Surgeon and Suffragette Wins Congressional Medal of Honor
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Guest:\\xa0Theresa Kaminski, author, \\u201cDr. Mary Walker\\u2019s Civil War: One Woman\\u2019s Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women\\u2019s Rights\\u201d
Only one woman in history has been awarded the medal of honor, and it wasn\\u2019t a recent event. Mary Walker was a Civil War doctor, Union spy, suffragette, and proud wearer of pants.
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Fighting for Space
Guest: Amy Shira Teitel, author, "Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight"
Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb, two record-holding women pilots, fought each other and the male-dominated NASA for the right to travel into space in the 1950s. They never left Earth, but the female astronauts who followed them reaped the rewards of their struggle.'