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

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 60: Those Guardians of Liberty

33 mins; July 14, 2025

Episode 59: The Scheme I Undertake with Chearfulness

41 mins; April 21, 2025

Episode 58: Our Unnatural Enemies May Be Turned From Us

49 mins; March 26, 2025

Episode 57: Those Tumultuous Assemblies of Men

42 mins; February 24, 2025

Episode 56: The Most Dreadful Of All Enemies

38 mins; January 27, 2025

Episode 55: An Insurrection Was Hourly Expected

47 mins; December 19, 2024

Episode 54: I Am Frightened When I Look At Her

39 mins; November 25, 2024

Bonus: A Humble Origin Story

3 mins; November 04, 2024

Episode 53: By Being Almost Murdered

43 mins; October 28, 2024

Season 4: A Season of Revolution

1 min; October 21, 2024

Votes for Women!

2 mins; August 13, 2024

Episode 52: Screaming Among Her Fellows

45 mins; June 17, 2024

Episode 51: O Women of America!

35 mins; May 22, 2024

Episode 50: The Feathers are the only Tolerable Ones

39 mins; April 15, 2024

Episode 49: Deposition of Phillis Tatton

42 mins; March 18, 2024

Episode 48: Political Subjects are too often at Variance

33 mins; February 20, 2024

Episode 47: To Persevere In Grace & Faith

39 mins; January 15, 2024

Episode 46: The Ambassadress Is Nothing But Blunt

35 mins; December 18, 2023

Episode 45: You Must Not Complain Of My Silence

35 mins; November 20, 2023

Episode 44: I Am An Idiot About Play

40 mins; October 16, 2023

Episode 43: That B**** Maria Goodwin

45 mins; September 18, 2023

Season 3: A Season of Wit

2 mins; August 28, 2023

Episode 42: A Woman of Extraordinary Ability

25 mins; August 14, 2023

Episode 41: Very Eccentric & I Think a Little Crazy

27 mins; July 24, 2023

Episode 40: How Dare You Not Answer My Letter

34 mins; June 26, 2023

Episode 39: Not One Single Subject To Entertain You With

37 mins; May 22, 2023

Episode 38: A Rumor That You Abandoned Me

34 mins; March 14, 2023

Episode 37: Wounded The Feelings Of A Lady

38 mins; February 07, 2023

Episode 36: I Should Be Glad To Leave The School

53 mins; January 03, 2023

Episode 35: George Wiseacre Parke Custis

28 mins; November 10, 2022

Episode 34: That Evil Genius

36 mins; May 05, 2022

Episode 33: Any Dandridge That Ever Wore An Head

23 mins; April 19, 2022

Episode 32: Think My Dear Mistress

23 mins; April 05, 2022

Episode 31: Vile Names and Ill Language

24 mins; March 22, 2022

Episode 30: Elizabeth Sharaf-un-Nisa

48 mins; March 08, 2022

Episode 29: The Sinning Part

18 mins; February 22, 2022

Episode 28: The Quiet Tenor Of Our Lives

41 mins; February 01, 2022

Episode 27: Two Amorous Turtles

24 mins; January 18, 2022

Episode 26: Determined To Be Cheerful

38 mins; January 04, 2022

Episode 25: If A Lady CAN Be Patriotic...

36 mins; July 08, 2021

Episode 24: The Charge Of So Crazy A Body

31 mins; June 22, 2021

Episode 23: Where Decent Nature Spreads A Shade

47 mins; June 10, 2021

Episode 22: She Has Claims Upon Me

33 mins; May 25, 2021

Episode 21: Stuff A Child With Learning

32 mins; April 27, 2021

Episode 20: I Can No More

34 mins; April 13, 2021

Episode 19: "Pray did you ever hear of the famouss Mademoiselle d’eon?"

31 mins; March 30, 2021

Episode 18: Think Me Not Vain - Part 2

29 mins; March 16, 2021

Episode 18: Think Me Not Vain - part 1

44 mins; March 02, 2021

Episode 17: Oh Genie Who Directs The Hands Of Mortals!

32 mins; February 16, 2021

Episode 16: Disciplinarians

40 mins; February 02, 2021

Episode 15: Too Much Wine

40 mins; January 05, 2021

Episode 14: A Babbie Whose Wits Had Gone "A-Woolgathering" In A Windy Day

19 mins; December 22, 2020

Episode 13: Honey from Athens... but Alas! No Butter

45 mins; December 08, 2020

Episode 12: The Daemon Of Playfullness

34 mins; November 24, 2020

Episode 11: Gingerbread Such As Edy Makes

40 mins; November 10, 2020

Episode 10: You May Set To Win The Prize

35 mins; October 27, 2020

Episode 9: Begin The World Again A Newe

33 mins; October 13, 2020

Episode 8: An Indifferent Game Of Chess

38 mins; September 29, 2020

Episode 7: Strange! Most Passing Strange!

36 mins; September 15, 2020

Episode 6: Teeth

33 mins; September 01, 2020

Episode 5: An Age Of Discovery

33 mins; August 18, 2020

Episode 4: Talk Some Little About You

25 mins; August 04, 2020

Episode 3: Skipping About

32 mins; July 21, 2020

Episode 2: A Presidential Blunder

28 mins; July 07, 2020

Episode 1: Worms

14 mins; June 23, 2020

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant Trailer

2 mins; June 16, 2020

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

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