EPISODE · Apr 23, 2026 · 45 MIN
Women Who Won
from Herstory · host Shelby Stockton
Due to the serious nature of recent episodes, we wanted to cover women who have won a bit at life, but guess what? Even those stories are challenging. Nonetheless, Amy discusses Jane Richards, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, or other names. (She had many aliases) a Union spy during the Civil War. Shelby talks about Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiaq woman who accompanied an Arctic expedition to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, and eventually lived alone there for eight months after the other expedition members died.
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