The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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 ...

13 Marras 20241h 49min

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 dramati...

30 Loka 20241h 18min

Join us as we discuss our recent field trip to the city that never sleeps! Fifty friends joined us for a women's history extravaganza (and thirty more dropped by for a celebration on the water)! From ...

23 Loka 20241h 17min

It's election season here in the US, so we're revisiting the life of the very first woman to run for the American Presidency in 1872. Victoria Woodhull crafted a life for herself from very raw materia...

9 Loka 20242h 4min

They said it couldn't be done; that the deck, and the odds, were stacked against her, but Trudy Ederle listened only to her heart during her record-breaking swim across the English Channel. She was th...

27 Syys 20242h 7min

We reached back a few years to again shine the spotlight on this remarkable woman. Fannie Lou Hamer began life as a small child whose hard labor was key to her family’s survival. She grew up to become...

11 Syys 20242h 3min

Emily Roebling stepped in to facilitate the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband, its chief engineer, fell victim to a mysterious illness. Though her contributions were kept shadowed ...

28 Elo 20242h 9min

Maria Theresa was the only woman to rule the Hapsburg dominions in her own right and is considered to have been one of its most successful leaders. Gathering the broken pieces of the empire she inheri...

7 Elo 20241h 42min