Badass Women of America
This podcast is about the women in history who broke barriers and made history yet you probably have never heard of them. Join us each week for a new episode about a woman or women who fought in wars, were amazing explorers, were pioneers in aviation – women who weren’t in our history books. These were exciting, brave, adventurous women who helped shaped this country. Join me, Kit and my friend Sherlock, as we share the exciting stories of these women whom you will want to know. These are the Badass Women of America.
Episodes
19 episodes
Stunt Girls or Journalists? The Bravest Women Reporters of the 1880s.
The newspaper editors and the public in 1880 couldn't call women investigative reporters - that's what the men were called so women reporters were dubbed "Stunt Women" and weren't taken seriously until their reports started changing laws,...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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29:10
Women Inventors from 1700s to 1900s
Women have been inventing for centuries! Join Kit and Sherlock as they dip into the plethora of women who have been inventing products from ice cream makers to airplane mufflers.Inventions that you are still using today started wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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32:52
Women Arrested For Wearing Pants - from 1852 to 1938
It may seem like a frivolous thing but even today women lawyers are forbidden to enter some courts wearing pants!How much longer are we going to be told who we are and what we should wear?Women have been fighting for the right to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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22:05
Cowgirls of the Wild West
What is a cowgirl? Ranch hand, ranch owner, Wild West performer, rodeo competitor, horse trainer, stagecoach driver, outlaw, cattle rustler - so many definitions. But the ultimate definition is that a cowgirl is determined and fierc...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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37:22
Homesteaders - Women Who Claimed the West - Part 2
Join us, Kit and Sherlock, as we share the stories of four women homesteaders in the Wild West.The more we read about the women who came before us the more inspired we become.Be inspired, learn about the Badass Women of America!
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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36:14
Women Homesteaders - single women who claimed the West
Over 100,000 single women took advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and for the first time claimed land in their own name.These women are not in our history books. These women were instrumental in developing the West. These...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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21:49
Wild West - Women Stagecoach Drivers
Stagecoach drivers had the hardest job at the time. Blizzards, rain, wind, bandits, and predators plagued their routes. Driving a six-horse team through the night these women were determined to deliver the passengers, mail and suppl...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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34:53
Women of the Wild West - Outlaws and Gamblers
Not every woman in the 1800s succumbed to the Victorian era of rules and don'ts. Some went their own way - sometimes with good results and sometimes not so good results.Today's episode introduces you to four women who sometimes had...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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34:25
My Mother-In-Law the Pilot
My mother-in-law, Marilyn Reber, was a woman who gently pushed against the pressures of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s to be the woman she wanted to be rather than the woman that society thought she should be.Like so many adventurous wo...
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25:09
Women Test Pilots of WW2
25,000 brave women applied to be test pilots in 1942 for WW2. 1,074 made it into the program. These women were the best of the best pilots in America! They flew planes that men refused to fly. Join Kit and Sherloc...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:10
Pancho Barnes - Aviator Extraordinaire
Pancho Barnes was one of a kind. A daredevil who partied hardy from the 20s to the 50s and one of the best pilots of her time, if not the best. The first woman stunt pilot in Hollywood in 1929, the first woman test pilot for Lockhee...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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25:33
Bessie Coleman - First African American Woman Pilot
Bessie Coleman was a pioneer of aviation. The first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921.Bessie earned money as a "barnstorming" stunt flier drawing thousands of people to see her daredevil flying. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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21:24
The True Story of Women in Aviation in 1907 America
Join Kit and Sherlock to hear about the original American women of aviation starting in 1907. Nearly two decades before Amelia Earhart there were dozens of American women who not only flew planes but built them - sometimes in their living...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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16:55
The Darling of the Confederacy
Join us to hear the amazing story of Private Jane Perkins, a soldier in the Danville Artillery during the Civil War. Hear her heroic story of three years in battle, capture, imprisonment and her last hurray.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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21:50
The Pinkerton Detective and the Military Strategist - Women of the Civil War
Ad free episodeIn this episode we introduce two amazing women. One who saved Lincoln from a first assassination attempt and another who was Lincoln's secret military strategist during the Civil War.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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21:03
The Brave, the Funny, the Audacious Women of the Civil War
There are so many amazing women who fought in the Civil War that we decided to briefly touch on five women that we love. From the brave Maria Lewis to the outrageous Major Annie Jones, we cover five women who run the gamut of the brave, t...
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40:40
The Ordinary Yet Mysterious Civil War Soldier, Rosetta Wakeman
Rosetta Wakeman, AKA Pvt. Lyon Wakeman of the Civil War, wrote many letters home. Historians see her one way, we see her another way - a woman in search of identity during the Victorian age when women weren't given any choices. Ros...
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