Podcast Episodes

BONUS - The American Revolution on PBS - Our interview with co-director Sarah Botstein

The American Revolution changed the way the world worked; the principles of governance in the new country laid the foundation for movements all over the world.

On November 16th, Ken Burns and his te…

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Betsy Ambler - and an interview with Sarah Botstein from the PBS documentary The American Revolution

Life during the Revolutionary War was more than military strategy; there were plenty of battles to be fought at home. Betsy Ambler was a young teenager during the turbulent years, and through her rec…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago

Elizabeth Packard

In 1860, Elizabeth Packard was committed to a mental institution by her husband - for YEARS - for the crime of speaking her mind . This practice was completely legal at the time, and she had no mech…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Frida Kahlo, 2025

We're going back to our 2013 coverage of this iconic artist who turned her pain, passion, fear, and unique outlook on life into remarkable and memorable art. Her bold subject and color choices (as we…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Catherine de Medici Part 2

Catherine de Medici lived in a century defined by the the contributions of remarkable women, and she distinguished herself as one of the most remarkable of them all. No longer an apprentice in the ar…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Catherine de Medici Part 1

As the last legitimate heir to a powerful family, Catherine de Medici was married at only 14 into one of the most powerful royal houses in Europe. The two halves of her story are VASTLY different, an…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Philadelphia 2025 Travelogue

It's field trip time again! We took 50 listeners with us to the cradle of our country - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Over the course of a long weekend, we absorbed the sites and stories we'd learned …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Suzanne Valadon

Suzanne Valadon was born on the wrong side of the tracks, and the wrong side of the blanket, but grew up to be one of the It Girls of the Impressionist era. She traveled a unique journey to stardom b…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Alice Paul Part 2

The road to equality has never run smooth - in part 2, Alice Paul and the suffragists finally achieve their goal of a constitutional amendment giving women the vote - but not until a great deal of lo…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Early Suffragists, 2025

Years before Alice Paul was even born, the women's suffrage movement began with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and others at the first women's rights convention in the US in…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago