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History Unplugged Podcast

On the Eve of World War One, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Suffragette Jane Addams Sought to Prevent Armageddon

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the early years of the twentieth century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams: two presidents and a social worker. Each took a different path to prominence, yet the three...

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0:00.0

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1:06.2

History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts

1:09.4

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here

1:14.9

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast

1:17.2

Where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is

1:24.2

I'm your host, Scott Rank

1:38.2

In the early years of the 20th century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jane Adams

1:46.2

First two are well known presidents, but the last has been largely forgotten

1:50.2

However, at the time, she was America's most famous woman, arguably the only other one was Helen Keller

1:56.2

And she was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States

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