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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast
Episode: Women Have Been Running For President Since 1872. Here Are 4 Of Their Stories
Description: 2016 was the first election in which a woman won the nomination of a major political party to be president of the United States. But women have been legally running for president as far back as 1872, decades before they could even vote. Since then several dozen women have run for president, almost all of them long shots with nearly no chance of winning. But these long odds do not negate their story and their campaigns tell us much about the times in which they lived.In this episode I talk with Richard Lim, host of This American President Podcast...