by The History Chicks | Mar 13, 2025 | Biography Episode, Episode, Podcasts
Wangari Maathai understood the vital connections between living things and the Earth; of local communities and the wider world. It is true that many trees make a mighty forest, and Maathai’s Green Belt Movement made it clear to us all that the most important change for the greater good is one that each individual makes in their own backyard… a philosophy which would earn her the Nobel Peace Prize.
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by The History Chicks | Jul 21, 2020 | Episode, Podcasts
While researching Zephyr Wright, we both learned quite a bit about her employer, Lady Bird Johnson. Since we knew a lot about her (and our libraries were still closed) we thought we would share the story of this intelligent woman who had her own interests and accomplishments outside the work she did with her husband, President Lyndon B. Johnson.
(more…)Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider: Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour.
