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Czech’rd Past Podcast is my corner of the internet for history lovers, the historically curious, and anyone who enjoys learning how the past shapes the world we live in.

09/13/2026

Before Carter G. Woodson became known as the Father of Black History, he worked in the coal mines of West Virginia.

His education didn't follow an easy path.

But eventually that path brought him to Berea College, where he graduated in 1903.

Woodson would go on to earn a doctorate from Harvard and, in 1926, establish Negro History Week, the precursor to today's Black History Month.

🎙️ This week on Czech’rd Past, Paula and Chad discover just how many extraordinary stories are hiding inside the history of one little Kentucky college.

And Carter G. Woodson is only one of them.

09/12/2026

Imagine being told you have ten days to leave Kentucky because of what you're teaching.

That's what happened to abolitionist John Gregg Fee and other supporters of the school that would become Berea College in 1859.

They were threatened.

They were driven out.

The school nearly disappeared.

Then the Civil War came.

Slavery ended.

And in 1865, they came back.

🎙️ This week on Czech’rd Past, we're telling the story of Berea College and the people stubborn enough to rebuild an in*******al school in Kentucky after a mob tried to destroy it.

Sometimes the best response to “Get out” is simply...

coming back.

09/11/2026

In 1866–67, Berea had 187 students.

96 were Black.
91 were white.

This wasn't New York.

It wasn't Boston.

It was Kentucky, immediately after the Civil War.

Berea College had already demonstrated that Black and white students could learn together decades before Kentucky passed a law forcing the school to segregate.

🎙️ This week on Czech’rd Past, Paula and Chad tell the story of the students, teachers and families who made Berea's experiment in equality real.

And what happened when Kentucky decided to stop it.

09/10/2026

What happens when you start an in*******al school in Kentucky before the Civil War?

People notice.

And not everybody is happy about it.

In 1855, abolitionist John Gregg Fee helped create the school that would become Berea College, built around a radical idea: Black and white students deserved to be educated together.

By 1859, Fee and other Berea supporters were given ten days to leave Kentucky.

They left.

Then they came back.

🎙️ This week on Czech’rd Past, we're telling the remarkable story of Berea College, the little Kentucky school that proved remarkably difficult to get rid of.

09/05/2026

Between those two worlds, Svetlana Alliluyeva lived a life almost impossible to invent.

Her mother died when she was six.

A man she loved was sent away by her father.

She carried another man’s ashes to India.

She walked into the U.S. Embassy and defected.

She became a bestselling author.

She married into the Frank Lloyd Wright circle in Wisconsin.

Then, seventeen years after escaping the Soviet Union...

she went back.

And then she left AGAIN.

This isn’t really a story about Joseph Stalin.

It’s about the daughter who spent a lifetime trying to figure out who she was without him.

🎧 Czech’rd Past: The Dictator’s Daughter

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

09/04/2026

You probably don’t have Joseph Stalin and Frank Lloyd Wright on the same historical bingo card.

But here we are. 😏

After defecting from the Soviet Union, Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva eventually entered the world of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin in Wisconsin.

Then things got even stranger.

She met and married William Wesley Peters, one of Wright’s most important associates, took the name Lana Peters, and suddenly the daughter who grew up inside Stalin’s Kremlin was connected to one of the most famous architectural families in America.

And that’s only ONE chapter of her life.

🎙️ This week on Czech’rd Past, we follow Svetlana’s unbelievable journey from Moscow to Wisconsin and the lifelong question she could never completely answer:

Who was she when she wasn’t Joseph Stalin’s daughter?

09/04/2026

Joseph Stalin spent his life making sure the world remembered his name.

His daughter spent much of hers trying to escape it.

Svetlana Alliluyeva was a daughter, mother, writer, defector, immigrant, and a woman constantly searching for somewhere she could simply belong.

That search took her from the Kremlin to India, America, the Soviet Union again, and eventually Wisconsin, where she spent part of her later life as Lana Peters.

She escaped Stalin’s Soviet Union.

She even went back.

Then she left again.

But could she ever really escape being Stalin’s daughter?

🎙️ On this episode of Czech’rd Past, we look beyond the famous surname and tell the complicated, emotional story of the woman who carried it.

09/02/2026

It’s March 1967.

A woman walks into the American Embassy in New Delhi carrying a small suitcase.

Her name is Svetlana Alliluyeva.

Her father?

Joseph Stalin.

And she wants out.

Her decision would become one of the most sensational defections of the Cold War. But escaping the Soviet Union was only the beginning.

Svetlana would cross continents, become a bestselling author, marry into the Frank Lloyd Wright circle, return to the Soviet Union years later, leave AGAIN... and eventually find herself living in Wisconsin.

🎙️ This week on Czech’rd Past, we’re telling the remarkable and deeply personal story of the woman who discovered that escaping a country was possible.

Escaping her father’s name was something else entirely.

09/01/2026

Imagine walking through Spring Green or Richland Center, Wisconsin, and passing a woman whose childhood home was the Kremlin.

That woman was Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin.

By the end of her remarkable life, she had crossed the Iron Curtain twice, changed countries, changed names, married architect William Wesley Peters, and spent decades trying to escape the shadow of her father.

From Moscow to Wisconsin, her story is far stranger, sadder, and more human than the headline “Stalin’s daughter” suggests.

🎙️ This week on Czech’rd Past, we follow Svetlana’s incredible journey and discover how one of the Cold War’s most famous defectors ended up quietly living in Wisconsin.

08/31/2026

What happens when the daughter of one of history’s most feared dictators ends up living quietly in Wisconsin?

This week on Czech’rd Past, we’re telling the extraordinary story of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s only daughter.

She grew up inside the Kremlin, defected to the United States, married into the Frank Lloyd Wright circle, returned to the Soviet Union, escaped again, and eventually found herself living among the hills of southwestern Wisconsin.

It’s a story about family, freedom, identity, and what happens when your father’s name follows you everywhere.

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