The political awakening of American women
Listen to episode 1 of the new Women of the American Revolution series
Isabelle Roughol
Founder & host, Broad History | Indie media executive | Storyteller, journalist & public historian
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Ep 10 | American Revolution | 1 | The political awakening of American women (Carol Berkin)
"It happened just like that, boom!"
How Chinese women were barred from the American dream
US anti-immigration laws targeted them first and not subtly
Ep 9 | The Real Frontier | 1 | The homesteaders trad wives would rather forget about (Megan Kate Nelson)
Mythologised Frontier imagery is all over the far right agenda
The American Frontier you never hear about
Westward expansion is one story. There are many others.
Ep 8 | The Real Frontier | 2 | The American West you never hear about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 1)
" Most white Americans could not conceive of a successful woman in the American West if she was not a prostitute."
History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives
What can I say, girls will be girls...
Ep 7 | History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives (Kate Lister)
"Girls will be girls"
Ep 6 | The fire that started a gender war
How one of history's deadliest tragedies for women became a fight about what real men are made of
What is that primogeniture thing, anyway?
The rules of succession; or, how to pick your king (and avoid a queen)
Ep 5 | The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries
Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension
"I refuse to be a footnote": the women who transformed war reporting
Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Mickey Hahn covered near every conflict of the 20th century. They invented the literary journalism we know today.
