Podcast Episodes

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…

1 year 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 memora…

1 year, 1 month 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 remarka…

1 year, 1 month 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. Th…

1 year, 2 months 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 weeken…

1 year, 2 months 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 Impressioni…

1 year, 3 months 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…

1 year, 3 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…

1 year, 4 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 l…

1 year, 4 months 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…

1 year, 5 months ago