The Women of the Rendezvous Plantation on Barbados in the 17th Century
In 1686, Susannah Mingo, Elizabeth Atkins, Dorothy Spendlove, and their children, all of whom were half-siblings, along with some of their children's other half-siblings and their children's father, b...
13 Jan 202546min
Henry Christophe: The King of Haiti
Henry Christophe, one of the heroes of the Haitian Revolution, was, from 1811 to his death in 1820, King Henry I of the Kingdom of Haiti, the first, last, and only King that Haiti ever had. This week ...
6 Jan 202546min
The Surprisingly Salacious History of the Modern Restaurant
If you were to head to Paris in the mid-eighteenth Century and ask for a restaurant, you might be handed a bowl of meat bouillon, prepared in such a way as to improve vigor and perhaps even sperm prod...
30 Dec 202442min
Frances Perkins
On March 4, 1933, Frances Perkins was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Labor. It was the first time in United States history that a woman served in the Cabinet, only 13 years after the ratification of...
23 Dec 202441min
Florence Price & the Black Chicago Renaissance
On June 15, 1933, the all-white, all-male Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Florence Price’s award-winning Symphony Number 1 in E minor, the first institution of its caliber to play the work of a B...
16 Dec 202442min
The Women Physicists who Fled Nazi Germany
As the Nazis rose to power in Germany, life became increasingly hostile for women scientists, especially women of Jewish descent, but also those who expressed anti-Nazi sentiments. The sexism in acade...
9 Dec 202445min
The Women who Entered the Federal Workforce during the Civil War Era
As the federal workforce grew during the Civil War, department heads began employing women, without any explicit authorization from Congress that they could do so. When Congress finally acknowledged t...
2 Dec 202443min
The Northern Manufacturers of Southern Plantation Goods
Plantation owners in the Southern United States regularly furnished their enslaved workers with goods – clothing, shoes, axes, and shovels, that had been manufactured in the North. Many Northern manuf...
25 Nov 202448min
