People Hidden In History
29 episodes - English - Latest episode: 29 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThese podcast episodes are a collection of historical characters that history has either forgotten or recorded very little of their incredible lives. Some of these people I had a connection with through my family; others have simply made an impression on me. All of these people led fascinating lives and if you are a "history buff" like me, you will enjoy their stories.
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Episodes
Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge - A Valuable Friendship
April 22, 2024 23:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBThis episode with be an enlightening interview with Laurence Jurdem, Ph.D., adjunct professor at Fordham College, who pubished a fascinating and well reserached book detailing the friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge. You will hear of the enduring relationship between two men - who were very different characters in history, but in actuality had many things in common. Here is a great review of "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and...
Women of Terezin
January 21, 2024 21:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBThis is a follow-up to the Viktor Ullman episode, recorded in August 2022(link at end). Again - I am fortunate to interview Mark Ludwig (Director of the Terezin Music Foundation) and learn about the women at Terezin and their role in the music and the arts at this concentration camp. Though Terezín’s male composers — Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása and others — are well known, many outstandingly talented women were at the epicenter of the camp’s cultural community as well. In thi...
Anne Hutchinson - Defiant Woman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
October 22, 2023 15:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBThis episode will present a very complete view of Hutchinson, from her early adoption of certain religious beliefs to her clash with Gov. Winthrop. Dr. Hermes will provide not only the story of her life but the religious and social background of the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 1630's. Though the early years of the Bay Colony are often depicted as a haven for religious freedom, you will learn of philosophical divides and the involvement of the political leaders. And how these deep disagr...
Women of Terezin - Preview Episode
September 30, 2023 15:00 - 3 minutes - 2.45 MBWelcome to the People Hidden in History Podcast series, You will hear a brief preview of an upcoming podcast episode – to be recorded and released later this fall. This is to be a follow-up episode from August 2022, which was an interview with Mark Ludwig, Director of the Terezin Music Foundation. The episode focused on Viktor Ullman, a composer and music critic, who was a prisoner at the Terezin concentration camp. However, this upcoming episode will focus on the many talented women at ...
Mary Sears - Marine Scientist & Her Efforts to Win WW2 in the Pacific
September 21, 2023 15:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBThis episode is an interview with Catherine Musemeche who wrote a fascinating biogrpahy on Mary Sears, titled: Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II. It tells the story of how the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan when World War II began and how oceanographers came to the rescue. Our efforts were severely hindered in that there was inadequate data on tides, planning for coral reefs, etc. - to enact effective...
Updates - People Hidden in History - Webinar and Episodes
August 04, 2023 18:00 - 4 minutes - 2.89 MBSharing with my listeners some updates: 1) I have an upcoming webinar on Amalia Kussner, offered through the New York Adventure Club (www.nyadventureclub.com, category Gilded Age). It will offer recent research on Kussner and many images, detailing her life and the Gilded Age. Date is Aug. 14th but content is available for a week. Please join my virtual audience!! For further background: Kussner Podcast 1, Kussner Podcast 2 2) Planning upcoming podcasts - Anne Hutchinson - A Defiant Voice...
Success - 1600's Connecticut Witches Exonerated
July 03, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBThis episode will provide the background to the successful exoneration (by the passing of Resolution HJ 34 in Connecticut). You'll hear from the same 4 people that were interviewed in my series (from July 2022) and the tremendous efforts it took to get this bill passed. There were many components to this positive outcome - working w/ local representatives (including Rep. Jane Garibay), many volunteers and the power of various social media outlets. Also this team's involvement with Dr. Leo Ig...
J. C. Leyendecker - The Iconic Illustrator of the Early 20th Century
April 11, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBYou will hear about a fascinating artist – J. C. Leyendecker- who's illustrations epitomized the lifestyles of America in the early 20th century. Note: this will be a PG rated episode. His commercial art – primarily in magazines, became an iconic art style from the 1900's through the 1930’s. Leyendecker was also a major influence for Norman Rockwell, one of America’s most beloved 20th century artists. You will learn of the evolution of Leyendecker's style – from the Paris art scene of the ...
History Podcasts by Women
March 18, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBI am doing something different for this episode and this will not be a profile of any one fascinating person. But you will hear a 3-way interview with two other accomplished women podcasters and myself. What we all have in common is a love of history, though each of our series is unique in format and content. And we are recording in March which is Women’s History Month, and that's perfect timing. So sit back, listen, and learn about the origins of our 3 series and why we are doing podcast...
Cecil Schneer - Memories of a UNH Professor
March 15, 2023 18:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBAs with my earlier podcast episodes, this episode will have a more personal slant – telling my listeners about a memorable college professor. This came about since I connected again recently with my alma mater – the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. On my first visit to the campus in about 40 years, I was flooded with memories, especially those of professor and superb educator – Dr. Cecil J. Schneer. I was fortunate to take 3 courses from him and also was an assistant for an academi...
