The Woman Who Would Not Look Away

Anna Kingsford
About this Episode
Anna Kingsford earned a medical degree in Paris without harming a single animal, insisting that science and conscience explore the same reality.
circa
1880

Fanny Crosby: The Song That Wasn't Lost

Fanny Crosby
About this Episode
Harmonia tells the story of hymn writer Fanny Crosby, whose Bowery mission work refused to write off society's most discarded souls.
circa
1880

Harriet Morison: The Factory Door

Harriet Morison
About this Episode
How a Dunedin tailoress's union fight for fair wages became the same struggle as New Zealand's historic 1893 vote for women.
circa
1893

Rev. John Henry Barrows: The Door He Opened

John Henry Barrows
About this Episode
Rev. Barrows organized the 1893 Parliament of Religions to demonstrate Christian superiority, but accidentally created the framework for American religious pluralism.
circa
1893