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Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour. Join us on an award-winning journey through herstory! The History Chicks celebrates the lives of remarkable women from ancient times to the modern day, exploring women’s history in engaging episodes full of deep research, pop culture references, and the occasional tumble down a rabbit hole.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Conversational biographies connect women's private constraints to the institutions, movements, and strategic choices that shaped their public influence.
The History Chicks builds biographical history through lively conversation, moving between a woman's public work and the pressures shaping her private life.
The Little House glow meets a midnight escape, if you like your nostalgia cross-examined.
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Boudicca's revolt lands as a sharp story of imperial complacency, family violence, and fierce resistance.
Boudicca comes through as a first-century Celtic queen of the Iceni tribe, driven into rebellion after Rome seizes her late husband's kingdom and brutalizes her family.
A clear, unsentimental conversation about an Auschwitz orchestra, where cold, illness, music, and hope remain in view together.
The History Chicks' conversation with Anne Sebba keeps The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz in the camp hierarchy, where music never becomes a softening device.
A Philadelphia field trip turns shared travel into a grounded lesson in women, place, and history.
Philadelphia turns into a lively working classroom as The History Chicks follow the show's hosts and 50 listeners through a packed long weekend in the city.
Sarah Rector's fortune becomes a public fight over guardianship, racism, and who gets to tell her story.
Sarah Rector's story lands where sudden wealth meets the systems eager to define, control, and profit from it. The episode sets her 1913 fortune against a busy national backdrop, then narrows in on the newspaper campaign that turned her into a symbol: a child framed through…
A wartime story grounded in jam, phone calls, and the risks of helping Anne Frank's family.
Miep Gies Part 1 works best when it keeps its attention on the gap between ordinary duties and extraordinary danger. It links her part in sheltering and supplying Anne Frank's family to the practical routines around her: work connected to Mrs.
A lively art history portrait of a woman who turned outsider status into a career.
Suzanne Valadon gets a lively, kitchen table portrait here, one that follows her from model to maker without sanding off the rough edges. The episode spends enough time on the art world around her to make the climb feel lived in, not prepackaged, and that balance gives the story…
A warm Paris travelogue that folds in women-centered sightseeing, listener call-ins, and a restoration-minded coda.
Paris 3 reads as a warm travelogue that revisits familiar ground without going stale. It folds host memories together with listener call-ins, letting the trip feel lived-in: the same hotel, familiar sights, private time at Versailles, a Women of Paris walking tour, Chanel and…
A clear, conversational introduction to Stanton and the early suffrage fight, anchored by the Declaration of Sentiments.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is presented as the writer behind the Declaration of Sentiments, and that document gives the episode a firm center. It keeps the discussion grounded in the practical limits women faced: property rights, wages, marriage, divorce, education, church…
Messy women, sharp history, Regency receipts.
Feminist history with wine-night velocity.
Women’s history with drinks, jokes, and bite.
Earth stories, science lives, human impact.
Difficult women, messy histories, sharp company.
Gold Rush California, told through its women
This History Chicks episode tells the story of Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson), who became an international art sensation in her 80s and 90s after a lifetime on farms in upstate New York.
Susan, Laura Hart, and about 50 listeners spent a Wednesday-to-Sunday “long weekend” in Philadelphia, with side trips to Christ Church Cemetery, the Liberty Bell, the Pennsylvania Statehouse, and Reading Terminal Market.
Alice Paul comes back into focus after the show quickly retraces her path from a wealthy Quaker family to a Ph.D.
Anne Sebba talks with Susan about The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, a book that grew out of a family connection to Belsen through Sebba’s British tank-commander father and a May 24 Red Cross concert at the camp.
Sarah Rector was born on March 3rd, 1902, in Indian Territory near Twine, Oklahoma, as the second of nine surviving children of Joseph and Rose Rector.
Miep Gies's story begins with Hermine Santruchitz, born in Vienna on February 15, 1909, and nearly killed by wartime starvation, tuberculosis, and malnutrition.
The hosts revisit Frida Kahlo after a long stretch away from her story.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the early suffrage movement take center stage, with the hosts revisiting a cleaned-up 2013 episode that now folds in material they had split off before.
The show opens in 1533, when Europe is already in motion.
The History Chicks head to Italy.
Suzanne Valadon is presented as a woman who began far from respectability and still managed to shape her own artistic life.
Elizabeth Packard's marriage turns into a cage when her husband punishes her for speaking her mind by committing her to a mental institution.
Wangari Mathai’s story continues from her early academic life into the strain of building a public life in newly independent Kenya.
The episode opens with a wink at history lessons and then settles on Odetta.
The hosts return from Paris for a third field trip to the city, and the mix of familiar ground with new people keeps it from feeling stale.
Mother Jones gets a vivid, unsparing portrait here.
Laura Ingalls Wilder gets a fresh, heavily researched revisit.
The episode follows Ona Judge, an enslaved woman owned by Martha Washington, as she escapes slavery and lives the rest of her life on her own terms.
Dovey Johnson Roundtree grew up in the Jim Crow South and carried her grandmother's find-away spirit with her.
Two women discuss the origins of their podcast dedicated to bringing women's history to life through engaging storytelling.
This episode profiles Wangari Maathai, her Green Belt Movement, and her journey to winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
The episode celebrates Women's History Month by revisiting a past episode on Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans, with a humorous and engaging historical overview.
This episode profiles Georgia Gilmore, an unsung hero of the civil rights movement who used her cooking skills to support the Montgomery bus boycott.
This episode explores the history and legend of Mrs.
This episode explores the history of absinthe and its influence on artists and writers during the Belle Epoque and Victorian eras.
The hosts share a postcard from their listener field trip to Washington D.C., recounting their experiences and a failed TV project.
The episode introduces Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, a 17th-century African ruler who resisted Portuguese colonization.
This episode continues the biography of Frances Perkins, focusing on her response to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and her work on the Factory Investigating Commission.
This episode explores the life and legacy of Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a U.S.