Kerry Chaput writes personal essays and short history pieces about remarkable women, mixing biography with commentary on how their achievements were overlooked or suppressed. The sampled issues also include raw, candid personal writing about trauma, mental health and perimenopause.
Website: https://kerrychaput.substack.com
Broad History is a history podcast and newsletter that retells familiar history with women's roles put back in. Issues include member updates and interview episodes with historians, such as a current series on witch hunts and the Malleus Maleficarum.
A historian of medieval Christianity and women's history shares reflections on evangelicalism, teaching materials, and book excerpts. Readers get annotated resources, book recommendations and commentary on gender and religion, from medieval legal records to modern church patriarchy.
Each issue profiles a little-known early medieval English woman, drawing on charters, chronicles, miracle stories and objects such as the Bayeux Tapestry and a Kent brooch. The writing is witty and well researched, giving readers context on how these women's lives are recorded and disputed.
A personal history newsletter by Elisabeth Griffith exploring the lives, rights and events of American women, from women's organizations and voting rights to Columbus and the Supreme Court. Readers get historically grounded essays with facts, citations and an accessible, opinionated voice.
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