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 Cleopatra of Ancient Egypt
In this series, we're time traveling back to past empires to meet some of the woman who ran them. This time, we're revisiting a ruling lady we've met before: the mighty Cleopatra of ancient Egypt's Pt...Show More
5) Empress Theodora & Life for Women in the Byzantine Empire
In this series, we're time traveling back to past empires to meet some of the woman who helped run them. Let's link up with Empress Theodora, who's going to walk us through her Byzantine (aka Eastern ...Show More
6) Empress Taytu Betul & Life for Women in 19th-century Ethiopia
In this series, we're time traveling back to past empires to meet some of the woman who helped run them. Allow me to introduce you to Empress Taytu Betul, who wasn't afraid to storm battlefields, boss...Show More
7) Women Who Ruled the World with Elizabeth Norton
Dr. Elizabeth Norton has returned! This time, she's taking us out of the Tudor period to take a more global look at queenship. Her new book 'When Women Ruled the World: 500 Years of Female Monarchy' e...Show More
8) The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau
There is a woman in the Old Quarter who can give you the world for a price. They say her followers gather deep in the bayou after dark. Some say she’s got the governor in her pocket. Others say she ea...Show More
9) Women's Medicine in the 19th Century (with a side of spice) with Adriana Herrera
Season 6, Episode 13. Welcome back to Exploress Book Club! Join me and Adriana Herrera, author of the historical romance novel A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke, as we time travel back to the 1890s Paris...Show More
Women's Medicine in the 19th Century (with a side of spice) with Adriana Herrera
47:15 | Oct 13th, 2025
10) 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