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
51
The Disposable Diaper (ep. 15.13)
20 min
52
Let There Be Light: A History of Flipping the S...
19 min
53
Aqua Tofana (or how to poison your husband) (ep...
23 min
54
The Pill (ep. 15.10)
22 min
55
Birth Control Before the Pill (ep. 15.9)
24 min
56
Canned: A History of Bottling Food (ep. 15.8)
22 min
57
To Fetch a Pail of Water (a history of women ca...
22 min
58
Vaccines and Surviving Childhood (ep. 15.6)
20 min
59
"Superfluous" Women and the Typewriter (ep. 15.5)
18 min
60
The Spindle, the Spinning Wheel, and the Spinni...
21 min
61
Doctors, Washed Hands, and Death in Childbirth ...
21 min
62
The Bicycle and “Free Untrammeled Womanhood” (e...
22 min
63
Agriculture: Was It a Bad Idea? (ep. 15.1)
27 min
64
July 3, 1776, John Adams to Abigail Adams (bonu...
10 min
65
The Topic of Series 15 Will Be ...
3 min
66
Coretta Scott King, Wife of Martin Luther King,...
23 min
67
Jiang Qing, Wife of Chairman Mao (ep. 14.20)
22 min
68
Zelda Fitzgerald, Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (...
23 min
69
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor for FDR (ep...
24 min
70
Marion Mahony, Architect for Frank Lloyd Wright...
17 min
71
Mileva Marić, Einstein's First Wife (ep. 14.16)
21 min
72
Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi (ep. 14...
22 min
73
Clara Schumann, Wife of Robert Schumann (ep. 14...
21 min
74
Katharine Wright, Sister of Wilbur and Orville ...
19 min
75
And the winner is ... (plus announcements)
1 min