Episode 14: After the White House
Barbara Perry discusses the legacies that first ladies have left behind years after leaving the White House. This includes how their influence lives on through their post-White House work, their impac...
2 Sep 202434min
Episode 13: Famous Speeches
Newly Paul talks about some of the most famous first lady speeches in American history from Eleanor Roosevelt to Melania Trump. Show transcripts are available at https://www.quinnipiacpodcasts.com/the...
19 Aug 202427min
Episode 12: Women's Rights? It's Complicated
Melody Lehn discusses the long and complicated relationship between first ladies and women’s rights from 1776 to Seneca Falls to suffrage to the Equal Rights Amendment. Show transcripts are available ...
5 Aug 202438min
Episode 11: Charities, Children & Change
Kelly Marino discusses how the advocacy work of first ladies contributed to various campaigns and movements. The forgotten work of Julia Tyler, Abigail Fillmore, Harriet Lane and Florence Harding is e...
22 Juli 202421min
Episode 10: The Other First Ladies
From Thomas Jefferson’s daughter to James Buchanan’s niece to Grover Cleveland’s sister, other women have stepped into the first lady role and, unfortunately, been mostly forgotten. Mary Stockwell giv...
8 Juli 202434min
Episode 9: Trailblazers of Media
Shaniece Bickham discusses how first ladies have used radio, television and social media to creatively share their messages with the public, starting in 1931 with Lou Hoover and through Michelle Obama...
24 Juni 202417min
Episode 8: Mourning the President
Host Teri Finneman and guest Jodi Kanter discuss how several first ladies performed the role of mourner in chief following the deaths of their husbands. Martha Washington, Mary Lincoln, Lucretia Garfi...
10 Juni 202440min
Episode 7: First Ladies in Films
MaryAnne Borrelli gives insight on how first ladies are portrayed in movies about the presidency, ranging from Independence Day to Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Show transcripts are available at ht...
27 Maj 202430min
