Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt

Author: The History Chicks | AIRWAVE May 15, 2024 Duration: 2:30:19
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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Mary Cassatt had always been an independent thinker. But once she became a member of the radical group of artists known as the Impressionists, she sidestepped expectations of gender (and the traditional rules of artistic expression) and forged a singular style that was all her own. This episode is supported by: OSEA: Clean, vegan skin and body care for 10% off on your first order with code CHICKS Lume: 15% off all Lume deodorant products with code CHICKS Blueland: 15% off good for you and the earth cleaning products at this unique link BLUELAND/CHICKS LolaVie: Great hair at 15% off with promo code CHICKS 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.
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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…

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