The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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Frances Perkins Part 3
26 januari 2023 · 1 uur 42 min
Miss Perkins travels to Washington to become Madam Secretary - and the architect of The New Deal. Her ferocious battles with the status quo during these years later led President Kennedy to call her "one of the most controversial, dangerous figures who ever roamed the United States."
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Frances Perkins Part 2
9 januari 2023 · 1 uur
In Part 2 of our three-part coverage, Frances Perkins was galvanized by the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire tragedy to turn her talents for research into reform. Her reputation for intelligence, thoroughness and honesty (and the connections she made along the way) led to a meteoric climb into the highest echelon of state government.
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Mrs Claus - Our Holiday Tradition!
24 december 2022 · 16 min
Once again, we are dropping in to bring you the history of an unsung Christmas hero - Mrs. Claus. Where did she come from? What is her role in the festive season? We'll tell you all about her in this annual minicast.
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Frances Perkins Part 1
16 december 2022 · 1 uur 15 min
Line by line over the course of her life, Frances Perkins drew the blueprint for a better society; one that protected the weak, curbed the unethical, and provided a humanist framework for government. As the first woman ever to serve in a Presidential cabinet, Ms. Perkins was officially empowered to go ahead and build her vision of a better country, enacting reforms that affect each of us, even today.
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Pocahontas Revisited
23 november 2022 · 1 uur 14 min
Pocahontas did save lives... just not the way (or the one) that you've been taught. For both Native American Heritage Month and Thanksgiving, we revisit this 2017 episode to tell her real, not Disneyfied, story.
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Ida Lewis
14 november 2022 · 1 uur 31 min
She was just a teen when she took on lighthouse keeper responsibilities and bravely began saving lives--and risking her own--while doing what she looked at as her daily responsibilities. She attracted (not necessarily welcome) worldwide attention, but would she ever get official recognition and compensation for her work?
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Boston Field Trip Travelogue
2 november 2022 · 1 uur 46 min
Forty travelers, four hosts, and thirty seagulls headed out to experience podcast-based adventures in historic and iconic New England. We laughed, we cried, we learned a lot - and made friends (and memories) that we'll keep for life.
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Empress Sisi, Mega-revisit
17 oktober 2022 · 3 uur 16 min
We've combined our previous coverage of Empress Sisi of Austria because she's getting a lot of screen time these days and we found ourselves in need of a refresher, so we thought you might be, too. Both the Netflix series, The Empress, and a theatrical release, Corsage, cover different time periods in the life of this young noblewoman who was plucked from obscurity and shoved onto the world stage. She found the limelight a difficult place in which to live, but her beauty and her genuine concern for the common people earned her the status of a reluctant icon. Sisi's ultimate death shocked the whole world.
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Nell Gwynn
6 oktober 2022 · 2 uur 7 min
From a deprived childhood bereft of opportunities, Nell Gwynn endeavored to parlay her charm and talent in order to improve her lot in life. She captured the attention of a king, delighted the public both onstage and off, and became a folklore heroine who is still remembered today as the "pretty, witty" personality who might have been created especially to put her world into a good humor.
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Bonus! A Conversation with Liza Powel O'Brien
29 september 2022 · 49 min
In this bonus episode, we both chat with Liza Powel O'Brien, host of Significant Others Podcast. We talk about a lot, but it's mostly like listening to a great conversation at the next table in a coffee shop where the people talking are all female history podcasters. Lees meer
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Queen Elizabeth II - The Crown Recap
19 september 2022 · 1 uur 22 min
In honor of Britain's Queen Elizabeth 2 - we offer this homage, from our second show The Recappery.
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Doctor Mary Walker
5 september 2022 · 1 uur 45 min
Dr. Mary Walker challenged society's ideas of what a woman should look like, how a woman should think, and what a woman could become. During her military service, and within the suffrage movement, she often had to seize what she wanted from unwilling hands... and her rivals in both realms attempted to erase her from history.
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Civil War Spies, North and South
22 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 29 min
Elizabeth Van Lew and Belle Boyd had a lot in common: They were born in the same state, they died the same year and they both were spies during the same war...but for opposing sides!
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Elizabeth Chudleigh
11 augustus 2022 · 2 uur 12 min
The beautiful and charming Elizabeth Chudleigh had society wrapped around her little finger... until she made a fateful mistake. One night's impulsive decision to marry the man she met on vacation turned her life into a game of secrets, strategy, and spectacle.
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Our Travel Tales: London Field Trip Recap
26 juli 2022 · 1 uur 50 min
After three years of planning (and changing those plans) we embarked on a trip of a lifetime! With over 50 of our friends from the other side of the mic, we visited places we've only talked about for years! Join us and our traveling companions as we report on the places we visited and the lessons we learned. It's our How We Spent Our Summer Vacation report!
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The Wives of Henry VIII in Six Chapters: a mega-episode revisit
11 juli 2022 · 2 uur 33 min
Covid has sidelined us this week, so instead of talking, we've remastered and combined our 2012 coverage of all the wives of Henry VIII into this one supersized episode. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Katherine Parr together!
