• Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

By: R2 Studios
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  • Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant is a podcast that showcases 18th and early 19th-century women’s letters that don’t always make it into the history books. Join historian Kathryn Gehred and her guests as they explore the lives of women and the world around them through their letters.
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Episodes
  • Episode 51: "O Women of America!"
    May 22 2024

    Woman's Political Future - An Address by Frances E. W. Harper to the Chicago World's Fair, 20 May 1893. In which Harper champions morality, civil rights, and civic duty in Jim Crow America.

    Featuring Chole Porche, Ph.D. candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.

    Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant is a production of R2 Studios, part of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

    Find the official transcript here.

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    35 mins
  • Episode 50: The Feathers are the only Tolerable Ones
    Apr 16 2024

    Martha Washington to Eleanor Parke Custis, c. February 1797. In which Washington warns her granddaughter that her dress may not arrive from Philadelphia in time for a Virginia ball.

    Featuring Dr. Alexandra Garrett, Assistant Professor of History, St. Michael's College.

    Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant is a production of R2 Studios, part of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

    Find the official transcript here.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 49: Deposition of Phillis Tatton
    Mar 19 2024

    Deposition of Phillis Tatton, 3rd November 1837
    In which Phillis Hinkley Saunders Tatton appeared before the County of Probate in the state of Connecticut in an attempt to secure a pension for her late husband’s service during the American Revolutionary War.

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    43 mins

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