Missing History

Missing History

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Missing History episodes

  • Episode 36 – Jess Wade, Maryam Zaringhalam & Khutulun

    This week we are going big. Katie and Michael discuss three phenomenal woman, two contemporary scientists and one ancient warrior.


    Jess Wade & Maryam Zaringhalam

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/07/guardian-view-wikipedia-evolving-truth

    https://www.webmz.nyc/about/

    https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/jessica.wade

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05947-8

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/it-matters-who-we-champion-in-science/2019/04/12/50a1781a-5d3d-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html

    https://500womenscientists.org/wiki-edit-a-thon


    Khutulun

    https://erenow.net/biographies/the-secret-history-of-the-mongol-queens/7.php

    https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/khutulun-0010840

    https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/khutulun

    http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/07/25/khutulun-great-female-warrior-of-the-mongol-empire/

    http://www.thathistorynerd.com/2019/05/damn-girl-khutulun-mongol.html

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 35 - Fannie Lou (Miller) Hamer & Qiu Jin

    We have some major influencers this week - we learn about the woman who co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and strong-willed feminist who participated in a failed uprising against the Qing Dynasty.


    Fannie Lou (Miller) Hamer

    https://www.biography.com/activist/fannie-lou-hamer

    https://snccdigital.org/events/freedom-rides/

    https://time.com/5692775/fannie-lou-hamer/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxTReRmH2jA&t=1395s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIZ2a2J5v3g


    Qiu Jin

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-qiu-jin.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Jin

    https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/chinese-rev

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=17&ved=2ahUKEwjmw-WD49noAhWKgXIEHSwiC8wQFjAQegQIChAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarworks.iu.edu%2Fjournals%2Findex.php%2Fiusbgender%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F21423%2F27390%2F&usg=AOvVaw2lPVtg1GBvnsKARxiFA5H0

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty#Rebellion,_unrest_and_external_pressure

    https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8966942

    1 hr 38 min
  • Episode 34 - Florence Nightingale & Hurrem Sultan

    The stats don't lie - these two ladies are absolutely incredible. This week we learn about a statistician (who was also the founder of modern nursing) and one of the most influential women in the Ottoman Empire from the period known as the Sultanate of Women.


    Florence Nightingale

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Florence-Nightingale/Homecoming-and-legacy

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-nurse-florence-nightingale-180974155/

    https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35241?rskey=XWmNZs&result=2

    https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-nhs-nightingale-makeshift-hospital-london-excel-centre-photos-2020-4#at-least-two-more-temporary-hospitals-are-being-planned-one-at-the-nec-center-in-birmingham-which-will-house-5000-beds-and-another-at-the-convention-complex-in-manchester-with-1000-beds-19


    Hurrem Sultan

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turks

    https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrem_Sultan#/media/File:Mausoleum_of_Roxelana_02.jpg

    https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire

    https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2019/02/08/origin-of-hurrem-sultan-still-hotly-debated-in-21st-century

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roxelana

    1 hr 38 min
  • Episode 33 - Hypatia and Julien of Norwich

    We are back! What did we miss?!


    We took a small break but we are back at it. Katie and Michael catch up on what we have been doing since we were last together, the new global pandemic, and learn about some awesome ladies. This week we are going ancient as we discuss a Hellenistic philosopher and an anchorite from medieval England.

    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 32 - Jane Elizabeth Hodgson & Flossie Wong-Staal
    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/
    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 31 - Hallie Flanagan
    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
    51 min
  • Episode 30 - Ruby Pickens Tartt & Wilma Rudolph
    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
    1 hr 13 min
  • Episode 29 - Deborah Sampson & Marguerite Porete
    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
    1 hr
  • Episode 28 - Ella Sheppard & Josefa Llanes-Escoda
    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
    1 hr

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A podcast by two friends who discuss women from history they've never heard of before. Inspired by that all too common feeling, "How did I not know about her?!?", we aim to elevate the stories of a…