UNSUNG HISTORY
A podcast about people and events in American history you may not know much about. Yet.
Recent Episodes
Jan. 17, 2022
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, born in Delaware in 1823, was a teacher, a writer, an abolitionist, a suffragist, and a lawyer, and is consi…
Jan. 10, 2022
The 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
In February, 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, a small group of unionized workers at the Electric Auto-Lite company of …
Jan. 3, 2022
The Suffrage Road Trip of 1915
In September 1915, four suffragists set off from the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, in a b…
Dec. 27, 2021
Women-Led Slave Revolts
Enslaved Africans in what is now New York State and in the Middle Passage resisted their enslavement, despite the risk of doing s…
Dec. 20, 2021
The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
From September 1942 to December 1944, over 1000 American women served in the war effort as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), …
Dec. 13, 2021
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was born in China in 1896 but lived most of her life in the United States, where, due to the Chinese Exclusion…
Dec. 6, 2021
Loïs Mailou Jones
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1905, artist Loïs Mailou Jones’s career spanned much of the 20th Century as both a painter and …
Nov. 29, 2021
The Yakama War
In October 1805, the Yakama encountered the Lewis and Clark Expedition near the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia rivers. By …
Nov. 22, 2021
The Wampanoag & the Thanksgiving Myth
In Autumn of 1621, a group of Pilgrims from the Mayflower voyage and Wampanoag men, led by their sachem Massasoit, ate a feast to…
Nov. 15, 2021
Treaty Rights of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe
Before the arrival of Europeans, the Ojibwe nation occupied much of the Lake Superior region, including what is now Ontario in Ca…
About the Host
Kelly Therese Pollock
Producer & Host
Kelly has always been the kind of person who asks questions — lots of questions — to anyone who will listen and answer. With a BA in Religious Studies from Northwestern University and an MA in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara (where she wrote a thesis on feminist witches), Kelly has turned her questioning to politics and history where she digs deep into stories that aren’t getting enough attention.
By day Kelly is an administrator at the University of Chicago, where she has worked since 2004.
Kelly lives on the southside of Chicago with her husband, two kids, and two cats. When she’s not podcasting or working you can find Kelly with knitting needles in her hands. If she could knit and podcast at the same time she would.