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The History Chicks Podcast
Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider: Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour.
Episode Lists
Full Episodes
- Episode 01: Marie Antoinette
- Episode 2 – Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Episode 3: Cinderella
- Episode 4: Abigail Adams
- Shownotes Episode 5: Dolley Payne Madison
- Episode 6 – Lizzie Borden (Audio)
- Episode 7: Helen Adams Keller
- Episode 8 “The Mrs. Astor”
- Episode 9: Gilded Age Heiresses
- Episode 9A: Gilded Age Servants
- Episode 10: Jennie Jerome Churchill
- Episode 11: Queen Victoria, Part One
- Episode 12: Queen Victoria Part Two
- Episode 13: Princess Charlotte
- Episode 14: Clara Barton
- Episode 15: The 1950’s Housewife
- Episode 15A: Betty Crocker and our first Giveaway!
- Episode 16: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Episode 16A: Mary Shelley
- Episode 17: Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire
- Episode 18: Ella Fitzgerald
- Episode 19: Madame de Pompadour
- Episode 19A: Annie Chambers
- Episode 20: Nellie Bly
- Episode 20A: Sophie Blanchard
- Episode 21A: Teeny Tiny Tudor Tutorial
- Episode 21:Tudor Grandmothers, Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth Woodville
- Episode 22: Katherine of Aragon
- Episode 22A: Anne Boleyn
- Episode 23A: Titanic Field Trip
- Episode 24: Last Four Wives of Henry VIII
- Episode 25: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Episode 26: Rosa Parks
- Episode 27: Clara Bow
- Episode 28: Alice in Wonderland
- Episode 23A: Beckett and Susan’s Adventures in Wonderland and What They Found There
- Episode 29: Julia Child
- Shownotes: Episode 30 – Queen Mary I
- Episode 31:Lady Jane Grey
- Episode 32: The Romanovs Part One
- Episode 33: The Romanovs, Part Two
- Episode 34: Josephine Baker,Part One
- Shownotes Episode 35: Josephine Baker, Part Two
- Episode 36: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Episode 37: The Wizard of Oz
- Episode 37A Minicast: The Women of Oz
- Episode 38: Jane Austen
- Episode 39: Amelia Earhart
- Episode 44A:Tudor Grandmothers Revisited
- Episode 41: Bessie Coleman
- Episode 42: Frida Kahlo
- Episode 43: Elizabeth I, Part One
- Episode 44: Queen Elizabeth 1, Part Two
- Episode 44B: Elizabethan Life
- Episode 45: Hatshepsut
- Episode 46: Cleopatra
- Episode 46A: The Music Show #2
- Episode 47: Carry ( Carrie ) Nation
- Episode 48A: Sybil Ludington
- Episode 48: Agatha Christie
- Episode 48B: The Wizard of OZ revisited
- Episode 49: The Women of Gone With The Wind
- Episode 50: Hattie McDaniel
- Episode 51: Joan of Arc
- Episode 51A: Mrs. Claus
- A quick status update!
- Episode 52: Lydia Pinkham
- Episode 53: Marie Antoinette Reboot, Part One
- Episode 54: Marie Antoinette Reboot, Part Two
- Episode 55: Dorothy Parker, Part One
- Episode 56: Dorothy Parker, Part Two
- Episode 57: Q & A and Random Bits Show
- Episode 58: Mary, Queen of Scots
- Episode 59: Lillian Gilbreth
- Episode 60: Josephine Cochrane, Hedy Lamarr, Melitta Bentz, Mary Phelps Jacobs
- Episode 61: Catherine the Great, Part One
- Episode 62: A Conversation with Carol Wallace
- Episode 63: Catherine the Great Part Two
- Episode 64: Beatrix Potter
- Episode 65: Miss Potter Moviecast
- Episode 66: Zelda Fitzgerald
- Episode 67: Q&A Number Two
- Episode 68: Madam C.J. Walker
- Episode 69: Mary Todd Lincoln, Part One
- Episode 70: Mary Todd Lincoln Part Two
- Episode 71: Schuyler Sisters with Amanda Vaill
- Episode 72: Elizabeth Keckly
- Episode 73: Agrippina the Younger
- Episode 74: Marie Curie Part One
- Episode 75: Marie Curie Part Two
- Episode 76: Victoria Woodhull
- Episode 77: Belva Lockwood
- Episode 78 : Shirley Chisholm
- Episode 79: Lizzie Borden Revisted
- Episode 80: Queen Nzinga
- Episode 81: Mulan
- Episode 82: Lucille Ball, Part One
- Episode 83: Lucille Ball, Part Two
- Episode 84: Ida B. Wells
- Episode 85: Artemisia Gentileschi
- Episode 86: Eleanor of Aquitaine Part One
- Episode 87: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Part Two
- Episode 88: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Episode 89: Marie Laveau
- Episode 90: Q &A 2017
- Episode 91: Emily Post
- Episode 92 : Annie Oakley
- Episode 93: Wallis Simpson, Part One
- Episode 94: Wallis Simpson, Part Two
- Episode 95: Hypatia of Alexandria
- Episode 96: Sojourner Truth
- Episode 97: Queen Lili’uokalani
- Episode 98: Coco Chanel
- Episode 99: Pocahontas
- Episode 100: A Celebration!
