The 3 Best The Exploress Podcast Episodes
1) A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America (Season 1, Episode 1)
Mid-19th century America was a pretty buttoned-up place. Or was it? For women, marriage and family was their destiny, their lives confined to a small and private sphere. They could toil, but they coul...Show More
2) Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece, Part 1
The ancient Greeks told lots of stories about the Amazons: the mythic bands of warrior women that Hellanikos of Lesbos described as “a host of golden-shielded, silver-axed, man-loving, boy-killing fem...Show More
3) We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley & Harriet Tubman, Part 1
Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman spent decades in bondage, suffering everything the "peculiar institution" promised before finding very different paths to freedom. What they did with that freedom ...Show More
4) Empress Nur Jahan of India
Season 6, Episode 12. In this series, we're time traveling with three different empresses, exploring their reigns, their worlds, and what it might have been like to be them. First up, we're going to s...Show More
5) Empress Trailer
EMPRESS. The word comes from Old French, but its roots stretch back to the Latin imperium. It means a command; it means authority, it means power over a realm. But what does it mean, to be a woman wit...Show More
6) Heroines of the Harlem Renaissance with Victoria Christopher Murray
Season 6, Episode 11. Welcome back to Exploress Book Club! Join me in talking to Victoria Christopher Murray, author of the historical fiction novel Harlem Rhapsody, as she talks about the unsung hero...Show More
7) A Lady's Life in the Viking Age, Part 5: Shield Maidens and Sorceresses
Season 6, Episode 10. In this series, we're exploring what life was like for women in the Viking (Norse) Age. In this episode, we're exploring one of our favorite Viking archetypes - the shield maiden...Show More
8) A Lady's Life in the Viking Age, Part 4: Weavers, Traders, Raiders, and Slaves
Season 6, Episode 9. In this series, we're exploring what life was like for women in the Viking (Norse) Age. In this episode, we're going to talk about one of a lady's most involved and important task...Show More
9) Lesbian Fashion History with Eleanor Medhurst
Season 6, Episode 8. Happy Pride Month! Join me and Eleanor Medhurst to discuss her book 'Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion,' which explores the intersection of fashion, identity, and politics ...Show More
10) The Wild Times of Julie D'Aubigny
Season 6, Episode 7. If you were living in Paris in the late 1600s and happened to pick up a newspaper, you might have read about the latest exploits of a beautiful and talented opera singer. She was ...Show More