Best Marva and Sabrina Podcasts (2024)

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Daughters of the King with Kerry Chaput 1:01:57

1+ y ago1:01:57

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On this episode we speak to Kerry Chaput, the author of the historical fiction novel Daughter of the King. Kerry has done tons of research about the late 17th-century practice of young French girls moving to French Canada as “daughters of the king” (filles du roi) to marry settlers. Over 800 girls and women moved to the French colony between 1663-1…

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The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III with Gemma Hollman 1:20:05

1+ y ago1:20:05

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We are so excited to welcome back author and historian Gemma Hollman to the show in our first episode of season 3! Gemma joined us to talk about her new book The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III and the women whose story it tells- Philippa of Hainault and Alice Perrers. If you like this ep check out Gemma's book sold at all major ret…

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Byzantine Babes and Besties 40:56

2y ago40:56

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This weeks episode we are meeting Byzantine besties Theodora and Antonina. Actresses that climbed up to social ladder in 6th century Byzantine empire. This is not an easy feat but it makes it easier to have your best gal pal by your side! This is part 1 of 2 where we meet our sisters and understand what its like to be a Byzantine woman in the early…

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Snow Widows Part 2 With Katherine Macinnes 1:03:29

2y ago1:03:29

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Welcome back to our two-part series on "Snow Widows: Scott'S Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind." On this episode, we continue our conversation with biographer Katherine MacInnes and dive deeper into the lives of the five women in her book: Kathleen Scott, Oriana Wilson, Caroline Oates, Emily Bowers, and Lois …

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Snow Widows with Katherine MacInnes 1:07:57

2y ago1:07:57

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You may have heard of Captain Robert Scott and his tragic trip to the Antartic but do you know the stories of the women left behind? This week we have author Katherine MacInnes with us to tell us the stories of Kathleen Scott, Oriana Wilson, Caroline Oates, Emily Bowers, and Lois Evans the wives and mothers who were left behind and the shared trage…

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Let Them Eat Paint: Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun and Adelaide Labille Guiard Part 2 1:03:18

2+ y ago1:03:18

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On this episode, we give a quick rundown of the who, what, when, and why of the French Revolution before returning to our sistory about eighteenth-century painters Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun and Adelaide Labille Guiard. These women, now both successful painters and members of the Royal Academy, find themselves on opposite sides of the revolution. While…

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Paint Me Like One of Your French Girls: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (Part 1) 1:08:38

2+ y ago1:08:38

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On the eve of the French Revolution, two women gained access to France's most elite and exclusive community of artists: The Royal Academy. Elisabeth and Adelaide were admitted to the Academy on the same day, during a period when the Academy allowed a maximum of four female members at any given time, and when the minister of fine arts was a raging m…

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A Legendary Rivalry: Brunhilda and Fredegund 57:37

2+ y ago57:37

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We're so excited to be back with our first episode of 2022! We are jam-packing this season with amazing, inspiring, sometimes intimidating women from history. In this episode we are going way way back to the 6th century to talk about two queens whose rivalry spanned 4 decades. This story really shows that sometimes truth really is just stranger tha…

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Las Mariposas: The Mirabal Sisters 55:52

2+ y ago55:52

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Warning: this episode contains violent content. After growing up during the bloodiest period in the history of the Americas under the rule of a dictator, three girls decided to become the face of a resistance movement. The Mirabal Sisters Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa started out with small but significant acts of defiance, which grew into a mo…

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“Seducing and Killing Nazis”: Hannie, Truus, and Freddie 43:47

2+ y ago43:47

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Warning! If you didn't guess by the title this episode contains violent themes. This week we are learning all about three teenage girls who took bravery and the fight for justice to the next level. Hannie, Truus, and Freddie worked with the Dutch resistance in WWII to fight the Nazi invasion. Hear about their lives and how they used their sisterhoo…

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Aphra Behna and Nell Gwyn Part 2: A Conversation with Claire Louise Amias 1:00:43

2+ y ago1:00:43

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Last week, you learned about the individual lives of the playwright Aphra Behn and the actress Nell Gwyn. On today's episode, present day writer and actor Claire Louise Amias joins us to talk about these women's sisterhood and shares some fun anecdotes about each of them. Claire trained as an actor at trained at RADA and Bretton Hall and has appear…

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Playwrights and Paramours: Aphra Behn and Nell Gwyn Part 1 1:00:30

2+ y ago1:00:30

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In this episode, we talk about Aphra Behn and Nell Gwyn as individuals, so that next time we can talk about their sisterhood. But even alone, these women led interesting and impressive lives! Aphra was a novelist, poet, and and dramatist who was the first professional female writer in English. Nell started off as an actress, but amassed her wealth …

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Evelyn Nesbit and Edna Goodrich 1:01:25

2+ y ago1:01:25

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**trigger warning** This episode covers subjects of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. Our first episode of season 2.5! Thanks for sticking with us! This weeks episode is all about Edna Goodrich and Evelyn Nesbit! For pictures and more info on the episode check us out on instagram or twitter @sistoryuntold and see all of our source…

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Blue Bloods: The Blue Stockings Society Minisode 43:30

3y ago43:30

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In the mid-eighteenth century, everyone who's anyone would attend salons at aristocrats' houses to drink, play cards, and gossip. But the Bluestocking philosophers had something else in mind. This group of women bonded over tea, enlightened conversation, and literary discussion. As an informal club made up of Britain's best and brightest ladies, th…

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The Glamorous Gabors: Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor 1:08:56

3y ago1:08:56

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The first celebrities of their kind, the Gabors were considered famous for just being famous. With 19 husbands among the three of them and their fair share of very public affairs, they became notorious. But there was so much more to them than that. They were a tight-knit family of Hungarian immigrants who fought and escaped encroaching Nazi forces …

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Samurai Sisters: Yamakawa Sutematsu and Tsuda Ume Part 2 1:06:55

3+ y ago1:06:55

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This is Part 2 of the “Samurai Sisters” episodes. Today, we will finish telling the story of Sutematsu and Ume, two girls and who studied abroad in America in the 19th century, then returned to Japan and transformed their education system. Sutematsu played a huge role in bringing philanthropy to Japan while also being a major supporter of all of Um…

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Samurai Sisters: Yamakawa Sutematsu and Tsuda Ume 57:31

3+ y ago57:31

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In December of 1871, five young girls from samurai families embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. They sailed from Yokohama, Japan to San Francisco, California then traveled the country on a brand new railroad, finally arriving in Washington DC. While the men they were with went on to complete the political component of their mission, the five g…

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Galentine’s Day Minisode: Bachelor Girls 44:37

3+ y ago44:37

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With the advent of the “New Woman” in the late 19th century, England and America saw a resurgence of empowered women. They smoked, rode bikes, went to college, and said no to marriage proposals. And so, a new type of sisterhood emerged: bachelor girls. Bachelor girls were eligible, career-focused women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who chose not to ma…

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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: Mary Astell and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1:22:55

3+ y ago1:22:55

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Mary Astell and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had a lot more in common than having a record book full of firsts— the first English feminist, the founder of the first school with an all female board of governors, the first English female travel writer, the first woman published in the Spectator. They were also connected by a passion for politics, a comm…

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Sinners and Sisters: The Sisters of Mercy and Magdalene Laundries 1:08:40

3+ y ago1:08:40

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This week we are crossing the Irish sea to talk about the dark side of sisterhood through the magdalene laundries and the nuns who ran them. You will definitely be questioning who exactly are the sinners and who are the sisters. In classic Marva fashion this is not a light story to take in. Can sisterhood also be a source of evil? We hope to answer…

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A (sort of) Matriarchal Dynasty: Asma and Arwa al-Sulayhi 1:04:40

3+ y ago1:04:40

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It's rare to come across a dynasty that was ruled entirely by women, but we were lucky enough to find one for this episode! Asma Bint Shihab al-Sulayhi and Arwa al-Sulayhi ruled Yemen alongside and often in place of their husbands, the king. Asma was Arwa's cousin, mentor, teacher, mother-in-law and guardian. In other words, she was the best big si…

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Madame C.J. Walker Recap: Interview with A’Lelia Bundles 46:58

3+ y ago46:58

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In this bonus episode, we speak with A’Lelia Bundles, the great-great-granddaughter of Madame C.J. Walker and author of “On Her Own Ground,” the basis for Netflix’s limited series “Self-Made.” We talk with her about Madame C.J. Walker’s relationships with other women, and the line between fiction and reality. We hope you enjoy! To learn more about …

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The Rumour in St. Petersberg: The Romanov sisters 1:11:03

3+ y ago1:11:03

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There's a lot to cover this week as we talk about the four Romanov daughters. You may think you know the story from (one of the best all time movies) Anastasia but here we are focusing on all of the sisters- their loves, their sometimes bad attitudes, and their lives which were tragically cut short. Come for the stories of Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and…

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Mean or Misunderstood? Sisterhood in King Lear 1:11:20

3+ y ago1:11:20

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This episode is a Sistory Untold first! We are talking about three fictional women: Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia in William Shakespeare's beloved tragedy, King Lear. The older sisters in this play are often portrayed as pure evil, but is that the case? We talk about that and so much more in this episode! We also talk about the legend that inspired …

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Not the Last Tasmanians: Truganini and Fanny Cochrane Smith 1:04:48

3+ y ago1:04:48

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In this episode we are covering the tragic lives of the two women who are often considered the "last Tasmanians". They survived torture and genocide and also managed to live really interesting and remarkable lives. From out law gangs to music and theatre these two women have seen and done it all. We hope you will enjoy this episode as we take a pea…

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Daughters of Anarchy: Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman 1:32:34

3+ y ago1:32:34

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In this episode, we are talking about Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, two American-based anarchafeminists who stood up to women’s rights and really stuck it to the man in the late 19th and early 20th century. Although they didn’t always see eye to eye, they often supported and praised each other and for a while wrote for the same publication…

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Royal Witches with Gemma Hollman Part 2 1:02:20

3+ y ago1:02:20

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Here’s part two of our interview with Gemma Hollman, the author of Royal Witches. Today we are talking about Eleanor Cobham and Joan of Navarre. We hope you enjoy, and wish you a happy Halloween!

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Royal Witches with Gemma Hollman Part 1 42:39

3+ y ago42:39

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In part one of this two-part Halloween special, we speak with author Gemma Hollman about her book “Royal Witches.” We’ll revisit some familiar women— Jacquetta and Elizabeth Woodville— who you can learn more about in our Medieval Queens series that came out earlier this season! We’ll specifically talk about their accusations of witchcraft and how b…

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German Valkyries Part 2: Melitta Von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch 52:38

3+ y ago52:38

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This is the conclusion to last weeks episode about the German WWII pilots Melitta Von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch. In this rollercoaster of emotions episode we find out how the war ends for Melitta and Hanna and discuss how the choices they made impacted their legacy. If you haven't already listened to part one we highly recommend you start ther…

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German Valkyries Part 1: Melitta Von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch 1:07:50

4y ago1:07:50

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This week we are talking about a different kind of sistory. In our most modern episode yet we talk about the female World War II German pilots Melitta Von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch. Although these women could not be more different from each other their life paths would take them in similar directions and the would face the decision to do what …

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Saints and Sisters: Santa Teresa and Sor Juana 1:13:43

4y ago1:13:43

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On this episode, we are breaking one of our own rules: we are talking about two sisters who never met. In fact, they lived in different centuries on different continents. And yet, they’re Sisters. That’s right— capital S Sisters. Santa Teresa de Ávila and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz were both nuns in the same order for part of their lives. And that’s…

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Medieval Queens pt 4: Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort 1:10:10

4y ago1:10:10

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You may have seen their stories on the show "The White Queen" but you have to know their full stories to really understand them. This is the episode we've all (well Marva) has been waiting for. The conclusion to our Medieval Queens series, at leat for now. Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth Woodville would spend the majority of the Wars of the Roses o…

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Stunning Sisters: Models of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood 1:15:35

4y ago1:15:35

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a secret society of painters in the mid 19th century that formed as a rebellion against the "dark and unimaginative" mainstream artists of the time. But we don't care about them. In this episode, we will talk about the women who truly made this artistic movement possible, The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. These "stun…

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Goddess sisters: Pele, Kapo, Hi'iaka, and Namaka 49:49

4y ago49:49

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This is a Sistory Untold first! We are talking about not two but four sisters! These sisters also just so happen to be goddesses and some of the coolest stories we have ever told. So tune in this ep to find out about these amazing legendary sisters. Buckle up because these sisters have even more tension in their relationships than Marva and Sabrina…

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Jane and Cassandra Austen with Historian, Dr. Lizzie Rogers 1:11:40

4y ago1:11:40

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This is part two of our guest episode on Jane and Casandra Austen. We are hearing from historian and Jane Austen enthusiast Lizzie Rogers all about the Austen sisters. You will Find out about their very deep personal connection as well as a few things that might surprise you about the sisters we have come to think of representing the ideal of prim …

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Jane Austen Part 1: The World and Writings of Jane Austen with Jackie Herring 59:32

4y ago59:32

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In this episode, we speak with Jackie Herring, the director of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. Every year, thousands of Jane Austen lovers from around the world come together to learn, dance, promenade, and build community. In addition to talking about the festival, Jackie tells us about Jane Austen’s life, from infancy until death, and all of th…

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Medieval Queens pt 3: Wolves and Witches- Margaret of Anjou and Jacquetta of Luxembourg 1:09:09

4y ago1:09:09

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Medieval women and war might seem like two opposites but in Margaret of Anjou you find a woman who is never going to back down from a fight. Jacquetta of Luxembourg may not be as blood thirsty but she was never one to sit on the sidelines. Find out about two women who quite literally made history in this weeks episode of Sistory Untold. Has history…

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Mysticism or Madness? Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich 1:05:37

4y ago1:05:37

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Picture this: it’s the mid 1300s, the Black Death just killed 1/3 of country, every time you turn around there’s a new pope, and you’re bedridden. This is the position in which Margery and Julian found themselves immediately before their divine encounters. But, as fascinating as their encounters with Christ were, what is perhaps even more interesti…

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Live Fast, Die Young: Maria Coventry and Kitty Fisher 53:11

4y ago53:11

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Bad girls do it well... In 18th century society both Maria Coventry and Kitty Fisher embodied these modern day lyrics. Their rivalry was the talk of the town and their legacies would go on to inspire books, paintings, poems, and now the TV show Harlots (on Hulu and BBC2). Listen to their full stories on this episode of Sistory Untold.…

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Women in Pre-Colonial Philippines: Caquenga and Luysa 59:55

4y ago59:55

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From their earliest creation stories to the 2017 WEF Global Gender Gap report, women in the Philippines consistently experience more equality with men than in many other nations. But what did that look like when Spanish colonizers arrived and observed that in the Philippines “the best man is a woman?” The answer to that question can be answered thr…

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Medieval Queens pt 2: The Isabellas 1:16:06

4y ago1:16:06

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Queen Isabella and Isabella de Beaumont’s lives were full of contradictions. They were women but had massive power, they were friends and mortal enemies, they were of Royal bloodlines but had few choices, their reputations were immortalized and yet their true stories were forgotten. Listen to there almost to crazy to be true life stories as we try …

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Ride or die sisters: An Analysis of Thelma and Louise with Audrey Thorne 55:47

4y ago55:47

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In this episode, Sabrina interviews Audrey Thorne, the host of the podcast “Lights, Camera, Analysis.” She explains why the type of sisterhood we see in her favorite film, Thelma and Louise, is so radically different from archetypal friendships. From defending each other to driving off a cliff together, these women truly redefine female friendships…

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Hamilton continued: The Founding Mothers 51:38

4y ago51:38

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Join us for our first bonus episode! We’ll discuss feminism in Hamilton, stories of the Schuyler sisters leaping from second story windows and rescuing babies, and lastly discuss some key female figures from the American Revolution era. We hope you enjoy!

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The Founding Sisters: Eliza and Angelica Schuyler 1:00:38

4y ago1:00:38

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We watched Hamilton on Disney + and we know you did too. But it left us wanting to know more about the real women portrayed in the musical. In this first episode of a two part series, we cover America’s founding sisters, Eliza and Angelica Schuyler. Listen in as we discuss all things 18th century and try and work out what exactly is science. Lets d…

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Capital R Romantics: Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont 1:15:41

4y ago1:15:41

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Tune in to hear a story about volcanic eruptions, babies of questionable origins, drowned lovers, and, of course, sisterhood. You’ve probably heard of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, but did you know she had a step-sister and close companion, Claire Clairmont? Claire was also a writer and obsessed with all things Romantic, but her sister’…

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Medieval Queens pt.1: Empress Matilda and Queen Eleanor 1:11:42

4y ago1:11:42

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Empress Matilda (Maud) was the daughter, wife, and mother of Henry, or so it goes on her epitaph. To us at Sistory Untold however, Matilda was much more than a relation to the powerful men in her life. She was a woman who would do almost anything to protect what was hers by birth right. Eleanor of Aquitaine shared Matilda's spirit in protecting wha…

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What makes a sister a sister? 27:32

4y ago27:32

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In this first minisode, Marva and Sabrina define sisterhood and only occasionally go on tangents about whether or not Sabrina is a fair match for a tiger.

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Get Out of My Hair!—Madame C.J. Walker and Annie Turnbo Malone 1:05:13

4y ago1:05:13

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Mentorship, rivalry, or mere cheap imitation? Madame C.J. Walker and Annie Turnbo Malone had a complicated relationship. Join us as we take sides, invent words like “histronomics,” and blame both Netflix and our 2nd grade teachers for painting an incomplete picture of history. We hope you enjoy this episode fo Sistory Untold. This is Sistory. Warni…

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Sistory Untold Trailer 1:02

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Welcome to our podcast, Sistory Untold, where we explore history through the eyes of sisterhood. Much like sisterhood, this podcast can be a bit messy, but is a labor of love. We hope you’ll join us on June 23 as we dive into Sistory.

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