Missing History

This week we learn about an American obstetrician and gynecologist and a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. HODGSON https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/health/abortion-history-in-united-states/index.html https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_150.html https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/jane-elizabeth-hodgson-1915-2006 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/us/05hodgson.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=BD7BFBF3C151F2D6A1AB752881F8523C&gwt=pay https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/ FLOSSIE https://www.thewonderwomenproject.org/pages/biography-of-flossie-wong-staal https://history.nih.gov/nihinownwords/docs/transcripts/wongstaal.html https://alumni.ucla.edu/stories/flossie-wong-staal-68-ph-d-72/

This week Katie discusses an American theatre producer and director who is known for her work with the WPA - specifically the Federal Theatre Project. Flanagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/faculty/prominent-faculty/hallie-flanagan-davis.html https://www.loc.gov/collections/federal-theatre-project-1935-to-1939/about-this-collection/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/flanagan-hallie-0

Today we meet a folklorist who helped preserve the past for the WPA and a woman who was told she would never walk again but would go on to be the fastest woman in the world. TARTT http://www.awhf.org/tartt.html http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1132 http://cdm17066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p17066coll3 https://www.uwa.edu/library/archives/alabamaroom/findingaids/rubypickenstartt https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/01/alabama-folklorist-ruby-pickens-tartt/ https://youtu.be/r9SENzRLk_M WILMA https://www.aaihs.org/black-women-athletes-protest-and-politics-an-interview-with-amira-rose-davis/ https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/obituaries/wilma-rudolph-star-of-the-1960-olympics-dies-at-54.html https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/wilma-rudolph

This week we learn about a military woman from the American Revolution and a French author who wrote The Mirror of Simple Souls in the 13th century. SAMPSON https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/deborah-sampson http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/womansoldier.html https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/deborah-sampson https://www.britannica.com/biography/Deborah-Sampson http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2010/04/deborah-sampson-gannett.html PORETE https://www-jstor-org.proxy.brynmawr.edu/stable/j.ctv1qv1tx.8 http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/margporete.htm https://www.britannica.com/topic/Beguines#ref209863

Today we discuss a soprano, pianist, composer, and arranger of Spirituals for the original Fisk Jubilee Singers and a prominent civic leader and a social worker who founded of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. SHEPPARD https://pages.stolaf.edu/americanmusic/2017/10/03/the-fisk-jubilee-singers-and-their-first-record/ http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/1797 https://hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu/digital/collection/FUPP/id/704/ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sheppard-ella-1851-1915/ ESCODA https://www.google.com/doodles/josefa-llanes-escodas-120th-birthday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefa_Llanes_Escoda

This week we learn about one of the first actresses on the English stage and a prominent figure of the Mexican War of Independence. (Eleanor Gwyn) NELL https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nell-Gwyn-English-actress https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp01957/eleanor-nell-gwyn https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-from-history/nell-gwyn-peoples-harlot/ (María de la Soledad Leona Camila Vicario Fernández de San Salvador) VICARIO https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/vicario-leona-1789-1842 https://www.girlboss.com/identity/2018-3-20-leona-vicario-history https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2018/08/902-the-cry-of-dolores.html

Michael and Katie discuss an Omaha Native American doctor and an African-American teacher and civil rights figure. SUSAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_La_Flesche_Picotte https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_253.html https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-first-native-american-woman-doctor https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/incredible-legacy-susan-la-flesche-first-native-american-earn-medical-degree-180962332/ http://cojmc.unl.edu/nativedaughters/healers/susan-la-flesches-legacy-lives-on https://www.pbs.org/video/medicine-woman-full-episode/ ELIZABETH https://daily.jstor.org/the-woman-who-refused-to-leave-a-whites-only-streetcar/ http://kentakepage.com/elizabeth-jennings-graham-a-19th-century-rosa-parks/ https://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-jennings-graham-091415 https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/elizabeth-jennings-graham.htm https://daily.jstor.org/the-woman-who-refused-to-leave-a-whites-only-streetcar/

In honor of our 25th episode, Katie and Michael team up to talk about a group of women working to process astronomical data. https://www.ladyscience.com/science-with-capital-s/90dk473131kodvmc02nsftmcfhepgg?rq=pickering https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-mapped-the-universe-and-still-couldnt-get-any-respect-9287444/?no-ist http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/cwsem/PGA_049131 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-women-computers-who-measured-the-stars/509231/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2067

An American film, television and stage actress/dancer and a teacher, activist and long-time chair of the Manzanar Committee. MYRNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Unti0LJ8g http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/117023%7C115512/Myrna-Loy/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001485/bio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIOXD2epvyY&t=1568s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_Loy SUE https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/manzanar/ https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Sue_Kunitomi_Embrey/ http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/16/local/me-embrey16 https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar_Committee/ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/09/210138278/japanese-internment-redress

With St. Patrick's Day around the corner we had Ireland on our minds. We span 14 centuries this week as we discuss two influential women in Irelands history. Veronica Guerin http://womensmuseumofireland.ie/articles/veronica-guerin https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/23/world/how-a-killing-roused-irish-conscience.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FGuerin%2C%20Veronica&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsgcKRX8mk4 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/in-her-final-article-for-the-sunday-independent-published-this-week-veronica-guerin-interviewed-the-1339093.html BRIGID of Kildare https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=453 https://www.blarney.com/st-brigid_s-cross/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Brigit-of-Ireland https://www.govisitireland.com/biddys-day-celebrating-st-brigid-across-country/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBqp2MXyuYk

Katie and Michael discuss an American high-fashion designer and an American psychiatrist/author this week. Anne: https://nypost.com/2016/10/16/jackies-wedding-dress-designer-is-finally-recognized/ http://hiddenfashionhistory.com/category/ann-lowe/ https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2013/03/28/the-remarkable-story-of-ann-lowe-from-alabama-to-madison-avenue/ https://theglowup.theroot.com/societys-stylish-secret-designer-ann-lowe-was-a-fashio-1823499194 https://www.racked.com/2016/9/30/13064294/fashion-designer-ann-lowe Jeanne https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_306.html https://feministforester.com/2018/02/06/dr-jeanne-spurlock-1921-1999/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/04/j-marion-sims/558248/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/16/youve-got-bad-blood-the-horror-of-the-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment/?utm_term=.8033a7c1d2a4

This week we have a Kenyan environmental political activist and an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer. Wangari Maathai https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wangari-Maathai https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/26/wangari-maathai http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/who-we-are/our-history Gladys Bentley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDUX-QmT1sM https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/gladys-bentley-overlooked.html https://www.theroot.com/blues-singer-gladys-bentley-broke-ground-with-marriage-1790858771 https://www.themarysue.com/gladys-bentley-the-cross-dressing-lesbian-who-rocked-the-harlem-renaissance/

In honor of Valentines Day we bring you an artist/business woman who made Valentine's Day cards popular and a poet. Esther: http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/esther-howland-valentine-innovator/ http://www.worcesterhistory.org/bio-howland.html http://time.com/4663003/esther-howland-valentines/ https://www.bustle.com/p/6-valentines-day-2019-ideas-for-introverts-15867568 Jessie http://www.forharriet.com/2014/04/15-black-women-poets-everyone-should.html http://bulletin.brynmawr.edu/features/hp-primary-feature/in-black-and-white-4/ http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/fauset-jessie-redmon/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/jessie-redmon-fauset https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-forgotten-work-of-jessie-redmon-fauset https://timeline.com/jessie-redmon-fauset-harlem-renaissance-leader-cd871c84691

The ladies who did it first - this week we look at the first black woman to enlist in the Coast Guard and the first published African American female poet. Olivia Hooker https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46332474?ocid=socialflow_twitter https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/obituaries/olivia-hooker-dead.html https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921 http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/10/olivia-hooker-a-spars-story/ Phillis Wheatley https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/his-excellency-general-washington http://blackartblog.blackartdepot.com/features/african-american-monuments-statues/phillis-wheatley-monument.html

The silver screen takes centerstage this week as we look at two women who had a huge influence on the early American film industry. Lois Weber http://www.loisweber.net/lois-weber.html https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lois-Weber http://www.ocec.eu/cinemacomparativecinema/index.php/en/33-n-8-english/400-lois-weber-the-female-thinking-in-movement Hattie McDaniel https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/oscars-first-black-winner-accepted-774335 https://ew.com/oscars/2018/02/22/hattie-mcdaniel-first-black-oscar-winner-legacy/ https://blackpast.org/aaw/mcdaniel-hattie-1895-1952 https://www.vibe.com/2018/03/hattie-mcdaniel-oscar-history

An English politician who later became a member of the House of Lords and a short review of Becoming by Michelle Obama. Jean Barker https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/obituaries/lady-trumpington-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/27/lady-trumpington-obituary https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43756361 https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-life-downton-millionairesses-who-changed-britain https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2018/nov/27/lady-trumpington-gives-v-sign-to-fellow-peer-archive-video

An obstetrical anesthesiologist, who also invented a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth and the woman known as the "Grande Dame of Champagne" Virginia Apgar https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_12.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/health/virginia-apgar-intl/index.html https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/CP/Views/Exhibit/narrative/biographical.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXFr9QsTgPA https://www.marchofdimes.org/mission/virginia-apgar.aspx Barbe-Nicole Clicquotu https://www.thelily.com/this-new-test-measures-how-well-documentaries-portray-women-rbg-fails/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/31/madame-clicquot-france-woman-champagne https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-widow-who-created-the-champagne-industry-180947570/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Clicquot_Ponsardin

Eastern Europe in the 30's and 40's: what a time to be alive! One teen and two women defy gender expectations to participate in one of the greatest historical conflicts of the 20th century. Irena https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/sendler.asp https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/irena-sendler http://www.pbs.org/program/irena-sendler/ https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/in-memoriam/irena-sendler-1910-2008 Zinaida & Yelena http://ww2awartobewon.com/wwii-articles/yelena-mazanik-avenger-belarus/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinaida_Portnova http://the-toast.net/2013/09/20/zinaida-portnova-young-avenger/

The woman who birthed 'The Pill' and a controversial figure of Bryn Mawr. Katharine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_McCormick https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-katharine-dexter-mccormick-1875-1967/ http://www.amazingwomeninhistory.com/katharine-mccormick-birth-control-history/ https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/summer/mccormick.html Thomas https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/09/bryn-mawr-reconsiders-how-it-has-honored-its-bigoted-second-president http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/thomas.shtml#bio https://www.brynmawr.edu/president/thomas http://www2.philly.com/philly/education/bryn-mawr-confronts-racist-views-of-former-leader-20170824.html

This week we chat about several women who influenced some of our holiday traditions. Michael and Katie will talk about holiday shopping, cookies, and the inventors of the Christmas Tree.

Another first in the US Congress and the campaign trail as well as social reformer and a pioneer in the emancipation of women in India. Ramabai https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/obituaries/pandita-ramabai-overlooked.html http://www.bu.edu/missiology/ramabai-dongre-medhavi/ http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/pandita-ramabai https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/pandita-ramabai Shirley Chisholm: https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/CHISHOLM,-Shirley-Anita-(C000371)/ https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/shirleychisholmequalrights.htm https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shirley-Chisholm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2ngZgo17U

We have some heroine of the American Revolutionary Way and a French playwright and political activist. Margaret Corbin, Sybil Ludington http://mentalfloss.com/article/78686/16-year-old-revolutionary-who-outrode-paul-revere http://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/review/pdfs/hvrr_17pt2_braley.pdf Olympe de Gouges https://www.iep.utm.edu/gouges/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/feminist-olympe-de-gouges-pantheon https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-radical-french-feminist-who-was-murdered-twice-1.5462530

Today Katie and Michael introduce us to an entrepreneur and a naval engineer. Madam CJ Walker https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/madam-cj-walker https://www.biography.com/people/madam-cj-walker-9522174 https://convene.com/catalyst/madam-c-j-walker-americas-first-female-self-made-millionaire/ https://www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law https://www.britannica.com/biography/Madam-C-J-Walker https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2017/09/19/the-first-forbes-list-see-who-the-richest-americans-were-in-1918/#3d12dd684c0d Raye Montague https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/obituaries/raye-montague-a-navy-hidden-figure-ship-designer-dies-at-83.html https://www.navy.mil/ah_online/ftrStory.asp?id=99566 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/raye-montague-barrier-breaking-naval-ship-designer-has-died-83-180970608/

It's a bunch of gals who tried to go to infinity and beyond. https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/geraldyn-jerrie-m-cobb-papers-1952-1998 https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_492.html https://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/f_mercury13.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/even-though-i-am-girl-john-glenns-fan-mail-and-sexism-early-space-program-180961443/ https://www.popsci.com/why-did-mercury-13-astronauts-never-fly-in-space https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/29/17393698/netflix-documentary-mercury-13-women-space-astronauts-margaret-weitekamp-interview https://history.nasa.gov/flats.html https://www.wired.com/2009/10/mercury-13/

We've got the 'voice of God' and an economist with quite the life story. Barbara Jordan https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barbara-Jordan 1972 Keynote Speech at DNC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfFJc37jjQ 1974 Watergate Speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqVBclJVco LBJ Oral History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5iWyv-FeyM Joan Robinson https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joan-Robinson https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Robinson.html

Two raging feminists today. One from Egypt and another from the good ol' USA. Mary http://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-church-terrell http://apps.urban.org/features/OurChangingCity/demographics/#history https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/terrell-mary-church/ Huda https://www.britannica.com/biography/Huda-Sharawi http://www.amazingwomeninhistory.com/huda-shaarawi-egyptian-feminist/

Katie brings a Broadway, movie, and TV star. Michael brings up a boundary breaking Dominican doctor. Ethel Waters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zywZUhaUqMo https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ethel-Waters http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/ethel-waters/ Evangelina https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rodriguez-evangelina-1879-1947 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

France is in the focus today. Michael has a French queen while Katie brings a Romantic novelist. Eleanor https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eleanor-of-Aquitaine http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/eleanor_of_aquitaine.shtml George Sand https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Sand https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jack-sand.html http://www.authorama.com/famous-affinities-of-history-iv-6.html https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/at/georges.html

Quite a time gap between these two ladies but nonetheless fascinating. Katie tackles a modern day journalist. Michael gets real with a nun from medieval times. Hildegard https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Hildegard https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/hildegarde_of_bingen https://www.discogs.com/artist/743697-Hildegard-Von-Bingen Gwen Ifill https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/profile/gwen-ifill https://www.pbs.org/newshour/press-releases/pbs-newshour-co-anchor-gwen-ifill-dies-61 https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/gwen-ifill-journalist-who-became-staple-of-public-affairs-tv-shows-dies-at-61/2016/11/14/2ae4c106-aa91-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d7825a02f67b"

We've got two Jeannette's today. One an early pioneer of suffrage in the U.S. The other, a scientific balloonist. Rankin http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/20147 https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/jeannette-rankin Piccard https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2702

Michael brings a pirate queen to the party. Katie talks about a painter you wished you had known. Ching Shih https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-chinese-female-pirate-who-commanded-80000-outlaws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnrWbaWVnQ Artemesia https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/baroque-italy/a/gentileschi-judith-slaying-holofernes http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Artemisia-Gentileschi https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/artemisia_gentileschi"

Michael and Katie start the first ever podcast with two dynamic gals. Katie covers an ancient queen of Britain while Michael brings up a mover and shaker in the early days of chemistry. Boudica www.britannica.com/biography/Boudicca www.google.com/search?q=boudica+…&biw=1197&bih=779 Marie-Anne gizmodo.com/badass-historical-c…toine-la-1743117560 link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00897980249a

Why is history filled with only dudes? If you find yourself asking this question then maybe this podcast is for you. Two friends, one history major and one casual history nerd, discuss women from history we’ve never heard of before now. Take a listen to this trailer and stay tuned for our first episode, coming soon!