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?
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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"
Ep 12 | American Revolution | 3 | The Schuyler sisters (Amanda Vaill)
"I love your husband very much... lend him to me for a little while."
Ep 11 | American Revolution | 2 | Abigail Adams (Woody Holton)
"She made a killing!"
Ep 10 | American Revolution | 1 | The political awakening of American women (Carol Berkin)
"It happened just like that, boom!"
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
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."
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
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
