Comfort for a Discouraged Housewife

7.1 Wash on Monday: A History of Your Laundry

May 5, 2022

7.2 Stitch in Time: A History of Clothing the Family

May 12, 2022

7.3 Let There Be Light: A History of Flipping the Switch

May 19, 2022

7.4 Next to Godliness: A History of Housecleaning

May 26, 2022

7.5 To Market, To Market: A History of Shopping

June 2, 2022

7.6 Waste Not: A History of Your Trash

June 9, 2022

7.7 Some Like It Hot: A History of Cooking

June 16, 2022

7.8 Some Like It Cold: A History of Your Fridge

June 23, 2022

7.9 The Pre-Industrial Housewife

June 30, 2022

7.10 Industrialization Hits the Housewife

July 7, 2022

7.11 The 20th Century Housewife and Beyond

July 14, 2022

Ground-Breaking Novelists

6.1 Women and the Written Word

January 20, 2022

6.2 Murasaki Shikibu and the World’s First (Great) Novel

January 27, 2022

6.3 Jane Austen and the Real Woman

February 3, 2022

6.4 Jane Austen’s History of England

February 10, 2022

6.5 Mary Shelley and the Monster

February 17, 2022

6.6 Harriet Beecher Stowe Starts a War

February 24, 2022

6.7 Frances Hodgson Burnett Fights for Copyright

March 3, 2022

6.8 Selma Lagerlöf Wins the Nobel

March 10, 2022

6.9 Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime (Part 1)

March 17, 2022

6.10 Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime (Part 2)

March 24, 2022

6.11 Zora Neale Hurston Celebrates Her Heritage

March 31, 2022

6.12 Wrapping Up the Ground-Breaking Novelists

April 7, 2022

The Historical Mary

5.1 The Historical Mary: Setting the Scene

December 9, 2021

5.2 The Historical Mary: A Girl from Galilee

December 16, 2021

A Slave, but Now I’m Free

4.1 Slavery: An Enduring Institution

September 9, 2021

4.2 Neaira: A Slave in Ancient Greece

September 16, 2021

4.2b Volumnia Cytheris: A Slave in Rome

September 22, 2021

4.3 Roxelana: A Slave to the Ottomans

September 23, 2021

4.4 Catalina: A Native American Slave in Spain

September 30, 2021

4.4b La Malinche: A Slave in Mexico

October 6, 2021

4.5 Rosa Egipcíaca: A Slave in Brazil

October 7, 2021

4.5b Dandara: A Slave in Brazil

October 13, 2021

4.6 Elizabeth Freeman: Suing for Freedom

October 14, 2021

4.7 Harriet Hemings: Slave-Daughter of the President

October 21, 2021

4.8 Ellen Craft: A First Class Escape

October 28, 2021

4.9 Elizabeth Keckly: Slave to Entrepreneur

November 4, 2021

4.10 Harriet Tubman: Slave to Liberator

November 11, 2021

Women and Money Matters

3.1 The Early History of Money

June 3, 2021

3.2 Women on the Money

June 10, 2021

3.3 Women and the GDP

June 17, 2021

3.4 Women and Credit

June 24, 2021

3.5 How Big Is Your Dowry?

July 1, 2021

3.6 No Taxation Without Representation (in Rome)

July 8, 2021

3.7 No Taxation Without Representation (in the USA)

July 15, 2021

3.8 Hetty Green, Queen of Wall Street

July 22, 2021

3.9 Maggie Lena Walker, Bank President

July 29, 2021

Women Who Seized Power

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2.1 Why So Few Women in Power?

by Lori April 8, 2021

Women Who Seized Power

2.2 Cleopatra, Pharoah of Egypt

by Lori April 15, 2021

Women Who Seized Power

2.3 Wu Zetian, Empress of China

by Lori April 22, 2021

Women Who Seized Power

2.4 Elizabeth, Empress of Russia

by Lori April 29, 2021

Women Who Seized Power

2.5 Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia

by Lori May 6, 2021

Women Who Seized Power

2.6 Ranavalona I, Queen of Madagascar

by Lori May 13, 2021

Women Who Seized Power

2.7 A Girl’s Guide to Seizing Power

by Lori May 20, 2021

What’s in the Closet and How Did It Get There?

1.1 Who Wears the Pants Around Here?

January 30, 2021

1.2 The Rise and Fall of Your Hemline

February 11, 2021

1.3 The Little Mysteries: Pockets, Buttons, and Heels

February 18, 2021

1.4 What Lies Beneath

February 25, 2021

1.5 The Hijab and the Sari

March 4, 2021

1.6 How the Swimsuit Shrunk

March 11, 2021

1.7 Retro Fashions (No Comeback Needed)

March 18, 2021

1.8 Q&A on Women’s Fashion

March 26, 2021