Remedial Herstory: the other 50% of history class

In this episode, Kelsie interviews Dr. Pamela Scully about her research on modern African history and the significance of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in …

In this episode, Brooke interviews Dr. Roshanna P. Sylvester about the letters school children, and in particular young girls wrote to American …

In this episode, Kelsie interviews Maura McCreight, a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, with a focus on the history of photography and the Maghrib. The episode explores the often untaught …

In this episode, Kelsie interviews Dr. Pamela Scully, a professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of African Studies at Emory …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke meet with Dr. Shahla Haeri and Dr. Filiz Ruhm to discuss the protests that erupted in Iran following the death of …

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke celebrate and reflect on Season 2! It was a big season with important topics covered. What were your highlights? What's next?  

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In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn about Elizabeth Arden, and entrepreneur in the beauty industry from Shelby Robert, a history teacher and adjunct professor. Robert will be a guest lecture at the summer retreat …

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke share a lecture from the 2021 Remedial Herstory Summer Educators Retreat. Elizabeth Dubrulle is a historian at the …

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn from Dr. Evelyn Wilson, whose research explores the ways in which free women of color thrived and ran …

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Dr. Katherine Koh about her research on women who ran businesses in 16th century England-- a little represented topic. We are so excited join her to remind everyone that in …

A professor of history and an OBGYN walk into a web call. It sounds like the start of a joke, but so does most of this week. If you’re like Kelsie you have a lot of questions about the ramifications of the of the Dobbs …

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Ally Orr, a recent college graduate with a marketing degree, about her reaction to a male political …

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Dr. Marie Cartier about gay life before Stonewall and how gay bars often served as a religious …

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Dr. Alison Efford about two women who's intimate relationship in the Civil War era has helped historians to understand female sexuality in the period. He research explores …

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with the legal historian, Dr. Shannon Duffy about her work researching women in colonial America. We discuss …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Lauren Cole a PhD candidate at Northwestern University about the amazing theologian and nun Hildegard de …

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Title IX and reflect on it's significance in protecting gender and sex discrimination in places that receive federal funds. They learn about the …

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke launch our theme on Queer Women in History and discuss Windsor v. US, the Supreme Court case that effectively lay the groundwork to legalize gay marriage around the country-- and who …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with RHP Board member Caroline Taylor about her research into women in the Protestant Reformation... not how …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn from Dr. Shahla Haeri, author of The Unforgettable Queens of Islam. This is the third in a series of three episodes with Dr. Haeri about her book. In this episode, we learn about …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn from Dr. Shahla Haeri, author of The Unforgettable Queens of Islam. This is the second in a series of three episodes with Dr. Haeri about her book. In this episode, we learn …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn from Dr. Shahla Haeri, author of The Unforgettable Queens of Islam. This is the first in a series of three episodes with Dr. Haeri about her book. In this episode, we learn about …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke introduce the next theme of the season, "Women and World Religions." To do this, they discuss Confucianism and it's complex history with women. Listeners will learn a bit about …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn from Dr. Farina King about the Cherokee National Female Seminary Alumnae and Native American women …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke, who live in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, learn from Dr. Marcia Schmidt Blaine about the amazing women who pioneered, explored, and lived in these mountains. Blaine is a …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn about the Statue of Freedom, the beautiful and bold statue of a woman atop the Capitol building in DC from …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn about the heroines journey in western women's literature from Meredith Eliassen, the archives reference …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke introduce the next theme for the season: Women's Explorers and Pioneers. We kick this episode off with women …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn from Dr. Jessica Frazier of the University of Rhode Island about women who were deeply intrenched in the anti-Vietnam movement and perhaps overshadowed by their male …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn more about women's integral and early role in the Vietnam war, both Vietnamese and American. You can find …

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke are joined by a very special K-12 educator, Dr. Tanya Roth to learn about women in the armed service during the …

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke sit down with Jacqui Nelson again to talk about women on the eastern front in WWII. This part of history is less frequently discussed in US-centric history classes and yet so many …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke are joined by Annabelle Blevins Pifer to talk about upper class white women of South Carolina and how their roles …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke, learn all the details we lost in history class about the well known figure, Joan of Arc. Jacqui Nelson is one of the rare female military historians and of course she has a passion …

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke learn from Dr. Jack Gronau about women in French Imperialism looking at their complex role and standing. The era of …

A provocative title perhaps, but this week Kelsie and Brooke are joined on the podcast by Dr. Barry Strauss. We are talking Ancient Rome, Cleopatra, …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke introduce the next theme, Women and War! We will be talking about the changing role of women in war presently, …

This holiday season, let's revisit an episode from Season 1 on important women in the Torah and New Testament. Happy listening!

