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Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/3b9327e2-6bc2-4f1a-b578-7913772884e8/MaRainey.jpg Episodes - Ladies Sing the Blues: The Black Entertainers Who Dazzled the 1920s - Nobody puts Ma Rainey in a corner. “Ma Rainey in 1917,” Accessed via The New York Times on February 28, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/9e8b8672-4932-4b74-8147-6cf5315518ba/ethel+waters.png Episodes - Ladies Sing the Blues: The Black Entertainers Who Dazzled the 1920s - Ethel Waters knew how to make audiences fall in love. “Ethel Waters posing for On With the Show,” Collectors Weekly, 1929, accessed November 17, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/4475b8f5-8572-43c0-96d6-8caa1827c844/josephine.png Episodes - Ladies Sing the Blues: The Black Entertainers Who Dazzled the 1920s - Who else could rock a banana skirt this hard? No one, probably. Citation: “Josephine Baker in the Folies Bergère,” The National WWII Museum, 1927, accessed November 17, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/93dab317-b832-4794-95d0-6d5fdbad52e1/The+Ebony+Steppers.png Episodes - Ladies Sing the Blues: The Black Entertainers Who Dazzled the 1920s - Make it stand out “The Ebony Steppers at the Cotton Club,” The New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1929, accessed November 17, 2023. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2024/2/1/9ucaifz8urdwkbd2bvmafbvpm7z9hf monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/baa72ddc-021d-42aa-b16a-f936527128c5/Roxy_1927_1.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - The Roxy made a night out at the movies a luxurious experience. The Roxy Theater, one of New York City’s greatest lost palaces,” New York Tours by Gary, November 28, 2011, accessed November 8, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/c3186d22-5751-40e4-8c15-08d3d8d1ac94/Colleen_Moore_in_We_Moderns_%281925%29.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Colleen Moore knew how to show as well as tell. “Colleen Moore in We Moderns, 1925,” Wikimedia Commons, accessed November 8, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/8ac1db74-2e26-4829-b118-db0aa7a07ec8/Theda-bara-cleopatra.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Theda Bara, posing as Cleopatra, was the 1910s ultimate bad girl. A promotion shot from the silent film “Cleopatra” in 1917. Accessed from Wikimedia Commons on February 2, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/c1e424b0-04c7-47b7-99ce-1c5452acc42a/Screen+Shot+2024-02-02+at+4.03.09+pm.png Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Make it stand out An article about Hollywood dieting from Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1929), accessed from Archive.org on February 2, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/2a7fe956-9447-4b04-b370-b7e99a0287a3/Mary_Pickford_with_camera2.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Mary Pickford knew how to work it behind the camera as well as in front of it. “Mary Pickford, circa 1916,” Wikimedia Commons, accessed November 8, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/3fe4856c-1f55-4242-9794-647353850fd4/Press_photo_of_Gloria_Swanson_in_Indiscreet_%281931%29_%28front%29_%28cropped%29.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - A studio promotional image of Gloria Swanson from her film Indiscreet (1931). Accessed from Wikimedia Commons on February 2, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/416f5588-2faa-4e6a-9850-c4ce9d0f148f/Pola_Negri_and_Rod_La_Rocque.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Poa Negri in a rather spicy promotional image with Rod La Rocque for Forbidden Paradise (1924) Accessed from Wikimedia Commons on February 2, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/83d2a61e-9d6d-49fe-b9b3-aecdfce1064e/Flesh_and_the_Devil_with_John_Gilbert.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Greta Garbo wasn’t interested in talking to you about her love life. Or anything, really. Garbo in Flesh and the Devil (1926) with John Gilbert. Accessed on February 2, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/a6e1af62-7029-4889-86a4-25dca6cd1e12/Louise_Brooks_detail_ggbain.32453u.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Everyone wanted the Louise haircut. She was the Jennifer Aniston of the 1920s. Accessed from Wikimedia Commons on February 2, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/76e2f04a-14f6-4a48-ae7d-08a8b164aa9b/Dolores_del_R%C3%ADo.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Dolores del Río didn’t do anything by halves. Accessed from Wikimedia Commons on February 2, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/5f0341d2-1928-4502-a495-c740e8efc7f4/Anna_May_Wong_Stars_of_the_Photoplay.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Anna May Wong didn’t always love the roles she was asked to play, but she made a splash regardless. Publicity photo of Anna May Wong from Stars of the Photoplay, 1930. Accessed from Wikimedia Commons on February 2, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/2122aed6-6928-4d79-aac4-eef7f704810a/photoplay3133movi_0009.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Table of Contents for the January 1927 issue of Photoplay magazine, featuring reviews of Hotel Imperial and Midnight Lovers, photos of Clara Bow and John Gilbert, the winners of the latest contest and an article on “screen sirens.” “Photoplay Magazine, vol. XXX1, no. 2” Internet Archive, January 1927, accessed November 8, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/533a1ead-e5c8-40dd-9f74-aed37d4480b4/clara-bow-with-compact.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Clara Bow’s makeup look inspired a generation of flappers to get their drama on. “Clara Bow with a compact, 1928,” The History of the Flapper, Part 2, The Smithsonian Magazine, February 7, 2013, accessed November 8, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/008b2c6d-2994-40eb-8d23-22d4f58363dc/Gloria_Swanson_Ad_-_Nov_1919_Shadowland.jpg Episodes - Screen Queens: Movies of the 1920s and the Women Who Made Them Sparkle - Gloria Swanson in a Maybelline ad in Screenland magazine, circa 1919. “Gloria Swanson, Cosmetics Ad,” Wikimedia Commons, November 1919, accessed November 8, 2023. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2023/12/7/a-ladys-life-in-1920s-america-a-friday-night monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/2582bce0-d089-4b93-a420-e97e134b02e5/Photo+shows+Bill+Norton%2C+the+bathing+beach+%2522cop%2522%2C+using+a+tape+measure+to+determine+the+distance+between+a+woman%27s+knee+and+the+bottom+of+her+bathing+suit+on+a+beach+in+Washington%2C+D.C.+1922_LOC.jpeg Episodes - A Lady's Life in 1920s America: A Friday Night - knees out, big problem. Bill Norton, the bathing beach "cop", uses a tape measure to determine the distance between a woman's knee and the bottom of her bathing suit on a beach in Washington, D.C., in 1922. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2023/11/30/lady-killers-the-women-of-murderess-row monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/6264a8d5-bf4e-457e-9a1d-e7e73396bcff/Beulah_Annan_and_Belva_Gaertner%2C_1924.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - beulah and belva have come to slay (quite literally). Beulah (left) and Belva (right) dressed up for their day in court. Citation: “Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner,” The Chicago Tribune, March 9, 2023, accessed September 29, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/41f30cd9-09de-43c1-a4bf-3787f8854555/Maurine-Dallas-Watkins-circa-1924.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - this mob sister is pulling no punches. “Maurine Dallas Watkins,” from History Matters: Celebrating Women’s Plays of the Past, accessed September 29, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/9e2e09b7-28da-45cb-901d-a68efbcb6d3c/XL4J5CX2T5AUFO3ZJXN7PSK3LU.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Sabella, Belva, and Kitty posing for reporters in Cook County jail in 1924. “Sabella Nitti with Belva Gaertner and Kitty Malm,” The Chicago Tribune, March 9, 2023, accessed September 29, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/0251f465-513e-42f3-aff0-dac4fec4fec8/Belva+in+jail.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Belva, looking forlorn (and rather stylish) in her prison stripes. Citation: “Cabaret singer and divorcée, Belva Gaertner spends time in Cook County Jail awaiting trial for the murder of Walter Law, 29, on March 12, 1924. (Chicago Herald and Examiner).” from The Chicago Tribune, March 9, 2023, accessed September 29, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/555fb94c-8bdd-483d-ab79-876c37745d5b/VWAEHSHLVNDWLK3ESZ3WRREZRU.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Who could condemn those wide, innocent eyes? Beulah Annan posing for a cameraman after admitting she killed her lover, Harry Kalstedt. Image from the Chicago Herald and Examiner. “Chicago's Murderess Row in 1924 — and all that jazz,” published Mar 09, 2023, accessed Dec. 2, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/bea178d9-ea1f-4425-9dd8-d7b55672c249/TCY2ASJOAFDJZBJDMXOPR5YQ24.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Make it stand out Beulah Annan looking cute as she answers policemen’s questions. Image from the Chicago Herald and Examiner. “Chicago's Murderess Row in 1924 — and all that jazz,” published Mar 09, 2023, accessed Dec. 2, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1cbe2673-b0f4-425a-a014-883b6209d6f7/Belva+at+court.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Make it stand out “Belva Gaertner, 38, center, listens during the coroner's inquest for the death of Walter Law, 29, held at the South Wabash Avenue station on March 12, 1924, in Chicago. (Chicago Herald and Examiner).” Accessed September 29, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/66cde9be-9322-426f-93cb-690067219e1f/Kitty+Malm+arrested.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Kitty Malm’s best mug shot. Citation: “Katherine "Kitty Malm" Baluk after turning herself in to police and confessing her involvement in the death of Edward Lehmann, circa 1923. (Chicago Herald and Examiner).” Accessed September 20, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/3b0bfddd-2c69-4a2a-a8fe-3e9ec0a0a25b/Kitty+on+the+stand.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Make it stand out Citation: Katherine "Kitty Malm" Baluk took the stand in her own defense during the murder trial, saying she had never carried a gun. Judge Steffens is on the bench. (Chicago Tribune historical photo).” Accessed September 29, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1701482982504-XTRCRO6UBHOZ49VXT5UD/FP6U7IETQFH2BONVX3OBWB4I2U.jpg.jpeg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Sabella Nitti with her children Citation: “Sabella Nitti Crudelle with her two youngest children, Mary Nitti, 4, and Philomena Nitti, 6, visit her in Cook County Jail in 1923. During the trial, the children stayed with neighbors in Stickney. (Chicago Tribune historical photo).” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1701482983106-220PF4NJ14JR8KOXISEH/DYIYQH2HGNDBDGP32ZALDV27WE.jpg.jpeg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Sabella on the stand Citation: “Sabella Nitti Crudelle, from left, her son Charles Nitti and her second husband Peter Crudelle during the trial for the murder of Sabella's first husband, Nitti, circa 1923. (Chicago Tribune historical photo).” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1701482984683-KA3DOLDE8DDN75D7AUCT/Sabella+pictures.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Sabella is free! Citation: “Sabella Nitti Crudelle, center, smiles as she leaves Cook County Jail after 16 months on June 16, 1924. With her are Margaret Bonelli, left of Sabella, who helped her obtain a new trial, and Sabella's attorney, Rocco de Steffano, to the right of Sabella. (Chicago Herald and Examiner).” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/3bcca541-1c12-4cf0-abe3-b210e92b8d97/C201911-312-Five-Things-Beulah-Annan-and-husband.jpg Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Make it stand out Beulah Annan with her third husband, looking cheekily, and prettily, innocent. She was acquitted earlier of killing her lover. Credit: from “The Real Roxie Hart Was Too Beautiful to Execute, And other tidbits from a new book on the real-life women who inspired Chicago” by Anne Ford. Chicago Tribune Historical. Accessed Dec. 2, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/8bd5428b-d3c2-4886-b5c7-424bf9ebd08f/chicago-article.png Episodes - Lady Killers: The Women of Chicago’s Murderess Row - Make it stand out An article on Bella’s tragic end. “Maurine Dallas Watkins: Sob Sisters, Pretty Demons, and All That Jazz,” from The Indiana History Blog, accessed Dec. 2, 2023. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2023/10/17/a-ladys-life-in-1920s-america-a-thursday-at-home monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2023/9/29/a-ladys-life-in-1920s-america-part-2-a-wednesday-at-work monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/a-day-in-the-life-1920s-part-1 monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/5ff17f63-f58a-46cd-8343-ee1d37f2a953/kotex_hygeia_november1924_watermark+%281%29.jpg Episodes - A Lady’s Life in 1920s America, Part I: A Summer Saturday - “Dainty,” and “immaculate,” are the keywords featured in this 1924 Kotex ad. The text also frames Kotex as the “modern,” “safe,” and nurse-approved method of managing menstruation, while disparaging other methods and products as “old-fashioned” and even “dangerous.” “Kotex ad in Hygeia Magazine, November 1924,” in “‘Solving Woman’s Oldest Hygienic Problem in a New Way’: A History of Period Products, by Johanna Goldberg,” NYAM History of Medicine and Public Health, March 4, 2016, accessed July 22, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/fca658ad-0745-4bcf-8559-723173c282fc/Suzanne_Lenglen%2C_Julie_Vlasto%2C_1926.jpg Episodes - A Lady’s Life in 1920s America, Part I: A Summer Saturday - Make it stand out Women played tennis, too! French tennis players Suzanne Lenglen and Julie Vlasto in Cannes in 1926, 1926. Source: Wikimedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/22bf8791-7299-48d9-a722-1930a3345ab3/women+in+pants.jpeg Episodes - A Lady’s Life in 1920s America, Part I: A Summer Saturday - Make it stand out Women were taking to the road in droves, using the automobile to socialize with their female friends and escape the house for an adventure or two. Sometimes they even did it wearing pants! Image: “June 13, 1922. Washington, D.C. Viola LaLonde and Elizabeth Van Tuyl.” from “1920s Women and Their Cars,” History Daily, accessed July 22, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/8b4681a1-96c1-4147-9c59-c7172581c961/a+new+improvement.jpeg Episodes - A Lady’s Life in 1920s America, Part I: A Summer Saturday - Here we have an ad for one of the earlier models of the radio, featured in a 1923 edition of the Saturday Evening Post. This model clearly still ran on batteries and required headphones, although thankfully most of the wires and tubes have been hidden within the receiver compartment. “Radio Corporation of America ad in the Saturday Evening Post, April 14, 1923,” in “Vintage Advertising: RCA’s 1920s Radios,” The Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 2017, 2016, accessed July 22, 2023. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2023/4/12/lady-scofflaws-prohibition-and-the-women-who-defied-it monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2023/3/26/lady-drys-1920s-prohibition-and-the-women-who-supported-it monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2023/2/22/nightbirdsaudiobook monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/f2e12914-2367-430c-804b-d0fa251e712a/Nightbirds+audiobook.jpeg Episodes - Nightbirds - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/aflapperwalksintoabar monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/295b2d07-26b3-4087-be7f-6228f190c681/Nightbirds+High+Res+Cover.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - Find out more about my debut novel, Nightbirds, at my author website. If you like The Exploress, you’re going to love my magical girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/956f3c9b-f5d6-4525-a295-e6063f24b578/Where_there%27s_smoke_there%27s_fire_by_Russell_Patterson_crop.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - Make it stand out Russell Patterson’s flapper illustrations in the 1920s were often featured in magazines like Vogue, The Saturday Evening Post, and Life. His illustrations contributed to the popular conception of the flapper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/63599d2d-c494-4454-a234-600cf2232e5e/VDDqVtlanIxx-scaled-930x1371.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - Let’s paint our knees. Might as well, if we’re flashing them. Citation: “Woman Paints Her Knees,” Messy Nessy, accessed February 12, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/51c2768f-5e88-4f2a-b72d-7f8b2b47d35d/vintage-our-modern-maidens-1929-004-2.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - Make it stand out Joan Crawford as a flapper in her 1929 silent film, “Our Modern Maidens.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/9739f842-a0f0-4a9e-8be9-a4c1f3e81a05/womens-smoking-car-threaded-flappers-large.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - A bad girl’s habit if ever there was one. Citation: “Flappers Smoking,” The Smithsonian Magazine, accessed February 12, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/66a65310-cea7-4c77-85e1-cca41c598151/Flappers+Posing+with+Their+Classic+Cars+in+the+1920s+%2811%29.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - Driving down Mischief Lane. “Flapper Posing with her Car,” Vintage Everyday, accessed February 12, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/65791934-4c69-4410-99ec-94306e4db5db/del1921nov-color.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - Flapper fashion was bold, beautiful, and columnar. A 1920s fashion plate, accessed from the University of Vermont collection on February 21, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/f257bebd-cead-47ae-8bc1-1846bb7f19e9/service-pnp-cph-3g10000-3g12000-3g12900-3g12986r.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - Make it stand out Cover illustration, Life magazine, February 18, 1926, showing a well dressed old man dancing with a flapper. Accessed from the Library of Congress on February 21, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/f4915f4d-bcb5-47d8-a42e-3d252906163f/Lois_Long_in_her_office_at_the_New_Yorker.jpg Episodes - A Flapper Walks Into a Bar: The Iconic (and Fabulous) Woman of the 1920s - Lois was great at two things: writing and shocking people. A posed parody shot in The New Yorker offices of writer Lois Long (right) and a scandalized 1890s woman. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/beingqueenelizabethi monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2022/12/27/educationwithkatherineparr monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/c63aba18-37b3-41fa-9b10-a0daa6a9fffa/Katherine-Parr.jpg Episodes - Education with Katherine Parr - that knowing twinkle in Katherine Parr’s eyes as she realizes she’s better read than half the men at the table. “Katherine Parr,” oil on panel, attributed to Master John, circa 1545, National Portrait Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/e6781fb8-4c6a-4244-992c-bc6f0dbb0ce7/Prayerbook-of-Princess-Elizabeth-royal_ms_7_d_x_fblefr.jpg Episodes - Education with Katherine Parr - Katherine’s first publication was a collection of snippets from holy works, entitled “Prayers and Meditations.” At 12 years old, Lady Elizabeth translated the work into Latin, French, and Italian, and then presented this embroidered copy of the translations to her father, Henry VIII, as a gift. “Prayerbook of Princess Elizabeth,” Queen Elizabeth I, 1545, The British Library. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2022/10/18/poisonous-ambition-magic-poison-sex-and-scandal-in-the-court-of-the-french-sun-king monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/codegirlswithelliemarney monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/5301bc70-1d10-47c5-9552-3c993bb1b3a1/women_breaking_naval_codes2_courtesy_of_national_archives_and_records_administration.jpg Episodes - Code Girls with Ellie Marney - Make it stand out Just some of the thousands of women who worked tirelessly during the war breaking codes. Image credit: the National Archives and Records Administration https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/marriagewithanneofcleves monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/8e81578b-51a9-40d6-9a8a-d39f0eb061cb/0000720577_OG.JPG Episodes - Marriage with Anne of Cleves - hot or not? (hot, obviously.) “Portrait of Anne of Cleves,” vellum on canvas, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1539, Musée du Louvre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/a8c49d35-2a6f-4d8e-8a0c-49a42826316b/N-0113-00-000037-wpu.jpg Episodes - Marriage with Anne of Cleves - Make it stand out This painting is the first in a satirical series of 6 works entitled “Marriage A-la Mode,” that chronicle the various stages of marriage. This painting shows the conclusion of marriage negotiations between a rich merchant and a debt-ridden Earl, while their miserable children sit by and watch- the son, in blue, has a black spot on his neck (syphilis) and the distraught daughter is being consoled by a lawyer. “Marriage A-la Mode, 1. The Marriage Settlement,” oil on canvas, William Hogarth, 1745, The National Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/f95946e6-3da9-477d-ab05-b6bac6c7570d/DP159333.jpg Episodes - Marriage with Anne of Cleves - Make it stand out The church was heavily involved in regulating Tudor marriages. Most weddings would have taken place in church, after which the priest would bless the marriage bed for consummation. “The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox,” oil on canvas, William Hogarth, 1729, The Met. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2022/8/5/childbirth-with-jane-seymour monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/5e77af60-c627-4c12-b78d-50222ec82b6e/256257-1633104951.jpg Episodes - Childbirth with Jane Seymour - Make it stand out This dynastic portrait of Henry VIII and his family shows the king in the center flanked by his third wife, Jane Seymour and their son, Edward VI. On the left is Princess Mary, and on the right Princess Elizabeth. Jane had been deceased for quite a while when he had this painted. A little weird? I mean…maybe. Credit: “The Family of Henry VIII,” British School 16th Century Artist, oil on canvas, 1545, Hampton Court Palace, Royal Collection Trust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/90e8c33d-f3e6-44f8-a6b4-fe0158fa0ec8/0278_repro.jpg Episodes - Childbirth with Jane Seymour - Jane Seymour rocking that gable hood. Hair covered equals modesty intact. “Portrait of Jane Seymour,” Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on panel, 1540, Mauritshuis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/ac20b0eb-d773-4a3b-93c7-7595379a1b09/12pregnancy2-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg Episodes - Childbirth with Jane Seymour - Tudor women weren’t encouraged to get around showing off a baby bump, but sometimes queens would go out of their way to do just that. Cecily Heron, Sir Thomas More’s daughter, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527. This sketch shows Cecily in just have loosened bodice. She’s put her yellow stomacher underneath her laces to keep her modesty intact. Citation: Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 912269. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/a9c7f935-e4a4-4a18-9c09-e716fa2b241c/CN+20159%2C+Raynalde%2C+Byrth+of+Mankynde%2C+1545%2C+plates+3v+and+4r%2C+after+sig+L8-min.jpg Episodes - Childbirth with Jane Seymour - The legendary “birth figures” featured in The Byrth of Mankind, showing various positions of the fetus in the womb to assist midwives during labor. Katie Birkwood, “The byrth of mankind, otherwyse named the womans booke, by Thomas Raynalde, published 1545,” Royal College of Physicians, February 5, 2016. The Birth of Mankind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/c6da0d1d-9c87-4311-980a-6802b096a44f/edward_vi_as_a_child_1937.1.64.jpg Episodes - Childbirth with Jane Seymour - Baby Edward wearing some very fancy baby clothes. Citation: “Edward VI as a Child,” Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on panel, 1538, National Gallery of Art. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2022/6/7/women-in-tudor-england-fashion-with-anne-boleyn monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/7d3895f5-cba0-40a2-9c66-1e207a5ebfd7/Anne-Boleyn.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - Make it stand out “Anne Boleyn,” Unknown English artist, oil on panel, late 16th century, based on a work of circa 1533-1536, National Portrait Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/e27ac4ef-96b1-401d-a173-cdd9d369b947/embroidery+detail+1616+jacket_MET.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - Make it stand out How seriously glorious is this embroidery from 1616? Like seventeenth-century still-life painting in its global reach and analytical approach, the jacket suggests both abundance and taxonomy. Image courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654730163071-HYBOTIOE0AD0B8U8BHJV/32.png Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - Queen Jane Seymour If you look closely at Jane’s outfit, you can see a couple of interesting details. First, there are all the pins holding her placard to her bodice. Then there is her fancy forepart, which matches her lower, probably detachable sleeves. Those sleeves shows us an example of slashing, too, allowing her underlayer to show through. Portrait by Hans Holbein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654730207412-BWAZ188NNU5BJW5DJ7FU/33.png Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - Henry and his codpiece This thing is probably stuffed with wool or scraps on linen. It’s also lavishly decorated with cloth of silver, as it his whole ensemble, with examples of slashing at his chest and sleeves. Portrait of Henry VIII after Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1537–1562 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654730224055-H0MWVX3OYM3K7L8GX1Z9/43.png Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654730248680-FBA8AIKQ2DYVZORR0EM8/44.png Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/769811da-7591-407c-9cdb-29f71a5f0eba/The_Field_of_the_Cloth_of_Gold.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - Make it stand out The Field of the Cloth of Gold, oil painting of circa 1545 in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court. Henry VIII on horseback approaches at bottom left. You can tell it’s him because of all that cloth of gold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654730981017-HXAF0G96C8GS7FBZ4B67/AnneBoleynHever.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654730983024-K40D2BNNYLDNNEMYTKIH/anneBoleynprettyplaque345.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - Anne Boleyn's coronation medal This copy of Anne’s coin is the only contemporary likeness we have of her, and it shows her - interestingly - in an English gable hood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654731022898-9CEURSAPRTZWAIEAPH5T/Catalina_de_Arag%C3%B3n%2C_palacio_de_Lambeth.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - Catherine of Aragon's gable hood Though Catherine did wear the French hood from time to time, she knew that it paid to look English when she was painted for posterity. [Image from Wikicommons] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654732691286-6Z0ERNSES788L6WH2FAQ/embroidered+jacket+1616_MET.jpeg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - English jacket c. 1616 This glorious jacket shows us Tudor embroidery at its finest, featuring gold thread and detailed depictions of the natural world. Courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654731442418-S772MV9K0K2J9CNJ4XRY/embroidery+detail+1616+jacket_MET.jpeg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654732248689-X7ET0EDZYRRY0BZEMDP2/37.png Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - The Rainbow portrait of Elizabeth I This detail from Elizabeth’s portrait shows us her truly glorious ruff, which must have taken quite a lot of whalebone and/or metal to keep aloft around her neck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654732224338-CHLOQ3MK6VTJJ7PNDQD8/36.png Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - detail of Elizabeth I's Rainbow portrait Here we see the immaculate details of Elizabeth’s dress, including the eyes and ears that were probably painted onto the fabric: a reminder that the queen hears and sees all. We also see a very detailed snake on her arm, symbolic of wisdom, and pearls at her neck that speak to her virginity, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654732676542-FSDXJRBKYKZI09KJT9C5/altar-cloth-det-2.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - detail from the Bacton Altar Cloth this beautiful piece, which served as an altar cloth for centuries, is now believed to be the only surviving remnant of Elizabeth I’s wardrobe. She often gave pieces of clothing away as gifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1654732721764-X0DOJ1XBT5T8EDJTJKHM/34.png Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - a portrait from Elizabeth I's age In this portrait, we see what happens when a lady wears a drum farthingale, a starched ruff and cuffs, and a rigidly constructed bodice. It changes the way she moves and takes up space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/305e12d1-d570-4945-bdd3-888841d49f47/Elizabeth_I_of_England_Hardwick_1592.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Fashion with Anne Boleyn - Pure magnificence. I mean…where to start? The drum farthingale, the painted pond full of flowers and animals, the lavish ruff and pearls. Elizabeth I knew how to make a statement. Even her shoes are full of bling. Elizabeth I of England, 1592, from Hardwick Hall. [Wikicommons]. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2022/3/17/religion-with-catherine-of-aragon monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/cd88914d-ca00-472e-ba8a-ac15b84871e0/GMIII_MCAG_1910_18-001.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Religion with Catherine of Aragon - Make it stand out William Bromley, “Catherine of Aragon,” oil on canvas, 1866, Manchester Art Gallery, Art UK. This painting shows Catherine, in black, surrounded by her ladies and speaking to Cardinal Wosley and the Papal Legate Cardinal Campeggio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/f0fca096-c194-4ee2-9657-ef5e6959ac5f/Katherine-of-Aragon.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Religion with Catherine of Aragon - Make it stand out Unknown artist, “Katherine of Aragon,” oil on panel, National Portrait Gallery. This portrait was painted in the early 18th century, and features the Queen as she may have looked circa 1530. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/b5ea8653-d590-4db0-869a-b7f2b188a2d4/mw194913.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Religion with Catherine of Aragon - Make it stand out Catherine of Aragon by Unknown artist, oil on oak panel, circa 1520. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/da9e42df-2de7-44ed-adc5-3b07599b2655/King-Henry-VIII.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Religion with Catherine of Aragon - Make it stand out Ugh…this guy. after Hans Holbein the Younger oil on copper, probably 17th century, based on a work of 1536 NPG 157, National Portrait Gallery, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/2afce344-f0fb-4286-a359-8ad9aed592a8/BRM_BMAG_1885P2540-001.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Religion with Catherine of Aragon - Make it stand out Henry Nelson O’Neil, “The Trial of Queen Catherine of Aragon,” 1846, oil on canvas, Birmingham Museums Trust, Art UK. This painting depicts the Blackfriars trial, in which Catherine, in black, argues her case and throws herself at Henry’s feet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/5f2ff589-55e1-4a7a-96e6-a4ae0f9f988a/Thomas-Cromwell-Earl-of-Essex.jpg Episodes - Women in Tudor England: Religion with Catherine of Aragon - Make it stand out This guy made some Bold Choices. Hans Holbein the Younger, “Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex,” oil on panel, National Portrait Gallery. This portrait of Henry’s right hand man was painted in the 17th century and was based upon a work of 1532. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2021/10/28/something-wicked-witch-hunts-in-tudor-england-and-beyond monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/bcfa5233-e4e7-42ed-ba36-13be223a97d9/177601.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked: Witch Hunts in the Tudor Age - James VI: not The Exploress’s favorite monarch. “James VI, 1566-1625,” 1604, National Galleries of Scotland, accessed October 6, 2021. This painting is based on one of John De Critz’ official full length portraits of the king. It shows James VI of Scotland after he had assumed the English throne and moved to London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/59f599ca-bd97-4905-a1ed-5265ed96b0a9/default.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked: Witch Hunts in the Tudor Age - let’s cause some trouble! “The History of Witches and Wizards,” 1720, Wellcome Collection, accessed October 6, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/705f1152-2fff-4fc2-b439-6b0fde862f8b/witches-tl.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked: Witch Hunts in the Tudor Age - Make it stand out “The Discovery of Witches,” 1647. British Library. Accessed October 6, 2021. The title page shown here is from infamous witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins’ 1647 book, “The Discovery of Witches,” one of the many treatises of the time on witches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/861c8d84-0bca-4703-947d-01f5045c2845/Source-Twenty-Seven-B20016-45.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked: Witch Hunts in the Tudor Age - An early modern woodcut that depicts a witch sailing on a wooden plank, as one does, on the River Newbury. It comes from the front page of a pamphlet that tells the story of this particular “witch,” designed to entertain the masses. Courtesy of the The British Library Board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/4df6a1ff-852f-4c6d-8595-27bb8bdd2741/Alx50_platewf.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked: Witch Hunts in the Tudor Age - Make it stand out “Sabbat,” 1612, Folger Shakespeare Library, accessed October 6, 2021. A picture from “Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons,” a French witchcraft treatise by Pierre de I' Ancre depicting the demonic rituals of a witches’ sabbat. Zoom in at your peril… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/33a71ed9-d7de-490c-a519-3a1bf07a9d65/06-king-james-vi.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked: Witch Hunts in the Tudor Age - James VI, continuing to be terrible. Citation: “Torture Witcraft woodcut,” 1591. This woodcut depicts King James VI of Scotland supervising the torture of witches in Edinburgh, taken from a 1591 pamphlet called, “Newes from Scotland - declaring the damnable life and death of Dr. Fian, a notable sorcerer.” The pamphlet was most likely written by James Carmichael, who later helped the King write his book, Daemonologie. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2021/7/28/a-ladys-life-in-tudor-england monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1629082442454-7D3C51PSVEZJHJRTV01W/Het+spinnen%2C+het+scheren+van+de+ketting%2C+en+het+weven_Isaac+Claesz_1594_Museum+De+Lakenhal%2C+Leiden.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - to tudor times we go. Spinning and weaving wool. Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg, “Het spinnen het scheren van de ketting, en het weven” (1594). Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1629082519234-J0UN9LI9191HUM8HX9GC/Tudor+rose+textile_1580_V%26A+Museum.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Make it stand out Tudor rose textile (1580), courtesy of the V&A Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631172008285-FIJ1TCXW72UNOMEI1CDL/quote+style+1-3.png Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631172144993-HVSS7CPOL09DDP6CTVTO/2009CP4796.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Details from a tester, a lovely part of a four-poster Tudor bed, from between 1550 and 1570. Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631172795908-A8E0NMM61V2GA1RTC27C/2009BW6757.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Detail of an embroidered linen shirt, 1540, shows how talented seamstresses could be at this time. Courtesy of the V&A Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173089258-UW6FCYYAYWHS8I6JA1YD/Cecily_Heron%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Cecily Heron This Hans Holbein illustration gives us a rare glimpse at a Tudor woman with her bodice uncovered and loosened, presumably to make her more comfortable in pregnancy. Women would have done this often, but their laces would never have been left showing like this when they left the house. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173064230-5CEL7S9W1F8PJDQQVX3W/Catalina_de_Arag%C3%B3n%2C_palacio_de_Lambeth.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Katherine of Aragon Here we see Katherine rocking an English gable hood - it’s like a fancy pentagon, kinda - and the signature square neckline. Her dress looks like velvet, and the gilded details hint at just how luxurious this outfit was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173717943-YKM3HRW550CTCS0HGR8W/2006AL5849.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Tudor embroidery The embroidery on this cushion show how seriously Tudors took their needlework. It was an activity many fine young ladies were taught and took pride in. Here we see a motif of plants and animals, exemplifying the increased interest in flora and fauna as decorative subjects. Courtesy of the V&A Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173054355-1PVPDXL5S19T516QUPEC/AnneBoleynHever.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Anne Boleyn Here we see Henry VIII’s second wife with her signature French-style hood, her B necklace, and that signature Tudor square necklace. Notice how a lot of her hair is showing, which is relatively new to English fashion when she comes on the scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173056567-N4IPRRPJ96R957RRAL8K/Anne_of_Cleves%2C_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Anne of Cleves Here we see Henry VIII’s sixth wife with much of her hair covered up and what look like they MIGHT be detachable sleeves. Tudor women stitched their outfits together from separate pieces with straight pins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173034072-LY2IATQ010PWM241X98U/189ff9aeea2a70c04e6b59f4abf49c0f.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Young Elizabeth I Here we see a young princess styled in utter luxury, with pearls galore and a golden forepart that anyone would envy. Attributed to William Scrots. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173069830-EVN23GH9BH0U1Z96X05B/Elizabeth_I_Rainbow_Portrait.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - Elizabeth I in power Here is Elizabeth in her signature Rainbow Portrait, looking particularly resplendent and surreal. Some historians think this dress wasn’t an invention of the artist, but an actual piece of clothing where someone painted those details onto the skirts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173047865-N27II2IY8Z3QB30QTXXY/2006AM9945.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - A very fancy burse An embroidered purse with Elizabeth I’s initials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1631173815982-VCGZ6U0QVVFY1M20VOFH/2012FV8757.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Tudor England - nits be gone! An ivory comb showing David and Bathsheba, France 1530-50. Courtesy of the V&A Museum. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2021/7/28/blood-magic-a-brief-history-of-menstruation monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1627874694165-L9CY30EY9FORJWRR61J1/unnamed-2.jpg Episodes - Blood Magic: A History of Menstruation - Make it stand out from MUM (the Museum of Menstruation). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1627874603831-BWXI0MRYD9JGPIOK23Y9/351dbdf15.png Episodes - Blood Magic: A History of Menstruation - Mr. Haas's tampon patent. sourced from Wikicommons. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/thewolfden monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1620955598280-4BY7SD2TVBMVIWQO6QPA/ExFLv5_XMAIK4ds.jpg Episodes - She-Wolves: Writing the Women of Pompeii with Elodie Harper - Elodie surrounded by hardback copies of her historical novel set in the streets of Pompeii. Courtesy of the Head of Zeus Twitter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1620955806134-CF6EYPYBWRATMT7A8J95/Pompeii_-_Lupanar_-_Erotic_Scene_-_MAN.jpg Episodes - She-Wolves: Writing the Women of Pompeii with Elodie Harper - Make it stand out Some graffiti from the lupanar, or brothel, in Pompeii. If these walls could speak I can only imagine what they’d say. (Wikicommons) https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2021/3/19/rebel-spirits-women-who-went-to-war-with-ancient-rome monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616133374839-J0Y4DEK3KA9IRB2DI49D/YouTube+Show+Art-7.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/ad9e7b50-0cb5-47a5-910b-05222a448526/Rome+Map+Resized+FINAL.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - “This is a woman’s resolve: the men, if they please, may live and be slaves.” This map shows how the Roman Empire grew over the years and highlights some of the women who fought against that expansion. You can buy a copy of this poster at my Exploress shop! Just go to the Store page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616304782984-DPLYHBHPJFVPE420INBD/Dying_Gaul_%28Head%29.jpg Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - don’t mess with the best. The Dying Gaul, a Roman statue with a torc in the Capitoline Museums in Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616134848825-9DNLSBRXJC3XN35K6R4K/2.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616304207295-L9YWI3HTUWTCX5GL8GBF/BM+Iron+Age+Torc.jpg Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - An Iron Age torc Imagine rocking this beauty! Found in Suffolk, Belstead Brook (Ipswich torc hoard), circa 150 - 50 BCE. Courtesy of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616304275696-L4LNVN3NT188P96S7BQV/256337001.jpg Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616306578528-P24Z3UVKXNKW8PNY62CA/23170001.JPG Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - The Battersea Shield This Iron Age shield found in England was found in the Thames, still looking amazing. From around 350 - 50 BCE. Courtesy of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616306580101-1DOYL83BLTHN3HZ2O82T/80784001.jpg Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - A detail of the Battersea Shield Courtesy of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616134421415-SLGUK8TEXUQUYTE40E6H/Cartimandua.jpg Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - Boy, bye. Caractacus, King of the Silures, deliver'd up to Ostorius, the Roman General, by Cartismandua, Queen of the Brigantes. F. Bartolozzi, British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616135314243-F4NOI50BKX9W0ACQ2R8G/27.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome All hail the warrior queen. If you like this Boudicca artwork, you can buy it as a print or on greeting cards from my merch shop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616134737618-4APFUN7UOSZ2FF4O0NQG/3.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616305181011-AYA3W9VBI0AVGMGBL9WX/Boudicca+detail+map.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - Let’s jump on Boudicca’s chariot and ride. If you like the feel of this map, check out the map of the Roman Empire over on my Etsy shop (see above). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616307116483-XYZWGCF4DPGJKK3ASOYE/79978001.jpg Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - Claudius’ severed head: just one casualty of Boudicca’s rampage. This head from Camulodunum was lopped off its statue, and then found in a nearby river in 1907, nearly 40 miles away. Courtesy of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616305948781-PUPZYPQLXNYE7SZV1VUD/25.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome If you like this collage of the great Zenobia (which features a marble statue of her by Harriet Hosmer), you can get it as an art print or on greeting cards from The Exploress Etsy shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616305834764-MMBYQC73BTDKO8I1HCSY/5.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616306436399-JLND2HN79T6WFTD83ZQV/queen_zenobia_addressing_her_soldiers_GIOVANNI+BATTISTA+TIEPOLO_1725_National+Gallery+of+Art.jpg Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome - go ahead, then. Bow down. Queen Zenobia Addressing Her Soldiers by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1725, courtesy of National Gallery of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616306805320-D9FIE860DPFBQRH6Q4EI/270+CE_+Zenobia%27s+Empire+%28roughly+speaking%29.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1616306963108-SJ35B09G9U05H9FKJB2Z/4.png Episodes - Rebel Spirits: Boudicca and Zenobia Go to War with Ancient Rome https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2020/10/28/silent-no-more-womens-suffrage monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1604020779577-L8IVAPYFVPNT5NL25LAW/Picketing+white+house_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - mr. president, how long must we wait? Courtesy of the Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1604017247882-F2JL8U1K02JX661AOBTI/womans+suffrage+parage+1913+program+cover+1913.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - onward. The cover of the program for the woman suffrage procession of 1913, Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603976560107-JVQQL2M31X3M3JX3IJCK/Abigail+Adams+by+Stuart_WC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Abigail Adams, early advocate for women’s rights, female education, and the abolition of slavery. All around kind of a knockout. Courtesy of Wikicommons.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603897013725-GXC4ANK165WZAHPYX1X1/Elizabeth+and+Susan+looking+at+documents_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony become the dynamic duo who go on to form the National Woman Suffrage Association. Courtesy of Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1604017964297-IPTOR6TUCEG5N82I1SX3/80c126b244f85f2f35d8b9dc4c27c9a8.png Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - off i go to the loony bin… A newspaper illustration featuring Elizabeth Ware Packard, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603898211510-4FKG31BLU6WF83OOWU4B/Sojourner+Truth Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - “I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal; I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if women have a pint and man a quart - why can’t she have her little pint full?” Sojourner Truth. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603978781989-CB4N71126X4ZXVT67PDE/Julia+Ward+Howe+portrait.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Julia Ward Howe (All images courtesy of the Library of Congress.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603979583977-UAZEI7RD6Z20Y9GNQ8VS/Nannie+Helen+Burroughs_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Nannie Helen Burroughs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603978784570-74RKOKWDS4RXL0LJ4R55/Jeanette+Rankin+portrait_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Jeanette Rankin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603978788820-0VEF3QLX52HHGRNZY41U/Lucy+Burns+portrait_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Lucy Burns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603979311291-BS3M0LH5W3WIE7YWHX0Z/Mabel+Ping-hua+Lee_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Mabel Ping-hua Lee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603979367740-XIPITEMEH990SBWFAFXR/Alice+Paul+Sewing_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Alice Paul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1604019160805-LCRVGH4WVP6LVFD6ADJR/The_Awakening_1915+copy.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights An illustration from Puck magazine showing Lady Liberty standing over the Western states that had given women the vote already, lighting the path for the rest of America. Or trying to. 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Walker, circa 1914. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1604018270648-SIF5OCWGVE9W1LST8F1K/Ida+Tarbell.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Ida Tarbell Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603977528683-0ETYHC27BWGMJWI0L7ZI/Carrie+Chapman+and+Helen+Gardener_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights - Don’t let their relaxed vibes fool you. Carrie Chapman Catt and Helen Gardener are working hard for the suffrage cause. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603895042672-92B1TVGOY9EK92OEICCE/Inez+Milholland+Boissevain+on+white+horse_LOC.jpg Episodes - Silent No More: American Womens’ Fight for Their Rights Inez Milholland. 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Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, circa 1765, by Gavin Hamilton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603433554455-6ELI7451LRRLLA8ORTX4/Agrippina+Landing+at+Brundisium+with+the+Ashes+of+Germanicus_Alexander+Runciman_1871_National+Galleries+of+Scotland%2C+Scottish+National+Gallery.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Do i look sad? I am, but i am also out for blood. Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, Alexander Runciman, 1871. Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603433679652-YMTZC27S6UUAXQ9GZ7HI/Julio+Claudian+Family+Tree.png Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603433836417-PXFNCRZER2V6UL1W39EG/Tiberius%2C_Romisch-Germanisches_Museum%2C_Cologne_%288115606671%29.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Livia’s son Tiberius (being mopey, as per usual). From the Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603433968489-6VB99ZY6382DX9Y28TE6/Germanicus_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Raymond_%28Toulouse%29.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Germanicus, saying “gather round, ladies, like moths to my flame.” From the Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse). Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603434068893-6L067VAOX523KVWUGW6M/Statue-Augustus._wikijpg.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Hey, watch it there small person clinging to my ankle! You never know when I might exile you to an island. xo Augustus A statue of Augustus. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603434122961-6IBBXPC2JOZZT9QXMYFP/Julia_Augusti_filia.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Poor Julia(s). This image comes from a coin, which represents one of the only images we have of Julia the Elder, Augustus’ daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603434220970-C9OZD63AKLHDC321H4AH/Livia+and+her+son+Tiberius%2C+AD+14-19%2C+from+Paestum%2C+National+Archaeological+Museum+of+Spain%2C+Madrid_M.A.N._Wiki.JPG Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - mom and son ruling together? tiberius does not approve. Livia and her son Tiberius, AD 14-19, from Paestum, National Archaeological Museum of Spain. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603434265494-EH8OCQ87AMKUQQGW9HNM/Agrippina+with+her+kids+on+campaign_Benjamin+West_Philadelphia+Museum+of+ARt_2007-65-14.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - That’s right. Bow down. Agrippina the Elder with her kids on campaign, Philadelphia Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1604827187177-3409AHI0YAG11D60GN2T/18.png Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1603434425238-7JJRN23AF20OK48GESS8/Agrippina_germanicus_ashes.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - miss you, germanicus. Agrippina the Elder Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, Benjamin West, Yale University Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610083892906-87SILE8YSMLH2S9XR437/Villa_Jovis.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - The ruins of Villa Jovis, built by Tiberius on Capri. Who knows what kinds of sexcapades went on up in here… Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610083956833-S40KGW2B53Z8D7X0TUS1/Eustache_Le_Sueur_-_Caligula_Depositing_the_Ashes_of_his_Mother_and_Brother_in_the_Tomb_of_his_Ancestors_-_WGA12607.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Caligula honouring his mother’s ashes. At least the guy did SOMETHING right. “Caligula Depositing the Ashes of his Mother and Brother in the Tomb of His Ancestors,” Eustache Le Sueur (1647) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610063238616-DNXEM5OLXZ6QWQ4OB5XW/20.png Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610084263361-HD9Z4YGCAM8RZSY6II87/615fb5bb6b8b06ba3fa6bc91cdbb81de.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Caligula’s court was not an easy place to thrive. “The Court of Caligula” by Virgilio Mattoni de la Fuente https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610084386874-BEPCE9MUZ0V7PROVDBEO/Agrippina+the+Younger_engraving_NYPL.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Thinking great thoughts and planning grand plans. An engraging of Agrippina from well after her lifetime. Courtesy of the New York Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610084677208-MUWAAS8PL1VNMJBWTZQZ/Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema%2C_RA%2C_OM_-_A_Roman_Emperor_%28Claudius%29_-_Walters_37165.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Bye, caligula. Also, claudius, not a flattering angle! “A Roman Emperor (Claudius),” Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Courtesy of the Walters Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610084854390-QSL2J2WLH5K9GQPD4XIM/Messalina.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - A portrait of Messalina Messalina, 1881, by Peder Severin Krøyer, courtesy of the Gothenburg Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610084882537-W8F3T03UPDF781IOETC7/Hans_Makart_-_Charlotte_Wolter_als_%E2%80%9EMessalina%E2%80%9C.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - Messalina's infamy and fall inspired plays many years later. Hans Makart's painting of Charlotte Wolter in Adolf Wilbrandt's tragedy, Arria und Messalina. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1610085063802-KZN3KHX9PTCZSNMBY1FE/Messalina_by_Eug%C3%A8ne_Cyrille_Brunet.JPG Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1611551202814-G8M43UNG15E709P0JT1K/Augusta+Part+VI+cover+art.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1611551584296-P94DV7HUOEKKE0SOOZK4/Relief_from_the_Sebasteion_depicting_Nero_and_Agrippina%2C_Aphrodisias_Museum%2C_Turkey_%2820481225182%29.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - There, there, son. I’m SURE you would have gotten there eventually without me. Roman marble frieze of Nero and Agrippina from the Sebasteion, Aphrodisias. Agrippina crowns her son Nero with a laurel wreath, suggesting she’s the one providing his power. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1611551951721-5966STWSIBI6UVHYN75R/7565c0c1-bed1-4125-999d-ecc118d7e4fd.png Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts III-VI - getting it done. Agrippina and her son Nero on coins issued in Rome around 54–57 CE. Courtesy of NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/the-evolution-of-the-bra monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602202487767-I5TUVIUFFTDBJC6YK5YJ/ad+for+bras+.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra Bras have been shaping our silhouettes for a very, very long time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602202391010-KZHF34W809Q177CCR454/1667_Mary_II_Portrait+by+Peter+Lely.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - what’s pushing up my globes so fetchingly? read on, and you just might find out. Mary II (1667), portrait by Peter Lely. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602208462451-JCL3UEHYVRCLTVBP0XX1/Vibia_Sabina_%28Villa_Adriana%29_01.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra In Rome, women weren’t about cleavage, or playing up their breast size. Emphasizing the hips was more the thing. Vibia Sabina, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602208609406-1LH2BF3MP14ZBKDLIP7D/82e5fe1f08708aeb9b8265c992b64b84.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - The photo-brassieres found at Lengberg Castle blew the idea that two-cup bras were only a few centuries old out of the water. Courtesy of the University of Innsbruck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602208742825-WKZMSKRA3NGXS8DCSDBX/corset_1891_French_showing+more+generous+curves_MET.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - This 1890s French number shows the changing preference for an hourglass figure and very full hips. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602208711414-3I29U94X1ALKP076V4HQ/corset_early+18th+c_Spanish_MET.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - an 18th century Spanish corset. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602208719502-XA9VWW64RT5ZVGBAVF6A/corset_1811_cotton_Qmerican_MET.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - American corset, cotton, 1811. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602208726144-EDNTW6U5INJL7LK6FA8A/corset_1890s_French_MET.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - This French corset from the 1890s doesn't offer much support for the orbs. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602209069034-UL10A1C486G6DP6REPBG/Gautier-Dagoty_-_Marie-Antoinette%2C_1775.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - i worked hard for this cleavage: just enough, not too much. Portrait of Marie-Antoinette by Gautier-Dagoty (1775) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602209319555-P2NJPWX9719MZX0G9BI5/soutien-gorge1.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - An illustration of Cadolle's invention. Sourced from Pinterest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602209179496-ZTJOBVPM8JPWPEJ07MDP/corselet+mid+19th+American+MET.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - A 19th-century corselet. Freeer than a full corset, but still pretty constricting. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602209710936-8PBK9D22W13KA6N3SXSD/Jacob-brassiere-patent-1914-landscape.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - Mary's patent. Courtesy of the US Patents office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602209569785-SZUKPPXVENV1XEBIMVNC/JacobPatent1914pg2.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - Another page from Mary's patent. Courtesy of the US Patents office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602209610445-FTDP3FTB9QITBQ01KKZV/Mary-Phelps-Jacob.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - Mary and an example of her backless brassiere. Looking familiar? Sourced from Pinterest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602210352135-IJZG01298ULUMU4B5JLN/1920s+bra.png Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - A 1920s bra, thin and ready to squash. From the exhibition Exposed: A History of Lingerie at the Museum at FIT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602210059001-91YFD548PH98PA2B68B3/maidenform-private-eye-scan_pic0050.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - Maidenform lets the ladies do...anything!? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602209949425-00WVQSB0LWAEPPTJIJXH/maidenform-election-win.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602209951614-2K01R98AZLCLSIQTF1JO/maidenform-bra-back-to-work.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602210058382-RF8GCF5FXIIE1R5EP9UP/maidenform-chariot-swscan04951.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602210184605-C15N6DPZEMT6CV2DV6W6/2_MaidenformAC0585-0000001.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - “Brassieres…a vital necessity” NMAH Archives Center, Maidenform Collection 0585 Box 51 Folder 10 Photo of Maidenform tearsheet that appeared in 1/14/1943 Women’s Wear Daily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602210420079-73P6UWI3TTRUHWXCI6G7/JAne+Russell+the+Outlaw.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra Jane Russell’s very strategically designed bra in the movie “The Outlaw.” Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602210579369-I1TD1A4Q15NWM7LK442V/Jogbra+coolsport_1.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - Does this even need a caption? I think it stands on its own. Jogbra, Inc. Records, 1977-1990, Archives Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602210783348-VDNWRF8TVM26HCPXVOBL/archivescenter-jogbra-lindahl-lisa-miller-hinda-ac1315-0000026-01-450-inline-edit.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - Jogbra inventors Hinda Schreiber Miller (left) and Lisa Lindahl showing off their invention and looking fly around 1978. Jogbra, Inc. Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, AC1315-0000026. ©Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1602210868195-RAELWAEOINI4QVNOGDF8/archivescenter-jogbra-lindahl-lisa-miller-hinda-ac1315-0000012-750-inline-edit.jpg Episodes - Shaping the Ladies: A Brief History of the Bra - Working with her friend Lisa Lindahl, costume designer Polly Palmer Smith drew some of the first designs for the Jogbra. Jogbra, Inc. Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, AC1315-0000012. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/augusta-the-first-ladies-of-imperial-rome monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599788260351-M6LA1L9U6Q9F3OPSWH30/Livia+and+her+son+Tiberius%2C+AD+14%E2%80%9319%2C+from+Paestum%2C+National+Archaeological+Museum+of+Spain%2C+Madrid_WIKI.JPG Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - livia’s image loomed large over the empire. Livia and her son Tiberius, from Paestum and the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599806107698-M8XVNB2ZFHOQWO3WZBG0/Augusta+1+youtube+art.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599788556625-33R28UYEXXSKCY89793D/Bust+of+Augustus_MFABoston.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Octavian and his sticky-outy ears, ready to take hold of an Empire. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599788822009-A2V2E1AUOXU3JMFLXQ7T/Caesar%E2%80%99s_Triumph%2C_by_Peter_Paul_Rubens_and_Erasmus_Quellinus_II.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - sorry, caesar. party’s over. “Caesar’s Triumph” by Peter Paul Rubens and Erasmus Quellinus II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599807068219-VUCEVTS5NO8TAAVKNJ1Q/Mark_Antony_and_Octavia.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II Octavia and Mark Antony rocking some coins the Roman state had minted. Way to be a big time star! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599807163170-4JO1LIMOBWSD7SQZI37L/roman+dress_wiki.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - nothing like a little roman drama. Roman matronae, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599807211368-UBX0C71UAUCVZ2NBEGR4/louvre-agrippa.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Hey, Agrippa! Marcus Agrippa, courtesy of the Louvre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1600998756822-E5ZUJWIDFLSHC10HOBI2/Augusta+2+youtube+art.png Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599796030453-26XT1H3CT45S79CBRI9U/Livia_Drusila_%2815708884953%29WC.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Livia Drusilla A statue of Livia, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599796052787-O758KQ3C8V7NS2R7F2J5/Fulvia_Antonia.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Fulvia: RIP. Fulvia on the back of a coin from around the Perusine War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599796039780-JVHYK6BDXCS4Z4S2S05H/MANNapoli_6125_Octavia_minore_Sybil_Farnese.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Octavia Minor Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599796047853-PBZVBBG7PFBFO4XQNCB5/Dupondius-Livia-RIC_0043v.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Livia on a coin. In the ancient world, coins were powerful pieces of public propaganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599796045542-IJ0KTOPH3JUR3B58UDHM/Statue-Augustus._wikijpg.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Why hello, Augustus. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1599806831866-QAF6YSQUGL15HBERMV6A/1st+to+2nd+century+Roman_MET_21.29.2.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Blingy. A 1st to 2nd century Roman necklace, courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1600994232792-ZBNYKFOW76JEKPCJ7ORE/eumachia-ca6f3269-c7f8-430d-ab23-135492300e2-resize-750.jpeg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - Eumachia’s statue in Pompeii, styled to mimic Livia, the Roman world’s most revered, trend-setting matron. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1600994344600-BL7XCABQE6V8LMFMWFIG/Ara+Pacis+Augustae+or+Altar+of+Augustan+Peace_Museo+dell%27Ara+Pacis+Rome.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II - A section of the Ara Pacis, or Altar of Peace. Courtesy of the Museo dell'Ara Pacis, Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1601000201374-0UJYOXT79H5ZFLA3YJBZ/Julio+Claudian+Family+Tree.png Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II Talking ‘bout that tangled family tree! This is simplified - it doesn’t include every spouse, but the important ones in regards to the emperors’ succession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1601000462433-IQJ9XNYCOYMG3T4NEHII/636292001.jpg Episodes - Augusta: The First Ladies of Imperial Rome, Parts I-II A copper alloy coin featuring Livia and her super stylish hair. Made around 22-23 during Tiberius’s rule. Courtesy of The Trustees of the British Museum https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/arsinoe monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594447827917-2FC1OYMZ86PWUZAAC3QZ/Arsinoe+II_British+Museum.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - dripping in gold, as is arsinoe’s way. Arsinoe II and her brother-husband Ptolemy II, courtesy of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594448056191-CZQPRHA21VEXYYUBLKY4/Alexander+the+Great_Azara+Herm_Louvre.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - Alexander the Great from Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594448219129-YF6W1J120JUICPIXTV39/Ptolemy_I_Soter_Louvre_Ma849.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - Ptolemy II, Alexander's royal bro. from Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594448474125-2SWYU8QLEN3ZEBZJROJ0/Vase+showing+Arsinoe+II_British+Museum.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - A vase showing Arsinoe II being bountiful Courtesy of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594448397271-F54TLXSH4BEWM322EOLV/conjoined+busts+of+Ptolemy+II+and+Arsinoe+II_MET.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - A coin featuring Arsinoe and her brother-husband Ptolemy II. Courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594448400470-A6Q99WV8YCE4C5UFG4V9/Arsinoe+II_MFABoston.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - A bust of Arsinoe II (maybe) This idealized female head, said to have been found at Memphis in Egypt, leaves it unclear who is represented. The style may show the influence of Skopas, one of the leading Greek sculptors of the fourth century. Yet the head also bears a marked resemblance-especially the long, delicate nose-to portraits of Arsinoë II, queen of Egypt in the 270s B.C.; the ribbon in her hair could be a diadem, signature headgear of later Greek royalty. Courtesy of the Boston Fine Arts Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594448466899-K17EA3G9LJOQB5YSO0OC/Hellenistic+jewelry+look+it+up+on+MET.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - Some Hellenistic gold jewelry. I'll take two. Courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594451861687-83YUUJF13VBBJT48NR8C/Sealing+naming+Nesisti%2C+a+priest+in+the+cult+of+Arsinoe+II+and+her+sister+Philotera_MET.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - A seal naming Nesisti, a priest in the cult of Arsinoe II and her sister Philotera. Courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594451881857-CTL5HP95PK8RVVIQ04LY/Statue+of+a+Ptolemaic+Queen%2C+perhaps+Cleopatra+VII_MET.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - A Ptolemaic queen, perhaps Cleopatra VII Courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594449556212-LX4WGZKBQBZJQIIRLV2U/Gray%2C+White+and+Black+Quote+Instagram+Post.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1594450187337-L5Q5D5RPALA56DZFKN81/Arsinoe_II_wiki.jpg Episodes - Arsinoë II: Queenmaker of Ptolemaic Egypt - Arsinoe and her double cornucopia. living so large! from Wikicommons. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/3/20/cleopatra-seducing-the-ancient-egyptian-world monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588224635744-IBWHAQ5MY8IXOWLMU7I9/Cleopatra_II_and_III_Kom_Ombo_Temple.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Move over, ancient world. Cleopatra is coming. Cleopatras II and III, from Kom Ombo Temple. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588331953427-4WGVJ72MMMEMDYW2G838/Ancient+Egypt+Map+FINAL-01.png Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Can’t touch this. If you like this map, you can grab a printed poster of it in my Etsy shop. Just go to the tab labeled “Merch” above! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588225161586-ILSNC2N9KNIQDIAYS2XD/Alexander_the_Great_mosaic.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Hey, Egypt! Let’s do this. Alexander the Great, Roman floor mosaic, originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii . Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588225300052-VYGW8R8W9EBT7P5DLXX8/Arsinoe+II_MFABoston.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Head of a goddess or queen, probably Arsinoe II This idealized female head, said to have been found at Memphis in Egypt, leaves it unclear who it is, but guesses are either Arsinoe II or a goddess: that seems about right. The ribbon in her hair could be a diadem, signature headgear of later Greek royalty. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Catharine Page Perkins Fund. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588225344404-H87CMWU3P4XJDF7PSBVW/conjoined+busts+of+Ptolemy+II+and+Arsinoe+II_MET.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - conjoined busts of Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II Arsinoe II is shown the same size as her brother-husband. Incest may not be the best, but being a co-ruler of Egypt is! Courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588225420642-44BXGYHJBJZWRW8991Y5/Ptolemy_I_Soter_Louvre_Ma849.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Ptolemy I Soter ("Savior") The guy who started it all, stealing Alexander the Great’s body and brining it to his city of choice to prove to them his right to rule. Smart! Courtesy of the Louvre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588225446678-LHTIRYF7T071TGGE6ZH7/Statue+of+a+Ptolemaic+Queen%2C+perhaps+Cleopatra+VII_MET.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Statue of a Ptolemaic Queen, perhaps Cleopatra VII Attributes and dress point to a date in the second or first century B.C., and one recent study notes that details of the queen's hairstyle suggest Cleopatra VII. The cartouche actually reading "Cleopatra" on this statue's arm is probably a modern addition. We just love attributing things to Cleo where we can. Courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588225656111-I6QIC7N0534ZZRTMFPV2/head+of+Ptolemaic+queen%29_2002.66_MET.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - head of Ptolemaic queen This head gives an impression of sovereign calm, even though the veil that once covered the top and back of the head is missing. The features look classically Greek, but the face is stamped with enough individuality to identify it as a portrait, probably a Ptolemaic queen. It might be Arsinoe II, who ruled with her brother, Ptolemy II, from 278 B.C. until her death in 270 B.C. She was also transformed into an independent deity by her bro after her death and worshiped as an Egyptian goddess in association with Isis. Courtesy of the MET https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588226510537-66Z36APO7HRX0DLSCNUP/I+mean+it%27s+totally+*fine*+to+sleep+with+your+brother%2C+right%3F+You+feel+me.-2.png Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588226410517-35KSK9XBQJH2GLHQM87O/Ptolemy+Family+Line-01.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588226334740-DQ5W4M1R59D2W7RUWF1H/Wall_relief_More+details+Wall+relief+of+Cleopatra+III%2C+Cleopatra+II+and+Ptolemy+VIII+before+Horus_Wiki.JPG Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered An Egyptian wall relief showing Cleopatra III, Cleopatra II, and Ptolemy VIII before Horus. Just your average incestuous threesome. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588226672569-7PTAU3IVUN3AOK0WKJ8K/Alexandria_Baedeker%2C+Karl._Egypt%2C+handbook+for+travellers_London%2C+1885_Rice+University.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered Alexandria, Baedeker, Karl Egypt, handbook for travellers, London 1885. Rice University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588299628135-J21YEF6S8D80UWK26EZD/800wm.jpeg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Pharos of Alexandria As envisioned in the 18th century. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588226843598-V24MG41LK4OZCEXU7LY3/Alexandria.JPG Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588299771933-N4T73A3MBZMU7U0OZQTA/image066.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - A reimagining of Alexandria's Canopic Way. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1588227359283-85HMMZYIV0B364D3M685/Cleopatra+copy.png Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered This is my little image to Cleopatra, which you can get on greeting cards or as a wall hanging in my Etsy shop. The pictured marble bust of Cleopatra comes from the Altes Museum Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1589877877431-SGMRX655YCLZLF9GX64O/2.png Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1589876280585-2IV7650MVDP4ADR9I2IK/Julius+Caesar_wiki.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Julius is never afraid to toot his own horn. A bust of Julius Caesar, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1589876587977-FED44RZLMAOGMG6NAVKQ/cleopatra-and-caesar_JJerome+19th+century_wiki.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Hey, Julius…. “Cleopatra and Caesar,” J. Jerome (19th century). Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1589876797701-PSW9CIZNBBDJH592RNFS/180714-mcnearney-lost-masterpiece-hero_lxmbyx.jpeg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - J. Caesar says: “Whoops.” Burning of Alexandria’s port and surrounds, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1589877069193-2VKWZCNEILAAHBI2IPK4/Caesar%E2%80%99s_Triumph%2C_by_Peter_Paul_Rubens_and_Erasmus_Quellinus_II.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - it was fun while it lasted. “Caesar’s Triumph,” Peter Paul Rubens and Erasmus Quellinus II, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591934714088-MCRQ5KT8T902R9XHBCSF/5.png Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591937159285-IVJMN36MPGRNQ2KXEXCU/Cleo_John+McLinden_Flikr.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - larger than life. Cleo and Caesarion from Dendera, courtesy of John McLinden (Flikr) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591937209095-QOYU4MH183FZIMOHEY4J/54dcf6127667f12445bc957d572c812d--elizabeth-taylor-meme.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591934987184-NMWNEELACZ8N8QWTKQ5V/antony-and-cleopatra-1883.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - holla at me. “Antony and Cleopatra” by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1884 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591935283670-PRIHZZ5HBS1E3G676WK0/Meeting+of+Antony+and+Cleopatra_Giovanni+Battista+Tiepolo+%28Italian%2C+Venice+1696%E2%80%931770+Madrid%29_MEt.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - all the heart eyes. “Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra,” Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, courtesy of the MET https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591935215062-BHCDACMZ3XKD2P3EDLD7/Cleopatras+Banquet_Giovanni+Domenico+Tiepolo_NGV.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - let’s get lavish. “Cleopatra’s Banquet” Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, courtesy of the NGV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591936649961-ZE5TIXJPZJF0X8H1KY82/cleopatra-dissolves-a-pearl-in-a-cup-of-wine-carlo-maratta-roberto-morgenthaler.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered “Cleopatra Dissolves a Pearl in a Cup of Wine,” Carlo Maratta Roberto Morgenthaler, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591936894574-CL31JX0EOXEU3S1K181E/The+Banquet+of+Cleopatra_Sebastiano+Mazzoni_Smithsonian+Museum+of+Art.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - eat, drink, and be merry. “The Banquet of Cleopatra” by Sebastiano Mazzoni. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591935653080-M68HUSJ7KVLWIHOMB156/Castro_Battle_of_Actium_+Lorenzo+A.+Castro+%28f+1664%E2%80%931700%29.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered “Battle ofActium,” Lorenzo A. Castro (f 1664–1700) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591935903837-VR5YACJF3CI9DM8D9S3I/Cleopatra+testing+out+poisons+on+prisoners.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - what? it’s science. “Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners,” Alexandre Cabanel, 1887 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591935977956-0YLVE4CFQZQA5LG0C927/Artemisia_Gentileschi_Cleopatra3.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - The Death of Cleopatra By badass artist Artemisia Gentileschi, who really knew how to bring a woman’s struggles to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591936018738-VWYW5MTT6CDU3P0V5UEF/Death+of+Cleopatra_Guido+Cagnacci+%28Italian%2C+Santarcangelo+di+Romagna+1601%E2%80%931663+Vienna%29_MET.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - The Death of Cleopatra By Guido Cagnacci (Italian, Santarcangelo di Romagna 1601–1663, Vienna), courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591936049642-9TKV099QJRZMHR96CEH1/The_Death_of_Cleopatra_arthur.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - The Death of Cleopatra Reginald Arthur, 1892. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1591936528358-XSY1B13SC62WCGZ3ASQO/Cleopatra%2C_por_Juan_Luna_%28Museo_del_Prado%29.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - The Death of Cleopatra By Juan Luna, 1881. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592807389914-3IZDLSU0V0HPDJY7N8HE/Egypt+Timeline+FINAL-01.png Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered If you like this timeline and would like it on your wall or in a frame (it looks great either way), check out my Merchandise page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592794733716-D1V8QMIH1K2V3DC6GK29/Antony_and_Cleopatra_mrs_yates_as_cleopatra.or.width-770.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - don’t hold me back. Mrs. Yates as Cleopatra, 1777, courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592794540116-IM7H6ONFJDTWWR8ZQGCE/Mose-bianchi-1840-1904-cleopatra.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - wishing i had more lovers to conquer… Cleopatra by Mose Bianchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592794967908-1H6GEFHGU29E0LXB00LC/CDNII_KEN_J920722-001.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered A good example of how actual ladies wanted their portraits done with inspiration from Cleo. “Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra Dissolving the Pearl” (1759) by Joshua Reynolds. Courtesy of Historic England Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592795166096-JNOAH2O2JDW78Q7FFLZ6/The_death_of_cleopatra.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - egyptian again, but still nude. “The Death of Cleopatra” (1890) by John Collier, courtesy of Gallery Oldham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592794251201-L1VSNT7GB1AWQJRITTK8/The+Death+of+Cleopatra_Edmonia+Lewis_Smithsonian+American+Art+Museum.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered “The Death of Cleopatra” by Edmonia Lewis, courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592794355902-35ISW5QGT8N1JV0JLHCJ/Theda-bara-cleopatra.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Theda Bara as Cleopatra Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592794350405-845UUTKSE2ELZ7A7S40A/Vivien_Leigh_-_Cleopatra.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Vivienne Leigh playing Queen Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1592794397402-R583OHA9CLNG23MGMRB9/27c87a51cba3807aaf20663dbfcab640.jpg Episodes - Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered - Elizabeth Taylor owning that headdress. Wikicommons. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2020/4/2/thatgirlispoison monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1585889852654-MONCSLE6GDXUJW1RB76L/THAT+GIRL+IS+POISON.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1585890211329-NLFKWB75E7EP9JI1I5O3/John_William_Waterhouse_-_Sketch_of_Circe%2C_1911-1914.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - so many bad men to poison, so little time. John William Waterhouse, “Sketch of Circe” 1911-1914. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1585890371721-3DIQCGQYHP7X8DTS9ODI/apricots.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - Who, me? A poisoner? Don’t be silly. “Locusta the Poisoner” by…?! I’m having trouble finding out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1585890526189-LZ705IPANN70COWLCCLE/DianedePoitiers.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - Poor Diane, ingesting all that gold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1585891335426-U4F9WY3JNCPLFH43E0J7/20.png Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - The "Darnley Portrait" of Elizabeth I (c. 1575) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1586051293408-C0D2GBL3H4QKNY2XATYK/dress_Arsenic%2C+the+first+colour-fast+green+dye%2C+is+present+in+many+items+in+the+Bata+Shoe+Museum+exhibit%2C+including+this+1860s+ball+gown.+Bata+Shoe+Museum%3AArnold+Matthews.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - The first color-fast green arsenic dye is present in many items in the Bata Shoe Museum exhibit, including this 1860s ball gown. Bata Shoe Museum/Arnold Matthews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1586051181395-V0IY5XUC42S7AVHYPFEO/The+Dance+of+Death_Punch_Wellcome+Colleciton.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - Of course, the deadly nature of such materials was blown up in the press. "The Dance of Death," from Punch, courtesy of the Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1586051153770-TXH02OZZ2LMWJ8JW0NS3/the-vivid-green-used-in-wallpaper_JOHN+TODD+MERRICK+%26+COMPANY%2C+LONDON%2C+UK%2C+1845%3A2016+CROWN+COPYRIGHT%2C+THE+NATIONAL+ARCHIVES%2C+KEW.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - This green wallpaper how's just how bright and alluring these mercury-laden greens could be. Courtesy of The National Archives, Kew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1586051146398-1LQYW3O9P5OVNQILN1EQ/sub-buzz-16732-1520013690-1.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - These are the kinds of floral arrangements that working-class girls risked their health to create for the more well off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1586051782769-K59CCYGVR2VHBF2AW66P/arsenical+dye+burns.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - This illustration shows the kinds of wounds that artificial flower workers and other working with arsenical dyes experienced as a result of their dangerous work. Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1586051485233-PJT8ZSTH3UXUHDKOCUNF/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922%2C_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1%2Cca1922-23-150dpi_%28cropped%29.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - Women paint their dials with radium with no gloves, no masks, and no idea of how their job could hurt them. From 1922, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1586051396265-6JJGALCGGI6PI39NQX45/Worcester-Democrat-and-the-ledger-enterprise-Pokomoke-City-MD-1938-03-04-p-9-cropped-768x1006.jpg Episodes - That Girl is Poison: A Partial History of Women and Toxic Things - The Radium Girls fought through their own pain to make sure other girls would never suffer as they did. Excerpt from the Worcester Democrat, Wikicommons. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2020/2/14/domina-the-women-who-ran-ancient-rome monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/6338840b-1096-494b-8e91-c3fc7b4729ea/Rome+Map+Resized+FINAL.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome This map shows how the Roman Empire grew over the years and highlights some of the women who fought against that expansion. You can buy a copy of this poster at my Exploress shop! Just go to the Store page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581509124449-VDFZQNAEUQ4D3A7ANC3B/Meme+of+Cornelia+with+Ptolemy.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Cornelia Refuses the Crown of the Ptolemai by Laurent de La Hyre, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581639498100-9F4D99DMPYGWGXLFQ9QL/Meme+of+Cornelia+with+her+sons+as+her+jewels.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Cornelia being just a little bit insufferable. Cornelia and her Sons, Padovanino, courtesy of the National Gallery of London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581424333645-8RQ50JJH1KOSI36P5PQB/Diagram+of+Power+flow+chart.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581426944243-YYP5XV4SYBJKMN2R2NF0/Poussinscipio.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Scipio returning a captured woman to her betrothed: what a guy! The Continence of Scipio by Nicholas Poussin. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581427993978-H62IKY2S2MBUENRZVSNR/Kauffmann_Cornelia_mater_Gracchorum.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome - Who needs jewels when my sons are so fine? Cornelia Presenting her Sons as Her Treasures, Angelica Kauffman, courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. c. 1785. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581428520589-EDL5EZOTYL68S8LQS1AY/Eugene_Guillaume_-_the_Gracchi.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Those pot-stirrers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Why won’t they just quit while they’re kind of ahead? Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581428415911-C6IZLSCO7KWV7JKZ1389/corneliabase.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome The base of the statue of Cornelia that dates between 123-100 BCE. It can be found in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Image courtesy of Ilya Shurygin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581522208676-T2FV3QTJ1C71ZSH9M7ZC/Julius%2BCaesar_wiki.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome - The only confirmed portrait of Julius Caesar made during his lifetime, in all his balding glory. The Tusculum Portrait. Museum of Antiquities, Turin. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582802275907-OCW2HFTDIW0SOKB3K9GR/cato-minor.jpeg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome - Doesn’t Cato look fun? Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581521641397-1S2UNQ6MGJ2GJ1ZMCLC8/roman_party.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Perhaps Julius Caesar and Servilia met at a dinner party like the one depicted in this mosaic found at Kunsthistorisches Museum. We can be assured that their sultry stares were very similar to the one depicted here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582802470083-OY62Q2NEJ3ULGQNTFMW8/2.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome This is not Servilia. I don’t know that there are ANY paintings of her whatsoever. If only I could paint. “A Pompeian Lady,” 1891, John William Godward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582802610456-ZAIIO7GEXQO0AHSWPV47/4.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome This is a painting of the Greek witch/semi-goddess Circe, but I think that Servilia would like the sentiment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581531108212-D2VWYWRJBE7363DXIEFN/ET+TU%2C+BRUTE_.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582802920183-AELPSF3W3058VDLDLBGQ/Rome+visuals-2.png Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Once again this is NOT of Servilia, but I think it works just the same. “The Debate of Socrates and Aspasia,” c. 1800. Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1581519251632-G2YUY0OZLYO5VM753SPE/Brutus_Eid_Mar.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome EID MAR Denarius. Brutus sanctioned this coin in 43/42 BCE. It depicts him one one side (it was seen as ‘kingly’ to have your likeness on a coin while living…way to be a contradiction there, Brute), with the liberty cap between daggers on the other. The inscription EID MAR translates to the Ides of March. This coin seems to be an attempt of reassurance to the people of Rome that he had liberated them by assassinating Caesar. Nice try, son. (Wikicommons.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582809620772-OEU6HGB4SZY7FVEP6BQL/Augustyn_mirys_bona_dea_scandal.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Clodius has been found out in the background in this deptiction of the Bona Dea Scandal by Augustyn Mirys. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582810192848-PS7YQQ8PSCRUTGDKXYGO/810px-Cicero_-_Musei_Capitolini.jpeg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome - Marcus Tullius Cicero, known as one of Rome’s greatest orators and Fulvia’s enemy. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582811765318-HOCM71CT2XL1N21MGGG2/Marcus_Antonius_marble_bust_in_the_Vatican_Museums.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Portrait bust of Mark Antony. Found in the Vatican Museums. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582812168997-EH87NEORO56O0TZ69U3S/Marc_Antony%27s_Oration_at_Caesar%27s_Funeral_by_George_Edward_Robertson.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Marc Antony's Oration at Caesar's Funeral. By George Edward Robertson. This scene taken straight from Fulvia’s playbook on how to get the people on your side and angry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582808892237-5ZGYOB302IFU9TIPZ017/The+vengeance+of+Fulvia+by+Francisco+Maura+Y+Montaner%2C+1888+depicting+Fulvia+inspecting+the+severed+head+of+Cicero_%28Museo_del_Prado%29.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome - “Ohhh I’m making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty or nice, Fulvia is coming to towwwwwwn!” “Oh helloooooo there.” The Vengeance of Fulvia. By Francisco Maura Y Montaner. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582807054477-8EF5VUQOGRMNO6GFYF35/Svedomsky-Fulvia.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome “Oh, wait, what’s that? You’re sorry for being such an ass hat? Well that’s too bad, because you’re dead as hell.” (Fulvia, probably). Fulvia with the head of Cicero by Pavel Svedomskiy. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1582807309013-NTVIPWIUQVFYKNFQATCZ/Fulvia_Antonia.jpg Episodes - Domina: The Women Who Ran Ancient Rome Fulvia is the first living Roman woman that has been found on a coin. This coin is from Eumeneia in Phrygia, a small Greek city that changed its name to “Fulvia” to honor her and Antony. Wikicommons. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/11/15/wheninrome monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/fcbe6cac-f598-4f66-a14e-af1c6af37ed7/Rome+Map+Resized+FINAL.png Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - it’s party time. This map shows how the Roman Empire grew over the years and highlights some of the women who fought against that expansion. You can buy a copy of this poster at my Exploress shop! Just go to the Store page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573539553787-H58391F92NV3XLI8IC5C/Bikini+girls+mosaic%2C+Villa+del+Casale%2C+Piazza+Armerina%2C+Sicily%2C+Italy.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - who says that the ladies aren’t meant for the gym? Bikini girls mosaic, Villa del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573539698188-NTBDSRGNN8L0V25M8SW1/Romulus+and+Remus.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Maybe it’s just me, but this she-wolf looks like she might be regretting her life choices. Romulus and Remus suckled by a long-suffering she-wolf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573540035535-N5IVEGVNM3UD8GF32BZ5/The_Intervention_of_the_Sabine_Women_David_1799+Louvre_Wiki.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - This is fine! The Intervention of the Sabine Women, David, 1799, courtesy of the Louvre Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573540320815-9AX67BBMGJC2M7KTC9TN/Lucretia+_Rembrandt+van+Rijn+1664+.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - While she’s in era-inappropriate clothing, the action behind this painting still captures Lucretia’s horrible end. Lucretia by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1664. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573540525499-ZHZYMVI23CZQJ2JHQ5MU/Marc_Antony%27s_Oration_at_Caesar%27s_Funeral_by_George_Edward_Robertson.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire Marc Antony's Oration at Caesar's Funeral by George Edward Robertson, 1864, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574336602556-X6LHTOT21BQCCS9VXFON/Rome+Emperors+Timeline+FINAL-01.png Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire This timeline is a collaboration between Mr. Exploress, Pamela Toler and myself, and I’m loving it! It is now available to buy in my Etsy shop if you’d like it to hang up on your wall at A2 poster size. That’s really when it’s at its best. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573701128579-Q3GS803IWZ4CID0AFSB1/Roman+toilet%29Jens+Vermeersch_Flickr.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - snuggle up, bathroom buddy! Some ancient Roman toilets in modern-day France, courtesy of Jens Vermeersch on Flickr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573701394726-7XLR6URV0UKTN8BTR74F/Aqueduct_seriykotik1970.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Color me impressed. The above-ground portion of an aqueduct in modern-day Spain, courtesy of seriykotik1970 on Flickr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573703105533-U24GKNDQV3UG5V7AN7LU/roman+dress_wiki.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - all wrapped up. it’s hot in here! Roman matrons and the colorful garments, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573703075656-X1YL6XBJV7MVSWMU39XY/Roman+perfume+bottles+%28unguentari%29+on+display+at+Villa+Boscoreale.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - It always pays to smell one’s best. Roman perfume bottles (unguentari) on display at Villa Boscoreale, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573703241750-G8EZP9L7ZP0SW52B8PI6/Portrait+bust+of+a+young+woman+%28Julia%2C+daughter+of+Titus%3F%29.+Marble.+80s%E2%80%9490s+CE.+Shows+the+extremely+elaborate+hair+styles+worn+by+upper-class+Roman+women+of+the+time.+Rome%2C+Capitoline+Museums%2C+Palazzo+Nuovo%2C+Hall+of+the+Emperors.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Portrait bust of a young woman from 80—90 CE. Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Emperors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573703605020-WKHPMD8PC8LVS0B7I1NJ/Pompeia+Plotina_Carole+Raddato.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - An epic updo from Pompeia Plotina, courtesy of Carole Raddato on Flickr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573702885535-MK8N4CWXN8315K1IUBS3/5th+cnetury+Roman%3AEtsruscan+jewelry+set_MET_DP122702.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - I'll take it! 5th-century Roman/Etruscan jewelry set, courtesy of the MET https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573702684502-M3N1HUC8OJMS0WY5N3ER/1st+to+2nd+century+Roman_MET_21.29.2.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - 1st to 2nd century A beautiful 1st to 2nd century Roman necklace, courtesy of the MET . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573702809670-5PL4I7IL27687P5B4ICO/Wing+brooch_100+or+200_see+MET+for+good+details_1998.76.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Wing brooch that would have sat fetchingly on the shoulder, 100 or 200 CE, courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573702720923-LEB6DSI615ZOGUM8F21D/Roman+3rd+centruy+earrings_MET_74.51.3948.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - I would 100% wear these now...how well they've aged! Roman 3rd century earrings, courtesy of the MET https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1573703846108-MVQUY8AQY6IMWQG4Z3VM/Roman+shoe_Mictlantecuhtli+via+reddit.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - great design lasts the ages. A Roman shoes, courtesy of Mictlantecuhtli via reddit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574112958284-MBB8ELLXTQBP2K5MQA0C/Vestals+1_The+Vestal+Virgins+making+an+offering+in+a+Roman+temple.+Wood+engraving%2C+19th+century_FineARt.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Gotta keep that flame burning, ladies. Otherwise they might think we’ve been sleeping around… The Vestal Virgins making an offering in a Roman temple. Wood engraving, 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574113065927-Q8N2102WBHNXIV5J58NZ/Vibia_Sabina_%28Villa_Adriana%29_01.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - A Vestal keeps it all wrapped up, but if you saw her on the ancient streets you’d know just who she was...and you would know not to touch her. Vibia Sabina, from the Villa Adriana. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574113323867-P1BO4NEWU19HWOBUYGKG/Temple_Vesta_Forum_Romanum_Rome_Italy.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - the ruins at the temple of vesta in rome. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574113606346-ZINRB86R5X3MK8DQXYSX/Vestal.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire This artistic expression of a Vestal Virgin will soon be available on my Exploress march shop as a greeting card or art print. Check out the Merch page for more details! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574998761039-H4OCO6XT9SJWZVCR1UCE/Bas-relief+of+a+legged+phallus+ejaculating+into+an+evil+eye+on+which+a+scorpion+sits%2C+from+Leptis+Magna+%28Libya%29_Wiki.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Bas-relief of a legged phallus ejaculating into an evil eye on which a scorpion sits. Take THAT, evil! from Leptis Magna in Libya. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574998779279-GS0M2K7X4FBUYMMRYUNS/Tintinnabulum-Fund_in_Herculaneum_Wiki_Naples+Museum.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - A tintinnabulum from Herculaneum, Naples Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574998835700-BJ2SE7N5RZEJO5SIQA26/Tintinnabulum_Pompeii_Roman+bronze+amulet%3A+Tintinnabulum+quadruped-shaped+bird+with+tail+scorpionic+phallic+and+two+insects+on+the+back+%28cicadas%3F%29%2C+Found+in+Pompeii%2C+now+on+display+in+the+Secret+Cabinet+of+the+National+Archaeological+Museum+of+Naples.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - A tintinnabulum from Pompeii, done in bronze with wings and a scorpion tail. As you do. National Archaeological Museum of Naples https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574998432775-Z3OZU7OVCHDQLT4Z564E/Jean-Leon_Gerome_Pollice_Verso.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Are we…having fun yet? Jean-Leon Gerome, Pollice Verso, from Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574998314216-2XQH9S8BY31JPTGNF23W/4174258116_f56590003b_o.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - the coliseum would have been quite a place in its heyday. Courtesy of daisy.images on Flickr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574997420124-7GDJMRG34WW9NNTU4O0W/in-the-roman-baths-Fyodor+Bronnikov-1865.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Just having a little communal nude dip. “In The Roman Baths,” Fyodor Bronnikov (1865), Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574997509421-Q0NBH84R306HPRTQIGOJ/The_Baths_at_Caracalla_Lawrence+Alma+Tadema.jpg Episodes - When In Rome: A Lady's Life in the Ancient Roman Empire - Are these bathing outfits completely time period inappropriate? You know it. Let’s strip on down to our tunics, ladies. The Baths at Caracalla, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Wikicommons https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/10/10/thehairdownthere monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570750453192-GS3JKUMXYUBNA4VI7SVU/Cleo+in+the+bath.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles - come on, minions. let’s wax me. Liz Taylor playing the late, great Cleopatra VII Philopater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570751747834-T940OY267VWTJ4HLYKJF/Egyptian+tweezers.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles - Ancient Egyptian tweezers. we’ve been removing hair from our bodies for a very long time. Courtesy of the National Museums Liverpool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570750692603-SJJAFDFSJYWC327U07YK/Cnidus_Aphrodite_Altemps_Inv8619.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles - i’ve plucked more than just my unwanted facial hair. Aphrodite of Cnidus by Praxiteles of Athens, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570750936714-ONDJIO5TEHGBHUT5SODF/Elizabeth_I_in_coronation_robes.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles - big forehead, lead face paint, scanty eyebrows… I’m into it. A young Elizabeth I portrait, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570751212212-ILHD5BX6RWHULQXEW48Q/lady+razor+1.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570751056017-NBHFQCERVO4RK3V20YAJ/shave+yourself.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570751200908-1LB4EBA21P5UA8MCPEVM/The_Flapper_by_Frank_Xavier_Leyendecker_1922_Wiki.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570751223913-G2VH1REEHQ97QW7PT567/unloved.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570751340739-7MFUG1E8AGV742F4S6UR/1940s+nylon.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570751262927-ZST8D4YIU3X21IFITW19/lady+in+suit.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1570751562423-IFFZUSCG6AD6EHIRPDXP/seashell-3043735_1920.jpg Episodes - The Hair Down There: The History of Our Relationship with Lady Jungles - the friends who pluck each other’s bushes with shells are friends forever. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/8/15/alexanders-women-olympias-and-the-ladies-who-shaped-a-conqueror monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565524629755-UINUKP7VNMTWV8IAF4YU/Alexander_the_Great_mosaic.jpg Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror - Let’s get conquering! Alexander the Great, from a mosaic at the National Archaeological Museum Naples. Accessed with Wikipedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565525201839-3Z2E3MKOGB2PTOQV1ZGL/2.png Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror Isn’t she delightful? Get this epic Olympias collage as a greeting card or art print: just clink the Merchandise tab and go on over to my Etsy shop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565525676095-OT82LJXCE1TL69AUWLJD/Ancient+Greece+Map.png Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror You’ll find Olympias up there to the north. If you like the look of this map, you’ll love it printed out and hanging up on your wall! Just to go my Merchandise page and click through to my Etsy page, where you’ll find it for sale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565850710661-1YFQ8CBRUPMFHN68JH1T/Filip_II_Macedonia.jpg Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror - Philip II, who will later lose an eye in battle. Scarred and dangerous. From Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1566101525746-XMEXX6Z008660PHE569X/stag-hunt-mosaic-4th-century-bc-science-source.jpg Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror - Stabbing things while naked! It’s the ancient Macedonian way (except not really). The Stag Hunt Mosaic, c. 300 BC, from Pella. the figure on the right is possibly Alexander; the figure on the left wielding a double-edged axe could be Hephaestion, one of Alexander's favorite bros. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1566719761683-L4AUIZC5WV62SJB925GI/Greece+timeline+image.png Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror A timeline to give you a sense of when our main players were operating. If you like this very classy timeline (which is sharper in real life, I swear), then get a printed poster-sized copy over at my Etsy shop (to find it, just click on the Merchandise page). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1566101623820-YC8CSFCVXRLWTTAW930M/Silenus+holding+a+lyre+%28left%29%3B+demi-god+Pan+and+a+nymph+sitting+on+a+rock%2C+nursing+a+goat+%28centre%29%3B+woman+with+coat+%28right%29.+Fresco+of+the+mystery+ritual%2C+right%2C+Villa+of+the+Mysteries%2C+Pompeii%2C+Italy_Wikicommons.jpg Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror - Cult Ritual + marriage ceremony = a surefire good time. A fresco of a mystery ritual related to Dionysus from the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy. 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Olympia Presenting The Young Alexander The Great to Aristotle, Gerard Hoet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565526198544-5A6DZV6G899W9552GCXB/The+tech+industry+and+its+future-9.png Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror Jupiter Seducing Olympias by Giolio Romano. I’ve cropped out the very anatomically correct bait and tackle Zeus has going on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565851497110-U4JEIZ8UHI9P2PT68U50/Bust_Alexander_BM_1857.jpg Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror - A young Alexander, dreaming of conquest. Bust of Alexander the Great, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565853431189-P10F0GJS314UOO0JWSA3/Olympias+and+Alexander+from+Vienna.jpg Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror - Don’t worry, Alex. Momma’s got you. A statue of Olympias and Alexander from Vienna, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565851902136-2XXZUW8WJ0ZUXCZPS463/The+Amazon+Queen%2C+Thalestris%2C+in+the+Camp+of+Alexander+the+Great%27%2C+by+Johann+Georg+Platzer%2C+c.1750..jpg Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror - A clash of amorous titans. The Amazon Queen, Thalestris, in the Camp of Alexander the Great by Johann Georg Platzer, c.1750. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1566102557817-4J20MESHJ9J0PMSGTUP7/Romana+meme.png Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror Alexander the Great and Roxana in a 1756 painting by Italian Baroque artist Pietro Rotari. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1566718886591-K8E3434VRZNRDX3PDA4C/Alexander.jpg Episodes - Alexander’s Women: Olympias and the Ladies Who Shaped a Conqueror Like I said, it’s a tangle. And look at all that orange: the survival rate in this struggle is…not high. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/7/31/amazonsandwarriorwomen monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564626917175-WLFF5P1FJ41B54KFACMH/Marble+statue+wounded+Amazon.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - Battle ready. Marble statue of a wounded Amazon, courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564620750299-85PEL2NRDY0524KBG40W/Pitcher+%28oinochoe%29+with+battle+of+the+Greeks+and+Amazons.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - and then stabbing ensued. A pitcher (oinochoe) featuring a battle between the Greeks and some Amazons. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564621134883-ZDLX6Z6WA6QKY36TO8X5/A+detail+from+a+fresco+from+Pompeii+depicting+Atalanta+%28left%29+and+Meleager+%28centre%29+resting+after+the+hunt+of+the+Calydonian+Boar_Wiki.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - Meleager thinking about how beautiful Atalanta looked while spearing the Caledonian Boar. A fresco from Pompeii, on view at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564622929016-N45TEYWPWIBMMTW5EO6B/Atalanta+meme.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece Meleager and Atalanta by Jacob Jordaens (1620-1650). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564627229257-YFLY9UZ25PAUA9I9963U/Golden+apple+Atalanta+meme.png Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece Atalanta and Hipponemes racing each other. “Atalanta and Hippomenes” (c. 1699) by Nicolas Colombel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564627077187-DA4O3VKYSFIVWMA66BQY/Kyz+Saikal%2C+a+Kalmyk+warrior+woman+heroine+of+Central+Asia%2C+fictional.png Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - Kyz Saikal, a Kalmyk fictional warrior woman heroine of Central Asia. Image from a postage stamp. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564639066676-NMNLLA881UKRTDKQGQK1/Ancient+Greece+Map.png Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece This map gives you at least some idea where the so-called Amazons lived, though their territory was very wide-ranging and stretched very, VERY far outside the average Greek’s world. If you like this map, check out the Exploress Etsy shop: you’ll find the map for sale, and it makes a great conversation piece hanging up in your office or a nice gift for the ancient lady-loving history enthusiast in your life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564636805706-ZMELJJ503AB59EQ0PP0J/Battle_of_Greeks_and_Amazons.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - greeks vs. amazons. good luck, boys. Battle of Greeks and Amazons on a marble sarcophagus, courtesy of the Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564623763716-RXQ2G7CB1VUES5FKUODX/Gold+Scythian+belt+title%2C+Mingachevir+%28ancient+Scythian+kingdom%29%2C+Azerbaijan%2C+7th+century+BC_Wikicommons.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece Gold Scythian belt title from Mingachevir (ancient Scythian kingdom), Azerbaijan, and the 7th century BC. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564623766464-16K1MNGPGELGCWRH3RGF/Amazon+Ring.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - An Amazon hunter on horseback prepares to spear a spotted deer, running away at left. From the Classical Period, 425–400 B.C. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564623773204-AQBFTX9J56TVKDS6EHQO/Scythians+with+horses+under+a+tree.+Gold+belt+plaque.+Siberia%2C+4th%E2%80%933rd+century+BC.+%C2%A9+The+State+Hermitage+Museum%2C+St+Petersburg%2C+2017_British+Museum.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - In this gold belt plaque, we see Scythians with horses under a tree. Shiny! Siberia, 4th–3rd century BCE. Courtesy of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564623784725-UIU3KHOY8ZOD1FC0M4QU/Woman%E2%80%99s+shoe.+Leather%2C+textile%2C+tin%2C+pyrite+crystals%2C+gold+foil%2C+glass+beads.+Burial+mound+2%2C+Pazyryk%2C+Altai+mountains%2C+southern+Siberia%2C+late+4th%E2%80%93early+3rd+century+BC.+%C2%A9+The+State+Hermitage+Museum%2C+St+Petersburg%2C+2017_British+Museum.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - This woman’s shoe includes leather, tin, pyrite crystals, gold foil, and glass beads. Found in Burial mound 2, Pazyryk in the Altai Mountains, southern Siberia, late 4th–early 3rd century BC. Courtesy of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564637227884-YT2ADPWR4QFE75FQQVNR/Scythians_shooting_with_bows_Kertch_antique_Panticapeum_Ukrainia_4th_century_BCE.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - Scythians shooting with bows, as they do. 4th century BCE. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564637784820-MHR4TOBEIWGTCJXK7WOV/Amazon+vase+slingshot.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - A terracotta lekythos (oil flask), ca. 440 BCE, showing an Amazon using a slingshot. Seriously: this is not a toy, okay? It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Attributed to the Klügmann Painter. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564637638780-AI2EG7V3Z4R33FADDJ3O/Credit-+Hexapod%2C+six+sticks+of+a+smoking+tent+frame%2C+brazier%2C+Pazyryk+2%2C+Late+4th-early+3rd+century+BC.+%C2%A9+State+Hermitage+Museum%2C+St+Petersburg_BM.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - Let’s set up a little felt teepee and have some herb-sponsored fun, shall we? The six sticks of a smoking tent frame and a brazier, Pazyryk 2, late 4th-early 3rd century BCE. From the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, courtesy of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1565232624495-1OH0DX4PR5ID8T9DA8WQ/%2522Tomyris+Plunges+the+Head+of+the+Dead+Cyrus+Into+a+Vessel+of+Blood%2522.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - drink it, B*tch. Tomyris Plunges the Head of the Dead Cyrus Into a Vessel of Blood by Rubens, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564626323893-EEM6Y2UN962MH7UMTQHX/1.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564638006308-B9WFA5SAH4BPBXF3T2BH/Battle+of+Salamis_Wikicommons.jpg Episodes - Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece - This is kind of like where’s waldo, exCePt better: where’s artemisiA I? The Battle of Salamis by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Wikicommons https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/sappho monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563967175938-CRHWIREYKROMWI42Q89I/Sir+Lawrence+Alma-Tadema%27s+Sappho+and+Alcaeus_The+Walters+Museum.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - let’s get inspired, shall we? Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Sappho and Alcaeus, courtesy of The Walters Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564008891046-01SVLYGTTT7PW2LTPPMR/Ancient+Greece+Map_A3.png Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece This map of ancient Greece highlights the women and places we touch on this season. It really comes to life when printed out at full size: so hop over to my Etsy shop and check it out! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563967267776-JXV9QL9IVCZ741J01SY5/Cropped_image_of_Sappho_from_Raphael%27s_Parnassus_+++++++More+details+Detail+of+Sappho+from+Raphael%27s+Parnassus+%281510-11%29%2C+shown+alongside+other+poets.+In+her+left+hand%2C+she+holds+a+scroll+with+her+name+written+on+it.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - This is probably not what Sappho looked like. But points for trying. Detail of Sappho from Raphael's Parnassus (1510-11), shown alongside other poets. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563967419483-GHN4YV30HSAUM564PFP2/The+Nine+Muses_roman+sarcophagus_Louvre_MR880.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - just living that muse life. The Nine Muses, from a Roman sarcophagus, courtesy of the Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563967451678-LQYS8KOHXG2AOG2BO81G/hesiod-and-the-muse-1891+Gustave+Moreau.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - Ladies with wings: crazy inspirational. Why shouldn’t they be inspiring ancient Greek women as well? Hesiod and the Muse (1891), Gustave Moreau, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563967561982-62I74L38MIO0KBR7G7HM/Sappho_and_Erinna_in_a_Garden_at_Mytilene_images+of+a+lesbian+Sappho%2C+such+as+Simeon+Solomon%27s+painting+of+Sappho+with+Erinna+were+much+less+common+in+the+nineteenth+century..jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - hello, lover. Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, Simeon Solomon, 19th century. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563967658119-B5EXPOZX2X5YTF6QYQLL/Love_gift_-Love+gift+Man+presents+a+leg+of+mutton+to+a+youth+with+a+hoop%2C+in+an+allusion+to+pederasty.%5B1%5D+Athenian+red-figure+vase%2C+ca.+460+BCE+.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - Time traveling hint: if someone offers you a rabbit or a leg of mutton, they probably are making a sultry move on you. There are much racier Greek vases with same-sex love scenes on them, but I’ll let you Google those for yourself. A love gift: a man presents a leg of mutton to a youth with a hoop, in an allusion to pederasty. Athenian red-figure vase, ca. 460 BCE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563967894710-QHHLPEBZOU585IMYGQBQ/41768.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - Would you say Achilles is taking the death of his maybe-lover well? Nope. Not well at all. Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus, 1760, Gavin Hamilton, National Galleries Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563968045350-W6TUAXE3T0S22KJH51R2/1877_Charles_Mengin_-_Sappho.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - I guess this guy agrees with Strabo about the whole jumping-off-a-cliff thing, looking super emo. But I’m not buying it for a second. Sappho (1877) by Charles Mengin, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563968193378-S0PKZ6YRNYRW0K4R6E1A/Fresco_showing_a_woman_so-called_Sappho_holding_writing_implements%2C_from_Pompeii%2C_Naples_National_Archaeological_Museum_%2814842101892%29.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - This is the image that often pops up for Sappho, but it's probably not her: she is far too mysterious to make things that easy for us. Fresco showing a woman so-called Sappho from Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563968255058-U21TZ5W1A8WTQ52U9EDT/Most+of+Sappho%27s+poetry+is+preserved+in+manuscripts+of+other+ancient+writers+or+on+papyrus+fragments%2C+but+part+of+one+poem+survives+on+a+potsherd.%5B45%5D+The+papyrus+pictured+%28left%29+preserves+the+Tithonus+poem+%28fragment+58%29_Altes+Museum+Berlin.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - Most of Sappho's poetry is preserved in manuscripts of other ancient writers or on papyrus fragments, but part of one poem survives on a potsherd. Can you imagine one of your grocery lists lasting as long? This papyrus preserves the Tithonus poem (fragment 58), Altes Museum Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563968238937-GT1WXYLKZ8CPNBO1Y6F8/the+potsherd+%28right%29+preserves+fragment+2+of+Sappho_Altes+Berlin+Museum.JPG Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - These clay pot jottings show us how much people liked her work. This potsherd preserves fragment 2 of Sappho, Altes Berlin Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563968243826-2Q8667S248T5WKQ2JJKJ/Sappho+inspired+ancient+poets+and+artists%2C+including+the+vase+painter+from+the+Group+of+Polygnotos+who+depicted+her+on+this+red-figure+hydria..jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece - Sappho inspired ancient poets and artists, including the vase painter from the Group of Polygnotos who depicted her on this red-figure hydria. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1563968659481-K7CJEU1MM68VZ82RJ297/Reverie+or+In+The+Days+of+Sappho_John+William+Godward_Getty+Museum.jpg Episodes - That Loosener of Limbs: Sappho and Sexuality in Ancient Greece Reverie or In The Days of Sappho, John William Godward, courtesy of the Getty Museum https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/6/30/its-all-greek-to-me-a-ladys-life-in-ancient-greece monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1562068844993-ST9PLWDAKJTC8LE0K67F/It%27s+All+Greek+to+Me+cover+art.png Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561887432609-RID204KDYUOGKQVT2N84/Terracotta+column-krater+%28bowl+for+mixing+wine+and+water%29_Jason+and+the+fleece_MET.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece - let’s go traveling! Terracotta column-krater (a bowl for mixing wine and water) showing Jason and his hunt for the Golden Fleece. Courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574338013849-FZ7KC0YHW6HCOPI690FW/Greece+Timeline+FINAL-01.png Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece This timeline really comes alive when you see it blown up to full size. If you like it, check it out on my Etsy shop: just go to my Merchandise page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574337886461-ZLTW0VLXHD3CMNMEWGFO/Ancient+Greece+Map+FINAL.png Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece I’ve left some places out so I could focus on the women and places we’ll touch on in our episodes on ancient Greece. This map really comes alive when you see it blown up to full size. If you like it, check it out on my Etsy shop: just go to my Merchandise page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561887613471-VYC7SYTBZLWG0RXWGTF1/bronze+mirror.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece - this bronze mirror has seen better days, but it’s still pretty fancy. Mid-fifth century BCE, courtesy of the MET. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561886513747-IIQL4GIKJZKEFUW1SHXT/Greek+peplos.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece - Greek peplos This sculptural type becomes popular in art and life during the second quarter of the fifth century B.C., especially in small bronzes. Doesn’t it look comfy? Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561886528082-7DUVQOWZ7P333YD40YA0/Hellenistic+armband.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece - Hellenistic armbands These serpentine armbands represent two tritons, male and female, each holding a small winged Eros. The hoops behind the tritons' heads were used to attach the armbands to sleeves, which is good, because they weigh over 6 1/2 ounces each. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561886540874-XM2TNMHI1ZSYOV47TGBB/Hellenistic+jewels.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece This necklace and earrings from 1st century BCE. form a blingy matching set featuring large garnets. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561886556937-JEVKB8X5CG1V98RBAJ4H/Hellenistic+hairnet_MET.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece - Hellenistic hairnet This hairnet is extra: delicate filigree, carefully hammered decorative bust, and spool-shaped beads all make the most of this hair addition shine. The medallion on top represents the head of a maenad, one of the female followers of the god Dionysos. From 200-150 BCE. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561886572018-99O0J7P78YKWN1ZEPPLR/Hellenistic+armband_MET.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece - Hello, lover The Herakles knot on this armband features floral decoration and is inlaid with garnets, emeralds, and enamel. Roman writer Pliny says that the Herakles knot could cure wounds, and perhaps even averted evil. They’d look killer regardless. I will take one for my birthday, please. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561886594918-SPJBTVHIKO2YW6PUZ37U/wearing+a+chiton+and+a+himation_Wikicommons.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece Rocking a chiton, a himation, and no head, as seems to be par for the course with lady art of ancient Greece. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561887859279-5HV3O4O69LPQ7XH9EUX5/2.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece Priestess of Delphi by John Collier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561887924070-BGV4BKKIX6H1TYE7VQIA/Akropolis_by_Leo_von_Klenze.jpg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece The Acropolis of Athens by Leo von Klenze (1846). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1561888412415-H784BFZ49VQ41ONXI8IX/image-asset.jpeg Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece Leonidas at Thermoplae by Jacques-Louis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1562120288438-4079F5YOLMPFOCYI22OC/Aspasia+meme.png Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece SOCRATES SEEKING ALCIBIADES AT THE HOUSE OF ASPASIA, 1861 Signed and dated J. L. GEROME. MDCCCLXI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1562119643025-SW2XSST4GNKLDPTH3YJF/phryne+meme.png Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564008638513-GJ4PV8BRNF5F57SJATAO/Archidamida.png Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece The Siege Of Sparta By Pyrrhus. François Topino-Lebrun, 1799-1800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1564008517572-UD25TA8FQSIIKY7NXDDM/Image-1.png Episodes - It’s All Greek to Me: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Greece - the modern-day site where the oracle of delphi would have spoken many hallucinogenic truths. Courtesy of Spomenka Krizmanic https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/5/17/pour-us-another-the-history-of-women-and-beer monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559041111666-Y9PVNC9X68OQ6NK36RYI/Beer+Lady.jpg Episodes - Pour Us Another: The History of Women and Beer, from Ancient Past to Present https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559044718166-J51OON73NE2B29YFPL0A/800px-Hildegard_von_Bingen.jpg Episodes - Pour Us Another: The History of Women and Beer, from Ancient Past to Present - i’m having a vision…of hops going into beer! Hildegard of Bingen, one of the first people to write about the benefits of adding hops to beer. Illumination from the Liber Scivias showing Hildegard receiving a vision and dictating to her scribe and secretary, from Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559042664213-0T2QZL79M2EG9YRFPQVS/Model_of_a_Woman_Grinding_Grain_LACMA_51.15.10.jpg Episodes - Pour Us Another: The History of Women and Beer, from Ancient Past to Present - Model of a woman grinding grain, which she’ll use both to make bread and to brew beer. From Egypt, First Intermediate Period/early Middle Kingdom, 2134-1991 BCE. Courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559043068489-SNDNGLBCKAK8JWE4SFHE/Mother_Louse%2C_Alewife_Wellcome_L0000658.jpg Episodes - Pour Us Another: The History of Women and Beer, from Ancient Past to Present - A popular cartoon by C. Johnson, London in 1793, of an alewife character called, charmingly, “Mother Louse.” Sometimes women who hustle just can’t catch a break. 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She seems to say, “I live to serve (men)!” And goats, I guess. 1880s poster for Bock Beer, courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559043787928-PVDZI5EYMZTPZH0Y34O9/Huacho_sin_Pescado_%281980%29%2C_chicha_preparation.jpg Episodes - Pour Us Another: The History of Women and Beer, from Ancient Past to Present - Women brewing chichi in Huacho sin Pescado (1980). It’s a lady-filled affair. Image by Teresa Walendziak i Marek Doktor, from Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559042762386-8044NM5F3R7WNVI8RRZH/3874360-3x4-700x933.jpg Episodes - Pour Us Another: The History of Women and Beer, from Ancient Past to Present - Barred from the bar? Let’s break out our handcuffs. Merle Thornton and Rosalie Bognor at the Regatta Hotel, as captured by Brisbane’s Courier Mail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559042878436-QMHIGBX5SA2MS0DYHVGK/olands-beer-advert.jpg Episodes - Pour Us Another: The History of Women and Beer, from Ancient Past to Present - How do I even capture this….for more such gems from the past, check out this slideshow. Or just Google ‘sexist beer ads’ and get ready to rage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559042311544-W4UNPD16RMW8WPJCQZDK/5O3A8147.jpg Episodes - Pour Us Another: The History of Women and Beer, from Ancient Past to Present - Flora and I hanging out by Colonial Brewing Co.’s giant tanks. To find out more about this delightful brewery, check out their website. 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Image from queen Nefertari’s tomb, courtesy of kairoinfo4u on Flickr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557879655289-4GYMMVZ3RBIW9BGCT749/Hatshepsut_MET_This+colossal+sphinx+portrays+the+female+pharaoh+Hatshepsut_check+Met+site+for+cool+deets+.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - who says a lady can’t be a sphinx and a pharaoh? Statue of Hatshepsut, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557879898666-0GMGRMYJLVHYOLFGDNZH/Timeline.ai_KJA+png.png Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs I’ve made a handy timeline for you so you can keep these ladies straight and see when they ruled in the grand scheme of things. This A2-sized poster really comes into its full glory when you see it printed out at full size. I’m planning to offer them for sale soon. so keep an eye out! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574337575619-ZZ6GUI8PPEYTYVSXDHGA/Ancient+Egypt+Map+FINAL-01.png Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - A handy map so you can see where each powerful woman ruled from. If you like this ladycentric map of ancient Egypt, go ahead and buy yourself a copy over in my Etsy Exploress merchandise shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557881643797-KY84COU0W11F9NVNY86G/12.png Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557880169068-RB3AZ2FD8BW9YWQGBM3A/Nefertaris+tomb_courtesy+kairoinfo4u+on+Flikr_5.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - Step right up and marry your brother! This image from queen Nefertari’s tomb comes courtesy of kairoinfo4u on Flickr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557880313695-8I8MUYGMV1FECKHUNSV5/Hetepheres+carrying+chair+reproduction_MFABoston_1.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - hetepheres’smobile throne chair. yas queen! Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Art Boston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557881796669-DLJ7SY31THQ8LC2GVPZM/5.png Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557880630832-8V312N91ZMAUU2PLZVP7/Nebamun_tomb_fresco_dancers_and_musicians.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - shake it, fellow wives! Female musicians and dancers, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557880808159-JOBTHLAX1ICQ3NLWXIWF/Dear+Henry.png Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - *RING*RING* hello, Henry XIII? Yeah, it’s ancient Egypt. So about you saying you want that divorce from your wife Catherine because she hasn’t borne you sons? It isn’t Catherine, man, it’s you. No, listen. It’s your man seed. It’s weak. Get stronger man seeds!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557881035545-EOZ85BNAB0CFQLEXUJNL/Statue_of_Sobekneferu_%28Berlin_Egyptian_Museum_14475%29.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - Head of queen Neferusobek Courtesy of the Berlin Egyptian Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557881102695-08IPKLDKT0JPV1UYR25B/Louvre_0320O7_01.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - Partial bust of Neferusobek This partial bust of Neferusobek shows us how she combined kingly attributes with a feminine physique. Move over, boys: I’ve got this! 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Courtesy of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557881281164-J5WZFM8B5PG7HDSLUCV8/Ahmose-Nefertari%2C+wife+of+Ahmose+I%2C+in+the+Louvre+Museum%2C+Paris..jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - Regal Ahmose-Nefertari Courtesy of the Louvre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1558484738742-IDM9UUDSNAPCY39ZOOO4/Egypt+cover+art+4.png Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - PART 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557881935136-55AL1SFEZCJTPM48ZI0R/Hatshep_wiki.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs Hatshepsut, looking quite fine in marble. She put images of herself ALL over the country, cementing her authority even before she took the top spot. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557881956301-E9GDIBNPBY91H67CWU7N/Hatshepsut_MET.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs Here we see Hatshepsut in transition: she’s got a few womanly curves, but is also wear full king clothes: a kilt, the royal kingly headdress, and an amazingly sculpted beard. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557881959644-UEHE1IXA54DYMA4YSFK4/Hatshepsut2_theMetMuseum.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs An early bust of Hatshepsut, where she wears royal kingly headdress, but also isn’t afraid to have her lady bits included in her image. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557882266082-O65BCA0MFD23NSVQOP36/Hatshetsup-temple-Wiki.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs Hatshepsut’s amazing temple, Djeseru Djeseru (“holy of holies”). I had trouble finding royalty-free images to show you, so go and Google Djeser Djeseru or go hunting on National Geographic’s website. It’s an amazing sight. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557882280290-4DKOLZD1IQHADRUV4ANQ/Detail+of+the+Red+Chapel+showing+Thutmose+III+following+Hatshepsut+_Wiki.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - the Red Chapel Hatshepsut’s Red Chapel, dedicated to her god-dad Amun, is still very beautiful. Here’s a detail of the art there, which tells her story as SHE wanted it told. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557882561414-WD5AEKKM7IOT1T524DKN/4.png Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557882713762-C4T6CTNN4MLTDQZFM4AZ/Tiye_Museum_Berlin_027.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - Boss lady Queen Tiye. This bust doesn’t represent her skin tone accurately: it’s this color because of age and the wood used in its carving. For more on her, go and check out the History of Ancient Egypt podcast. Courtesy of Berlin Egyptian Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557882993206-43FU62BB55277RK1U594/Nefertiti_%28Nofretete_in_Berlin%29.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - well hey, nefertiti. Courtesy of Berlin’s Neues Museum of Egyptian History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557883980386-ZOLZWPCMDJ63PSGMPQGC/Nefertiti_David+Jones_Flikr.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - Nefertiti, Akhenaten and their daughters, getting sunburnt. Courtesy of David Jones on Flickr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557883185326-EW53MGFY9265TGJVXYPN/Akhenaten+and+daughter+offering+of+the+sun_Brooklyn+Museum.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - Akhenaten and his daughter offering of the sun. As you do. Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557883212020-LCZ62G9D338NV5BPD78X/Finger+Ring+depicting+King+Akhenaten+and+Queen+Nefertiti+as+Shu+and+Tefnut_MET.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - A fancy finger ring depicting Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti as Shu and Tefnut. Divine as all get out. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557883251365-630VI9ORGEEH88EV5G2C/Relief+of+Queen+Nefertiti_MET.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - Relief of Queen Nefertiti. "Ugh, why'd you have to make me look like an alien?" Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557884301732-ZI7NBVT5NKL3N1VNYQSD/This+image+is+commonly+taken+to+be+Smenkhkare+and+Meritaten%2C+though+it+may+be+Tutankhamun+and+Ankhesenamun_Berlin+Museum.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - This image is commonly taken to be Smenkhkare and Meritaten, though it may be Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun. Ancient history gets very confusing. Courtesy of the Neues Museum, Berlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557884378750-6ASUEPI16QZY7K5XW3XK/Ancient+Lady+Cover+Art-3.png Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557884529419-X9592X7YHCCSQ5PJM15Z/Necklace+in+Gold+Filagree+of+Queen+Tausret_MET.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - A necklace that supposedly belonged to Tawosret. Ooooh, shiny! Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1557884535688-5VR20RHGVPM36KBQJ5J0/Brick+with+the+Names+of+Tawosret_MET.jpg Episodes - Who Runs the World: Ancient Egypt's Female Pharaohs - A brick with Tawosret's names carved in. Get it, girl. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/5/1/walklikeanegyptian monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556668828431-W0139E5CUTO1EF6H5PGR/egyptian+Exploress.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556356176905-3BZCEXOO155T6Q3TYGDE/Nefertaris+tomb_courtesy+kairoinfo4u+on+Flikr.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt Nefertari spreads her wings and says WELCOME! This image comes from the entrance to her fabulous tomb. Courtesy of kairoinfo4u on Flickr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556583004712-KDAKAOVGPF0VYNW69EKR/Nebamun_tomb_fresco_dancers_and_musicians.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - Let’s Dive In! A fresco of lady dancers and musicians from the tomb of Nebamun, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574337370017-9UQILNKDUG1B1WACTE1B/Egypt+Timeline+FINAL-01.png Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt This ladycentric timeline should give you a general sense of what happened when and what order the dynasties went in. We’re talking about a huge swathe of time! But really, this timeline only comes into its true majesty when you see it blown up to poster size: you can get it at A2 size in my Etsy merchandise shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1574337453732-4SAGP4QCGNFG1OLDS6LL/Ancient+Egypt+Map+FINAL-01.png Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - egypt was a rich and fertile land defined by its long, winding river. This ladycentric map of ancient Egypt should give you a feel for where all of our ladies were operating from. If you like what you see, order a printed copy of this poster in my Etsy merchandise shop! I have it framed above my mantel right now and it looks fabulous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556017406987-3M3WR8U56CX5KH5L0TS9/headrest+example_Glencairn.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - This is what ancient Egyptians used instead of a pillow. Does this look like a comfortable place to rest your head? Yeah, well…at least it wards off evil spirits. And it’s probably good for your posture. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556583645334-OEGVZEBQ9A44EX864ZQE/Egyptian+tweezers.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt Small bronze tweezers with rounded head from tomb E'05 7 at Esna. They look pretty familiar, no? Courtesy of the National Museums in Liverpool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1555913851209-U8FANFF13A3XG3YAYUOD/cr6654-d1.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - A bed! Hooray. Queen Hetepheres lived a lush life, and she died with everything she needed to continue her own personal party: a portable canopy, bed with headrest, armchair, and curtain box, all designed of wood overlaid with gold. Her bed was just 5 feet 9 inches long, and she would have slept on her side with her cheek on her torture device of a headrest. A foot-rest kept her from slipping down. Courtesy of Harvard University, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1555913858673-XZ8LXLES6D8E6V9LPTDF/Egyptian+headrest_British+Museum.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt This looks more like a saddle than a headrest, if you ask me, but I’m game to try it. Courtesy of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1555913890662-P2KNH2AFXG92BAADKZYM/Small+cosmetic+vessel_Walters.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt This small cosmetic vessel belonged to Meretnubt, a daughter of King Thutmose I (1504-1492 BCE), and would have held some of her makeup. The Egyptians loved putting their beautifying liquids into cute little jars. Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1555913947614-G3I65C3PCFHVH34Q58OD/Mirror+with+Handle+in+the+Form+of+a+Hathor+Emblem_ca+1450_MET.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt This highly polished metal mirror (ca 1479-1425 BCE) has a handle in the form of the goddess Hathor. Because who doesn’t want to hold a goddess while they put on their eyeliner? Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556017769585-QTUDIOVUYQFBIYBGD8PX/Nefertaris+tomb_courtesy+kairoinfo4u+on+Flikr_6.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - you seriously thought this was my natural hair? This image comes from queen Hetephreses’s fabulous tomb. Courtesy of kairoinfo4u on Flickr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556017846763-2XXNB11ODPZJTQ30DYMF/Egyptian_-_Amulet-pendant%2C_of_Taweret_-_Walters_481555_-_Left.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt This faience amulet is of Taweret, the hippo goddess who protects women during pregnancy and childbirth. As a god-loving ancient Egyptian, you’re very likely to have one of these around your neck. Courtesy of The Walters Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556584744362-31GFXPTWIKBZLCGF98A0/Group-35.3.79%2C+99%2C+62%2C+30%2C+29%2C+66%2C+31_EGDP014178.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt A fancy jewelry box circa 1504–1447 BCE and some nifty tools for putting makeup on with. The ancient Egyptians knew how to get all done up. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556017869999-79B7SRVW6B0GHP7SIOL0/Egypt+necklace.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556356443164-S2TK1FHUOSBVK0W9QAN3/hb_16.1.3_av2.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt This necklace was found among the jewelry of Princess Sithathoryunet. Hieroglyphic signs make up the design, which reads: "The god of the rising sun grants life and dominion over all that the sun encircles for one million one hundred thousand years [i.e., eternity] to King Khakheperre [Senwosret II]." Jewelry worn by royal women during the Middle Kingdom was about adornment, status, and firming up concepts about Egyptian royalty, capable of giving them superhuman powers. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556356445676-5LAIN2P7B3AV28OX1E7L/hb_16.1.3_av3.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt A closeup of the previous necklace. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556584888190-VPLA0YXF7SFU96Y7MTR8/Bastet_British+Museum.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - Bastet, or Bast, the cat goddess of domesticity, women’s secrets, fertility, childbirth and (of course) cats. She protects the home from evil spirits and disease. So, not a lady you want to make angry. Courtesy of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556018024311-A8MACD11TUJEGWZQ4HKF/Tomb_of_Nakht_-_three_musicians_600dpi.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - no clothes? no problem. From Tomb of Nakht, Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556018091150-CIRSQQ42BCR4N5ZKEIDO/beadnet+dress.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - Seriously: could this beaddress get any better? I’m not exactly sure what you’d wear underneath it…maybe nothing? That’s bold. This Old Kingdom beauty is the earliest surviving example of the style, painstakingly reassembled from approximately 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed burial of a lady. The strings had disintegrated, but the few beads remaining stay lay in their original pattern. The beads were originally blue and blue green in imitation of lapis lazuli and turquoise. Courtesy of Harvard University, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556585422152-5GNOFFLW0Y0XY5PQ4U5A/LC-26_8_146a_b_EGDP029102.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - let’s slip into our golden shoes and go about our business. Gold sandles ca. 1479–1425 B.C., which probably weren’t meant for everyday wear. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556357393857-1QL26X9T65V3K8NGVEMG/DP241036.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - Statuette of Isis and Horus, 332–30 BCE. Being the mother of kings makes you a very powerful woman. It’s from you that the divine seed flows! Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556357569301-2C3ZW6SC6P9FQO24K3YK/Nun_Raises_the_Sun.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - Here we see Nun, god of the waters of chaos, lifting the barque (or boat) of the sun god Ra, represented by the scarab and the sun disk, into the sky at the beginning of time. During high holidays, ancient priests have to put their god’s giant statue in a boat and row it across the Nile, which sounds…tiring. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556586512551-8LFO7B1OZ08KY44US7ZQ/papyrus.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt The Egyptians basically invented paper, like this ancient papyrus scroll, but not that many people could write in their beautiful hieroglyphics. From the Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes), ca. 332–200 BCE. 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Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556585897462-5GB5RWVUQPFWFAJXOD2C/Senet_MET.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt A queen plays a favorite board game, Senet, in a scene from her tomb. The ancients were big into board games. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556585852183-WMH6V4PW8Z42276TASAW/Musicians_and_dancers_on_fresco_at_Tomb_of_Nebamun_Wiki.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt Musicians and dancers shake their money makers in a fresco found at the Tomb of Nebamun. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556586196344-G2NQGBE4Y9ZXZ6XJDRUS/DP322064.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - This stela of the Steward Mentuwoser (ca. 1944 BCE) shows him at his funeral banquet. If the ancients were anxious about one thing, it was that they have enough to eat in their afterlife. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556586352055-7NO4W54OAPSGXNHOAOXP/croc+dung.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - croc dung: a wonderful contraceptive! A page from the Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus, Imhotep (Imuthes), ca. 332–200 BCE. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1556586868569-A2D8BTD01BAL6DQ1BD6H/44.6.2a-c_44.6.1_EGDP015280.jpg Episodes - Walk Like An Egyptian: A Lady’s Life in Ancient Egypt - All wrapped up: a reconstructed body of ancient linen created in the 1940s, which gives you a picture of how Egyptian bodies stayed preserved for so long. Gilded wax on a reconstructed body of ancient linen, 400–250 BCE. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/celebratingblackhistorymonth monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549155394587-RPIP293GF4TA2OIOHJG2/sojourner-truth.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 1. the eloquent speaker: Sojourner Truth Courtesy of the Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549154185105-Y6R7EMSZ326LF350D3ZA/Harriet_LOC.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 2. the rebel with a mighty cause: Harriet Tubman Courtesy of the Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549154234403-ZUF9OS6P9Q8YLDI4MGAN/elizabeth-keckley-portrait.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 3. the tenacious dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549154515056-GXVGHCW0H83JMZME3TC0/clara_brown.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 4. the philanthropist angel of colorado: Clara Brown Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549152593216-CE8W9LW1QN2C56J2PUSQ/the-negress-katherina-albrecht-durer.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 5. the trailblazer: Elizabeth Key Grinstead Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549153292548-76JKFTIPL5ZY2PG11D0P/Susie_King_Taylor.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 6. the teacher, nurse, and author: Susie King Taylor Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549153332268-3K454LKQQC9CKP4MIKKW/Cathay_Williams_Only_Woman_Buffalo_Soldier_U.S._Army.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 7. the undercover soldier: Cathay Williams Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549154976407-WC3WF69NYR6EL20Q7HWU/2613d-10986022_721987057918002_555360901_n.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 8. the hardcore spy: Mary Bowser Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549155032166-YDISAJC87N4VD6RLWPBU/Mary_Fields.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 9. the mail carrier: “Stagecoach” Mary Fields Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1549156691122-P2X5CZ6J9HSHPQTIG88H/a+bold+stroke+for+freedom_LOC.jpg Episodes - Celebrating Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know - 10. The women who fought back, in so many ways. Courtesy of the Library of Congress https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2019/1/6/wild-western-women-ladies-on-the-american-frontier monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546773060751-FX3MEWRBC7Y7IBBX6MW9/Teacher+and+children+in+front+of+sod+schoolhouse.+Woods+Co.%2C+Okla.+Terr.%2C+ca.+1895_NARA.gif Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - A teacher with her many, many students. Teaching on the frontier isn’t for the weak, that’s for sure. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546773065018-GIAW0SVV5ROGQXXM1ZE0/PearlHart_Wikicommons.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - Pearl Hart, the Bandit Queen. 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Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546770906646-S25Q8G7WKYR0NCJWNTSA/Louisiana_Purchase+modern+US+overlay_Natural+Earth+and+Portland+State+University+.png Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States. Thomas Jefferson must have been pretty pleased with himself about that one. Courtesy of the Natural Earth and Portland State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546771078680-CUI62KJF855TO4XDAOQY/Detail_Lewis_%26_Clark_at_Three_Forks.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - Sakawajea being all like, “Hey, guys, want to be a little less helpless?” I must say, Lewis and Clarke don’t look very excited about asking a woman for directions…and also they look like twins a little. Detail of "Lewis & Clark at Three Forks", a mural in lobby of Montana House of Representatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546770663199-YOC3V7XBCDA48UEIDRTC/An+overland+caravan+laden+with+boats.+Robert+B.+Stanton%27s+Denver%2C+Colorado+Canyon%2C+and+Pacific+Railway+Survey%2C+1889-90_NARA.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - Dust, snakes, and coyotes. What’s not to love? Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546770784275-ZU1K71IRE6B60ZRVJXJT/the-oregon-trail-deluxe.png Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - You know when a snake features this prominently in the Menu, you’re probably in for a wild ride. A screenshot from the computer game Oregon Trail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546773315352-I00DZVGP48UH9JE6HC3A/sandstorm+in+Texas.gif Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - A sand storm in Texas. Just another day on the farm. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546771962632-QLI1PPFZM45HSVH8VGXG/Photograph+of+a+Family+with+Their+Covered+Wagon+During+the+Great+Western+Migration_NARA.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - having fun yet? Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1548193889017-P4L880HPZY1DTAKZGMJS/indian_tribes.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - A H A handy map illustrating the different Native American tribes around America and their traditional lands. I can’t seem to find a consensus about which term is most respectful to use: Native American, or Indigenous American, or American Indian, so I’ve used them all and kept my fingers crossed. Map from Historyonthenet.com. There’s another cool map that shows tribes before colonization, which you can find here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546772162109-QB48R3KZTIGCPIQ8WJQC/Apache+bride_NARA.gif Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier An Apache girl looking pretty fly, although maybe not that excited, in her wedding dress, circa 1870. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546772157052-R6HCWYDGZ0QG8GD44OLF/Death_tecumseh_1813_Indian+leader+Tecumseh+killed+in+battle+in+1813+by+Richard+M.+Johnson%2C+who+later+became+Vice+president.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - Look at Richard M. Johnson, "Civilizing" an indigenous leader. He will later become Vice President. Thumbs up, America (insert eyeroll here) Wikicommons). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546772166562-DTDJ1FNP7XMYC2KRV46Y/Arapaho+camp+with+buffalo+meat+drying+near+Fort+Dodge%2C+Kansas_NARA.gif Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier Tepees in an Arapaho camp, with buffalo meat drying, near Fort Dodge, Kansas. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546772435914-HUFZO3QTWM5UMCHDPA4J/%2522Trail+of+the+hide+hunters.%2522+Buffalo+lying+dead+in+snow%2C+1872_NARA.gif Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier This is what happens when American tourists hit the plains. The decimation of the American buffalo also decimated the Plains Indians’ way of life, particularly those of the women whose job it was to skin and preserve their hides. 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Have fun: you probably won’t see any of these people until after the winter thaw. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Association. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546924496099-1W68C36QY5BNLH7JR8JJ/Silks_mattie.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - “I went into the sporting life for business reasons and for no other. It was a way in those days for a woman to make money and I made it.” - Mattie Silks. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546924640522-CXVPDW37TV1I4G3WH7FU/5b834a82fa9acdb0c290a78c7b891d1e.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier - Hello, boys. Or girls, whatever. Just so long as you’ve got cash in hand. 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Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546925027966-86PKIG2S82WZKHVYZIVU/Mary_Fields.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier “Stagecoach” Mary Fields didn’t take any prisoners, and she certainly didn’t take any shit. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546925024126-KBNH7PU67L6ZMT8ZNT25/clara_brown.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier Clara Brown, or the “Angel of the Rockies,” was a savvy frontier businesswoman who never gave up and gave a lot back. Courtesy of the Colorado Virtual Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546925611737-TE2SV7DXMYLC7DKAL2GK/Cathay_Williams_Only_Woman_Buffalo_Soldier_U.S._Army.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier An illustration of Cathay Williams. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546925618036-VZTZXT0D8BYJDIS5CSYO/Cathay%E2%80%99s+disapproved+pension+documents.+NATIONAL+ARCHIVES+%3A+COURTESY+OF+MADELINE+ESPESTH%2C+CAROLYN+GRIER%2C+AND+ROSE+BUCHANAN_20848612.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier Cathay’s disapproved pension documents. Oh, America…you really bungled the whole ‘pension for ladies’ thing. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1546925617497-XJ6TX755DABV4G1ZZX07/Cathay%E2%80%99s+enlistment+form_NARA.jpg Episodes - Wild Western Women: Ladies on the American Frontier Cathay’s enlistment forms. Get it, Cathay! 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Wikicommons https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2018/12/21/wq2uqj6i1m8559gvuest49ey4hrx09 monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545607086425-TRULDCG7WRODNTST87Z5/harriet-beecher-stowe-9496479-1-raw.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - A daguerrotype of Harriet Beecher Stowe, circa 1850 (The Metropolitian Museum of Art). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545442982504-165GUOTKAE02TNGE0RB1/harriet+family.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - The Beecher clan were all about making a difference (The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545442985293-TZ3WBKRNK8B0ZJA7H0KN/uncle+tom.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - A beautiful cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most explosive blockbuster of the 19th century (Wikicommons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545443070336-1R8F9U3SFB83YR9HBJ9Z/harriet-beecher-stowe-205x269.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - Young Harriet Beecher Stowe, dreaming big dreams (Wikicommons). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545443651756-PI2JVVZ01STZ74JPM221/220px-Josiah_Henson_bw.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - Josiah Henson, whose story served as Harriet's primary inspiration (The Library of Congress). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545442982314-4O0J316XEWZ5LUDAQCDQ/harriet_beecher_stowe_c1852_promo.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - Just being a mom and writing the era's bestseller. NBD. (The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545443049916-Z07AUSPUXTXNGFQSCILU/fig-1.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - "Eliza comes to tell Uncle Tom that he is sold and that she is running away to save her child." One of the many effective illustrations from Uncle Tom's Cabin. (The National Era archive). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545443068632-HFB7N7TXBZTEZK1OBQQX/Stowe-Uncle-Tom-London-frontis-title.png Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - Harriet Beecher Stowe on the frontispiece of her masterpiece (Archive.org) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545443192593-WSHPOD0XVQ4I9AUV0E73/fig-3.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - An illustration of Eliza and her son running over the icy river. Yes, you’re right: they do look awfully white…hmm. Illustration from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Archive.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545607631637-6979PSZZ4HW3BIZWFRTJ/harriet+family.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - The Beecher clan was serious about getting things done. Courtesy of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545443588592-DYRO3G882IKZ1MC1UJN8/5b7c3aa4ba0d1b06eb84dd54f8156969e8bec270.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - Catharine Beecher did not come to play. She came to mold young lady minds. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545608442319-RZHL2BGX4G0Q1XIBJKHR/harriet-beecher-stowe-national-erajpg.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America - The first installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared on June 5, 1851 in an anti-slavery newspaper called The National Era. And readers ate it up. (Courtesy of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545608233774-TX5WEFKIJLKH8GXWNT3T/13-young-josiah-henson-2-wr.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America Josiah Henson helped inspire the narrative for Uncle tom’s Cabin and was always proud to have served as her Uncle Tom because, as he put it, “I believe her novel was the beginning of the glorious end.” Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545608917555-PXFFMR9JQIVZCO1JB82V/Bonus+harriet+3.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545608224578-XNPCHKW3Z0CC3A7R374M/morgan13.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America This anti-slavery token from 1838 tugs on the heartstrings, particularly of women, reminding them that black women were in fact women too. It reads ““Am I Not A Woman and a Sister.” Courtesy Jo-Ann Morgan, University of Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1545608271516-OXQF8JYRB31P96JX9NHD/fig-4.jpg Episodes - More Done With Pens Than Swords: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Book That Rocked America Advertising card for Jay Rial's "Ideal Uncle Tom's Cabin" traveling show from around the 1880s. 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(Wikicommons) https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2018/10/21/we-shall-overcome-harriet-tubman-and-elizabeth-keckley-part-1 monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1540121768960-R2SXRDHOOY88KQPILULH/http-%3A%3Awww.americanantiquarian.org%3AExhibitions%3ABeauty%3Athreats+%28two%29.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman Amalgamation - the idea of combining white and black people socially - was something that Southerners both made fun of and feared. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1540121724255-K5SNN30K2RXS40J5432B/patent-petition-cotton-gin-NARA.gif Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman The patent for the cotton gin. Someone rip that up right quickly! Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1540121756308-WTGE4O38M333FWRXA1ZC/patent-drawing-li+Whitney+s+Cotton+Gin+Patent+Drawing%2C+03%3A14%3A1794+%5BNational+Archives+Identifier%3A+305886%5D%3B+National+Archives+and+Records+Administration+Records.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman A mockup of the cotton gin - good idea, except that it meant a boom in the demand for slaves. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1540121762503-IO0025ALO6BG28L2RYEC/http-%3A%3Awww.americanantiquarian.org%3AExhibitions%3ABeauty%3Athreats.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 seriously endangered African Americans, enslaved and legally free…and it lit a fire under Northerners that pushed the abolition movement to all new heights. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541738462336-F5VY1W5D7503YM0IWXI5/E+Keckley_from+her+memoir.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman An illustration of Lizzie from her memoir, written later in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1540121775763-UQCSK58HB08ZLJCFC7DR/http-%3A%3Awww.americanantiquarian.org%3AExhibitions%3ABeauty%3Athreats+%28three%29.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman The issue of whether or not to admit new states as “slave” or “free” caused quite a stir in America, and increased tensions between North and South. In Kansas, it erupted into fights infamously known as “Bloody Kansas.” Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1540121782964-B35TUJWOC3WLMGPY0OGV/Harriet+Beecher_Nat+Archives.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote the incendiary Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. It was the best-selling book of the century, and one that Abraham Lincoln supposedly quipped helped start the Civil War. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541739708772-AK96K74V0DENF4I8FOWU/UncleTomTitlePg.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman The titlepage to the cheaper, popular edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among The Lowly, Boston: John F. Jewett and Company, 1852 Courtesy of the New York Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541739833560-GNT4VS38INFNK72ZW9NG/Black_cotton_farming_family.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman This photo, taken around 1890, gives a small glimpse into how grueling picking cotton all day would have been. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541739992686-AXO73L34J3CZQFZTDTHQ/Resurrection_of_Henry_Box_Brown.png Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman Henry Box Brown was so desperate to get free that he got a white sympathizer to put him in a box and mail himself to Philly. Yes: he literally Fedexed himself to freedom. And almost died doing it. "Resurrection of Henry Box Brown" published with an account of the story in William Still’s 1872 book The Underground Railroad. 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When it came to medicine, health and midwifery, the enslaved were generally on their own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543441404996-D5M8M98PUS7VZRK1K8OP/%5BMan+in+chains+being+whipped%5D_Patriotic+envelope+collection.+Series+I%3A+Civil+War+envelopes%2C+1861-1865._NYHistoricalSociety.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541708958659-VW0B4HCLIAUORSVMV0ZR/Young+Harriet+Tubman+1868+or+1869.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - this portrait of harriet tubman was only unearthed recently, in a forgotten scrapbook. it’s believed to have been taken between 1867 and 1869, when she lived in Auburn, N.Y., where she took care of fugitive slaves in their old age. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541737934243-7LZQ6YPAB4M4J6JRFK5L/IMG_5893.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman The slave cabins at Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina give a haunting glimpse into what life was like for enslaved people. They would be packed in 8 to 10 in one cabin, with little air flow and very little time to themselves. These are much nicer than what a lot of the enslaved were living in, sad to say. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541737936338-YTE9D5635V709T1YB8SS/IMG_5894.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman The enslaved got some food, but it wasn’t often enough to meet their caloric and health needs. So they grew their own gardens, when they could, and went hunting and fishing. All of this, of course, in their scant “leisure time”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541737965411-JAJM3KITWSZB91Y0LX6B/IMG_5887.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman Unusually, the cabins at Boone Hall Planation in Charleston, SC were built in front of the house, along the driveway: as if to say, “hey, look what a big deal I am! Look how many slaves I can afford to build houses for!” I’m sure the occupants had to smile on command very often. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541737963447-W1L9SEOXFYHD85VS2HRA/IMG_5883.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541737988307-8WBNKNOAWQ01GU3GOSSC/IMG_5875.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman A haunting scene in a slave cabin at Boone Hall Plantation. Many people would have slept on pallets on the floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541737995435-EU5RWKS3DHYZ7WUP44RE/IMG_5861.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman A house of worship at Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541739383213-H62X13XU8N5QY3CO6CKN/elizabeth-keckley-portrait.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - Elizabeth Keckley, looking classy and incredibly stylish in a dress she probably made herself. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1540122065079-6DRCY3OGR24GSHPS6931/keckleyquiltsm.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - The ‘Keckley quilt was made in between 1862-1880 out of silks from dress fabric. The quilt is attributed to Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a dressmaker who worked for Mary Todd Lincoln. Keckley was born a slave but she bought her freedom using money she earned as a dressmaker. She moved to Washington, DC where she served as a dressmaker to prominent women including not only Mrs. Lincoln but also the wives of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Assuming that the dress was made out of scraps of dress fabric from the pieces she had sewn for her clients, it is possible that the dress includes materials that went into Mrs. Lincoln’s dresses. This quilt is attributed to Elizabeth Keckley, made between 1862 and 1880, after Lizzie bought her freedom. It’s made out of scraps of silk, which she probably pieced together with remnants of her clients’s dress materials. As such, it’s likely that some of these scraps were once Mary Lincoln’s. Courtesy of Kent State University Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543649696536-DLIBNSKQC9OL19H4QUPK/a+bold+stroke+for+freedom_LOC.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - I put this illustration here so that we can all appreciate the image of Lizzie pointing a gun at these people. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541737251498-QCXO8KOL0CZO7YZRW3AK/3g02522v.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman For an enslaved person, running away was a scary and very dangerous business. You had to not only survive cold nights in hiding, but dodge the many people on the lookout for you. For people who’ve never been a day off of the plantation where they grew up, this was seriously daunting. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541737113451-4J2WEEW4OPF0V7GPRL6S/001dr.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman A newspaper reward poster for a runaway slave, which only incentivized white posses on the lookout to go hunting in the woods for people trying to reach the north. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541736900535-84K9R3QYJCWOFFI4M85I/image-asset.jpeg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - Want ads for runaways were common, as were the groups of men who went around looking for runaways to collect on. This notice was put in the paper after Araminta Ross made a run for it. Courtesy of the Harriet Tubman Byway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541740382302-5X1SAVIC2C9OIK0YQEAO/IMG_5640.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman These woods and fields on the Eastern Shore of Maryland look much like they did when Harriet lived, worked, and dreamed in them. This is where she escaped from, and where she’d return to liberate others. All taken in and around the wonderful Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Museum near Bucktown, Maryland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541740381155-JWDNUZMTAQ5JOAZTYKL9/IMG_5641.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541740383424-OS30SPBBJ335RGOFQG3A/IMG_5643.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1541740399837-PCUQZCOAJGPOP50C072E/IMG_5594.JPG Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543442111585-0O0RJOXB5G4YWR0KTBEP/In+that+summer+of+loving+you%2C+I+was+beautiful.+I+saw+myself+in+your+eyes+And+I+was+wonderful.-4.png Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543442122998-VIIH3UMPJTDLGJETUYBD/I+was+free+and+they+should+be+free.png Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543650189509-R4OORVIUXOCCZC9AMWZ6/scalawagimage1.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - Being African American anywhere in America got a whole lot more fraught after the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Many went up to Canada rather than risk being snatched into slavery. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543649313802-ESX17UD2QB02O9U8XEDQ/Frederick+D_LOC.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - The dapper Frederick Douglass. I love how he seems to be staring at John Brown like, “Man, you’re really overdoing it.” (Library of Congress) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543649431324-3IQ4LPG28DRKC5WZEMHF/800px-John_Brown_by_Augustus_Washington%2C_1846-7.png Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - Abolitionist and really intense dude John Brown, who Harriet idolized and who called her “General Tubman.” (The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543647966047-P9YIOH00O7SO6UYAAJ0A/Mary+dressed+up_Nat+Archives.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman Mary Lincoln, with flowers in her hair and looking pretty AMAZING. Elizabeth Keckley would have helped pick out the fabrics and done some of this sewing work by hand. 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Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543647886007-96KU423M06YADEJDB8O9/Mary+L+dress_attributed+to+Lizzie_American+History+Society.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman A lovely Mary Lincoln day dress attributed to our friend Lizzie. Courtesy of the American History Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543649136276-9BY1484DJT63XSERXMJK/the+enslaved+at+Fort+Monroe.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - Things weren’t easy for escaping slaves during the Civil War, even when they found their way into Union hands. Here is an illustration of contrabands at Fort Monroe, where Harriet Tubman tried to help them. 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Though the African American Union soldiers surrendered, the Confederate commander thought he’d make a jolly point and let his soldiers kill them all. Horrifying. The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543647479506-P993JHAYM90VMGYL6Q72/Tubman-engraving-1_Scenes+in+the+Life+of+HT_Cayuga+Museum.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman An illustration of Harriet looking large and in charge, gun in hand, from her biography “The Moses of Her People: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman.” Courtesy of the Cayuga Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543648136809-TVZA145DZ3928I90HIZI/Harpers_weekly_4_july_1863_p429.png Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman A July 4, 1863 illustration from Harper’s Weekly of the Combahee River Raid. You can’t see Harriet, but she’s there alright. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543648158226-OR991NAEL36GLC7RCBT2/IMG_5904.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman The Combahee River: on a recent road trip, I made my husband pull over into a tiny fisherman’s parking lot because I thought the spot looked pretty. Lo and behold, there was a sign about Harriet’s river raid! It was fate, I tell you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543648043091-MAWOGFWFIU48XJ52WUPL/IMG_5907.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman The Combahee River: on a recent road trip, I made my husband pull over into a tiny fisherman’s parking lot because I thought the spot looked pretty. Lo and behold, there was a sign about Harriet’s river raid! It was fate, I tell you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543648909773-USSVLP856H6WCN138LPZ/The_Fort_Pillow_massacre_The+Jay+T.+Last+Collection+of+Graphic+Arts+and+Social+History%2C+Huntington+Digital+Library.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543647280612-ZPF9UH7XT8KEQR741HVR/E+Keckley_from+her+memoir.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman An illustration from the front of Lizzie’s beautiful, but destined-to-be-shat-on-in-its-time memoir, Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543647262305-B8OJ8PLK15UHD8KK597B/Elizabeth+K_Lincoln+Financial+Foundation+Collection%2C+courtesy+of+the+Indiana+State+Museum+and+Allen+County+Public+Library.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman Lizzie looking fabulous in her later years. Honestly: what a dame. from the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum and Allen County Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543647166125-92H3KF3YRPJN33XUVOM2/Tubman+in+1887_Dora+Stewart+at+Tubman%27s+home+in+Auburn+New+York_wikicommons.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - Harriet (far left) with her husband (the guy with the pipe) and some of the people under her care in 1887 at her home in Auburn, New York. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1543647084612-VIQNN0GK4HHNGY5LQGX6/Harriet+1911_LOC.jpg Episodes - We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman - A color rendition of Harriet in 1911, near the end of her life. Doesn’t she look like a very wily angel? 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Courtesy of the Association of Religious Data Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538892560926-K586EJSXBIGDLXNSQG1K/The-Eye-of-God_1862_G+Houghton_Victorian+Spiritualist+Union%2C+Melbourne.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums A beautiful example of spirit painting, where mediums like Georgiana Houghton would go into a trance-like state and create beautiful, ghost-inspired pieces of art. “The Eye of God,” 1862. Courtesy of the Victorian Spiritualist Union, Melbourne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538887141319-BQF8WY4G7LLJDK5GENPT/Fox+family+and+their+Hydesville+home-+Internet+Archive-+from+Hydesville+by+Thomas+Olman+Todd.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums The Fox family became quite the sensation. The two youngest, Maggie and Kate, gave several seances a day to increasingly entranced audiences. The Fox family at their Hydesville home. Courtesy of the Internet Archive, from “Hydesville” by Thomas Olman Todd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538887132791-EUFLNQC0T8N12TAYFTT4/Mourning+Fashions.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - Victorian Mourning For Victorian women, mourning was a very serious business. They’d start out in deep mourning, which meant wearing all black, then moved into lighter colors as the months wore on. Women grieving their husbands could be in mourning clothes for over a year. I sure would get sick of that veil in my face! From Harper’s Weekly, July 1870. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538886966146-4H40AHC47O6H00AC15W8/safety+coffin_Premature+Burial+and+how+it+May+Be+Prevented_1905_+Creative+Commons%3AWellcome+Images.png Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - Taphophia Victorians worried a lot about being buried alive by mistake, and with good reason. Enter the safety coffin. They’re rigged with air tubes and handy bell and pulley systems. So if you wake up sweating in a tiny box, don’t claw the woodwork! Just ring the bell and wait. Someone will find you before you run out of air…probably. From “Premature Burial and how it May Be Prevented” 1905. 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From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538887206936-PJE8NXZQV72IWH6KKA1T/%E2%80%9CSpirit+Rappings%E2%80%9D+was+written+by+J.+Ellwood+Garrett_Duke.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums Just hanging out at home, summoning spirits. NBD. The sheet music cover art for “Spirit Rappings,” written by J. Ellwood Garrett. Courtesy of Duke University Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538909160132-H7C4U4MECK035BAF374V/Spirit_spiritualism_with_witchcraft_WikiCommons.