features...
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Episode 010 Harriet Tubman on the Twenty & More
This week at the In The Past Lane history podcast, we take up some timely questions: Who was Harriet Tubman and why did the U.S. Treasury Dept. choose her as the first woman to appear on the $20 bill?...
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Tubman on the New $20 Bill – Move Over Jackson
[Note: a version of this piece originally ran in the Huffington Post on April 23, 2016; You can also hear this and related pieces in Episode 010 of my podcast, In The Past Lane] The recent...
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Episode 013 Why We Pledge Allegiance, Betsy Ross, & More
This week, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Flag Day, we take a look at several intriguing flag-related stories. Here’s the lineup: Why Do We Pledge Allegiance? Here’s the little-known story behind...
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Episode 016 The History of Women Seeking the White House
This week, as the Democratic National Convention prepares to make history by nominating a woman for the presidency, In The Past Lane takes a close look at women who have sought the nation’s highest...
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Episode 074 The Second Coming of the KKK in the 1920s
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Linda Gordon about her new book, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political...
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Episode 120 Bringing Down the Colonel – A #MeToo Story from the Gilded Age
This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we look at a #MeToo incident from the Gilded Age. It involved a powerful congressman and a mistress he kept for ten years. But when he broke...
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Episode 177 How Radicals Transformed the US
This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, I speak with Holly Jackson about her new book, American Radicals: How 19th Century Protest Shaped The Nation.” Jackson is an associate...
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Margaret Sanger and the Struggle for Women’s Rights
InThePastLane by Edward T. O’Donnell Sanger spoke often in favor of birth control. Occasionally her opponents managed to have...
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The Original Demon Weed: The Great Anti-Cigarette Crusade
InThePastLane by Edward T. O’Donnell In recent years voters in many states have approved laws legalizing the recreational marijuana use (and that several other states approved...
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Episode 009 Taxes and Tax Revolts in US History and More
This week at In The Past Lane, in honor (if that’s the right word) of Tax Day, we take a close look at the history of the fraught relationship between Americans and their taxes. This episode features...
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Episode 010 Harriet Tubman on the Twenty & More
This week at the In The Past Lane history podcast, we take up some timely questions: Who was Harriet Tubman and why did the U.S. Treasury Dept. choose her as the first woman to appear on the $20 bill?...
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Tubman on the New $20 Bill – Move Over Jackson
[Note: a version of this piece originally ran in the Huffington Post on April 23, 2016; You can also hear this and related pieces in Episode 010 of my podcast, In The Past Lane] The recent...
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Episode 013 Why We Pledge Allegiance, Betsy Ross, & More
This week, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Flag Day, we take a look at several intriguing flag-related stories. Here’s the lineup: Why Do We Pledge Allegiance? Here’s the little-known story behind...
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Episode 016 The History of Women Seeking the White House
This week, as the Democratic National Convention prepares to make history by nominating a woman for the presidency, In The Past Lane takes a close look at women who have sought the nation’s highest...
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Episode 074 The Second Coming of the KKK in the 1920s
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, I speak with historian Linda Gordon about her new book, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Episode 120 Bringing Down the Colonel – A #MeToo Story from the Gilded Age
This week at In The Past Lane, the American History podcast, we look at a #MeToo incident from the Gilded Age. It involved a powerful congressman and a mistress he kept for ten years. But when he broke...
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