We’re celebrating our 100th full-length episode and our 7th year by pulling back the curtain and taking a look at some women and moments that we will never forget.
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Episode 100: A Celebration!
Posted 17 January 2018 by The History ChicksTagged As: women's history podcast | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Leave a Comment
Episode 97: Queen Lili’uokalani
Posted 11 November 2017 by The History ChicksTagged As: Hawaii History, Hawaiian Ruler, Queek Lili'Uokalani, Queens, Women Rulers, women's history podcast | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Leave a Comment
She was the first Queen to rule and the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, but Queen Lili’uokalani’s story is the story of Hawaii.
Lili’uokalani at Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 (via Wikicommons)
Lili’u Loloku Walania Kamakaeha was born on September 2, 1838. She was given an English name at her baptism, Lydia (which we never used in the podcast) and raised in a Hawaiian tradition called hanai, a sort of adoption, by Abner Paki and his wife, Laura Konia. Hawaii, at Lydia’s birth and for most of her life, was an independent nation, with a legislative government, a constitution, laws, a system of land ownership and Lili’u was a part of the ruling class. (more…)
Episode 96: Sojourner Truth
Posted 22 October 2017 by The History ChicksTagged As: Abolitionist, Civil War Era, Former Slave, Sojourner Truth, Women Preachers and Speakers, women's history podcast, Women's Rights | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Leave a Comment
Sojourner Truth was a slave, a mother, a freewoman, a preacher, a speaker and an activist at a time in US history that was full of change but also full of obstacles for a woman who was any of those things.
Episode 58: Mary, Queen of Scots
Posted 13 November 2015 by The History ChicksTagged As: English History, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart, Tragic Royalty, Tudors, women's history podcast | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | 1 Comment
Mary, Queen of Scots had a good start: she was wearing the crown early and upgraded it at a young age under the watchful eye of many an interested party but once she started making decisions for herself? Ah, that’s when her life took dramatic twists and turns that ultimately took the crown off her head. Actually, those decisions got her whole head taken off, but let’s start at the beginning, shall we?
Mary Stuart about age 16 before her life turned quite contrary.
(François Clouet – Royal Collection via Wikimedia Commons)
Once upon a time in a rugged Renaissance land lived a king and a queen… (more…)
