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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Ellen Swallow Richards

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ellen Swallow Richards was a big part of the establishment of home economics as a field. But well before that, she broke a lot of ground and was often way ahead of her time.

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

If in fact Lacey is not that gorgeous.

0:05.2

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0:06.2

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0:08.4

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0:15.0

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0:19.8

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0:22.4

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0:26.1

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0:32.7

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:36.7

Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.

0:47.5

A few weeks ago I spent some time on the MIT campus for the MIT Mystery Hunt and while

0:53.6

I was walking down a hall, I saw like labeling that was kind of partially blocked by just

1:00.7

the architecture of where I was.

1:02.8

So all I could see were the words Ellen and Lobby and I was like, is that a lobby named

1:08.6

for Ellen Swallow Richards?

1:12.0

And I just kept walking a little farther to see what it was.

1:14.3

It indeed was the Ellen Swallow Richards lobby.

1:19.1

And then my brain like started fishing around trying to connect to like of all the people

1:24.6

that I know from history, which one was this one?

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