This podcast explores women's history, with bios of extraordinary women and social history of the more ordinary among us.
St Louis, Missouri, USA
Joined September 2020
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If you're feeling like #Christmas is a lot of unseen work by the woman of the house, then Mrs. Santa Claus is entirely on your side, even as written by the 19th century magazine writers who created her.
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I had a great time talking all things laundry with Shea from the History Fix Podcast! The history of laundry is so much more fun than actually doing my laundry...
#womenshistory #womeninhistory
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Exciting news about a former subject of my show! Amalia Kussner is getting a biography by @phihpod . Available now for preorder. a.co/d/2m3hMyn
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Remembering Joan of Arc, whose letter to the citizens of Riom was sent #OTD in 1429
Currently on display @britishlibrary, the letter bears Joan's first known signature
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Some election news I will comment on! My home state has a female governor, 3 women out of 5 state supreme justices, and 54% female legislators.
In a healthy system, balances like that will sometimes happen. Good to see women in those roles being normalized.
Women have won 60 seats in the New Mexico Legislature to secure the largest female legislative majority in U.S. history.
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If everyone had better history lessons in school, the world would be a better place.
Then again, I would say that wouldn't I.
Why spend all day fretting about today's election when you could spend 15 minutes of it reading/listening about elections that are safely over and the world did not end? (direct link in the bio and 1st comment)
Here's the direct link: herhalfofhistory.com/2024/11…
To that woman who thinks life would be better as a historical farmwife: please read The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
You'll see isolation, depression, debt+inability to earn, house burning down, failed harvests, etc.
The cover looks cute, but the life was hard.
Over the past 13 episodes, women squeezed, bound, crushed, tweezed, poisoned, pricked, & stretched various portions of their anatomy, sometimes with permanent ramifications, sometimes with excruciating agony, all in the name of beauty.
I'm wrapping up the series with: WHY?
Here's the direct link: herhalfofhistory.com/2024/10…
Help me find a lost tweet! It's a list on how to write women out of history: 1 she wasn't there, 2 she was there but she didn't do anything, etc.
Does anyone know where that list came from? @damesnet @SheDidWhatPGH @Queens_Podcast @LibraryLydia @WhatsHerNamePC @HerstoricalMnts
Happy anniversary to Equal Credit Opportunity Act!
It is truly crazy how recently women gained the right to financial independence. My episode 3.4 tells the long sorry history of women and credit.
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