by The History Chicks | Apr 20, 2019 | Episode, Podcasts
Mary Anning’s grueling, dangerous, and meticulous toiling enabled many men of science to do their own work and furthered the study of times long past…but she was mostly omitted from the narrative. Thankfully, like the fossils that she discovered, she left enough of an evidence trail to help write her back in. (more…)
by The History Chicks | Apr 7, 2019 | Episode, Podcasts
One of the publicity photos Annie had made on her adventure, 1894.
Her moments in the spotlight may have been limited, but Annie Cohen Kopchovsky lived them hard and bright as a marketer, adventurer, storyteller, and the first woman to bicycle* around the world.
(*or possibly, “around the world with a bicycle”- she played a little loose with the rules at points.)
Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider: Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour.
