Schlesinger Library
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Search complete. 4 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Schlesinger Library".
Oct 14, 2026
Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art
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15:20Joshua KendallGUEST
So you go to Archive Grid and you look.
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15:23Joshua KendallGUEST
Where else is there? And I found that there were two Gary Trudeau letters at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard.
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15:30Joshua KendallGUEST
So why are there two letters? And then it turned out that there was a woman who was married to a congressman in the 1970s.
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15:40Joshua KendallGUEST
And she wrote a bestselling book about being a Washington hostess.
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15:45Joshua KendallGUEST
and the Schlesinger Library, which focuses on women's history at Harvard, had her papers.
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15:52Joshua KendallGUEST
And in her papers are two letters from Garry Trudeau.
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15:56Joshua KendallGUEST
And the reason she got those two letters is that Gary was dating her daughter in 1968 to 1970, and Gary wrote the mother, the hostess, to thank her for hosting him at her daughter's house.
Innovation Insights from Megan Smith at Harvard i-lab
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24:25Megan SmithGUEST
And so we can work together with them if we know the history of what they did, and we can build on their work.
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24:31Megan SmithGUEST
In this case, Amelia is-- has this letter from Beatrice Pugly, right? And I love this because the Schlesinger Library's pulled this out to show to me, and it's, it's a beautiful set of advice to a young woman about how to come into STEM.
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24:47Megan SmithGUEST
You know, she's like: "Hey, if you wanna do, like, air traffic control stuff, you should go over to the train station and start looking around and work on that.
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24:52Megan SmithGUEST
If you wanna fly, you better learn how to fix your car." Uh, and it's, it's a fabulous real window into what Amelia thought and did as told by advice that she gave to someone else.
Liam Callanan discusses Stone Age Astronaut
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5:48Liam CallananGUEST
And Amelia Earhart was actually one of the first people to fly from Hawaii back to California.
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5:55Liam CallananGUEST
And he knew Amelia Earhart, and we know that for a very, I found a very haunting photo in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, the Radcliffe Institute.
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6:07Liam CallananGUEST
And it's a picture of Maitland in a soutane.
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6:10Liam CallananGUEST
He, he became a priest later in life.