Episode 259: Josephine Bonaparte and Eugénie Bonaparte

SHOWNOTES UNDER CONSTRUCTION, please come back for all the interesting bits
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by The History Chicks | Jan 22, 2025 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
SHOWNOTES UNDER CONSTRUCTION, please come back for all the interesting bits
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by The History Chicks | Jan 12, 2025 | Episode, Podcasts
by The History Chicks | Dec 23, 2024 | Episode, Minicast, Podcasts
As is our tradition, we’re sharing our coverage of the life of this unsung hero of the holidays. While the original portion of this was created in 2014 (TEN YEARS? Whoa!) over the years we’ve added to it so no two years are exactly the same! As always, if you have little ears, you may want to preview it so no secrets are spoiled.
This year, we talked a little about this charming ad for Boots stores!
If you would like the links to things talked about in this episode, head back to 2014 via this link: OG Mrs. Claus
Happiest of holidays to you all! Thank you for hanging out with us in 2024! xo Beckett and Susan
by The History Chicks | Dec 12, 2024 | Biography Episode, Podcasts
Katharine Meyer Graham was born on June 16, 1917, in New York City, the fourth child of Eugene Meyer and Agnes Ernst Meyer. She had a very upper-class upbringing thanks to her incredibly successful investor father who had a second career in politics and a third in newspaper publishing after he purchased the then-failing Washington Post. Katharine’s mother, Agnes, was a powerhouse art patron and philanthropist (with a spicy side of political activism) while maybe not the fuzziest of maternal figures, she was a product of her times and class.
(more…)Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider: Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour.