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Maria Anna Mozart and Clara Schumann

Maria Anna Mozart and Clara Schumann were talented and musically gifted women. They were both child prodigies and both dazzled audiences across Europ…

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth Part 2

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was once the most famous woman in the world. She graduated from youthful frivolity into the deadly serious role of behind-t…

2 years, 2 months ago

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth Part 1

President Theodore Roosevelt had many challenges during his career… corruption in the

New York police force, the creation of the Panama Canal , the Sp…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Mrs. Claus, 2023

Mrs. Claus has a history as colorful as her husband's so we spotlight it in our annual visit to her life! Originally, this episode is from 2014, but …

2 years, 3 months ago

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La Malinche

As a child, La Malinche was sold into slavery by her own family. Through a series of curious circumstances, she began working as a translator and cul…

2 years, 3 months ago

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France Field Trip Travelogue, 2023

Episode 239

Please join us and our fellow Field Trip Friends, as we all tell you about our adventures in France! From the glitter of Paris to the Champagne count…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Pocahontas

As is our annual tradition for both National American Indian Heritage Month and Thanksgiving, we present you with a bonus episode this month, our 201…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Frances Glessner Lee

Frances Glessner Lee was the mother of modern forensic medicine; as an heiress and socialite, she might have been expected by her peers to live a sta…

2 years, 4 months ago

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London Tour Travelogue 2023

The History Chicks met fifty listeners in London for the trip of a lifetime! From the coziness of Jane Austen's house to the grandeur of Westminster …

2 years, 5 months ago

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Absinthe with The Gilded Gentleman (and Roosters!)

Episode 242

While we're on a Field Trip, we turned the show over to the Roosters this week with a Veuve Clicquot adjacent subject: The History of Absinthe with T…

2 years, 6 months ago

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