Two more days to vote (in my election), folks! I'm afraid the current polls are NOT neck and neck, but there's still time for an upset if you head to my website.

Happy anniversary to Equal Credit Opportunity Act! It is truly crazy how recently women gained the right to financial independence. My episode 3.4 tells the long sorry history of women and credit.

Celebrate the day with a little spooky women's history!

The Women Voter #womenshistory #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

To that woman who thinks life would be better as a historical farmwife: please read The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder. You'll see isolation, depression, debt+inability to earn, house burning down, failed harvests, etc. The cover looks cute, but the life was hard.

C. S. Lewis, perspective reset

If everyone had better history lessons in school, the world would be a better place. Then again, I would say that wouldn't I.

Remembering Joan of Arc, whose letter to the citizens of Riom was sent #OTD in 1429 Currently on display British Library, the letter bears Joan's first known signature blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Words of advice from the Woods' Household Magazine, 1870 to Young Ladies:

Exciting news about a former subject of my show! Amalia Kussner is getting a biography by People Hidden In History . Available now for preorder. a.co/d/2m3hMyn

I had a great time talking all things laundry with Shea from the History Fix Podcast! The history of laundry is so much more fun than actually doing my laundry... #womenshistory #womeninhistory herhalfofhistory.com/2024/11/21/lau…

If you're feeling like #Christmas is a lot of unseen work by the woman of the house, then Mrs. Santa Claus is entirely on your side, even as written by the 19th century magazine writers who created her. herhalfofhistory.com/2024/12/05/mrs…