Episode 110: Georgia O’Keeffe
The line between Georgia O’Keeffe’s childhood in Wisconsin to her death nearly 100 years later is as jagged, complex, colorful, unique, ever- changing and interesting as the vistas outside her final New Mexico homes.
Episode 109: Grace O’Malley
by The History Chicks | Jul 21, 2018 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
Gráinne Ui Mháille, Grainne, Granuaile, Gráinne Mhaol, Grace, That Irish Pirate Queen From the 16th Century…whatever you call her, her life and legacy as a strong, independent, bold, fearless (and yes, criminal) woman doesn’t change.
Statue at Westport House, Co Mayo, Ireland
Episode 108: The Statue of Liberty
by The History Chicks | Jun 30, 2018 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
She’s neither alive nor dead; she exists but has never taken a breath; her innards are as hard as steel, but just the sight of her has brought men to grateful, hopeful tears. The Statue of Liberty is a she, which makes her fair game for one of our conversations.
Episode 107: Mary Pickford
by The History Chicks | Jun 11, 2018 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
Mary Pickford was an actress, writer, director, producer, studio head and entrepreneur…but she’s often remembered as “that pretty girl with the curls in silent movies.”
Excuse us? Oh no, that just won’t do.
Episode 106: Beatrix Potter Revisited and Refreshed
by The History Chicks | May 19, 2018 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
This week we’re taking a look back at one of the women who surprised us both, in the most delightful of ways-Beatrix Potter. As time and technology has allowed, we’ve gone back and quietly remastered the audio in a number of our older shows and Beatrix is the latest. When we know better, we do better! (more…)
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 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
- Episode 248: Mary Cassatt
- Episode 249: Gertrude Bell
- Episode 250: Austria Travelogue, 2024
- Episode 251: Maria Theresa of Austria, Part One
- Episode 252: Maria Theresa of Austria, Part Two
- Episode 253: Emily Warren Roebling
- Episode 254: Gertrude Ederle
- Episode 255: New York City Travelogue
- Episode 256: Paris 2024 Travelogue
- Mrs. Claus, 2024
- Episode 258: Charity Adams Earley & The 6888th
- Episode 259: Josephine Bonaparte and Eugénie Bonaparte
- Episode 260: Georgia Gilmore
- Episode 261: Wangari Muta Maathai, Part One
- Episode 262: Wangari Muta Maathai, Part Two
- Episode 263: A conversation with Anne Sebba: The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
- Episode 264: Miep Gies, Part One
- Episode 265: Miep Gies, Part Two
- Episode 266: Paris Field Trip Travelogue, 2025
- Episode 267: Alice Paul, Part One
- Episode 268: Alice Paul, Part Two
- Episode 269: Suzanne Valadon
- Episode 270: Philadelphia Field Trip 2025 Travelogue
- Episode 271: Catherine de Medici, Part One
- Episode 273: Elizabeth Packard
- Episode 274: Betsy Ambler, Sarah Botstein, and the American Revolution
- Episode 275: Italy Field Trip Travelogue, 2025
- Episode 276: Sarah Rector
- Episode 277: Martha Gellhorn
- Episode 278: Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
Minicasts
- Episode 19A: Annie Chambers
- Minicast – Annie Chambers
- 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
- Mrs. Claus, 2024
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
