Podcast Episodes

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 Impressioni…

8 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…

9 months 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 a…

9 months, 2 weeks 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 l…

9 months, 4 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, win…

10 months, 1 week 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 ci…

10 months, 3 weeks 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 …

11 months, 2 weeks 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 f…

1 year ago

A Conversation with Anne Sebba: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

To leave you with a bit of lagniappe for Women's History Month, we broke our usual format to sit down for a talk with Anne Sebba, author of the new b…

1 year ago

Wallis Simpson, 2025

Puppet? Manipulating social climber? Misunderstood? Deeply in love? However you see her, the fact remains that a king abdicated his throne, defied hi…

1 year ago