- Episode 101: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Part One
- Episode 102: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Part Two
- Episode 103: Ada Lovelace
- Episode 104: Louisa May Alcott
- Episode 105: Dowager Empress Cixi of China
- Episode 106: Beatrix Potter Revisited and Refreshed
- Episode 107: Mary Pickford
- Episode 108: The Statue of Liberty
- Episode 109: Grace O’Malley
- Episode 110: Georgia O’Keeffe
- Episode 111: Clara Barton Revisited and Refreshed
- Episode 112: Jane Addams Part 1
- Episode 113: Jane Addams Part 2
- Episode 114: Anne Frank
- Episode 115: Belle Starr and Calamity Jane
- Episode 116: Ruth Handler and Barbie
- Episode 117: Harriet Tubman
- Episode 118: Elizabeth Báthory
- Episode 119: Phillis Wheatley
- Episode 120: Audrey Hepburn, Part One
- Episode 121: Audrey Hepburn Part Two
- Episode 122: Ching Shih
- Episode 123: Annie Londonderry (Kopchovsky)
- Episode 124: Mary Anning
- Episode 125: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Episode 126: Lydia Pinkham 2019
- Episode 127: Not-Quite-Live from PodX Show
- Episode 128: Charlotte Brontë
- Episode 129: Elizebeth Smith Friedman
- Episode 130: Revisiting Joan of Arc
- Episode 131: Seven Women Revisited
- Episode 132: Isabella of Castile, Part One
- Episode 133: Isabella of Castile, Part Two
- Episode 134: Gilded Age Servants and Heiresses
- Episode 135: Louise Brooks
- Episode 136: Mary Seacole
- Episode 137: Florence Nightingale
- Episode 138: Sarah Winchester and the Mystery House
- Episode 139: Pocahontas Revisited
- Episode 140: Wilma Mankiller
- Episode 141: Rosa Parks Revisited
- Episode 142: Louisa May Alcott, Revisited
- Episode 143: Maria Montessori
- Episode 144: Mary Church Terrell Part One
- Episode 145: Not Mary Church Terrell, but Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Episode 146: Mary Church Terrell, Part Two
- Episode 147: Isadora Duncan
- Episode 148: Annie Malone and Madam C.J. Walker
- Episode 149: “Typhoid” Mary Mallon
- Episode 150: Margaret Brown and the Titanic Revisited, Anniversary Edition
- Episode 151: Zephyr Wright
- Episode 152: Catherine the Great *An entirely true story
- Episode 153: Catherine the Great, *Part Two of an entirely true story
- Episode 154: Fannie Lou Hamer
- Episode 155: Aunt Jemima
- Episode 156: The Statue of Liberty, Revisited
- Episode 157: Lady Bird Johnson
- Episode 159: Empress Sisi of Austria, Part One
- Episode 160: Empress Elisabeth, “Sisi,” of Austria Part Two
- Episode 161: Q&A Three
- Episode 162: Victoria Woodhull, Revisted
- Episode 163: Belva Lockwood and Shirley Chisholm, Revisited
- Episode 164: Wonder Woman, Part One
- Episode 165: Wonder Woman, Part Two
- Episode 166: Pocahontas, Revisited
- Episode 167: Charlotte Brontë, Revisted
- Mrs. Claus: A biography revisited
- Episode 168: Shirley Temple Black
- Episode 169: 10th Birthday Love Letter
- Episode 170: Ella Fitzgerald, Revisit (and a request)
- Episode 172: The Harvey Girls
- Episode 173: Women of the Wild West, Revisted
- Episode 174: The Bowery Boys and the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909
- Episode 175: Maya Angelou, Part One
- Episode 176: Maya Angelou, Part Two
- Episode 177: Maya Angelou, Part Three
- Episode 179: Mary Seacole, Revisited
- Episode 180: Loïe Fuller
- Episode 181: Marjorie Merriweather Post, Part One
- Episode 182: Marjorie Merriweather Post, Part Two
- Episode 183: Statue of Liberty, Revisited
- Episode 184: Olympias
- Episode 185: Typhoid Mary, Revisited
- Episode 186: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Part One
- Episode 187: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Part Two
- Episode 188: Sarah Bernhardt
- Episode 189: Happy I Love Lucy Day!
