The United States Of Women Podcast

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class. To finish off season 6, the state of Massachusetts, the ladies dive into the life of the first female African-American doctor. Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler.

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class. Continuing season 6,the great state of Massachusetts, the ladies discuss a woman who fought for the civil rights of women and African-Americans from the beginning and would not stand down for either being pushed aside. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin.

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class. Continuing season 6,the great state of Massachusetts, the ladies dive into a woman who does not have much currently out there about her life story as an award winning, first woman to own her own firm, architect. Josephine Wright Chapman.

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class. Beginning the second half of season 6,the great state of Massachusetts, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was also an educator, social worker, reformer, and peace activist. Emily Greene Balch.

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class. Continuing season 6,the great state of Massachusetts, the ladies discuss one of the most business savvy women to ever the banking field and though held back by many in her life, she still dominated. Hetty Green

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class. Continuing season 6,the great state of Massachusetts, the ladies discuss not one but a group of hard working women. Specifically the ladies that started the first labor unions for the women of the factory town; Lowell, Massachusetts.

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class. For the second episode of season 6, the ladies discuss how poetry created from war, becomes the myths and legends we recite today, and one Massachusetts one added to this centuries old tradition by creating the "Battle Hymn Of The Republic'' while also pushing forward women's suffrage. Julia Ward Howe.

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class. To start season 6, the ladies find themselves in Massachusetts, and discussing a woman known literally around the world, in her time, for her astronomical discoveries and calculations, and was the first woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Maria Mitchell.

Explore the rarely discussed women who have helped to shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class.

In the final episode of season 5, the ladies conclude the state of Connecticut by discussing a woman who made it her purpose to spread education across the country for those both enlisted in the military and not. Air Force Col. Ruth A. Lucas.