Empress Maria Theresa of Austria Part 2

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria Part 2

Author: The History Chicks | AIRWAVE August 7, 2024 Duration: 1:42:00
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
HistoryCultureDocumentarySocietySociety & Culture
Maria Theresa was the only woman to rule the Hapsburg dominions in her own right and is considered to have been one of its most successful leaders. Gathering the broken pieces of the empire she inherited, she assembled a brand new country - strategically laying the foundations of cultural reform that changed the course of history. This episode is sponsored in part by: Lume, whole body deodorant is 15 percent off with code CHICKS Factor Meals, 50% off 1st box, 20% off the second with code HC50 OSEA, get glowy, healthy skin and 10% off your first order with code CHICKS 3 Day Blinds, Buy 1 get 1 50%off, head to 3dayblinds.com/CHICKS Join us on September 14, 2024, for our Field Trip Dinner Cruise in New York City! Information is available at Like Minds Travel! We hope to see you there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Official website RSS
instagramyoutubeapple_music
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
Podcast Episodes
Philadelphia 2025 Travelogue [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:05
It's field trip time again! We took 50 listeners with us to the cradle of our country - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over the course of a long weekend, we absorbed the sites and stories we'd learned about in school, and l…
Suzanne Valadon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:03
Suzanne Valadon was born on the wrong side of the tracks, and the wrong side of the blanket, but grew up to be one of the It Girls of the Impressionist era. She traveled a unique journey to stardom by parlaying her caree…
Alice Paul Part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:57:11
The road to equality has never run smooth - in part 2, Alice Paul and the suffragists finally achieve their goal of a constitutional amendment giving women the vote - but not until a great deal of lobbying, schisms, sacr…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Early Suffragists, 2025 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:13
Years before Alice Paul was even born, the women's suffrage movement began with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and others at the first women's rights convention in the US in 1848. The efforts of…
Alice Paul, Part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:00:08
Alice Paul was one of the most prominent activists of the 20th-century women's rights movement, who believed that moral authority always trumps the letter of the law; injustices must be called out and resisted as a matte…
Paris Field Trip Travelogue, 2025 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:30
We lived the dream... and traveled to Paris in the springtime! Fifty of our friends joined us in the City Of Light for forays into history, art, wine, architecture, shopping, camaraderie, and SO MUCH FROMAGE! Some of our…
Anne Frank 2025 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:22:30
During our coverage of Miep Gies, we presented the story of the events that were happening in the world at large during WW2, closer in within the city of Amsterdam, and then to a smaller scale within the lives, offices a…
Miep Gies Part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:03:45
Miep Gies risked her life in order to help her Jewish friends hide from the Nazis during World War 2. In Part 2 of her story, we'll take you through the years of struggle and subterfuge, the dark day when the Secret Anne…
Miep Gies Part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:15
In a land fraught with turbulence and oppression, Miep Gies helped to shelter and supply Anne Frank's family (and others) while they were in hiding from the Nazis; an act of civil disobedience that was, though illegal, t…
A Conversation with Anne Sebba: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:00
To leave you with a bit of lagniappe for Women's History Month, we broke our usual format to sit down for a talk with Anne Sebba, author of the new book The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival. Anne tells…

«1234567...10»