A battlefield surgeon. A Medal of Honor recipient. And, by the end of her life, a woman most of the women's suffrage movement wrote off as too radical.

This episode of “Keeping the Hysteria in American History” traces how Dr. Mary Edwards Walker's fight for women's rights became too hot to handle, and why her story feels more relevant now than ever.

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