- Episode 190: Elizabeth Báthory, Revisited
- Episode 191: Fannie Merritt Farmer
- Episode 192: The Music Show #3
- Episode 193: Tattooed Ladies
- Episode 194: Mrs. Claus: A Biography, Revisited 2021
- Episode 195: Emily Dickinson, Part One
- Episode 196: Emily Dickinson, Part Two
- Episode 197: Elizabeth Keckley, Revisited
- Episode: 198: Edmonia Lewis
- Jane Addams, Revisit
- Episode 200: Hurrem Sultan (Empress Roxelana )
- Episode 201: Julia Child
- Episode 202: Elizabeth Taylor, Part One
- Episode 203: Elizabeth Taylor, Part Two
- Episode 204: Elizabeth Taylor, Part Three (FIN)
- Episode 205: Queen Lili’oukalani, Revisited
- Episode 206: The Gilded Gentleman, Invisible Magicians, and Golden Plates
- Episode 207: The Wives of Henry VIII
- Episode 208: London Field Trip Report
- Episode 209: Elizabeth Chudleigh
- Episode 210: Elizabeth Van Lew and Belle Boyd
- Episode 211: Mary Edwards Walker
- BONUS! A Conversation with Liza Powel O’Brien
- Episode 214: Nell Gwynn
- Episode 215: New England Field Trip Travelogue
- Episode 216: Ida Lewis
- Episode 217: Pocahontas, Revisited
- Episode 218: Frances Perkins, Part One
- Episode 221: Frances Perkins, Part Two
- Episode 222: Frances Perkins, Part Three
- Episode 223: Mary McLeod Bethune, Part One
- Episode 224: Mary McCleod Bethune, Part Two
- Episode 225: Martha Washington
- Episode 226: Ona Judge
- Episode 227: Washington D.C. Field Trip Audio Postcard
- Episode 231: Dido Elizabeth Belle and Sarah Forbes Bonetta
- Episode 232: Barbie and Ruth Handler
- Episode 233: Lillian Moller Gilbreth
- Episode 235: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot
- Episode 236: Absinthe: The Gilded Gentleman (and Roosters)
- Episode 237: London Field Trip Travelogue, 2023
- Episode 238: Frances Glessner Lee
- Episode 239: Field Trip Travelogue, France
- Episode 240: La Malinche
- Episode 241: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Part One
- Episode 242: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Part Two
- Episode 244: Althea Gibson, Part One
- Episode 245: Jessie Tarbox Beals
- Episode 246: Althea Gibson, Part Two
Minicasts
Recap Episodes
- Age of Innocence “Moviecast”
- Episode 65: Miss Potter Moviecast
- Anne With An “E” Recap: Episode 1
- Anne with an “E” Recap: Episode 2
- Anne With An “E” Recap: Episode 3
- Anne with an “E” Recap: Episode 4
- Anne with an E Recap, Episode 5
- Anne with an E Recap: Episode 6
- Anne with an E Recap: Episode 7, Season One Finale
Special Episodes
- Minicast Shownotes: Abigail Adams-Feminist?
