Well Behaved Woman Mackenzie Stanton

This episode, Mac talks about Beverly Cleary, the librarian and author of Ramona Quimby books that lived to be 104 years old.

For transcripts and/or source material, please visit wellbehavedwomanpodcast.com under "Blog." 

Photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

This episode, host Mac covers First Daughter and socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Come hear about her defying her father, Theodore Roosevelt by smoking on the roof of the White House, avoiding kissing Lyndon B. Johnson hello, and the slogan on her favorite pillow in her reading room.

For transcripts and sources, please visit wellbehavedwomanpodcast.com

Episode photo is courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian Institute.

In this episode, Mac covers Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich, who became known for her attempted assassination of the Governor of St. Petersburg.

For sources and/or a transcript, please head to wellbehavedwomanpodcast.com

[Episode photo is public domain, courtesy of the British Library.]

In this episode, Mac Stanton tells the story of the creation of the teddy bear and the making of the Steiff toy company. They were created by Margarete Steiff from Giengen, Germany. She also goes over her bout with polio, which left her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit my website wellbehavedwomanpodcast.com. Transcripts and source material are found in the "Blog" section.

Episode photo is courtesy of Steiff USA.

This week, host Mac Stanton talks about Helen Fabela Chávez, a labor activist and farm worker from southern California.

This week, Mac talks about Communist journalist Claudia Jones and her work in writing for the American Communist Party's newspaper and her experiences being deported. 

Sources and transcript are on my website, wellbehavedwoman.com under the "Blog" section.

Episode photo is a fair use image.