Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello, and welcome to the show. It's the end of another summer, but both Susan and I are experiencing a very strange sensation.

And there is nobody, and I do mean nobody in our house that has asked for a new backpack that has wanted a certain kind of pen that wants to go shoe shopping or even have us order things they bookmarked online, which is actually more like what my back is cool shopping has been.

I don't know what you're talking about. I just spent hundreds of dollars getting my kid ready for the dorm.

I don't know that I fall into that, but he does pick things out himself. So yes, where there's no back to school list that I'm going by this year.

I know we haven't gone to that back left corner of Target. That's right. When you walk in there and you see all this stuff for back to school in like July and you get all excited and the kids grown.

We have given all of his uniforms away. I mean, I guess it didn't occur to me until we put all those polos and all the things in a bag to go down to the school's trade up closet, you know, like we grow out of things.

Wow. All of that to say that we are experiencing a little bit of an empty nest or on on the verge of such and we are going to take the month of August.

Susan calls it going fishing, but I am here to tell you I'm not actually fishing. No, no, I don't even eat the fish on the fish and chips.

I just eat the chips. So we started thinking about former subjects and the one subject that popped into both of our heads was Lillian Gilbrith.

And it's not because she was a mother like we are an experienced emptying nesting at some point. And it wasn't because she was a working mom that was balancing all of that when people in her class were not working mothers.

It wasn't that no, it's because our sons, the ones that are flying our nests are in this episode three times. So all I'm going to say stick around sometimes we tuck bloopers at the very end of the episode after the end music.

So you may have been missing some all this time, but there's definitely one in there that I think you might enjoy.

So enjoy the story of Lillian Gilbrith and we will post another as the satellite sisters call it. Thanks ladies.

New to you show in a couple of weeks and we will be back with a brand new episode during the traditional back to school month of September on with the show.

And here's your 30 second summary.

There wasn't a woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children. She didn't know what to do.

And in about an hour, you'll remember her as much much more than the mother of a dozen children.

Let's talk about Lillian Muller Gilbrith.

But first, let's drop her into history in 1878 and amendment to the US Constitution is first proposed in Congress 41 years later.

It passes worded exactly the same way and becomes the 19th amendment giving women the vote.

The US Supreme Court rules that race segregation on trains is unconstitutional.

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