The history you think you know, with women in it this time
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "Witch Hunts | Bonus | Most accused witches walked free (with Malcolm Gaskill)" (21 October 2026, 8 minutes), "American Revolution | Part 7 | Republican motherhood and the long impact of the Revolution (with Carol Berkin)" (15 August 2026, 47 minutes), and "American Revolution | Part 6 | Mercy Otis Warren and the female politicians (with Rosemarie Zagarri)" (8 August 2026, 50 minutes).
Broad History publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 44 minutes.
Booking probability for Broad History is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Broad History requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Broad History's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #17
To listen to this episode in full, join at broadhistory.com/membership . Historian Malcolm Gaskill helps us understand the "wrong but sincere" 17th-century folks behind witchcraft accusations and busts some myths about...
Episode #16
Republican motherhood is a fundamental concept of the early American republic. Women's political power, it argues, is exercised not at the ballot box but in their own separate sphere, where they raise good little...
Episode #15
Mercy Otis Warren was what the Revolution called a "female politician" – a woman who cared about and discussed politics, a wholly new archetype for American society then. Her poems, plays and pamphlets – and ultimately...
Episode #14
Phillis Wheatley Peters was transported to America as an enslaved 7-year-old. She quickly became a literary prodigy and an international celebrity – the unofficial first poet laureate of a new nation, says her...
Episode #13
When Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman overheard the opening of the new Massachussetts constitution in 1780 – "all men are born free and equal" – she knew the words had to apply to her, too. Elizabeth was the first enslaved...
Episode #10
<p>What really happened between Angelica and Hamilton? Did she really ask her sister to "lend him to me for a little while"? Why did Eliza sign her name to the Federalist papers? Did Angelica get a little too close to...
Episode #12
What really happened between Angelica and Hamilton? Did she really ask her sister to "lend him to me for a little while"? Why did Eliza sign her name to the Federalist papers? Did Angelica get a little too close to...
Episode #11
Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! Abigail Adams made a killing in war bonds (and possibly a bit of insider trading). She used John Adams' diplomatic posting to import luxury goods from France and...
Episode #11
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards!</p><p>Abigail Adams made a killing in war bonds (and possibly a bit of insider trading). She used John Adams' diplomatic posting to import luxury goods from...
Episode #10
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>The most radical thing about the American Revolution? The sudden politicisation of colonial women, argues Dr Carol Berkin, author of "Revolutionary...
Episode #1
The most radical thing about the American Revolution? The sudden politicisation of colonial women, argues Dr Carol Berkin, author of "Revolutionary Mothers" and one of the preeminent historians of women in the early...
Episode #9
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>In part 2 of our exploration of the American frontier, Megan Kate Nelson introduces two women who belie the homesteader image conservative "trad wives"...
Episode #8
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>The Western frontier is a foundational myth of the United States. Historian Megan Kate Nelson is here to complicate it with the stories of women who do...
Episode #7
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>The ancient Greeks believed a woman's womb wandered through her body and made her ill. Medieval Europeans believed a woman's orgasm was necessary for...
Episode #6
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>Paris, 1897. The Bazar de la Charité blaze killed 118 women and girls. Where were the men?</p><p><br> ★ Support this podcast ★ <br>On this episode...
Episode #5
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension. This is an audio read of The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed...
Episode #4
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>Julia Cooke, author of Starry and Restless, joins me to bring back three women who were household names in their day — Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn...
Episode #3
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>In the 1970s, Wages for Housework demanded pay for cooking and cleaning without any illusions about making it in the workplace. What if work was never...
Episode #2
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>"We raise them like saints, then hand them over like fillies," she said of 19th-century girls. Her best-selling novels were an indictment of arranged...
Episode #1
<p>Vote for Broad History in the British Podcast Awards! </p><br><p>Forget the cliché that women suddenly joined the workforce in the middle of the 20th century. They've been active in the economy as long as there's...
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