This 2018 episode covers the four Mirabal sisters, who are national heroes in the Dominican Republic. But they weren't very well-known elsewhere until 20 or so years ago when they became the subject of a historical novel.
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SYMHC Classics: Great Vowel Shift
Behind the Scenes Minis: Conjecture and Child Actors
The Clifton Star Chamber Case and Kidnapped Child Actors
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
SYMHC Classics: W.C. Minor
Behind the Scenes Minis: War of the Words
Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 2
Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 1
SYMHC Classics: Julian Eltinge
Behind the Scenes Minis: Square Dancing on a Wire
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
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