LISTEN 🔊 Bitter Academia: Episode 1 Jane Stanford spent the majority of her life mourning the premature death of her son. That grief became one of the most prestigious schools in the world.
In 1905, Jane Stanford, the founder of Stanford University, was mysteriously poisoned while on vacation in Hawaii.
The wealthiest woman in the Bay Area, possibly the country at the time, was 76-years-old and had spent the latter part of her life pouring her fortune and her heart into a school that would become one of the most prestigious in the world. But her life, and the school’s origins, were not all that they seemed.Editing, production, and sound design by Matt Pitman.
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