Podcast Episodes

Sojourner Truth 2025

Sojourner Truth was an enslaved woman, a freewoman, a preacher, a speaker, an abolitionist, and a women's rights advocate in the Civil War-era United States. Like a lot of women's history, Sojourner…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Georgia Gilmore

Georgia Gilmore was one of the unsung heroes of history during the Civil Rights movement in America; a prime example of how one person's contributions can change the course of a country.

Her tireless…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Josephine Bonaparte and Eugénie Bonaparte

Josephine and Eugénie, related by marriage, and separated by only a generation, both rose from relative obscurity to become the Empress of France during tumultuous times. The paths of these very diff…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Fannie Lou Hamer, 2025

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we are again shining the spotlight on the remarkable life of Fannie Lou Hamer. As a small child, her hard labor was key to her family’s survival. She grew up to be…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Charity Adams Earley

Charity Adams Earley was the first, and highest ranking, African-American officer in the Women's Army Corps. During WW2, she led the 6888th - The Central Postal Directory Battalion, which was sent to…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Mrs. Claus, 2024

This story of Christmas' unsung hero has been our holiday tradition since 2014! We change bits of it every year, so no two years are exactly the same! If you have little ears with you, you may want t…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Katharine Graham

Katharine Graham was the head of the Washington Post empire during a turbulent time in American history. After a personal tragedy catapulted her into the public eye (and the eye of the hurricane), sh…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Pocahontas 2024

It's Thanksgiving and National Native American Heritage Month here in the United States so, this week, we continue our tradition of sharing this episode from 2017. Pocahontas' real story is much diff…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Paris 2024 Travelogue

We took fifty friends with us on our latest women's history tour to the City of Light! From a private nighttime tour of Versailles to a luncheon at Veuve Clicquot, through pastries shaped like apples…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House

Join us on this Halloween bonus episode as we revisit our 2019 coverage of Sarah Winchester! The Winchester Mystery House has intrigued people for almost a century. Its story has always been a dramat…

Published on 1 year ago