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The Bowery Boys and the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909
Episode 174
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 …
5 years, 7 months ago
Women of the Wild West, Revisited
Episode 173
Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, and Annie Chambers were contemporaries of our previous subjects, the Harvey Girls and Fred Harvey, but they led …
5 years, 8 months ago
The Harvey Girls
Episode 172
The Harvey Girls were not "just waitresses," they were adventuring, trailblazing, refined young women who helped settle the American West. A…
5 years, 8 months ago
Ella Fitzgerald, Revisited (and a request)
Episode 172
From a rough start on the streets of Harlem, to the Apollo stage, smokey clubs, years on the road and in recording studios Ella led the worl…
5 years, 9 months ago
10th Birthday Love Letter
Episode 171
Ten years ago, we met (literally MET!) to record our first episode. It's been a journey, and we thought as a milestone birthday celebration,…
5 years, 9 months ago
Shirley Temple Black
Episode 170
Once upon a time, there was a little moppet whose grit and optimism on screen gave the world the courage to endure the Great Depression. But…
5 years, 10 months ago
Mrs. Claus, Revisited
Episode 169
Let's shine the spotlight on Mrs. Claus, she's not the one-dimensional support character most imagine, a revisit from 2014.
Learn mor…
5 years, 10 months ago
Charlotte Brontë, Revisted
Episode 168
Charlotte didn't let her circumstances and the discouragement of others stand in the way of her goal of becoming a published author; she got…
5 years, 11 months ago
Pocahontas, Revisited
Episode 167
Pocahontas did save lives... just not the way (or the one) that you've been taught. We revisit this 2017 episode to learn the real, not Disn…
5 years, 11 months ago
Wonder Woman Part 2
Episode 166
After her creator died, Wonder Woman strayed quite a bit from where she began. She had her wings clipped by the censors in the 1950s, and lo…
6 years ago