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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Got Questions? (and the voters' choice for Seri...
2 min
27
The Mothers of Invention (ep. 15.18)
23 min
28
The Sewing Machine (ep. 15.17)
18 min
29
100 Years of Santa's Letters
21 min
30
Some Like It Cold: A History of Your Fridge (ep...
22 min
31
Period Products (ep. 15.15)
18 min
32
The Car and the Woman (ep. 15.14)
19 min
33
November Giving Poll (plus send me your questio...
3 min
34
The Disposable Diaper (ep. 15.13)
20 min
35
Let There Be Light: A History of Flipping the S...
19 min
36
Aqua Tofana (or how to poison your husband) (ep...
23 min
37
The Pill (ep. 15.10)
22 min
38
Birth Control Before the Pill (ep. 15.9)
24 min
39
Canned: A History of Bottling Food (ep. 15.8)
22 min
40
To Fetch a Pail of Water (a history of women ca...
22 min
41
Vaccines and Surviving Childhood (ep. 15.6)
20 min
42
"Superfluous" Women and the Typewriter (ep. 15.5)
18 min
43
The Spindle, the Spinning Wheel, and the Spinni...
21 min
44
Doctors, Washed Hands, and Death in Childbirth ...
21 min
45
The Bicycle and “Free Untrammeled Womanhood” (e...
22 min
46
Agriculture: Was It a Bad Idea? (ep. 15.1)
27 min
47
July 3, 1776, John Adams to Abigail Adams (bonu...
10 min
48
The Topic of Series 15 Will Be ...
3 min
49
Coretta Scott King, Wife of Martin Luther King,...
23 min
50
Jiang Qing, Wife of Chairman Mao (ep. 14.20)
22 min