- The Music Show – Shownotes
- Episode 23A: Titanic Field Trip
- Bookcast: Jane Austen Book Club
- Episode 44B: Elizabethan Life
- Episode 46A: The Music Show #2
- Episode 57: Q & A and Random Bits Show
- Episode 62: A Conversation with Carol Wallace
- Episode 67: Q&A Number Two
- Episode 100: A Celebration!
- BONUS! A Conversation with Liza Powel O’Brien
Alphabetical
- "The" Mrs. Astor
- 1950's Housewives
- Abigail Adams
- Ada Lovelace
- Agatha Christie
- Agrippina the Younger
- Alice in Wonderland
- Amelia Earhart
- Anne Boleyn
- Anne Frank
- Anne Sullivan Macy
- Annie Oakley
- Annie Oakley
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Barbie
- Beatrix Potter
- Beatrix Potter (Revisited)
- Belle Starr
- Belva Lockwood
- Bessie Coleman
- Betty Crocker
- Calamity Jane
- Carry (Carrie) Nation
- Catherine the Great (Part 1)
- Catherine the Great (Part 2)
- Cinderella
- Clara Barton
- Clara Barton (Revisited)
- Clara Bow
- Cleopatra VII
- Coco Chanel
- Dido Elizabeth Belle
- Dolley Madison
- Dorothy Parker Part One
- Dorothy Parker Part Two
- Dowager Empress Cixi of China
- Duchess of Devonshire
- Eleanor of Aquitaine (Part 1)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine (Part 2)
- Elizabeth Bathory
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Elizabeth I (Part 1)
- Elizabeth I (Part 2)
- Elizabeth Keckley
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Emily Post
- Four Inventors
- Frances Perkins
- Frida Kahlo
- Georgia O’Keeffe
- Gilded Age Heiresses
- Gilded Age Servants
- Grace O’Malley
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman
- Hatshepsut
- Hattie McDaniel
- Helen Keller
- Hypatia of Alexandra
- Ida B. Wells
- Ida B. Wells (Revisited)
- Ida Lewis
- Isabella of Castile
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Part 1)
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Part 2)
- Jane Addams (Part 1)
- Jane Addams (Part 2)
- Jane Austen
- Jennie Jerome Churchill
- Joan of Arc
- Josephine Baker (Part 1)
- Josephine Baker (part 2)
- Julia Child
- Katherine of Aragon
- Lady Jane Grey
- Last Four Wives of Henry VIII
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lillian Gilbreth
- Lizzie Borden
- Lizzie Borden (Revisited)
- Loie Fuller
- Louisa May Alcott
- Lucille Ball Part 1
- Lucille Ball Part 2
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Lydia Pinkham
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Madame de Pompadour
- Margaret "Molly" Brown
- Marie Antoinette (original, 2011)
- Marie Antoinette (Reboot, Part One)
- Marie Antoinette (Reboot, Part Two)
- Marie Curie (Part 1)
- Marie Curie (Part 2)
- Marie Laveau
- Martha Washington
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Mary Pickford
- Mary Shelley
- Mary Todd Lincoln (Part One)
- Mary Todd Lincoln (Part Two)
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Mrs. Claus
- Mulan
- Nell Gwynn
- Nellie Bly
- Ona Judge
- Phillis Wheatley
- Pocahontas
- Princess Charlotte
- Queen Lili’uokalani
- Queen Mary I
- Queen Nzinga
- Queen Victoria (Part 1)
- Queen Victoria (Part 2)
- Red Riding Hood
- Romanovs (Part 1)
- Romanovs (Part 2)
- Rosa Parks
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Sarah Forbes Bonetta
- Schuyler Sisters with Amanda Vaill (interview)
- Shirley Chisholm
- Sojourner Truth
- Sophie Blanchard
- Statue of Liberty
- Sybil Ludington
- The Women of Gone With The Wind
- The Women Of Oz
- Tudor Grandmothers
- Tudor Grandmothers (Revisited)
- Victoria Woodhull
- Wallis Simpson (Part 1)
- Wallis Simpson (Part 2)
- Wizard of Oz
- Zelda Fitzgerald
