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.
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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"
Phillis Wheatley Peters, first (unofficial) poet laureate of the United States
Much of what we thought we knew about the first published and celebrated African American poet was wrong
Ep 14 | American Revolution | 5 | Phillis Wheatley Peters (with Vin Carretta)
"The unofficial poet laureate of the new United States"
She heard that "all men are born free and equal". So she called their bluff.
Elizabeth Freeman was the first woman to sue for – and win – her freedom from slavery
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!"
