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Season 1: Why is women's history excluded?

What's covered?

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1. Our Story
   
2. His Story and Her Story
   
3. Heroes and Sheroes
   
4. Herstory’s Complicated: Suffrage
   
5. Segregating Women’s Studies and Birth
   
6. Women at the 1936 Olympics
   
7. Standards and Her Voice
   
8. Rape and the Civil Rights Movement
   
9. Texts and Cross-Dressing
   
10.  It’s not about feminism
    
11. Equal Pay
    
12. ERA
    
13. Culture Wars and the Frontier PART 1
    
14. Culture Wars and the Frontier PART 2
    
15. Women Historians and Primary Sources
    
16. Education and Nuns
    
17. Blanks and Goddess Worship
    
18. Thanksgiving and Other Places Women were Barred from
    
19. Feminist Pedagogy and the Triangle Fire
    
20. Mrs. So-and-so, Peggy Eaton, and the Trail of Tears
    
21. First Ladies and Holiday Parties
    
22. Sarah, Mary and Virginity
    
23. Hiding and Jackie Kennedy Onassis 
    
24. Well Behaved Women and Early Christianity
    
25. Muslim Girls and their History
    
26. Getting Written Out of History and Alice Paul
    
27. Blocked and Kamala Harris
    
28. Clandestine Roles and Virginia Hall
    
29. Didn’t Get There and Maggie Hassan Making History
    
30. White Supremacy and the Black Panthers
    
31. Native American Women: the Place for Biography
    
32. Racism and Women in the Mexican American War
    
33. COVID 19 and Republican Motherhood
    
34. Burned Records and Black Women’s Clubs
    
35. JSTOR and Women in Reconstruction
    
36. Somebody’s Wife and Hawaian Missionaries
    
37. Taboo = Menstruation
    
38. Women’s Health and Mary Baker Eddy PART 1
    
39. Women’s Health and Mary Baker Eddy PART 2
    
40. Controversial and Reproductive Justice PART 1
    
41. Controversial and Reproductive Justice PART 2
    
42. Sexual Assault and the Founding of Rome
    
43. Sexist Historians and Gudrid the Viking
    
44. Byzantine Intersectionality
    
45. Murder and Queens
    
46. Hindu Goddesses and the Third Gender
    
47. Women’s Founding Documents
    
48. Women and Bletchley Park
    
49. Unknown Jewish Resistance Fighters
    
50. End of Year One!
    

Season 2: Women's History in Themes

What's covered?

• Episode 1: Welcome Back!
• Episode 2: Empresses, Monarchs, and Politicians How did women rise to power in the Ancient world?
  • Episode 3: How did female sexuality lead to the rise and fall of Chinese empresses? with Dr. Cony Marquez
  • Episode 4: How did medieval women rise and why were they erased? with Shelley Puhak
  • Episode 5: Did English Queen’s Catherine and Anne have agency? with Chloe Gardner 
  • Episode 6: Is Elizabeth I a turning point in world history? With Deb Hunter
  • Episode 7: How did Maria Theresa transform modern Europe? With Dr. Barbara Stollber-Rilinger 
  • Episode 8: Were Paul and Burns the turning point in women’s suffrage? with Dr. Sydney Bland
  • Episode 9: Were the First Ladies just wives? with the First Ladies Man
  • Episode 10: How did ER use her position and influence to sway public opinion and influence politics?with Dr. Christy Regenhardt 
  • Episode 11: Why was women’s fight for low level offices needed? with Dr. Elizabeth Katz
  • Episode 12: Should we believe Anita Hill? with Hashtag History
• Episode 13: Women in Social Reform: Should Temperance be intersectional?
  • Episode 14: Why are material culture artifacts reshaping our understanding of women's history? with Dr. Amy Forss
  • Episode 15: Did 19th institutionalizing and deinstitutionalizing healthcare make it safer? with Dr. Martha Libster
  • Episode16: Why are the interconnections between women and their social reform movements important? with Dr. DeAnna Beachley
  • Episode 17: Did WWII bring women into the workforce? with Dr. Dorothy Cobble 
  • Episode 18: How have unwell women been treated in healthcare? with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn
  • Episode 19: How did MADD impact the culture of drunk driving?
• Episode 20: Introduction to Women and War: How are women still breaking barriers?
  • Episode 21: Should we remember Augustus for his war on women? With Dr. Barry Strauss
  • Episode 22: Were French women willing participants or collateral damage in imperialism? with Dr. Jack Gronau
  • Episode 23: Was Joan of Arc a heretic? with Jacqui Nelson
  • Episode 24: What changes did the upper class ladies of SC face as a result of the Civil War? with Annabelle Blevins Pifer
  • Episode 25: Were Soviets more open to gender equality? with Jacqui Nelson 
  • Episode 26: Why Womanpower in the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948? with Tanya Roth

Podcast Hosts

Our podcast is hosted by Kelsie Eckert and Brooke Sullivan and edited by Tyler Cardwell.

Meet Kelsie
​President and Host

About

Kelsie Brook Eckert (she/her) is an award winning history teacher and consultant. She has taught high school social studies for the better part of a decade and is now a Coordinator of Social Studies Education at Plymouth State University. ​She has taught high school social studies for the better part of a decade. She was the 2020 Gilder Lehrman NH Teacher of the year and 2019 Nominee, a 2016 Normandy Scholar, the 2015 NH National History Day Teacher of the Year, and serves on the NH Council for Social Studies board of directors (NHCSS). She developed a lesson plan for the HISTORY Channel on women’s history and maintains the NH HUB for the C3. She has a Masters in Social Studies Education and was the recipient of several academic awards including Graduate Assistant of the Year, and Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award.

Eckert is a member of the following institutions:

• The National Women's History Museum
• The American Historical Association
• The Women's History Network
• The New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies a branch of NCSS
• The Manchester Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People a branch of the NAACP
• The Granite State Endurance Project ​

Meet Brooke
Director and Host

About

Kelsie is joined on the podcast by her friend Brooke. Here's how Brooke describes herself:

You know that kid on the field trip that asks a million questions,  you know the one with their hand permanently raised? The child who is feverishly curious. Well thats me...

I found my passion in Talent Acquisition, I work for a NH based publicly traded software company. As recruiter my job is basically to investigate people and what makes them tick as well as learn all about their history so naturally I love to learn more and I constantly ask questions, making me and ideal teammate to Kelsie.

Raised in Connecticut and attended college in northern New Hampshire where I received my bachelors in english secondary education. 
I'm equal parts passionate and curious about women's history and their perspectives throughout time.

I currently live in Northern NH with my dog Birdie, partner Sully and our two boys.
I'm a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and my family heritage dates back to colonial times when we immigrated here from England. Obviously US history is a passion of mine and I'm ready to make space for the women's voices that built this country as well as throughout the world.