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat about the history and impact of Mother's Against Drunk Driving, what we are calling a modern temperance …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Dr. Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women a new book about the misdiagnosis of women throughout medical history. You can find Cleghorn's book here.

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This week Kelsie and Brooke do a deep dive with Dr. Dorothy Cobble a women and labor historian from Rutgers University on the often overlooked women's labor movement of the 20th century. We are asking a question this …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke are chatting with Dr. DeAnna Beachley, from the College of Southern Nevada (CSN) about the interconnections across …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke meet with Dr. Martha Libster, a PhD in history as well as an APRN to talk about the history of nursing in the 19th century. She's also the Founder and Executive Director of the …

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke are joined by Dr. Amy Forss to talk about the importance of preserving artifacts for curating and understanding women's history. Artifacts help history come alive. Tune in!

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In this episode Kelsie and Brooke introduce the next theme, Women in Social Reform, and they start with the most powerful women's reform movement of …

Our friends Leah and Rachel from Hashtag History join us on this weeks episode to talk about their favorite topic: Anita Hill. While not a politician …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke are chatting with Dr. Elizabeth Katz about the gradual steps women took to gain political office positions. This …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Dr. Christy Regenhardt about her research and work on perhaps the most famous US First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt is impressive in a million ways, but the ways in …

The First Ladies Man, Andrew Och, is back to wow us with more history of the lesser known First Ladies of the turn of the 20th Century: Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Ellen Wilson and Edith Wilson, Florence Harding, Grace …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke sit down with Dr. Sydney Bland who is not only a pioneering women's historian, but also an expert on woman suffrage. In his early career, he had an opportunity to interview THE ALICE …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke sit down with Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger to discuss her research and upcoming book on Maria Theresa, one of …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke sit down with Deb Hunter, an independent historian with a deep passion for Tudor history, to talk about the all important, Elizabeth I. Her reign marks the beginning of modern history …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke sit down with Chloe Gardner to discuss the lives and legacies of two women many have heard of, Catherine of Aragon …

This episode, Kelsie and Brooke learn from Shelley Puhak, author of a new book The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World, which you can preorder now. The book is about two real life women who …

In this episode, Kelsie shares her interview of soon-to-be Dr. Cony Marquez, with Brooke and they discuss Empress Wu and Empress Dowager Cixi. 

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In this episode Kelsie and Brooke are introducing the first theme of the season: Empresses, Monarchs, and Politicians. Then Kelsie teaches Brooke a …

Welcome back to Season 2... And by season we really mean year because let’s be honest we’re educators and we work in school years. Happy start of …

Brooke and Kelsie sat down to reflect on the first year of the podcast and RHP as a growing organization. We discussed some of our favorite episodes, our gratitude for our patrons, and what the next year will look like. 

This week Brooke sat down with Judy Batalion, author of a new book, “The Light of Days,” about Jewish women who fought in the resistance against the …

This week Kelsie and Brooke dive back into one of their favorite topics for a two-week pairing of lesser known women's stories from WWII. Kelsie interviewed author Kate Quinn. Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke tackle women's Enlightenment thinkers in the west and sources that should be used as "Founding Documents" in civics and …

This week we chatted with Chloe Gardner about her dissertation work into the third gender in Hinduism. We learn about a series of Goddesses and women who lived in this time, and discussed the paradox of the religion and …

This week Kelsie and Brooke are examining the stories of two queens (empresses), who were murdered and what brought that about: Fausta, the second …

This week we learned about some fascinating ways to use Byzantine art to draw on women and gender themes in world history courses. We chatted with …

This week Kelsie tells Brooke about her conversation with Sarah Durn, a medieval historian, about Viking women and emerging scholarship about their …

TRIGGER WARNING. This week we dig deep into our culture and the stories we tell or chose not to tell. Women in the stories of early Rome were there …

In Part 2, we continue our conversation with Dr. Alicia Guitierrez-Romine about the difficult history of illegal abortions in the US. Here, she tells …

This week, Brooke and Kelsie talk with Dr. Alicia Guitierrez-Romine about the difficult history of reproductive justice and its origins in illegal …

This week we continue where we left off in Part 1.

