And the next Broad History series will be...
Tens of thousands of women were killed in the early modern witch hunts. It's time we understand what happened.
Isabelle Roughol
Founder & host, Broad History | Indie media executive | Storyteller, journalist & public historian
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Republican motherhood or how to avoid giving women the vote
Could you carve out a political space for women without threatening the patriarchy? The new United States found a way.
Ep 16 | American Revolution | 7 | Republican motherhood and the long impact of the Revolution (with Carol Berkin)
What was a woman's role to be when the men came home?
Mercy Otis Warren, female politicians and the radical (but short-lived) protofeminism of the 1790s
Women agitated for civil and political rights on both sides of the Atlantic. Men feared "the despotism of the petticoat".
Ep 15 | American Revolution | 6 | Mercy Otis Warren (with Rosemarie Zagarri)
"She was the preeminent female politician"
Ep 14 | American Revolution | 5 | Phillis Wheatley Peters (with Vin Carretta)
"The unofficial poet laureate of the new United States"
Ep 13 | American Revolution | 4 | Elizabeth Freeman (with Errin Haines)
"Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman"
Inside America's most famous love triangle
What really happened between Eliza, Angelica and Hamilton. Warning: This episode utterly fails the Bechdel test.
Ep 12 | American Revolution | 3 | The Schuyler sisters (Amanda Vaill)
"I love your husband very much... lend him to me for a little while."
Abigail Adams, capitalist
She made a killing in war bonds (and possibly insider trading). None of the money was technically hers
Ep 11 | American Revolution | 2 | Abigail Adams (Woody Holton)
"She made a killing!"
Molly Pitcher did not exist
And other revolutionary legends we may have to reconsider
