Podcast Episodes

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 10 hours 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 weeks, 1 day 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 1 month 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 1 month, 2 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 2 months ago

Alice Paul, Part 1

Alice Paul was one of the most prominent activists of the 20th-century women's rights movement, who believed that moral authority always trumps the letter of the law; injustices must be called out an…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris Field Trip Travelogue, 2025

We lived the dream... and traveled to Paris in the springtime!

Fifty of our friends joined us in the City Of Light for forays into history, art, wine, architecture, shopping, camaraderie, and SO MUC…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Anne Frank 2025

During our coverage of Miep Gies, we presented the story of the events that were happening in the world at large during WW2, closer in within the city of Amsterdam, and then to a smaller scale withi…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Miep Gies Part 2

Miep Gies risked her life in order to help her Jewish friends hide from the Nazis during World War 2. In Part 2 of her story, we'll take you through the years of struggle and subterfuge, the dark day…

Published on 4 months ago

Miep Gies Part 1

In a land fraught with turbulence and oppression, Miep Gies helped to shelter and supply Anne Frank's family (and others) while they were in hiding from the Nazis; an act of civil disobedience that w…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago