Women’s History with Merry Wiesner-Hanks

I speak with Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor Emerita of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and former president of the World History Association. Merry has written books like A Concise History of the World and Early Modern Europe. We talk about women's history in general and the misconceptions about the lives of women in the past.    See here for a teaching worksheet for this episode at my website https://www.davidsherrin.com/cwh   Additional books she recommends are: Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World by Catalina de Erauso A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock by Judith Bennett