Delta College history faculty share key moments in time that help us understand who we have been and who we are today. From Q-90.1 FM, Delta College Quality Public Radio.
When the Pullman Company responded to the depression of the 1890s by laying off workers and cutting wages, the workers went to the picket lines.
Alice Freeman Palmer became the first female college president in 1881.
In 1908, the Supreme Court upheld an Oregon law limiting a woman's workday to 10 hours.
Alessandro de' Medici's life offers a dramatic window into the Italian Renaissance. The history of his story reveals a great deal about modern narratives of race.
If the lyrics to Elvis' breakthrough hit "Hound Dog" seem a bit strange, they make more sense coming from the mouth of their original singer, Big Mama Thornton.
Paintings of wealthy women weren't unusual in the late 18th century, but paintings of wealthy black women with their white cousins were.
Toni Morrison's novels broke ground in their portrayal of African-American women, but her work received mixed reactions.
Ibn Rushd (also known as Averroes) was a medieval Muslim scholar who weighed in on the thorny question of how to reconcile faith with reason.
Al-Biruni went further than knowing the Earth was round, he used that information to measure the world.
The legacy of medieval Islamic scholars is found in our numbering system and mathematics.
The Medieval Islamic world witnessed one of the great flowerings of science and culture in human history.
In the decades before the Civil War, Michigan had a reputation of hostility toward slavery, but it was not a safe haven from slave catchers.
This Moment In Time takes us to the end of the Cold War with the history of one of the most popular video games of all time.
Nintendo faced an uphill battle when they brought their Famicom system over to the U.S. as the NES.
Wallace and William Goodridge were African American photographers whose work captured scenes of late 19th century Saginaw.
In May of 1893, a fire destroyed over 250 homes on Saginaw's east side.
Go back to 1837 to flip through the pages of Saginaw's first newspaper.
For 400 years or more after the Norman Conquest, England's kings were also lords of French lands.
Britain has never been isolated from the rest of Europe, particularly not in the Middle Ages.
The popular view of the Angles and Saxons is not supported by serious historians today.
Most of the thinking behind Brexit is based on assumptions that Britain is an island and fundamentally different from mainland Europe.
Why are Rosa Luxemburg and the German Revolution itself so overlooked despite their historical importance?
After WWI, it looked like Germany would follow Russia in becoming a Communist State. This week, we look at why that didn't happen.
Rosa Luxemburg was an unlikely key figure in the German Revolution.
Although not as well remembered as the Russian Revolution, the German Revolution led to the end of WWI and helped fuel the rise of the Nazis.
June 2, 1763. A group of Ojibwa take Fort Michilimackinac, the first of several British forts captured by Native Americans in Michigan.
July 1861. A wounded Union soldier and spy defects from the Army rather than be discovered as a woman posing as a man.
February 13, 1855 - Michigan enacts a law that eventually compels 11 southern states to secede from the Union.
In 1914, Henry Ford announced he would pay his workers a "profit share" that was twice what the automobile industry typically paid, but with some strings attached that would be considered intrusive today.
This Moment In Time takes us to the end of World War I, and how the seeds were sown for another World War just 20 years later.
Women weren't allowed to join the military during the Civil War, but many presented themselves as men to join anyways.
The Romans believed they needed to keep the gods happy, but how did they determine if their actions would do so?
On this Moment In Time, we look at how history and pop culture came together in the naming of NASA's first shuttle orbiter.
A look into the short life of the father of cosmic horror, author H.P. Lovecraft.
After World War I, Germany chose to sink its High Seas Fleet rather than surrender the ships, all while under the watchful eye of the British.
We discuss the mutiny of the German High Seas Fleet in 1918, an event that had major repercussions for Germany in World War I.
This week's Moment In Time is an infrequently discusses incident at the onset of World War II staged by Nazi Germany to justify the invasion of Poland.
Where does our modern calendar come from? Take a look back at how the Roman calendar evolved into the one we use today.
This month sees the conclusion of the men's World Cup, so we take a look at the invention of the sport most of the world calls football.
This Moment In Time follows Cleopatra, the last ruling pharaoh, who died trying to keep Egypt independent from Roman rule.
This Moment In Time follows the life of a woman who wielded great political power in Ancient Rome, Livia Drusilla, the wife and unofficial advisor of Augustus.
This Moment In Time is about an important woman in Ancient Rome, Octavia, who was involved in the power struggle between Gaius Octavian and Mark Antony following the death of Julius Caesar and came to be respected in her own right as a paragon of Roman female virtue.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the 30 Years' War. In this episode, we look at the war's bloody legacy.
2018 marks a significant anniversary of one of Europe's bloodiest conflicts - not a World War, but a much earlier conflict.
This Moment In Time takes up back to December 25, 1776, when a surprise attack by George Washington breathed new life into the American Revolution.
This moment in time takes place in 1793 with the question of whether the United States was obligated to help France in her war with Great Britain.
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