Maxfield Parrish - Iconic Artist in the Golden Age of Illustration
January 10, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBMaxfield Parrish is one of the most iconic artist of the Golden Age of Illustration. He was most well known for his calendar covers in the 1920's and 1930's. These would been seen across America's homes at the time, and often the calendar artwork would be saved and framed, after that year had passed. He was also commissioned for many magazine covers, book illustrations and commercial artwork (such as for Jello). But Parrish, like many other Golden Age Illustrators (such as JC Leyendecker and...
Flora MacDonald - An 18th Century Life in 2 Revolutions
December 30, 2022 20:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBFlora MacDonald (1722-1790) played a role in two different revolutions, first in Scotland and later in North Carolina during the Revolutionary War. She was most famously known for hiding Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) to avoid being captured by government troops after the Battle of Culloden (1746), and of course putting her own life at risk. And later, she and her husband, through the offer of land in North Carolina, arrived just before the Revolutionary War commenced, and wer...
Elizabeth Freeman - A New England Slave and A Quest for Freedom
December 17, 2022 18:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBThe history of slavery in New England is not well known, but did exist. And while the colonies were rebelling against England and wanting "their" freedom, many New England households had enslaved peoples. In one such household, in western part of the Massachusetts colony, there lived Elizabeth Freeman as a slave. She had already been enslaved in that household there for many years, and as with the unrest and coming rebellion against England, the men in her town - drafted their own "freedom...
Viktor Ullman: Music & A Will to Live During the Holocaust
August 27, 2022 20:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBThis is the story of Viktor Ullman, a composer and music critic, and others who were prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp (1941-1945). You will learn about Ullman and some of the other accomplished artists - who lived under the constant threat of deportation to Auschwitz but continued to create music and artwork. Their story will be told by Mark Ludwig (Executive Director of the Terezin Music Foundation), who is an accomplished musician himself and recently published a beautifully do...
Connecticut 1600's Witch Trials and Exoneration
July 16, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBI will be covering history that is past, current and future. The historical topic being the mostly unknown 1600’s witch trials that occurred in Connecticut - since they are far less well known - than Salem Mass and surrounding towns - Witch Trails of 1692. You will hear interviews with descendants from both Connecticut and Massachusetts. And I'll report on these descendants' current efforts to exonerate - and effectively clear the names of their Connecticut ancestors for the unjust accusa...
A Navy WAVES - Her Story of Service During WW2
June 21, 2022 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBThis is a wonderful story - detailing many aspects of a Navy WAVES* (of course from WW2) as told by her granddaughter (Larisa) and also some details from her own diary during that era. You’ll hear about her life before enlisting, much about her life as a WAVES and nurse serving the Navy, and then finally some about her adjustments to life after the war. This woman is affectionately known by her family as "GG" - for great-grandmother. Larisa took GG's diary (in Spring of 2022) and recorded...
Otto Antoine - German Impressionist Artist and Life During the 3rd Reich
June 14, 2022 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBOtto Antoine – was a German Impressionist painter and a distant relative of mine. Antoine’s life intersected with many key parts of artistic and political history – having connections with Kaiser Wilhelm II – prior to WWI, as a court painter. And later having some interactions with 3rd Reich in the 1930’s , with their cultural dictates that had to be adhered to by German artists. And we'll discuss his rebellious activities that almost cost him his life. Also during the 1930’s – we'll talk...
The Story of Otto Antoine - German Impressionist Artist
June 14, 2022 16:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBOtto Antoine – was a German Impressionist painter and a distant relative of mine. Antoine’s life intersected with many key parts of artistic and political history – having connections with Kaiser Wilhelm II – prior to WWI, as a court painter. And later having some interactions with 3rd Reich in the 1930’s , with their cultural dictates that had to be adhered to by German artists. And we'll discuss his rebellious activities that almost cost him his life. Also during the 1930’s – we'll talk...
A New England Family Saga & Life in 19th Century New England
March 11, 2022 17:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBThe inspiration for this episode was from researching my husband’s relatives from Massachusetts (especially his distant cousin - Annie Thurston) which then leads to many interesting historical connections in the mid-19th century. Early in this episode to illustrate some of this history – we’ll have an interview with Dr. Robert Forrant from the University of Massachusetts, with his extensive background on the Abolitionist Movement in Lowell (the 20 years prior to the Civil War). Other histori...