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The Gilded Gentleman Presents: Invisible Magicians and Golden Plates
14 juni 2022 · 1 uur 27 min
We love the Gilded Age here at The History Chicks! We have a special treat for you: a guest appearance by historian Carl Raymond of the Gilded Gentleman Podcast. In Act 1,"Invisible Magicians," he pays tribute to the world of the domestic servant, and in Act 2, "Golden Plates and Dinners on Horseback," he'll give you a peek into the over-the-top social events of the moneyed few.
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Queen Lili'oukalani, Revisited
30 mei 2022 · 1 uur 42 min
As a modern queen prepares for her Platinum Jubilee this month, we take a look back at another queen, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
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Elizabeth Taylor Part 3
16 mei 2022 · 1 uur 25 min
Elizabeth Taylor emerged from personal turmoil with a new mission; to be an advocate for the victims of AIDS. Her name became synonymous with humanitarian efforts for this cause. Not content with just one reinvention, she also put her tremendous energy into the foundation of a global perfume empire.
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Elizabeth Taylor, Part Two
2 mei 2022 · 1 uur 13 min
Elizabeth's story isn't even close to over! We have several marriages, lots of drama, even more movies, some scary medical issues, and some very bold and brave moves ahead.
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Elizabeth Taylor Part 1
16 april 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
One word simply won't do - Elizabeth Taylor was a daughter, an actor, a wife (a wife, a wife, a wife, a wife-wife, a wife, and a wife), an activist, a jewelry collector, an entrepreneur... and an icon.
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Julia Child
1 april 2022 · 1 uur 44 min
In honor of Susan's mom, and as a refresh as we all dive into the new HBO Max series, Julia, we revisit the life of this iconic and effervescent television personality and cookbook author who brought French cooking into American homes.
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Hurrem Sultan ( Empress Roxelana )
23 maart 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Kidnapped as a young girl and sold into slavery in a foreign land, Hurrem Sultan captured the heart of a king... and transformed the course of an empire.
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Jane Addams Revisit
7 maart 2022 · 2 uur 29 min
In addition to National Women's History Month and International Women's Day in March, we also celebrate National Social Work Month. With all that in mind, we've re-mastered and edited our coverage of Jane Addams, the Mother of Social work into one episode...an LP if you will.
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Edmonia Lewis
21 februari 2022 · 1 uur 44 min
Edmonia Lewis broke barriers as the first African-American and Native American sculptor to achieve worldwide renown for her neoclassical works in marble and bronze. After her death, her most famous masterpiece lived on, incognito until its relatively recent rediscovery.
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Elizabeth Keckley
5 februari 2022 · 1 uur 23 min
Elizabeth Keckley was born into slavery and turned a talent for design into her pathway to freedom. She bore witness to the American Civil War from a unique perspective within the White House as the confidante to her friend (and client) Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Emily Dickinson Part 2
24 januari 2022 · 1 uur 29 min
Emily Dickinson retreated from society as she got older, concentrating her passion and power into her work, though she did find love - and enjoy publication - at last! After her early death, her poetry took a convoluted route into the pantheon of beloved American literature.
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Emily Dickinson Part 1
15 januari 2022 · 1 uur 19 min
Poet Emily Dickinson has often been painted as a recluse and an oddball by history, though she had a passionate nature and a rich inner life. She wrote some of the most beloved and enduring poetry in the world during her introspective lifetime, but her audience didn't find her until after her death.
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Mrs. Claus: A Biography, 2021
23 december 2021 · 18 min
Just like her husband, Mrs. Claus makes an appearance every December at the top of your podcast queue when we shine the spotlight on this resilient, hard-working woman who wore many hats throughout history. Lees meer
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Tattooed Ladies
13 december 2021 · 1 uur 8 min
During an era in which a woman showing her ankle was seen as transgressive, a group of radical women broke societal norms by using their bodies as canvases for their art, re-popularizing the ancient tradition of tattoo.
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The Music Show #3
28 november 2021 · 58 min
We put themed music at the end of each episode - "dessert," if you will. In the spirit of this holiday season, where we give ourselves the joy of eating dessert first, we'd like to highlight the artists whose work has enhanced ours over the past few years .
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Fannie Farmer
13 november 2021 · 1 uur 46 min
Fannie Farmer was written off by society at an early age due to her disability. She rallied as an adult and parlayed her talent in the kitchen into a spectacular culinary career, becoming a beloved household name in the process.
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Elizabeth Bathory
31 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 24 min
Some say she was a vicious killer, others contend that she was merely a victim of the patriarchy, but Countess Elizabeth Bathory is one of the most notorious figures in history.
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Happy I Love Lucy Day!
15 oktober 2021 · 2 uur 44 min
National I Love Lucy Day is October 15th, so join us in celebrating the life of this iconic woman with a supersized episode that combines all of our previous coverage of Lucille Ball!