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This week, Kelsie and Brooke tackle the intersection of women's health and religion by discussing arguably the most famous woman of the 19th century you've never heard of, Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian …

This week we are talking about the most taboo subject of all-- menstruation. This is the beginning of a few episodes on women's health and understanding the stigmatization and lack of resources available to women for …

This week we chatted with professor Michelle Stonis about her Master’s Thesis on the Wives of Missionaries sent to Hawaii. If you don't know this …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke discuss the Reconstruction era that follows the Civil War from a woman's perspective, because it just makes more sense …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Dr. Melissa Blair from Auburn University about the history and origins of Black Women's Clubs. We get into the racism in some women's organizations like the WTCU and suffrage and …

In this episode, Brooke and Kelsie discuss the impact that COVID-19 has had on moms and the possibilities for future changes to make the workforce more flexible for moms. Then we drift back in time to the era …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke discuss the Mexican-American War-- one often glossed over in US History courses, but one central to understanding US …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with Dr. Camilla Townsend of Rutgers University about indigenous women's history and how teaching with themes may exclude them.

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Trigger warning: this episode refers to murder and suicide. Women represented 50% of the Black Panther Party, but women, schools, and food programs …

This week Brooke and Kelsie talk about the importance of getting to present day in history class to cover some of the amazing firsts for women in …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke sit down to discuss D-Day and Virginia Hall, one of the badass women who helped coordinate the French Resistance and send intelligence to the Allies prior to the landing. We chatted with …

Did you know some schools prohibited social studies teachers from discussing the inauguration? Kelsie and Brooke start this episode by talking about …

This week Tina Cassidy is back to talk about Alice Paul, one of the better known women in history-- however, this was not the intent, there was an …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke chat about research into the wellness of Muslim-American immigrant children, and Kelsie shares some of her conversation …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke discuss how women who were well behaved rarely made history-- and then discussed how women joined the early Christian church in big numbers, and examined two women who defied the odds during …

This week, Kelsie sat down with Tina Cassidy to talk about how the stories of even iconic women like Jackie Kennedy Onassis go untold in history …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke celebrate the holidays by discussing the historic implications of the stories of Sarah and Mary-- two women over …

This week, Kelsie sat down with The First Ladies Man, Andrew Och, to talk about the importance of the women who served in what he says, "is one of …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke discuss Andrew Jackson and the women who revolved around his presidency. We start by talking about how difficult …

This week Kelsie and Brooke are talking about Feminist Pedagogy (Socratic Seminars) and The Triangle Fire. An alternate title could be circles and …

This week, Kelsie and Brooke are talking about the history of the Thanksgiving Holiday, a women's holiday-- bet they didn't teach that to you in …

This week we are talking about how huge portions of women's history are hard to know because so much is left blank. The biggest blank in all history is pre-history... and many women historians have tried to stake a …

Brooke and Kelsie are talking about the cycle of his-story and how the teacher education system fails to require-- at any stage-- women's history (or diverse history of any kind), so how are teachers supposed to be the …

This week, Brooke and Kelsie are talking about how rare women historians are and the first women historians: Ban Zhao of China who wrote during the Han empire and Anna Comnena who wrote in 11th century Byzantium. Both …

This week, Brooke and Kelsie chat with an old friend, Mary Bezbatchenko, another history teacher from Ohio about the struggle for the Equal Rights …

In this episode, Brooke and Kelsie discuss equal pay. Brooke is a hiring manager-- so her expertise really shines. We talk about what the data shows and means... and why children are such a huge factor in economic …

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke celebrate 10 episodes, the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and her fight for equal treatment under law. Further, they talk about how her case is just another example of calling human …

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke discuss gender bias in history textbooks-- and basically why you shouldn't use them. Then we examine the …

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Danielle McGuire about her book, At The Dark End of the Street: Black women, rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of Black Power. 

In this episode we discuss how the state standards are silencing women and examine the historical basis for their silence. We go way back to origin stories. 

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In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke are joined by the author of the book FAST GIRLS, Elise Hooper, and two professional triathlete’s, Amber Ferreira and Rachel Jastbrebsky, the fastest girls we know! These women join us …

In this episode we get gruesome with an examination of women's world and the world history of birth, highlighting Molly Donnelly, Queen Victoria, …

This episode discusses the problematic use of heroification in K-12 curriculum, some sheroes you should know, and how to teach women’s history when …

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke introduce themselves and the hysterical way they came together and explain the aims of this podcast: to figure out …