Women's History Episodes
October 18, 2021
The Original Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
After the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, enfranchising (some) women, lots of questions remained. If women could vote, could they serve on juries? Could they hold public office? What about the array of state-laws that st...
20TH Century Women's History
October 11, 2021
Zitkála-Šá
Writer, musician, and political activist Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on February 22, 1876, on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where she lived until she was eight. When Zitkála-Š...
19TH Century 20TH Century Biographical History Native American History Women's History
October 04, 2021
Women in the U.S. Military during the Cold War
Nearly 350,000 American women served in the US military during World War II. Although the women in the military didn’t engage in combat their presence was vital to the American effort, in clerical work as well as in driving t...
20TH Century Women's History
September 20, 2021
Chef Lena Richard
Over a decade before Julia Child’s The French Chef appeared on TV, a Black woman chef hosted her own, very popular cooking show on WDSU-TV in New Orleans. At a time when families were just beginning to own televisions, Chef L...
20TH Century Biographical History Black History Food & Drink History Women's History
August 02, 2021
Elizabeth Packard
Elizabeth Packard was born in Massachusetts in 1816 into a comfortable home where her parents were able to provide for her education. She taught briefly at a girls’ school before at age 23 agreeing at her parents’ urging to m...
19TH Century Biographical History Women's History
June 28, 2021
Sophonisba Breckinridge
Sophonisba “Nisba” Preston Breckinridge, born April 1, 1866, was a woman of firsts. Breckinridge was the first woman admitted to the Kentucky bar to practice law in 1895; the first woman to earn a PhD in Political Science at ...
19TH Century 20TH Century Biographical History LGBTQIA+ History Women's History
June 21, 2021
Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor was born into slavery in Georgia in 1848. With the help of family members, she was educated and escaped, joining the Union army at the age of 14, to serve ostensibly as a laundress, but in reality as a nurse...
19TH Century 20TH Century Biographical History Black History Civil War Women's History
June 07, 2021
Knitting Brigades of World War I
Between America’s entry into World War I and the end of the war less than two years later, Americans knit 23 million articles of clothing and bandages for soldiers overseas, directed by the American Red Cross. How was this kn...
20TH Century Women's History World War I