55 episodi

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.

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

    Episode 52: ‘Screaming Among Her Fellows’

    Episode 52: ‘Screaming Among Her Fellows’

    Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Eliza Cabot Follen, February 18, 1828. In which Sedgwick writes to her dear friend Cabot Follen about the need for a new minister, pieces she has recently read and written, and an exquisite Valentine. 
     Featuring Dr. Patricia Kalayjian and Dr. Lucinda Damon-Bach of The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters project. Dr. Kalayjian is a Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University and the editor and project director of the Sedgwick Online Letters project. Dr. Damon-Bach is an editor of the project and a professor of English at Salem State University.
    Find the official transcript here.

    • 45 min
    Episode 51: "O Women of America!"

    Episode 51: "O Women of America!"

    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. 

    • 35 min
    Episode 50: The Feathers are the only Tolerable Ones

    Episode 50: The Feathers are the only Tolerable Ones

    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. 

    • 39 min
    Episode 49: Deposition of Phillis Tatton

    Episode 49: Deposition of Phillis Tatton

    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.

    • 42 min
    Episode 48: Political Subjects are too often at Variance

    Episode 48: Political Subjects are too often at Variance

    Elizabeth Willing Powel to Elizabeth Parke Custis, February 28, 1816. In which Powel advises Martha Washington's pro-French granddaughter to avoid talking about politics with pro-British family members. 
    Featuring Samantha Snyder, Research Librarian & Manager of Library Fellowships at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, and Dr. Cassandra Good, associate professor of History at Marymount University and author of First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America (2023). 
    Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant is a production of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. 

    • 33 min
    Episode 47: To Persevere In Grace & Faith

    Episode 47: To Persevere In Grace & Faith

    Phillis Wheatley to Obour Tanner, October 30, 1773 in which Wheatley discusses faith, her book, and a trip to England. 

    • 39 min

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