Amended Podcast
1) Episode 6: Walking in Two Worlds
When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, a large number of Native American women still could not vote. The U.S. government did not recognize them as citizens. And if having U.S. citizenship requi...Show More
2) Bonus: "Freedom Summer" from Scene on Radio
In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi to place themselves in the path of white supremacist power and violence. They issued a bold pro-d...Show More
3) Bonus: "The Creative Team Behind Amended" from Amended in Action
This bonus episode takes listeners behind-the-scenes of Amended. “Amended in Action” is a radio series hosted by Michael Riecke that expands on the themes of Amended and amplifies contemporary women’s...Show More
4) Episode 5: The Submerged Half
In 1912, Mabel Lee, a teenaged immigrant from China, led a New York City suffrage parade on horseback. Ineligible for U.S. citizenship due to anti-Chinese immigration policy, Mabel nonetheless spoke o...Show More
5) Episode 4: Embers and Activism
On March 25, 1911, a fire swept through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City, claiming the lives of 146 workers. Most of the victims were young immigrant women from Eastern and Southern Eu...Show More
6) Bonus: “Civic Action: Voting, Part 1” from Civics 101
Suffragists fought hard for the vote. They also knew that gaining access to the ballot was not the end of the struggle for political representation. This week Amended host Laura Free introduces a spec...Show More
7) Bonus: “Truth Is of No Color” from And Nothing Less
The scope of women’s political history is so vast that it can’t be covered by one podcast. This week Amended host Laura Free introduces a special episode from And Nothing Less, a seven-part series fro...Show More
8) Episode 3: Of Rights and Wrongs
After the Civil War, many abolitionists and women's rights activists saw an opportunity to team up and advance equality for all. African American author and orator Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was h...Show More
9) Episode 2: Any Woman
The right to vote was only one of many demands that women made prior to the Civil War. Zooming in on another priority, the right to bodily autonomy, changes our understanding of who was at the forefro...Show More
10) Episode 1: Myths and Sentiments
How do we tell the story of the (unfinished) struggle for women’s voting rights? Who gave us the dominant suffrage narrative? And who gets left out? Our host is Laura Free, a historian of women and ...Show More