The Exploress Podcast

Of all the civilizations in the ancient world, Egypt was perhaps the most prone to the miraculous. They invented many wo... Read more

Mid-19th century America was a pretty buttoned-up place. Or was it? For women, marriage and family was their destiny, th... Read more

Let's travel back to ancient Rome and meet the women who lived amid this ancient-world juggernaut. Many are Roman citize... Read more

Ancient Greece is notorious for keeping women silent, veiled, and firmly fixed beside the loom. But was life for the lad... Read more

Look for the word 'prostitute' in 19th-century America and you'll find it everywhere. But it went far beyond a job descr... Read more

Victorian America was a very haunted place, and by mid-century the Spiritualist movement was sweeping through it. People... Read more

Welcome to a day in the life of an ancient Roman matrona. Now that we've learned a bit about Rome's overarching history,... Read more

The soldiers called them angels, but they were warriors: They battled bullets, disease, terrible medical knowledge, and ... Read more

The ancient Greeks told lots of stories about the Amazons: the mythic bands of warrior women that Hellanikos of Lesbos d... Read more

When it comes to the words that made it through time to us, ancient Greece is particularly loud with men’s voices. But i... Read more

Welcome to a day in the life of an ancient Roman matrona. In Part 3 of our exploration of a Roman woman's day, we go out... Read more

Ancient Greek queen Olympias went to epic lengths to ensure her son Alex ended up on the throne. In doing so, she helped... Read more

America's Wild West evokes images of grizzled men in fringed chaps, but women were also there to help shape the frontier... Read more

Ancient Greece is notorious for keeping women silent, veiled, and firmly fixed at the loom. But was life for women in pl... Read more

Let's continue exploring the lives of ancient Egypt's female pharaohs. We'll start by talking about Hatshepsut's rise to... Read more

In ancient Egyptian, the word "pharaoh" doesn’t mean king; it means “great house”. They had no word for queen at all. Al... Read more

Let's continue our day as an everyday lady in ancient Egypt's New Kingdom during the 18th Dynasty. We'll talk about what... Read more

When we think of a Civil War soldier, it's a man we see. But there were women out there on the battlefield, too - hundre... Read more

In Part 1 we met Olympias, Alexander the Great's mother, and saw her navigate some savage drama to get her and her son t... Read more

The ancient Greeks told lots of stories about the Amazons: the mythic bands of warrior women that Hellanikos of Lesbos d... Read more