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Sarah Bernhardt
1 oktober 2021 · 2 uur 9 min
Sarah Bernhardt began her life in France as the unwanted child of a heartless courtesan. She found her first true home in the theater; and through hard work, sheer luck, shocking eccentricity and her indomitable spirit, she transformed herself into the first A-list international celebrity the world had ever seen.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Part 2
18 september 2021 · 1 uur 53 min
The worldwide eradication of smallpox was not Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's only claim to fame; she discarded the life she knew and set out to remake herself, acquiring a reputation for eccentricity, adventures worthy of a modern motion picture, and unwanted literary superstardom.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Part 1
6 september 2021 · 1 uur 37 min
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was brought up to believe that it was her face that was her fortune, and her place to be simply decorative. However, her uncommon intelligence, influence among the powerful, and her willingness to accept new ideas about medicine would save lives, help end smallpox, and transform the entire world.
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Typhoid Mary Mallon Revisited
20 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 21 min
There are quite a few parallels between Mary Mallon's story (a series of typhoid outbreaks) and our present-day pandemic, and so there are things we can learn from it.
But was Mary a villain?
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Announcement: Gone fishin'
4 augustus 2021 · 6 min
A summer announcement and a song Lees meer
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Olympias
23 juli 2021 · 1 uur 40 min
Olympias is known for being the mother of Alexander the Great and for being Very Fond Of Snakes. She was subject to centuries of slander by the historians who followed her - but in this episode, we right some of the wrongs, give you some context for her actions, and reveal her connection to the Olympic Games. Lees meer
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The Statue of Liberty, Revisited
2 juli 2021 · 1 uur 55 min
This year, the Statue of Liberty's Little Sister is coming to the US for a lengthy stay. The 9' reproduction travels first to New York for the Fourth of July, then to Washington for Bastille Day...and the next ten years. We thought that this was a good time to revisit the OG, the icon, the symbol of freedom for millions over the last 135 years: Liberty Enlightening the World. Lees meer
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Marjorie Merriweather Post Part 2
25 juni 2021 · 1 uur 58 min
Marjorie Merriweather Post was a natural philanthropist and organizer. Her fortune may have come to her by chance, and she is perhaps most famous for her outward signs of wealth, but she was no mere society butterfly.
Rather than her extensive collection of jewels and artifacts, her true legacy is the multitude of people she was able to help with grace, dignity, and her natural capability for genuine friendship. She was a monarch with a common touch. Lees meerLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Marjorie Merriweather Post Part 1
11 juni 2021 · 1 uur 18 min
Marjorie Post was not *born* with a silver spoon in her mouth, but breakfast cereal sure provided her with one before her tenth birthday! She parlayed her father's company into a major food conglomerate, and lived like royalty as the Duchess of Washington DC and the Queen of Palm Beach. Lees meer
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Loïe Fuller
25 mei 2021 · 1 uur 22 min
She was many things: an actress, a dancer, a chemist, an artist, and a pioneer in stage lighting and choreography. She was inquisitive and energetic, full of creativity and drive. She was always looking for ways to help her friends and was the belle of Paris and the Art Nouveau movement...but she is best referred to as La Loïe, THE Loïe, one of a kind. Lees meer
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Mary Seacole, Revisited
10 mei 2021 · 1 uur 50 min
For International Nurses Day, we're revisiting our coverage of Mary Seacole. While, technically, she wasn't a nurse, she was very much a brave medical caregiver, a "doctress," an entrepreneur, and one heck of a jam-maker who served those fighting at the front of the Crimean War (and so much more.) If you are interested in a more directly related nurse episode, we recommend our coverage of Florence Nightingale (as well as several others, mentioned in this episode.)
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Maya Angelou Part 3
28 april 2021 · 1 uur 45 min
In Part 3, Maya Angelou has stretched to fill many spheres of influence; she gathered accolades as she climbed and was generous with her experiences. Her lantern of wisdom shone all over the world, lighting the way ahead for others to follow.
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Maya Angelou Part 2
21 april 2021 · 1 uur 33 min
Part 2 is a roller coaster! Maya Angelou faced some of her greatest challenges during this period of her life, and handled them all with the true grit we've come to expect of her. And then she triumphed in three separate spheres, one right after another; theater, journalism, and political activism. Lees meer
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A Message from the chaotic House of Wood
13 april 2021 · 5 min
Where is Maya Angelou Part 2? Likely in a landfill. Let me explain. Lees meer
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Maya Angelou Part 1
31 maart 2021 · 1 uur 18 min
Throughout the twists and turns of her colorful life, Maya Angelou gathered the wisdom of the world and distilled it into a dynamic force with which to educate, to move, and to change society. Words have power! Lees meer
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The Bowery Boys and the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909
16 maart 2021 · 1 uur 1 min
Greg Young and Tom Meyers, of The Bowery Boys New York City History podcast, share their 2020 coverage of early 1900s women's protests that were tied to the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Lees meer
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