Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein is an icon in the world of modernist literature. Alice B. Toklas is often described as her partner and assistant, but she was also published writer, and “assistant” really doesn't cover...
14 Feb 201835min
Pauline Sabin
The battle over Prohibition is often framed as a battle of the sexes, with women serving as the “moral” voice of sobriety. But a woman named Pauline Sabin is often credited as being one of the major a...
12 Feb 201826min
SYMHC Classics: Abelard and Heloise
This episode revisits the story of poet, philosopher and theologian Abelard, and his student Heloise. This is a tragic love story, complete with lovers forced apart, a secret marriage, a castration an...
10 Feb 201826min
The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
Memphis sanitation workers stayed off the job starting January 12, 1968 in a strike that lasted for nine weeks. This was the strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, Tennessee, where...
7 Feb 201833min
Aspasia and Pericles
This is often held up as one of history’s great love stories – Plutarch wrote that Pericles kissed Aspasia every single day. And that’s very sweet and romantic, but their high-profile relationship was...
5 Feb 201825min
SYMHC Classics: Double Agent James Armistead and the American Revolution
Today's classics revisits an episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina about James Armistead. He was a slave in Virginia, but got his master's approval to enlist when the Revolutionary War came. A...
3 Feb 201820min
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton
Mary-Russel Ferrell Colton was a painter, author and educator. But she's most famous for co-founding of the Museum of Northern Arizona and related programs and projects intended to preserve and contin...
31 Jan 201833min
Anne Lister
At a time when many women sought husbands to ensure financial stability, Anne Lister was looking for a wife. She was also writing thousands of pages of diaries, including sections written in code abou...
29 Jan 201838min
