Before writing Founding Radicals, Eleanor and Tristra shared their obsession with Fanny Wright, her life, and times as an audio podcast.

Explore America's past through the unexpected story of an extraordinary early 19th-century woman. Frances Wright, the reformer, writer, and activist, was an abolitionist before it was cool and feminist long before the word existed.

Why was she forgotten in the standard narratives of American history?

Over 8 episodes, you’ll hear what made her infamous and inspiring from scholars, history researchers, and writings by her, her friends, and her enemies. Turns out, Americans have been arguing about gender, class inequality, race, citizenship, and belonging from the very beginning of our republic.