The Remedial Herstory Podcast

This week, Kelsie sat down with The First Ladies Man, Andrew Och, to talk about the importance of the women who served in what he says, "is one of the most powerful and influential unelected and unpaid women in the world. There is no formal training." Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at http://www.remedialherstory.com

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke discuss Andrew Jackson and the women who revolved around his presidency. We start by talking about how difficult it is to track women, especially women who marry through historical documents and time because their names change so much. We then examine the elections of 1824, 1828, and 1832 to understand the nastiness of those elections and how Jackson's wife and m...

This week Kelsie and Brooke are talking about Feminist Pedagogy (Socratic Seminars) and The Triangle Fire. An alternate title could be circles and triangles... but it wouldn't make sense until you heard us out. Feminist teaching is where you break down structural and stigma-related barriers to all student participation and performance-- in this case to get more women into the field. We then do a d...

This week, Kelsie and Brooke are talking about the history of the Thanksgiving Holiday, a women's holiday-- bet they didn't teach that to you in school! In the second half we talk about other places women were barred from in public life... like the baseball stadium. Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at http://www.remedialherstory.com/the-civil-war-era-women-sup...

This week we are talking about how huge portions of women's history are hard to know because so much is left blank. The biggest blank in all history is pre-history... and many women historians have tried to stake a claim there... suggesting that perhaps there was a time when women reigned supreme. Some argue that there was once a Great Goddess, worshipped above all gods. Obviously, this is dispute...

This week, Brooke and Kelsie are talking about how rare women historians are and the first women historians: Ban Zhao of China who wrote during the Han empire and Anna Comnena who wrote in 11th century Byzantium. Both women provide incredible windows into life in their time. Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at http://www.remedialherstory.com/world-history.html...

This week, Brooke and Kelsie chat with an old friend, Mary Bezbatchenko, another history teacher from Ohio about the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at www.remedialherstory.com

In this episode, Brooke and Kelsie discuss equal pay. Brooke is a hiring manager-- so her expertise really shines. We talk about what the data shows and means... and why children are such a huge factor in economic behavior.  Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at http://www.remedialherstory.com/the-industrial-revolution-women-laborers.html Bibliography Finge...

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke celebrate 10 episodes, the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and her fight for equal treatment under law. Further, they talk about how her case is just another example of calling human rights the dirty f-word, "feminist." Then we correct the narrative that "feminists are making up history to include more women" In reality, like with the warriors who fought against anci...

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke discuss gender bias in history textbooks-- and basically why you shouldn't use them. Then we examine the fascinating lives of women who crossdressed to fight and spy in the Civil War.  Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at http://www.remedialherstory.com/the-civil-war-era-women-supporters-soldiers-and-spies.html Bibliograp...

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Danielle McGuire about her book, At The Dark End of the Street: Black women, rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of Black Power.  Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at www.remedialherstory.com

In this episode we discuss how the state standards are silencing women and examine the historical basis for their silence. We go way back to origin stories.  Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at http://www.remedialherstory.com/world-history.html Bibliography Clabaugh, Gary K. “A History of Male Attitudes Toward Educating Women.” Educational Horizons. Vol....

In this episode, Kelsie and Brooke are joined by the author of the book FAST GIRLS, Elise Hooper, and two professional triathlete’s, Amber Ferreira and Rachel Jastbrebsky, the fastest girls we know! These women join us to talk about the history of women in sport.  Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at www.remedialherstory.com

In this episode we get gruesome with an examination of women's world and the world history of birth, highlighting Molly Donnelly, Queen Victoria, Lucy, Betsey, and Anarcha. Brooke doesn't think it was scary enough.   Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at www.remedialherstory.com Bibliography CDC. “Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System.” Center for Disease...

This episode discusses the problematic use of heroification in K-12 curriculum, some sheroes you should know, and how to teach women’s history when women weren’t there. Brooke nails Paul Revere history and Kelsie gets embarrassed.  Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at www.remedialherstory.com Bibliography “About Medgar and Myrlie.” Medgar and Myrlie Evers...

In this episode Kelsie and Brooke introduce themselves and the hysterical way they came together and explain the aims of this podcast: to figure out why women aren't in history curriculum and put them in. Support our work at www.patreon.com/remedialherstory Find lesson plans at www.remedialherstory.com Bibliography Collins, Gail. America’s Women . New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. Kir...