Her Half of History

Women's history doesn't have be boring or depressing. I tell the stories of extraordinary women in history, including queens, slaves, spies, scientists, artists, wives, mothers, and more. But most women didn't leave us enough material for a biography, so I also tell you what it was like to be an ordinary woman, including what they wore, how they did housework, how they worked, and how they played.

In short, what were the women doing all that time while men were writing the standard history books? This podcast will tell you what those history books forgot to mention.

Education
History
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The Car and the Woman (ep. 15.14)
19 min
27
November Giving Poll (plus send me your questio...
3 min
28
The Disposable Diaper (ep. 15.13)
20 min
29
Let There Be Light: A History of Flipping the S...
19 min
30
Aqua Tofana (or how to poison your husband) (ep...
23 min
31
The Pill (ep. 15.10)
22 min
32
Birth Control Before the Pill (ep. 15.9)
24 min
33
Canned: A History of Bottling Food (ep. 15.8)
22 min
34
To Fetch a Pail of Water (a history of women ca...
22 min
35
Vaccines and Surviving Childhood (ep. 15.6)
20 min
36
"Superfluous" Women and the Typewriter (ep. 15.5)
18 min
37
The Spindle, the Spinning Wheel, and the Spinni...
21 min
38
Doctors, Washed Hands, and Death in Childbirth ...
21 min
39
The Bicycle and “Free Untrammeled Womanhood” (e...
22 min
40
Agriculture: Was It a Bad Idea? (ep. 15.1)
27 min
41
July 3, 1776, John Adams to Abigail Adams (bonu...
10 min
42
The Topic of Series 15 Will Be ...
3 min
43
Coretta Scott King, Wife of Martin Luther King,...
23 min
44
Jiang Qing, Wife of Chairman Mao (ep. 14.20)
22 min
45
Zelda Fitzgerald, Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (...
23 min
46
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor for FDR (ep...
24 min
47
Marion Mahony, Architect for Frank Lloyd Wright...
17 min
48
Mileva Marić, Einstein's First Wife (ep. 14.16)
21 min
49
Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi (ep. 14...
22 min
50
Clara Schumann, Wife of Robert Schumann (ep. 14...
21 min