Episode Details

The British offer to emancipate American slaves - if they fought to defeat American colonists in their war of Independence, abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is assassinated, women in Colorado get the right to vote, more than 20 years before the U.S. ratified the 19th Amendment, Jeanette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to Congress, and the birthday club includes Albert Camus and Joni Mitchell - with a reading from Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes."