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HistoryChiQ SmartTalk

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The beating heart of history - it’s Alive!! The delicious daily details of history from a female perspective(sometimes): secrets, food, film, art, beauty, fashion, politics, decor & more...Fridays, 5:30PM; alternating 15 & 30-minute segments each week.

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Recently the White House sent out an email asking, 'Do You Know Who Ada Lovelace is?' (Yes. Do you?) & there was buzz around the last press conference of the year focusing only on female journalists -- Eleanor Roosevelt did it first, but who's counting... ? Well, someone is, because everywhere you look, someone is trying to restore balance to our patriarchal society. Feminist.com founder Marianne Schnall asked the leading question in her book What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? and got great answers from scores of luminaries on women & leadership. Feminist icon Gloria Feldt has founded Take the Lead Women, based on her book No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power . But could Plato have the answer? Professor Anna Caney's new transcription of a previously unpublished work by Henry Howard gives a universe of historical reasons why women should rule. Hey, it worked for Queen Elizabeth I. Check out more HistoryChiQ.Tell us Who's Your Muse?
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A recent New Yorker article discusses the possibility of Anne Lock, a mid-16th century Puritan writer, as perhaps the very first writer of sonnets* in English -- an exciting determination, if true. Her role has been considered in scholarly circles... more
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What is a Role Model? Seems like an easy answer -- someone that inspires you. But there may be more permutations than that, so we thought we'd explore it a little more deeply, starting off with perhaps the mother of all role... more
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…Or sugar loaf is not just a mountain in Vermont! We talk to nutrition & fitness expert Zana Morris, founder of the very cool Library gyms (in London), about when people started to get fat & why, and whether gyms are new-fangled... more
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Ever hear of Bessie Williamson? Fred Minnick has. She saved Scotch. From Mesopotamia to bootleggers, Minnick tells the tale of the women who helped keep the spirits flowing. Rabbie Burns woulda been proud. So, for the... more
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New Year's typically involves a roster of resolutions. Which involves how we are going to live our lives. So I thought we'd start with the end. Because I'm not a fan of deathbed apologies. Or waiting till someone is dead or dying to say how... more
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If you're missing Mad Men already, join us on our talk with Janet Groth, author of The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker (Algonquin), about her days in the heyday of the iconic magazine and the behind-the-scene's POV of the... more
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This week, HistoryChiQ gets a visit from author Mary Louise Roberts, talking about the truth behind the liberating heroes, from her new book: What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (University of Chicago... more
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For today's HistoryChiQ Quickie -- fast history in 15 minutes -- we celebrate Flag Day ... HistoryChiQ of the Day: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), who was eminently quotable! "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the... more
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Maybe the Tom Tom Club said, er, sang it best in Wordy Rappinghood, BUT logophile Howard Richler, author of the new How Happy Became Homosexual: and Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts, is going to explain to us how words... more
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