Amalia Kussner - Famed Gilded Age Artist - Her Life after 1900, 2nd Episode
January 30, 2022 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBThis is the 2nd episode on Amalia Kussner, the famed miniature portrait artist of the Gilded Age. We will discuss her professional and personal life after 1900. Very little is published about this time, however we’ll detail that she was still quite active and continued to be “the” sought after artist of era. We’ll also discuss the family she married into - The Couderts (most famously known for the international Coudert Law Firm). With her marriage to Charles Dupont Coudert, she inherits 6 si...
Eva Kor: A Holocaust Survivor - Who turned Tragedy into Triumph
November 13, 2021 22:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBThis podcast will be the incredible story of Eva Mozes Kor, who was a Holocaust survivor. She and her twin sister, Miriam, were also part of a medical experimentation program at Auschwitz, run by Dr. Josef Mengele. As an adult, and to deal with her trauma and grief, Eva started a Holocaust museum in Indiana (CANDLES*). Through an in-depth and fascinating interview with Leah Simpson, the Education Director of that museum, you will hear highlights of her life story. You will also learn that Ev...
Eva Kor: A Holocaust Survivor - Who turned Tragedy into Triumph
November 13, 2021 22:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBThis podcast will be the incredible story of Eva Mozes Kor, who was a Holocaust survivor. She and her twin sister, Miriam, were also part of a medical experimentation program at Auschwitz, run by Dr. Josef Mengele. As an adult, and to deal with her trauma and grief, Eva started a Holocaust museum in Indiana (CANDLES*). Through an in-depth and fascinating interview with Leah Simpson, the Education Director of that museum, you will hear highlights of her life story. You will also learn that Ev...
Gen. Laurence Kuter - His Fascinating Career and the Air Force
June 02, 2021 02:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBGen. Laurence Kuter, was instrumental in the founding of the Air Force. Though not your typical "ace flyer", his organizational abilities and expert handling of crises - placed him at critical junctures in our 20th century military history. You'll hear how he was a key participant in many historical events, spanning pre-WW2 through the Cold War, and finishing his career as the 2nd commander of NORAD. His fascinating life will be presented by Dr. Brian Laslie, currently the Command Historian...
William Shirer - First Person Witness and Reporter - Pre-WW2 Europe
May 21, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBWilliam Shirer was quite unique as a print journalist then later a radio correspondent, in that he was an “on the ground” witness to many of the key historical events, especially in Europe, starting in the 1920s through World War II. For example - he reported on the 1938 Anschluss, being in Vienna, at the time. You’ll will learn about his humble beginnings as a young man from the Midwest, then rising to prominence in the late 1930’s, along with Edward R. Murrow. Shirer was a critical voice,...
General Lew Wallace - A Key Historical Figure of the 19th Century, Author and Civil War General
April 21, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBGeneral Lew Wallace is certainly most famously known for being the author of the novel - Ben Hur. This novel was made into the “old-time Hollywood” classic of 1959 - with Charlton Heston and the chariot race. But there is so much more to Lew Wallace, with his Civil War career and a number of historically important government positions after the war. Wallace was a true Renaissance man - with interests in many areas and had a constant intellectual curiosity. But he had some challenges to ove...
General Lew Wallace - A Key Historical Figure of the 19th Century
April 21, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBGeneral Lew Wallace is certainly most famously known for being the author of the novel - Ben Hur. This novel was made into the “old-time Hollywood” classic of 1959 - with Charlton Heston and the chariot race. But there is so much more to Lew Wallace, with his Civil War career and a number of historically important government positions after the war. Wallace was a true Renaissance man - with interests in many areas and had a constant intellectual curiosity. But he had some challenges to ove...
People Hidden in History - Introduction
March 05, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutes - 3.76 MBAn introduction to the series, including the inspiration for this series and some details on upcoming episodes. Website: peoplehiddeninhistory.com Direct link Twitter/Instagram: @phihpod
Paul McNutt - A Fascinating Politician in the Shadow of FDR
June 02, 2020 01:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBThis politician was one of the more well-known governors of Indiana but also was a politician who had close ties with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) over a 12-year period, inclusive of the Depression years and WWII. He had a complicated relationship with FDR, which likely hindered his political advancements. His life story is a blend of triumph and regrets - most significantly having the democratic nomination for president just out of reach on numerous occasions. But McNutt had an impres...
Amalia Kussner - Miniature Artist of the Gilded Age
April 24, 2020 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBAmalia Kussner was a miniature portrait artist and a “darling” of the Gilded Age - the age when the American Industrialists and their families where effectively the royalty of America. She painted many of those families and as part of their extended social circles - was introduced to the crowned heads of Europe. She would go on to paint Edward the 7th of England and the Czar and Czarina of Russia - Nicholas the 2nd and Alexandra. She was quite adventurous and traveled in person for her portr...