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In this episode, we’ll continue our conversation with Snow Widows author Katherine MacInnis. Where we left off in the previous episode, three men from the infamous Robert Scott and Arctic Expedition were lying dead in their tent, and two men we
The story of the Robert Scott Expedition is one of the most well-documented exploration stories out there, but there's this entire other side of the story that's never been told - until a book by the name of Snow Widows was published. In today’
In this Salem Witch Trials follow-up episode, I want to chat about a few more fun – but really in this case not so fun - facts about the Salem Witch Trials that I couldn’t include in the previous episode, and also about a few recommendations fo
In this episode, we're going to talk about something that comes up every single October, and that is the Salem witch trials. But we're going to talk about this from a very specific angle. And hopefully it’s an angle from which you’ve not really
In 1887, Nellie Bly went undercover at Blackwell’s Asylum to expose its use as a holding pen for different or defiant women, and to reveal the horrors inside.Recommended Reading:Ten Days in a Mad House by Nellie BlyYou can support Broadl
Elizabeth Packard has just come out of the fight of her life. She’d spent three years locked in an asylum that she had no power to get out of. Her spiteful husband had committed her and used every legal tool at his disposal to silence her power
Soon after waking up one morning in 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a 40-year-old mother of six, was ambushed by two doctors who broke into her room. Her husband Theophilus had been threatening to commit her to an asylum for quite a while. And now he
In 1823, a young woman named Mary Anning discovered a fossil that would forever change the way we view the earth.Recommended Reading / Viewing:The Fossil Hunter by Shelley EmlingRemarkable Creatures by Tracy ChevalierAmmonite (2020)
In this episode, Emma Duval and I dive into the concept of childfree women in history, and how women without children push boundaries and help us redefine womanhood.You can find Emma Duval on Instagram @millennialemmaRecommended Reading:
In this episode, Alycia from Civics & Coffee and I jump into a conversation about Jane Franklin and Abigail Adams, two women whose lives both reflect the women of their generation and defy the roles they were expected to fill.Recommended R
Alison Larkin took Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and adapt in one single way: she turned Scrooge into a woman.The plot is exactly the same, all the other characters are exactly the same. The only thing that changes in the story is that S
Clue emerged on the scene in 1949 and changed the world of board games forever. Its inventor, Anthony Pratt, had developed his idea for the game during World War II, but this is the hidden story of the women who inspired his idea, designed the
Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate spooky season than to talk about some horror? Women have been telling horror stories from the origin of the genre, and haunted house stories are an especially good way to explore and examine the eve
In this episode, I continue my conversation with author Roger Gilles about the ways that Tillie Anderson and the other forgotten female bike racers of the 1890s turned Victorian rules upside down. They pushed the boundaries on gender roles and
In the 1890s, a group of women burst onto the American bike racing scene. That they were competing publicly was shocking enough. But that they forced to the fore the conversation about whether women should be athletes, made them women to be rec
After four failed attempts, Diana Nyad jumps into the ocean one last time. She braves the sharks, jellyfish, and overwhelming ocean currents to see, once and for all, whether her daring dream of swimming more than 100 miles from Cuba to Florida
Leading up to her 60th birthday, Diana Nyad decided she would attempt a feat of endurance that no one had ever accomplished before: she would swim more than 100 miles from Cuba to Florida...without a shark cage.Recommended Viewing:Ted Talk:
After Annette Kellerman changed the world with her scandalous swimsuit, she continued to shock her audiences by pushing boundary after boundary throughout her successful performance career.Recommended Viewing:The Original Mermaid Documentar
When expert swimmer Annette Kellerman showed up at a beach bearing so much skin that she was arrested for indecent exposure, she sparked a swimsuit conversation that would change the world.Recommended Reading:The Original Million Dollar Merma
In the 1890s, a cycling craze swept across the United States. Everyone jumped on the bandwagon – including women. And soon, a physical, social, and fashion revolution would begin.Recommended Reading:Wheels of Change by Sue Macy
In this episode, I answer listener questions about Elizebeth Friedman, other female code breakers, and dive into the fascinating and little-talked-about dynamics in Latin America during the Second World War.Recommended Reading:The Tango War
In 1942, thousands of women secretly took positions as code breakers for the U.S. Government. And their work changed the course of military and world history.Recommended Reading:Code Girls by Liza Mundy
In a feat of code-breaking brilliance and stealth, Elizebeth Friedman takes on Nazi spies as they try to take over South America.
In a face off between one woman and the mafia, Elizebeth Friedman sets the foundation for code breaking in the United States… and takes down the mafia in her wake.Recommended Reading:The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
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