You probably know the names Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but what exactly did they do? You might not know the names Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Miller Smith, Amelia Bloomer, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Elizabeth Blackwell, Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Frances Willard, Mary Church Terrell, Anna Howard Shaw, Ida B. Wells, and Alice Paul – but you should. In this first of a multi-part series “The Birth of the Women’s Movement”, The American Tapestry Project examines the life and times of those 19th century women who fought for women's rights by appealing to America's foundational values. In doing so, they changed the world and shaped the future.

In this second episode of a two-part series on the life and times of Irving Berlin, The American Tapestry Project asks “What are the Top Ten Irving Berlin Songs NOT Named “White Christmas” or “God Bless America”. Hear the songs and learn their backstories as we continue exploring the life, times, and music of an American icon – Irving Berlin.

This episode of The American Tapestry Project begins a two-part series on the life and times of Irving Berlin – The American Songbook and the invention of American popular music culture. In Part One we’ll meet Berlin, discover his immigrant heritage, his experiences on Tin Pan Alley, on Broadway, and in Hollywood musicals as his music sings of America. Meet Irving Berlin and hear the sounds of “American pop” being born on The American Tapestry Project

This episode of American Tapestry is part 2 to a collaboration with WQLN's We Question & Learn. Narrated by Dr. Andrew Roth featuring and educational and most entertaining program entitled 'A Caroling We Will Go.' You can find part 1 here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/we-question-and-learn/episodes/A-Caroling-We-Will-Go-Pt--1-e2bllbg

This episode of The American Tapestry Project explores things Americans love – holidays! How many holidays do Americans celebrate? Where did they originate? In Harvest Festivals, we begin that exploration by examining Halloween’s roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, check out one or two Halloween songs and then ask “When was the first Thanksgiving”? What actually happened at Plymouth Plantation in 1622? Who were Sarah Josepha Hale, sometimes called the “Mother of Thanksgiving” and Lydia Maria Child – two women who helped define how Americans celebrate? And concludes by asking “Why is Thanksgiving in late Novemeber?” and listening to a reading of Child’s “Over the woods to grandfather’s house we go”. “All this and more” on The American Tapestry Project.

In this fifth episode of The American Tapestry Project’s “Americans and Their Games: Sports in American History and Culture” we examine the immigrant experience in America through the lens of sports. Picking up from Part 4, we meet the rise of Jewish and Italian boxers like Max Baer and Rocky Marciano in the earlu 20th century and New Americans like Martina Navratilova, Charles Jock, and Patrick Ewing in the 21st century, as we continue to explore how sports has been an assimilationist path into American society for generations of new American immigrants.

In this fourth episode of The American Tapestry Project’s “Americans and Their Games: Sports in American History and Culture” we examine the immigrant experience in America through the lens of sports. From Irish and German immigrants dominating baseball in the 19th century to the rise of Jewish and Italian boxers like Max Baer and Rocky Marciano in the 20th century to Martina Navratilova, Charles Jock, and Patrick Ewing in the 21st century, we’ll explore how sports has been an assimilationist path into American society for generations of new American immigrants. That’s in Episode #37 of The American Tapestry Project.

In this third episode of The American Tapestry Project’s “Americans and Their Games: Sports in American History and Culture” we examine the quest for women’s rights through the lens of sports. From Catharine Beecher in the 19th century advocating physical education for girls through the New Woman at the turn of the 20th century to Babe Didrickson Zaharias and Althea Gibson pre-Title IX to 1972’s Title IX’s epoch shaking transformation of women’s sports to todays’s Women’s World Cup we’ll trace the interconnectedness of women’s sports and women’s quest for political and legal equality. That’s in Episode #36 of The American Tapestry Project.

This episode of The American Tapestry Project explores how Americans celebrate freedom through holidays and music. Who was Francis Scott Key and why did he write “The Defence of Fort McHenry” and how did that become “The Star-Spangled Banner”? Which child of immigrants wrote “Stars and Stripes Forever” and “The Washington Post March”? Which other immigrant wrote “God Bless America”? And who was “the Yankee Doodle Dandy” who wrote “It’s a Grand Old Flag”? And who was Katharine Lee Bates, the poet Boston.com called “a gay, feminist badass from Massachusetts” who wrote “America the Beautiful”? Like they say on the late night infomercials, ‘all this and more’ as we explore American patriotic music and the freedom of which it sings – American freedom holidays on The American Tapestry Project.

In this second episode of The American Tapestry Project’s “Americans and Their Games: Sports in American History and Culture” we examine the experience of the Indigenous People and African Americans through the lens of those first excluded’s struggle for inclusion in the Story of America. We’ll discover lacrosse’s origins, meet Jim Thorpe, learn about the great Black jockeys who won 7 of the first 8 Kentucky Derby’s, meet Jack Johnson, and trace the story of minorities fighting for inclusion through the pathway of sports from pre-Civil War American down to the 21st century. That’s in Episode #35 of The American Tapestry Project.