by The History Chicks | Dec 10, 2016 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts, Shownotes
Once a season we take a historical look at a fictional woman and this season we have to get in the Way, Way, Way Back Machine to follow the life of Mulan.
Mulan as depicted in He Dazi’s album Gathering Gems of Beauty
The story of Mulan goes back a whole lot farther than 1998 when the Disney version introduced her from their very tall, very American stage–the origins of her story go back into SINGLE DIGIT AD. Fact or folktale? More than likely Mulan was not a real person but that’s admit since her story is beloved in China. She could have been real, but her story has been told so many times and for so many years that if she didn’t really exist we can Velveteen Rabbit her to life?
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by The History Chicks | Nov 22, 2016 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
Just your ordinary Princess to Queen tale: born into a royal family, rose to power, protected her people and country for generations with little more than her bravery, wits, bow and arrow and gallons of blood spilled and some, perhaps, consumed.
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by The History Chicks | Oct 29, 2016 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts, Shownotes
Is there a better time to revisit our favorite Victorian More-Than-Likely Murderess, Lizzie Borden, than right now? We think not.
Lizzie Borden took an axe gave her mother 40 whacks, when the evil deed was done, she gave her father 41.
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by The History Chicks | Oct 26, 2016 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts, Shownotes
We wrap up our short series of “women who ran for the US Presidency before Hillary Clinton” with Shirley Chisholm!
Photo Credit: John O’Halloran, US News & World Report
Shirley St. Hill was born in 1924 in Brooklyn, NY to Charles and Ruby St. Hill. Her parents were both immigrants from the West Indies and they made a painful decision to send Shirley and two of her sisters to live their early youth on her grandmother’s farm in Barbados.
Shirley’s education was solid: prestigious Girl’s High in Brooklyn, Bachelors degree in Sociology with a minor in Spanish from Brooklyn College, Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education from Columbia… she was smart, she was quick, she was well spoken, well read and well, she had a dynamic personality wrapped in a very petite frame.
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