A Lady's Life in Ancient Greece, Part 1
Season 2, Episode 6. Ancient Greece is notorious for keeping women silent, veiled, and firmly fixed beside the loom. But was life for the ladies in places like Athens really so restrictive? What did t...
3 Jul 201946min
The History of Women and Beer
Season 2, Episode 5. For millennia, brewing was overwhelmingly a woman's game. You can't research beer's history without stumbling across female brewers. So why, when we conjure up an image of a brewe...
29 Mai 201946min
The Lady Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, Part 2: Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Tawosret
Season 2, Episode 4. Let's continue exploring the lives of ancient Egypt's female pharaohs. We'll start by talking about Hatshepsut's rise to fame and glory: how she stayed on top and what she did whi...
22 Mai 201956min
The Lady Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, Part 1: Merneith, Neferusobek, and Hatshepsut
Season 2, Episode 3. In ancient Egyptian, the word "pharaoh" doesn't mean king; it means "great house". They had no word for queen at all. All royal women were defined by their relationship to that ho...
15 Mai 201944min
A Lady's Life in Ancient Egypt, Part 2
Season 2, Episode 2. Let's continue our day as an everyday lady in ancient Egypt's New Kingdom during the 18th Dynasty. We'll talk about what we're doing for both work and pleasure, go to a feast, and...
8 Mai 201940min
A Lady's Life in Ancient Egypt, Part 1
Season 2, Episode 1. Of all the civilizations in the ancient world, Egypt was perhaps the most prone to the miraculous. They invented many wonders: the 365-day calendar, breath mints, paper, the ramp ...
30 Apr 201946min
Pioneer Women in the Wild West
Season 1, Episode 11. America's Wild West evokes images of grizzled men in fringed chaps, but women were also there to help shape the frontier: the pioneer women who fought through many hardships to c...
11 Jan 201959min
Novelist & Abolitionist: Harriet Beecher Stowe
The 19th century's best-selling novel was an incendiary story about the evils of slavery, written by a northern woman who wanted to change the world. Meet Harriet Beecher Stowe, the authoress who refu...
21 Des 201836min
