This 2021 episode covers Lola Montez, a figure whose life is hard to pin down. That's not because of a lack of documentation, but because that documentation repeats the completely fictional backstory she made up for herself.
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Square Dancing
Vander Clyde Broadway, aka Barbette
SYMHC Classics: George Sand
Behind the Scenes Minis: Music and Tomatoes
Nix v. Hedden and Tomatoes as Vegetables
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
SYMHC Classics: Frederick Douglass
Behind the Scenes Minis: Lucy and Ruth
Ruth Benedict
Lucy Stone
SYMHC Classics: Zoot Suit Riots
Behind the Scenes Minis: Pants and Randolph's Activism
A. Philip Randolph
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
SYMHC Classics: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Behind the Scenes Minis: Ruby and Japan
Hasekura Tsunenaga
Ruby Payne-Scott
SYMHC Classics: Levi Strauss
Behind the Scenes Minis: Goose and Chicken
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