What'sHerName

What'sHerName


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THE VOYAGER Hannah Masury Howe
March 27, 2024

In 1867, a ship bound for California with 400 Chinese passengers signaled distress as it drifted in the Pacific Ocean. The ship's captainwas a woman, and her mutinous crew had refused to sail the ship even though they were running out of water. How did C

THE SOLID CITIZEN Frances Perkins
March 13, 2024

Frances Perkins, first female cabinet secretary in US history, was the mind (and the will) behind nearly every landmark policy of the Roosevelt administration's New Deal - so why doesn't anyone know her name? Bestselling author Stephanie Dray introduces u

THE EQUESTRIAN Anna Sewell
February 28, 2024

"This was one woman with a very little life, who made the most enormous difference." Celia Brayfield shares with Katie the story of Anna Sewell who, on her death bed, wrote a story and changed the world. Black Beauty was no mere "horse book." It catapult

THE GUNG-HO ORIGINAL Helen Foster Snow
January 10, 2024

In 1931, a young American aspiring writer set off for what she thought would be a one-year adventure in China. Hoping to gain life experience so she could eventually write the Great American Novel - she would instead become famous as the "Voice of China"

CHRISTMAS IN SWEDEN Selma Lagerlöf
December 13, 2023

Selma Lagerlf poetically recorded old Norse fairytales and profoundly influenced Swedish identity. Her work was so brilliant, she was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. In old age, she turned her poetic pen to her own life, re

THE WILD CHILD Alice Roosevelt
December 01, 2023

When Alice Roosevelt's dad became President of the United States, her family became the center of attention for the entire country (and the world) - and that was just how she liked it. Whether smoking on the White House roof, racing her bright red motorca

THE BOSTON BRAHMIN Ethel Gibson Allen
November 15, 2023

Come with us to peak Gilded Age America! We'll watch a charmingly unconventional love story unfold, cure yellow fever, stare at some incredible wallpaper and explore fascinating reasons why women should NOT vote. Katie takes us on location to Ethel Gibson

THE BLOOD COUNTESS Elizabeth Báthory
October 11, 2023

Countess Elizabeth Bthory was a monster - a sadistic, murderous, vampire-witch who, in her castle in Hungary in the early 1600s, tortured and murdered over 600 young girls, then bathed in the blood of her victims.Or did she? Was she truly the supreme su

THE MONGOL KHATUN Genghis Khan's Daughters
September 27, 2023

Without the daughters of Genghis Khan, there would have been no Mongol Empire. Four women ruled over North, South, East, and West, in what would become the largest land empire in the history of the world. It's a story you've never heard, because the siste

THE QUEEN OF HAITI Marie-Louise Christophe
September 13, 2023

Say you join a revolution in the name of liberty and equality. Then someone hands you a crown. Could you do more good, with that power? Or will everything fall apart? Come with us to Haiti and across Europe in the twisty-turny tale of THE QUEEN OF HAITI,