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums Divine power of the spirit, gifted to women, or devil-inspired witchcraft? The eternal question… Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538909169054-AQZXUNPINEEFW8BZU9CW/IMG_0009_from+radical+spirits.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums An illustration of a women being taken over by the spirit, forced to play delightful music from beyond the grave. In the 19th century, not that uncommon a thing. from the book Radical Spirits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538909180878-IQJOHFW3VD6F3JQ5ERIX/maid-of-the-moon-Herrmann.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums A poster for the delightful lady magician Adelaide Herrmann and her magic husband. Adelaide would go on to catch bullets in her teeth, just for funsies, and debunk spiritualist mediums using the tricks of her trade for their own ends. 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An 1888 Illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1539243834365-K5942ESST7LV9G976N1K/first+telegraph_1844_LOC.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums The first telegraph Morse ever sent, which reads: “What hath God wrought?” Which is a great first line, but also a little haunting. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538891123146-29KA8A154HZ3SZP4JVW0/Poe+story+The+Premature+Burial+Harry+Clarke+1919.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - Edgar Allen Poe: kinda freaked out about that whole ‘being buried alive’ thing that happened with some frequency during his century. Illustration by Harry Clark, from the 1919 edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538891301794-S9X3F6EMOLM8NONG2OQB/hair+3.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - Victorian Hair Work Jewelry made out of hair: a little creepy, sure. But also pretty beautiful, and a pretty touching sentiment. You know, if you can get past that whole ‘I’m wearing dead person hair’ thing. 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After her husband Albert died, she wore black for the rest of her life. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1539242844411-JA2NAGKZCG7APUKEI3LW/5345600.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums You don’t need to go out to see a professional medium: you can get a planchette and get your house haunted in no time! From Revelations of the great modern mystery, planchette, and theories respecting it. Boston: G.W. Cottrell, 1868. Courtesy of Harvard University Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1539243127496-ME2KECP3BNQ6LQVV2Y2J/planchette.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums Did you ever try out a Ouija board when you were a kid? I sure did. And it was born out of the Spiritualist craze. From Revelations of the great modern mystery, planchette, and theories respecting it. Boston: G.W. Cottrell, 1868. Courtesy of the Harvard University Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538891728630-13PXM05I4OP4WKH8115N/CoraLVHatch-2.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - Cora Hatch, teen medium Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538891596478-54LP88PLPOE4AYRF2CG8/cora+scott_medium_public+domain.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums Cora Hatch entranced many a gentleman with her spiritualist ways. It wasn’t often that a 19th-century man had the chance to see a woman in ringlets talking philosophy intelligently! Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538891645265-A1BHHH5AGWFZPQRFB9I5/kate+and+maggie+fox_1852_Missouri+Historical+Society.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - Maggie and Kate Fox Maggie and Kate Fox were very much child celebs: much admired, courted and gawked at, put into a weird public bubble that made it hard for them to grow up with anything like a grounded outlook on life. 1852. Courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1538891648439-QGX25OBKWQ5UQ8M8SEDU/pirit+cabinet-+An+image+from+Nettie+Colburn+Maynard%E2%80%99s+memoir.+%28Public+domain%2C+1891%29.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - Spirits in the White House Mary Lincoln was known to invite mediums to the White House to hold seances in the Red Room. Supposedly Abe Lincoln even took comfort from one that the spirits most certainly wanted him to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. From Nettie Colburn Maynard’s memoir, 1891. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1539243356660-6J3OZQNR06QZ5J1K8T2J/arthur-conan-doyle-spirit-photo.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums Arthur Conan Doyle, the guy who created Sherlock Holmes, was madly in love with Spiritualism. He believed in it all. Here he is with a spirit, making a sweet little face behind him. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1539243389815-44UVFEQ89JXMLR5SAZCX/IMG_0009_from+radical+spirits.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums A ghost and a medium making sweet music together. From the book Radical Spirits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1539243715417-T2T9EPP2DLJ12S1LICWA/Achsa-Sprague-Courtesy+of+the+Vermont+Historical+Society.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - Acsha sprague was brought out of her bed by spirits. She found her passion in helping them heal others, too. That, and causes like suffrage and abolition. Courtesy of the Vermont Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1539244322465-34OIXY2M8FE97OVT5FI4/Caillouxfuneral_wikicommons.jpg Episodes - Something Wicked This Way Comes: 19th-century Spiritualist Mediums - The funeral of Andre Cailloux, the first african american soldier to die for the union. his spirit later rose from the dead to tell his followers to keep on fighting. 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And, you know, sometimes whisky she kept under her skirts. Brittanica Imagequest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1536794101467-5UT3GTG6S5NYFG6BFF9J/ElizabethVanLew_NPS_wikicommons.jpg Episodes - Dangerous Liaisons: Lady Spies of the American Civil War - Elizabeth Van Lew Lizzie and her mother didn’t fit in down in Richmond, VA. They hated slavery, and weren’t afraid to say so. And that made them rebels in a big bad way. Courtesy of the National Park Service https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1536794048883-0R6CN5CM9MFBWO9YMSRI/Van+Lew+Mansion_1905_LOC.jpg Episodes - Dangerous Liaisons: Lady Spies of the American Civil War Elizabeth Van Lew’s mansion in Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. It was quite a lovely spot. You’d never have known she had stinky Yankee stowaways in her attic! 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Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1536794203997-YCXV4EDCO4CJY18L5RTF/Kate+Warne_Chicago+History+Museum.jpg Episodes - Dangerous Liaisons: Lady Spies of the American Civil War - Kate Warne, Private Eye Kate Warne was the first of America’s lady detectives, so good that she trained other lady spies that came after her AND helped foil an attempt on Abe Lincoln’s life. You go, Kate. Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1536794443821-EGRLK9BRD5OHN430V0RZ/we+never+sleep_public+domain.jpg Episodes - Dangerous Liaisons: Lady Spies of the American Civil War - We Never Sleep Apparently the term ‘private eye’ was in use before Pinkerton’s Detective Agency came along, but he truly helped popularize the term. I give him points for seeing promise in lady detectives, and in respecting women’s abilities enough to know they’d make good spies. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1536794262458-OTQVPI1XG2321P1ZNJHM/PinkertonLincoln_LOC+or+wikicommons.jpg Episodes - Dangerous Liaisons: Lady Spies of the American Civil War Allan Pinkerton hanging out with Abe Lincoln, looking all serious as they contemplate all the spies they’re going to catch. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1536794264440-LAVQ6HM5VPWDNV048S8Y/cipher_National+Archives%2C+Records+of+the+Office+of+the+Chief+Signal+Officer.jpg Episodes - Dangerous Liaisons: Lady Spies of the American Civil War A mighty fine cipher used during the Civil War era. It looks like something we would have made in elementary school, and just as fun! 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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1536843122923-IZQP5I3S23O3CAI0MMMT/Running_the_blockade_The+Jay+T.+Last+Collection+of+Graphic+Arts+and+Social+History%2C+Huntington+Digital+Library.jpg Episodes - Dangerous Liaisons: Lady Spies of the American Civil War - Running the blockade around Confederate ports wasn’t easy, and it was dangerous. Ships had to run at night, all lights out. Courtesy The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/8/30/2018/sarah-emma-edmonds monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535636792946-Y4TBR2KNST2RE6WXLYC3/SEE+illustration+1.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - This image is from Emma's 1864 memoir, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559547047795-TZLCKPK9UNPYKP1UQTIO/Battle_of_Fredericksburg_Va_Dec_13th_1862-2_Currier+and+Ives_Huntington.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Courtesy of The Huntington Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535636780376-GHUWWC4UCTG5RU2SV0Z6/Civil+war+soldiers_Archives_resting+after+drilling+Petersburg%2C+Va.%2C+1864.+.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Union soldiers resting after drilling Petersburg, VA, 1864. Courtesy NARA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535637027997-2XWKYAKTEMDEJ5O8GTTS/McClellan_Nat+Archives.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Handsome General McClellan, courtesy of the LOC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559547080812-0WAL799Z3T3K1V4YGL1S/The_soldiers_dream_of_home_Huntington+Library.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - "The Soldier Dreams of Home," courtesy of the Huntington Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535637033074-MYAXYO8TJ281TLTJDNCC/Group+portrait+of+soldiers+in+front+of+a+tent%2C+possibly+at+Camp+Cameron%2C+Washington%2C+D.C._G.N.+Barnard+%26+C.O.+Bostwick%2C+photos_www.loc.gov%3Aitem%3A2010647920%3A_LOC.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Group portrait of soldiers in front of a tent, possibly at Camp Cameron, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the LOC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535637060237-I1SK53QX9OAMI59DXXS4/Mansion+House+Hospital.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, VA, where Emma worked. Courtesy of the LOC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559547232057-UM73BD2EL2KV1KREB8DG/Union%2BParade%2Bfor%2BSEE_The%2BJay%2BT.%2BLast%2BCollection%2Bof%2BGraphic%2BArts%2Band%2BSocial%2BHistory%252C%2BHuntington%2BDigital%2BLibrary.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - The Union army loved their parades, and so did Emma. Courtesy of the Huntington Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535671332987-L9Y3OSQ4VJLTB9Q1IUL3/nursespy_0189.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Emma battling the enemy. From her memoir, which can be read for free at Archive.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559547192393-9ZQA7ZQHPHTG1QBZJ97D/Camp_fire_Huntington+library.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Soldiers chillin by the fireside, probably all very hungry. Courtesy of the Huntington Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530686828902-QBC5N5HISJS1036BCTES/SEE+Riding.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Emma giving up on the soldiering life. From her memoir, which can be read for free at Archive.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535637621272-3NDYMN4EW6WK3U2T1QKD/Sarah+Emma+pension_Nat+Archives.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Emma's pension. Courtesy of the NARA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1559547515418-OWYMAH6GAXOXC4R4ZBGP/Emma+Edmonds+side+by+side.JPG Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Emma’s image, before life as a man and after. A dashing figure in either set of attire! Courtesy of the Archives of Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1526902848520-2TDTHPY6QN2LE1OVLQYW/fanny.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of the Revolution was published in 1844 American by Maturin Murray Ballou. It's about a woman who goes to sea to rescue her fiancé and, delightfully, becomes commander of a pirate ship and free-wheeling lady of pleasure. This heroine continued to be popular long after the book was published, especially in Emma's imagination. Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535640145711-XXTS1I9LGJI3LD3U2XND/Jerome+Robbins.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Hello there, handsome. Jerome Robbins, Emma's good friend, and maybe lover. Okay, probably NOT her lover, but they sure did like taking naps together. They met at Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria and bonded over things like General McClellan and their love of Jesus. When Emma told Jerome that she was really a lady, things got...a little bit tense and uncomfortable. But he kept her secret for the rest of the war. Courtesy of the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535670598711-YFGJJKIX2AY1VBU00NGM/nursespy_0119.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Don't mind me...I'm just another guy looking for work in a Confederate camp! Or am I Sarah Emma Edmonds, skin died dark with solvate nitrate? Hard to say, really. From Emma's memoir, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535637314903-4E69RFK7L9NXXIZ6RSGM/unsexedorfemales00edmo_0001.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Nurse and Spy Sarah Emma Edmonds’s 1864 memoir sold like hotcakes: some 175,000 copies. She gave ALL of the proceeds away to the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535670730941-SN4N4244QF2ON7Y3H65M/nursespy_0019.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535670758740-GJQJ3E3O4CUFCQFS1C1F/nursespy_0099.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Woah, Nelly! A local Confederate dame tries to shoot Emma, and so Emma straps her down onto her horse Frank and takes her back to camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535670790258-4TRF2BO6LL8FGGOI4DN5/nursespy_0161.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy After spending several days suffering from malaria in the swamps around the Chickahominy River, Emma crawled to an abandoned cabin and found a dying rebel soldier there. Disguised as an Irish peddler with a very bad accent, she nursed him and talked to him about God. I’m sure he appreciated the company, even if it was clear to him that she wasn’t what she seemed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535670903146-KYZ6P2BH9NLYPWMB6GLJ/nursespy_0277.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy Pretending to be a black woman in a Confederate camp so that she can eavesdrop on generals. You know, as you do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1535670933308-B91JAH7L3LPAG4KDODU1/nursespy_0311.jpg Episodes - Sarah Emma Edmonds: Soldier, Nurse and Spy - Bye, Frank Poor Frank the horse was shot from under Emma. He lay half on top of her, bleeding freely, as Emma played dead to avoid capture, or death, by Confederate raiders. She got her pockets picked, but otherwise made it out of this pickle unscathed. But like any true horsewoman, she dearly missed her horse when he was gone. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2018/5/29/season-1-episode-5-lady-soldiers monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1534566809807-DN67SZH8IMFQDQS0EJS1/InspiringCourage1+copy.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Either You or I. Many American ladies felt passionately about their cause during the Civil War, at least at the beginning. They found many ways of inspiring their menfolk to join, including sending them dresses through the mail with the note: “Enlist, or wear this.” Most of them probably did NOT put on pants, as this cartoon suggests, as that would have been very scandalous. Well…some of them did, but told no one. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533713071666-9RZ9N033ASF8BVV9N105/Soldiers+wanted+poster_New+York+Historical+Society.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War This is the traditional image of women in the Civil War: as Lady Liberty, beckoning the gentleman to become a soldier and do his duty. She is always pictured in a dress, serving and being a beacon, but never in pants with a gun. That would be just…too much, don’t you think? Courtesy of The American Antiquarian Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1527595813876-K4VSLOQK0SOGOI8AIEK8/Frances+Clayton.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Frances Clayton (Before & After) Women with strong features, and from working-class backgrounds, tended to blend in better than did the more refined. Frances Clayton joined the Union to be with her husband. When he was shot right in front of her, she had to step over his body and charge when her superior told her to. Stone cold, Frances. And brave as hell. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1527595998652-DUGSTP2L46F0ANPWLGMA/Confederate+lady+prisoner.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Gotcha! Doesn’t this Confederate lady prisoner look super psyched to have been captured? Army jails were no laughing matter. Women were sometimes arrested not because they were captured, but for the unpardonable offense of crossdressing. Women soldiers worry a lot about getting caught because they don’t know what will happen to them. There aren’t really any martial laws about it - why would there be, when women can’t fight? This grey absence of procedure means that military men are often making decisions on the fly. And that’s not always good. Unknown Confederate Soldier, courtesy of The Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533712962774-CNUPYACPJ7XKY0FJYTVA/Pauline+Cushman_Defense+Intelligence+Agency.JPG Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Pauline Cushman Actress Pauline Cushman wasn’t a soldier, but an actress and a spy for the Union. She was known for playing ‘breeches parts’, dressing as a man on stage for giggles and general excitement. As spy, she often dressed up in men’s clothes and pretended to be a soldier. For her services. she was made an honorary major. Pauline “Major” Cushman…that has a certain ring to it. Courtesy of The Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533713074254-OGCRAZJKMKWDFKP9P48B/Pauline_Cushman_toast_wikicommons.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - A Toast to Jeff Here’s Pauline Cushman again, dressed up a a man, making trouble up on stage in front of a bunch of Union soldiers. She actually raised a glass and toasted to Jeff Davis, president of the Confederacy, which did not make her friends. Little did they know that she was doing it as a part of her spying act for the Union - they wanted the Confederates to be convinced that this spicy actress was on their side. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533859529534-NRBKW4YBUF6DW0DKKFHO/The_soldiers_dream_of_home_Huntington+Library.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War A soldier, napping and dreaming of his lady love at home. Little does he know that there might be a lady napping beside him, or boiling salt horse next to that nearby fire. Courtesy of The Huntington Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1534234519313-AV32CWF0RZXWQCOFU0EO/sarah-rosetta-wakeman.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Rosetta "Lyons" Wakeman Rosetta did not mess around. She joined the army for many reasons, one of which was to support her family. She fought valiantly, and died of disease in hospital before the war was out. Which is why it makes me angry to think that anyone would deny women were there: they were, and they died for the cause they believed in. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533859698714-CGNAX79EFTFTOURAYV79/Emma+Edmonds+side+by+side.JPG Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Sarah Emma Edmonds Canadian lady Sarah Emma Edmonds ran away from home at a young age to escape a marriage with an elderly neighbor. From a poor farming family, she had to make her own way in the world, so she decided to cut off her hair, dress as a man, and sell Bibles door to door. She was a Union soldier for three years, going on many daring adventures. She’d later write a book about her experiences that would sell like absolute hotcakes. For MUCH more on her, stay tuned for Episode 6! Courtesy State Archives of Michigan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533859222825-EZU79VA4AVR3V1CMUFYQ/SEE+Riding.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War An illustration of Sarah Emma Edmonds deserting the army. She didn’t feel that it was a crime to do so, and she was right; women weren’t supposed to be there in the first place. And yet she still served her country, and went on to write all about it in her best-selling memoir. From her book, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, 1864. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533859933597-04P43A8VZCIJYSU66R98/Loreta+V+side+by+side.JPG Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Loreta Janeta Velazquez Our girl Loreta lived a wild and crazy life as a soldier and spy. She was very pleased with her manly image, with her really great fake mustache. Apparently others ladies did, too. As young Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, she said in her memoir, she proved herself “as good a ladies’ man as the best of them.” From Loreta’s memoir, The Woman in Battle, 1876 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533859283575-VKY0O70YI9ES9GWJGEBF/Frances_Louisa_Clayton.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War Looking dapper there, Frances! ‘Jack Williams’ did all the manly things to blend in: chewed tobacco, drank, swore, gambled. You name it! She also cut a very fine figure in her Union blues. 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Loreta Velazquez, trying to tell her secret fiancé that she IS in fact his lady love. From Loreta's memoir, The Woman in Battle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1534567025581-TH9OM18BNN6QE4N3JYYY/Dear+Able+love+Ellie+Reno.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Our apple jack-drinking friend Ella Reno wrote to Abe Lincoln begging him to let her stay a soldier after she was discovered. Some excerpts (click on the link for the whole delightful transcript): “My Ever dear friend—I do not wish you to think me bold as I write to you wholy out of love for my native Country…I have been in the Army for nearly one year and I wish to see it over I am willing to do anny thing to aid or assist…I love liberty So I write this to ask you as a Child would ask a Father iff I can remain in your Service being as I have left my own Father and Adoupted you in stead…I am a Lady in every respect and so I will remain answer if you will pleas be so kind…pleas excuse my poor writing and Speling also.” Courtesy of the Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533862331816-M0V7KFSK0NA8G14QNXD7/Sarah+Emma+pension_Nat+Archives.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War - Lady vets like Sarah Emma Edmonds had to fight hard for a pension. They had to not only show that they served, but that they are the men they said they were: not an easy task in an era before people were easy to track. Often, their fellow soldiers were happy to help, even if the government was very invested in pretending that women weren't there. Years later, the government said there was no record of women having fought in the war. This government document begs to differ. Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533861989486-SWSJHHDHXNFBJFD5588U/Albert+Cashier_from+the+Illinois+Historical+Journal%2C+Summer+1989%2C+page+111_Illinois+State+Library.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War Oh, Albert: such a brave and fascinating figure. Many modern scholars have called this secret lady soldier transgender, which I’m loathe to do without time traveling back to talk to Albert directly, but there’s no doubt that he was very attached to a male persona. He lived as a man for most of his life until a Senator ran him over with his car. Courtesy of the Illinois Historical Journal, Summer 1989 (page 111) and the Illinois State Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533862095011-Q1W1NWVT4SUJ2DDKZC9T/Albert+Cashier+pension_Nat+Archives.jpg Episodes - She Wore The Pants: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War Albert’s pension approval, though it came too late. Albert did not go out the way he would have wanted, that’s for sure. I’m glad to be spreading the word about how incredible he was. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2018/8/2/public-women-sex-in-19th-century-america-season-1-ep-4 monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857016526-PWY025152QRJ9XEE01ST/soldier-line-up_CASE+Uni.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America This is actually one of the many patriotic envelopes that were made for soldiers to use during the Civil War. I’m not really sure who this girl is supposed to be - a prostitute? Just an overzealous patriot? - but ladies who hung around with soldiers were often assumed to be up for some steamy fun in camp, regardless of whether they were or not. Credit: Case Western University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857023140-HFNPSGR4P9OU551HFGJ7/comstock2_CASE+University.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Oh my! Prostitutes became WAY more visible during the war, and thus became a subject of both fascination and much horror. It wasn’t that they were there: it’s that they were in the pubic sphere, confusing and making everyone anxious about who was a lady and who wasn’t. Credit: Case Western University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857098543-8LCDFR8NTDWVXN3SP20N/anna-johnson_nashville+license_Nat+Archives.png Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America Congrats, Bettie Duncan! You are officially free of venereal diseases, and have an official piece of paper to prove it. During the war, prostitutes in Nashville, TN were subject to the first experiment in regulating prostitution in America. Though it was stringent, and not always fair on the ladies, regulating their trade had a lot of benefits - bringing their business out into the light meant better health and better treatment. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857193967-O5X8MRVSM3OCLQH9TLAZ/contraception+ads_The+Library+Company+of+Philadelphia.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Clue: if it says "French," it's to stop you getting pregnant A fine selection of 19th-century newspaper ads for things to ease feminine pains and stops feminine problems, no matter what they might be. Women had to read between the lines with these, parsing their language to figure out if it was what they were looking for. Credit: The Library Company of Philadelphia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857112669-3ID24OFWFTNVJ5EAIF30/National_Police_Gazette_Restell.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Madame Restell It was big news when Madame Restell was arrested. She was not well loved for the abortion services she offered: look at her here, posing with a demon thing eating a baby. AS you do. Credit: Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857142707-9D48JD9368ETEUP0QS5B/default-2.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Instead of Where's Waldo: Where's That Brothel! This bird's-eye view of Washington, looking west with the U.S. Capitol in the foreground, showcases two things: that the Mall was once mostly a stinky canal, AND popular and influential madame Mary Ann Hall’s three-story brothel in that cluster of buildings to the left, where the Mall meets a long, dusty street. Baltimore, Md. : Published and sold by E. Sachse & Co., ca. 1852. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857119187-50OXNH36LR0D1474IIK7/The+Female+Lobbyist_CASE+Uni.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America This cartoon, called The Female Lobbyist, pokes fun at the idea of a woman influencing policy, but there were serious concerns that powerful prostitutes did indeed hold sway. One expose that would come out years after the war certainly claimed the power some prostitutes had in Washington. As they hung over the Senate balcony, it said, “they become objects of unctuous admiration, displaying to excellent advantage their gorgeous apparel with half revealing monuments of maternity peeping over brilliant bodices, and arms dressed in rouge the helps nature amazingly.” Credit: Case Western University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857213102-EJXXKSQ3R3J8F99UGZ7I/Mr+Hooker.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Joseph Hooker During the war in Washington City, some reports put the number of bawdy houses at 500 and the number of Cyprians at 5,000. One soldier wrote to his wife that "it is said that one house of every ten is a bawdy house - it is a perfect Sodom". Most of these houses were in Murder Bay, where lady-loving General Joseph Hooker was asked to contain them. A lot of people called the neighborhood Hooker’s Division. Sadly, the term ‘hooker’ wasn’t born because of him, but some of his exploits explain why that theory seems plausible. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857299401-7JKEF3Z3U9F25X4TUC4J/Hookers+Division.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America Hooker’s Division was a concentrated area just a stone’s throw from the White House, where many bawdy houses and saloons resided. In fact, there they are: “109 bawdy-houses and list of 61 places where liquor was sold with government [sic] but without city licenses.” Courtesy of the Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857149337-9OCRKAXC9UY7TYG9JBP4/Pauline_Cushman_Albumen_Silver_Print.Wikicommonsjpg.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Pauline Cushman Pauline Cushman was an actress before the war - one who wore outfits like this one to hold the attention of her audience. Then, during the war, she traveled to camps and performed dressed as a soldier to the great thrill of her audience: something that would not have thrilled the secret lady soldiers in the ranks. Credit: Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857069370-FEFWDT36SFTWAHOVU1UW/Beast+Butler_Nat+Archives.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Benjamin "Beast" Butler Oh, Benjamin “Beast” Butler. You strange, bizarre-looking gentleman. He’s the one who instituted “The Woman Order” when he occupied New Orleans, stating that any Confederate women acting badly toward his soldiers would be arrested and treated as “women of the town.” The women still managed to dump the contents of their chamber pots onto some of their heads, though. Courtesy of The Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532857203944-5Q6YLIXNKW2KXPTZ0MM6/Hospital+for+prostitutes+on+2nd+Avenue%2C+Nashville%2C+1864%2C+Tennessee+State+Library+and+Archives.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Getting treated in Smokey Row The prostitute ladies of Nashville were expected to show up for regular exams, and where put into the “Pest House” hospital if they weren’t up to scratch. Though conditions there weren’t always optimal (solitary confinement for naughty ladies, anyone ?), regulating the sex trade in Nashville, Tennessee meant that these women got regular treatment. It also meant that doctors got to study the diseases they came in with more carefully, concluding that actually…men were also passing them onto the women. Who’d have thunk? Credit: The National Archives and Records Administration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533186886439-IJNJTTGUIYTSUAW15ZE2/default-2.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - DANGER: A SOILED DOVE OF DEATH! Yes: venereal diseases were a serious danger in the 19th century. But this illustration nicely shows how it was, of course, ALWAYS the woman’s fault (she with her Evil Uterus of Horror). “Journey to Eternity,” by Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard, courtesy of The Wellcome Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533252831601-WMIQWP69H3P16DHZPH0W/Victoria-Woodhull-by-Bradley-%26-Rulofson.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Victoria Woodhull This woman was something else. From actress and part-time lady of the evening to suffragist, unapologetic Free Lover, stock broker, and the first woman to run for President. She lived a life, I’ll tell you. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1533252547240-6YVTU79J09BX2H4RY6MW/Woodhull+Satan_LOC.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America Victorian America found the idea of sex outside the bounds of marriage VERY threatening, and women speaking out about it in public? Yikes. This Harper’s Weekly sketch shows the clear Evil Danger of Free Love for women: doesn’t that lady with a drunk man and many babies strapped to her back look super sad? And then there’s Victoria Woodhull in front, looking sheepish, but fabulous in her horns and devilish wings. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532860474449-IS3022OGTSAXYC7MVB7I/Helen+Jewett_American+Antiquarian.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - Helen Jewett The murder of young prostitue Helen Jewett was all over the papers in the 1830s. This sketch shows Helen asleep just before she was murdered. And of course, because she’s a soiled dove, we must paint in her breasts for all to enjoy. Sigh. Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532860993762-S3BCPVV5DCP0MSGN76TC/1*gxlLPLk3IezcPL9zQAB18Q.jpeg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America The cops had a LOT of reasons to think that young Richard Robinson was the one who killed Helen Jewett. But he was let go. Apparently he told a neighbor: “Do you think I would blast my brilliant prospects by so ridiculous an act — I am a young man of only nineteen years of age yesterday, with most brilliant prospects.” Whatever, Richard. Sketch done by artist George Wilkes, 1849. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532860491410-HBJMYHBXSXKPTDTW45LC/title+page+from+searchlights+on+health.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America Oh, Searchlights on Health. How would we walk from one place to another without you? Credit: The American Antiquarian Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532860985276-ZUDJNXZDG3GZUJRKTFB7/Madame+Restell+advert.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America Infamous abortionist Madame Restell ran this, her first ad for contraceptives, in the New York Sun in 1839. It reads: TO MARRIED WOMEN.—Is it not but too well known that the families of the married often increase beyond what the happiness of those who give them birth would dictate?… Is it moral for parents to increase their families, regardless of consequences to themselves, or the wellbeing of their offspring, when a simple, easy, healthy, and certain remedy is within our control? The advertiser, feeling the importance of this subject, and estimating the vast benefit resulting to thousands by the adoption of means prescribed by her, has opened an office, where married females can obtain the desired information." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532859877985-9A5YWK8OHEOZBGXID0SB/1920px-Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Menken%2C_Mazeppa%2C_TCS_19.jpg Episodes - Public Women: Sex in 19th-century America - In 1851, in an adaptation of Lord Bryon's Mazeppa, actress Adah Isaacs Menken rode across the stage on a horse... in a body stocking. SCAN.DAL.OUS. A theatrical cartes-de-visite (small-format photographs affixed to card stock), Courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard Theater Collection, Harvard University https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2018/7/5/season-1-ep-3-angel-of-the-battlefield monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531705650742-J8VSU3HE7VFHFPA406LH/CLBA4163_Front.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield What a lovely little home! Clara Barton’s house in Oxford, Massachusetts. Courtesy of Clara Barton National Historic Site/National Park Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531705628314-59Y1IBHMLO2DC4U8614Q/young+clara.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield This is the earliest-known photograph of Clara Barton. It was probably taken in Clinton, New York in 1850 or 1851 while she was a student at the Clinton Liberal Institute, riding around on horseback with dapper math teachers. Courtesy of Clara Barton National Historic Site/National Park Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531710257808-NUTEOPGCN04A2JV4C22O/Clara+to+her+father_LOC+Clara+papers.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield Clara, writing home to Dad from D.C. about the goings on during her time in the Patent Office. She talks here about the arrival of Buchanan, which did not end well for her. Clara’s letters home show a keen sense of humor, and dry wit, and plenty of sarcasm. They also show a longing for the family she loves. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530843362289-IC93NO72EBEHKODZ8YNV/Baltimore_Riot_1861.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield In 1861, a bunch of soldiers headed to Washington were assaulted when they changed trains in Baltimore, Maryland, starting what was called the Baltimore Riot. When the wounded boys arrived in the city, Clara went to see what she could do for them and found a bunch of her former students. It was a real turning point for her, in terms of getting involved in the war. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531705609318-F6ZFF73X8BM78KA7UM84/Illustration+of+Clara+.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531705619272-TDS4J70GZPIT56KSFXW8/Sleeping+Bunks+in+the+Patent+Office.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield This illustration from Harper’s Weekly shows how poorly equipped the army was for their wounded. In the beginning, soldiers had to bunk in places like the Patent Office, where Clara worked. There was PLENTY of room for Clara to step in and make a difference. Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531711334575-KQYHFWRSZX5Z6LSAX6G8/CLBA1047_knife.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield Clara’s very own field knife! The one she used to do things like cut bandages and, you know, dig a bullet out of a guy’s jaw. No biggie. Courtesy of Clara Barton National Historic Site/National Park Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531710991654-XGTOY29EGJHTOFR7SVDA/255B34AE-1DD8-B71C-0771C843B719DC6AOriginal.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield Clara Barton was photographed by Matthew Brady around 1865, as the war was ending; this guy photographed battlefields and many famous people, including Abe Lincoln. Courtesy of Clara Barton National Historic Site/National Park Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531705615901-TGNWF31QT2H94Z8U17GF/CLBA46_letterFront.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield In this document, Clara finally gets the money she so desperately deserves for all the work she did locating missing soldiers. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531705621916-AEGT08GSFH4W2D1BSFVK/speech+of+Claras+from+pinterest+but+also+from+LOC_having+trouble+with+website.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield Though Clara was terrified of pubic speaking, she turned out to be very good at it. Here is a draft of one of her speeches: the one that goes “I struggled long and hard with my sense of propriety - with the appalling fact that I was only a woman whispering in one ear, and [in the other] the groans of suffering men, dying like dogs…” You can almost see the nervous hand sweat. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531711052392-V8FC0O672WRBNMN7SQVE/CLBA14_scrapbookPG1.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield Though America was not big into foreign relief aid, Clara wasn’t afraid to find her own ways of getting food to Russia during a very bad famine. The food she organized fed thousands for a month. A drop in the bucket, when millions are dying, but certainly better than nothing. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531711059995-WG889CJOY1JARWKGGEF9/Clara+Barton+in+1904.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield Clara in 1904, still dying her hair so people will think she’s younger than she is. I think this had less to do with vanity than with having people take her seriously. She was out in foreign countries - in war zones, sitting around campfires - into her seventies. Girl was never very good at sitting still. Courtesy of Clara Barton National Historic Site/National Park Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531741538210-J4Z9F82OPJQ1HH35K97T/clara+in+a+bustle.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield - Clara rockin' that bustle look in her later years. This is thought to have been take in Danville, NY, around age 60, and right around the time she was founding the American Red Cross. Go ahead, girl: you've got a lot to smirk about! Courtesy of the Clara Barton National Historic Site/National Park Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531708136155-J75IIC6FZM4BZJJY2LOY/Clara+Bartons+Bordentown+schoolhouse.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield - Step right up, boys! Let's get to learnin'. Clara Barton's school house (taken later, between 1919 and 1929). Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531711941644-GXLNCA568XIB6MB1719S/06131v.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield - A Very Bloody Business Doesn’t it look like things are going well for the Union?… Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, Dec. 13, 1862. Currer & Ives. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531708907078-1H6YFMMLGXU2X9NFJC5P/default-2.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield - Clara's Diary at Fredericksburg A rare diary entry from Clara about the sheer horror of what she found at the battle of Fredericksburg. The beginning reads, “I saw them lying there early this morning - they had been wounded two and three day previous…and after all this lay still yet another night without food or care or shelter, many doubtless famished after arriving at Fredericksburg.” Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531708901603-XIVGXQP4YC9JXNCEW38S/3a16446r.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield - The Wounded at Fredericksburg This sketch by Arthur Lumley, made of the battle at Fredericksburg, shows four soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. There were so many that they were propped upright in the corners of the Lacey House’s closets. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531712204315-B8Z19335DCN2XW6HC3LN/lacey+house.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield Soldiers mill in front of the grand-looking Lacey House, which would not have looked (or smelled) grand-looking on the inside. Clara Barton nursed thousands of soldiers here, as did our pants-wearing surgeon friend Mary E. Walker. I love envisioning what a conversation between those two ladies would have been like! Lacey House, Falmouth, Virginia. Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan; positive by A. Gardner. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531709742672-02H08PGWSQXK9CN61M7C/default-3.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield - When diplomacy fails, be a teacher about it: write the president a very fancy-looking letter. Here is the one Clara wrote respectfully requesting that he 'let' her be in charge of helping find lost soldiers. She even drew lines on the page! Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531708317283-3SQXG1T0ZT7TMCCZXMZJ/roll+of+soldiers.jpg Episodes - Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield The Office of Correspondence with the Friends of the Missing Men of the U.S. Army, AKA Clara and Co., published lists of names in national papers to try and get the word out to families about what had happened to their loved ones. It was also a good way to request information from readers, which helped Clara find even more. Can you IMAGINE publishing your personal email address in a newspaper, telling people to just write you if they have anything to say? Chaos. You can see in the language, though, how much she wanted to encourage people: "No apology is necessary for writing me; and if a letter fails to receive an answer, please write again..." She did this for years, spending all of her own money...and making none for her services. From the Clara Barton papers, courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2018/7/2/season-1-ep-2-havens-in-a-heartless-world monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530526177513-0K6U6BBJ8X5ZBK5D9AY0/in+defense.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses Women were often used as promotional tools to push men into enlisting: the country itself was personified as an angel-looking woman. Look at you, guy! Saving all the ladies and their babies! Such posters give us a glimpse into how men viewed their lady folk in this era. “In Defense,” Courtesy of the Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530527447200-7E2BXXB0IB6U1MVH1K4W/dorothea+dix_LOC.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses - Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix, who some people called General Dix behind her back, was the intense and inexhaustible head of the Union core of nurses. She felt strongly that her nurses mustn’t be any of the following: young, pretty, stylish, flirty, or fond of dress colors other than brown and black. 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Although one gentleman complained that “…it merely looks unbecoming for a woman to stand behind a table and sell things.” The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "The metropolitan sanitary fair.--Mrs. McClellan's table in the department of arms and trophies--sale of Frank Leslie's sketches" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530530327683-XZUDY6ADXSKKW6PI0K8O/Louisa+May+Alcott.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses - Louisa May Alcott Writer Louisa May Alcott hurried to volunteer to nurse the Union sick in and around Washington, D.C. Though she was so overwhelmed on her first day that she hid behind a pile of clothes until a matron came and pulled her out. She later published a collection of essays about her wartime experiences. 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When her family complained about how wild and independent she seemed to be getting, she told them to get over it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530526246068-QWUIUW3H6BAV2IICHQW7/Red+Rover+floating+hospital.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530526242588-CSRVQXFPLFUGCB6SN327/Mary+walker.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses - Mary Walker Mary E. Walker was one of the first women doctors in America, and made no qualms about wearing pants around as she did her duties. Unsurprisingly, many men didn’t like this. But that didn’t stop her from doing a variety of important things during the war: amputations, midwifery, treating typhoid, and spying for the Union. Courtesy of The National Library of Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530526327911-VJ85WP00FB3NVOSL5VQZ/the+letter+for+home.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses These kinds of illustrations show how important lady nurses were in helping soldiers craft letters home - often their last. L. Prang & Co., lithographer. Campaign sketches. “The letter for home.” Credit, The American Antiquarian Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530848799789-04WYQ7JE1OJAFHHFYLTN/redroverOB137.png Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses An illustration of the inside of the hospital ship U.S.S. Red Rover, the first Union Naval hospital ship. Nurse Ann Stokes, an escaped enslaved woman, joined the ship on 1863 and become a nurse there. Ann Stokes was first taken aboard a Union Naval vessel as "contraband" in 1863. As was typical of most former slaves, Stokes could not read or write, but was hired as a nurse. She worked under the direction of the Sisters of the Holy Cross nuns aboard the U.S.S. Red Rover, Stokes became the first African American woman to serve on board a U.S. military vessel and was among the first women to serve as nurses in the Navy. Harper's Weekly, May 9, 1863 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530848777463-CVKZKTG6H5XCVGIE2SYY/nlm_nlmuid-101425505-img.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses By 1898, lady nurses had that signature white uniform going, and they were becoming a more accepted fixture on the wartime nursing scene. U.S. Hospital Ship Relief during the Spanish American War. Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531712624811-SZ9JI7P7LNIPU3G4G2NG/Sanitary+Fair.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses - Ladies raised millions of dollars for care of the soldiers at sanitary fairs like this one. And just look at that bonnet! Courtesy of The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "'The metropolitan sanitary fair.'--Mrs. McClellan's table in the department of arms and trophies--sale of Frank Leslie's sketches" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1861 - 1864. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531713022179-MYYQ0364N1FE166O9J2A/41740v.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses - Poor Richard D. Dunphy. He served aboard the USS Hartford and was wounded in the Battle of Mobile Bay. At least he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. That's kind of cool. Richard D. Dunphy, formerly Coal Heaver of U.S. Navy in uniform] / S. Masury, photographic artist, 289 Washington St., Boston. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531713234641-9AHO2VAB1GXAWXC28FIO/03386v.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses Soldiers wounded at Fredericksburg and being looked after by the woman you see sitting in the doorway, volunteer nurse Abby Gibbons from New York. Photograph taken by James Gardner. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531713374142-0IND250WRIQA5CJ0XIDV/3294.jpeg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses The war gave composers much to work with in the realm of churning out sad, patriotic music about the soldier’s life, including their longing for the women in their lives while far from home. Edwards, Clarence (composer); M., J. M. (lyricist). Published by G. D. Russell & Company, Boston, 1865. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531713553451-EWHIVRJVQVZW44JS6WOX/31964r.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses Envelopes were still a pretty new thing when the war rolled around, and many Civil War-themed envelopes popped to meet demand for them. This one features a woman pouring a drink for a wounded soldier as a battle rages - thought not always a common sight, one that people liked a lot. October 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531713706189-UQ6CWZC6QY0HY7S8TVRB/01327v.jpg Episodes - Havens in a Heartless World: Civil War Nurses When we talk about ambulances in the Civil War, THIS is what we’re talking about. How well do you think a very wounded soldier would do on the back of this? How long do you think it would take for it to get to a hospital? Yeah…not pretty. Photographed by William Frank Browne. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Browne, William Frank, photographer https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2018/s1e1/welcometomid19thcenturyamerica monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530330586777-W2597IM1EYDYRB99HVDK/1857-regency-fashion-crinoline-comparison-joke.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America Oh yes, ladies. No one in the future will EVER laugh at your crinoline getups! A satirical cartoon from Harper's Weekly on the difference between the Regency dress of old (a la Jane Austen) and the Victorian dress then in fashion. July 11, 1857 issue of Harper's Weekly (Wikicommons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530330066492-85FVILS2J9X28K2O25FY/Princess_Dagmar_of_Denmark_with_her_dog_by_A.+Hun%C3%A6us.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America Our girl Dagmar of Denmark is modeling a beautiful example of mid 19th-century fashion - an extreme hourglass shape created by a corset, a bell-shaped crinoline, and a few layers of skirt - which permeated life on both sides of the Atlantic. These skirts reached their ultimate hugeness around this time, in the 1860s. PS: the fact that she’s wearing all white is a symbol of her social fineness. Most women didn’t wear this much white because, in an era where everything was still mostly hand washed, it was just too much of a pain of keep nice looking. Portrait of Princess Dagmar of Denmark with her Dog, by A. Hunæus. (Wikicommons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531540925179-RKVX5087PSRL04KURTGV/Queen+V.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America Queen Victoria was a badass lady, but her views on women v. men were pretty clear: in order for society to function well, women should make a sweet home and raise moral children, while their husbands should go out and do things to provide. A good idea, in practice…for some people. In reality…well. It’s complicated. Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530330111940-L0GK077W77G0E687W1QG/the+shape+of+a+womans+heart.jpeg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America This heart-shaped map says it was created By A Lady, but let’s be honest: this looks like a man’s idea of what a woman’s heart contains. Note how the lands of Selfishness and Coquetry are quite expansive, while Good Sense and Discrimination are smaller than a postage stamp. Where are the principalities of Love of Math Problems and Assertiveness, you ask? They don’t seem to have made the cut… D.W. Kellogg & Co. in Hartford between 1833 and 1842. Courtesy, The American Antiquarian Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530347699190-Z27P5SEQQBJ7LN3CRV93/cage+crinoline.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America Hey there, cage crinoline! This 1860s number is made from metal wire, cotton tape, and a touch of leather. The hoops of cage crinolines could be made of whalebone, cane, or steel - that last became quite popular when factories started making them mass assembly style (aka cheaply). These crinolines meant that girls could achieve the desired volume in their dress without having to wear a million layers. It also meant that they could dance, squat, and air things out a little with relative ease. Hurrah! Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of New York, Purchase: New York Historical Society (by exchange), 1985. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530347708310-S6UHO3RKS1Z0K85T2B5U/cage+crinoline+1862.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America This 1862 crinoline model had fabric sewed on to help create a smooth, uninterrupted skirt line. Girls usually had to wear at least one under petticoat to make sure the bands of their cage didn’t show through. Because, horrors! The more bands there were, the most expensive the crinoline tended to be. Purchase, New York Historical Society (by exchange), 1985. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530347710027-X5RRA1N2J0ZR4H94EF9W/1850s+gown.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America This 1850s evening gown is so very pretty, made for someone who isn’t keen to show off their décolletage. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Frederick Street Hoppin, 1963. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530330037918-X4CV6EWHVL54E10D5BBS/The+many+uses+for+crinoline.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America A fine French illustration of all the things one can do with a crinoline cage. Man hiding! Goose keeping! This is an example of one of the MANY satirical cartoons and illustrations this enormous mid 19th-century fashion staple inspired. Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, RESERVE FT 4-QB-370 (157). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1532388016654-JGSKZAWWQ6VD1L7H6U17/3g03591v.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America - The Bloomer Costume Bloomers, or “Turkish Trousers,” were a favorite amongst suffragists and Civil War nurses for their practicality and ease of movement, but they were so frequently lambasted by the press that they didn’t stay in fashion for long. Many people found the idea of women in pants extremely shocking, even when they wore a token skirt over them. Courtesy of The Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530334663914-6VL60EOE1IH38AMUF06U/home+scene.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America “Look at me, being an Ideal Woman! I am not dreaming of wearing pants and running away to Bermuda - not at all!” The Cult of Ideal Womanhood was strong in Victorian America: the idea that men and women operated in different spheres, and that the woman’s sphere was very much a private and domestic one. Home education. [New York] : Kimmel & Forster, 254 & 256 Canal St.N.Y., [between 1865 and 1871] 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. Credit, The American Antiquarian Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530330483029-0GRAX94PI17NF8ZX1E1X/The+empty+sleeve+at+Newport.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America This image accompanied a story in Harper’s Weekly in which a captain returns home from war to find that his wife has learned to drive a horse and buggy. That’s probably for the best, given that he’s now missing an arm - a common sight after the Civil War. But as you can see, neither of them looks happy. Maybe that’s because this husband struggles with his wife’s newfound independence. Or maybe it’s because her corset is cinched much too tight. “Our Watering Places--The Empty Sleeve at Newport,” 1865 by Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Wood engraving. Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Harvey Isbitts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1530330088779-AXR7L2HIBC7Y2AHE071Y/InspiringCourage1.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America The ladies were dead serious about getting their menfolk to join up for the cause, North and South. It’s said that at least one patriotic lady sent a dress to her paramour through the mail, along a note that read “Enlist, or wear this.” Ooooh, BURN. Credit, The American Antiquarian Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1526946121703-H199O3003QUS61LV0EII/godey_jan69_color_lg-2.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America - "Hello, darling. I can't really breathe. Can you breathe? Is this normal?" Fullpage engraved fashion illustration from Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 43 (October 1851): P. 257 (Philadelphia: Published by L. A. Godey). From the Clifton Waller Barrett Collection, University of Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5af1745bf793926c5c8fa04e/1531265269040-FBUANSXJN0OTT4HLPS47/Queen+V.jpg Episodes - A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America - Queen Victoria, disapproving of our desire to vote. Easy for you to say, when you rule everything! 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