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Samantha saves the day! But the real hero is the Admiral and his sweet sweet moves he puts on Grandmary. We talk all about vacations at the turn of the 20th century and how we, in general, feel kind of meh about these books. American Girlies is a production of the BabaYaga Project, brought to you by Patreon members just like you. Find our Patreon page at patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, or on TikTok or Twitter @babayagaproject.The music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they).Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective.
Samantha has a birthday party and it's not great. Her new friends try to make up for it and they end up lost in NYC. We talk urbanity and women's suffrage in this birthday episode. American Girlies is a production of the BabaYaga Project, brought to you by Patreon members just like you. Find our Patreon page at patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, or on TikTok or Twitter @babayagaproject.The music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they).Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective.
It's Christmas for our American Girlies again! This time we see what a Christmas is like for a wealthy family at the turn of the 20th century. But will Cornelia ruin the Christmas magic???American Girlies is a production of the BabaYaga Project, brought to you by Patreon members just like you. Find our Patreon page at patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, or on TikTok or Twitter @babayagaproject.The music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they).Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective.
We learn about class and school in this episode of American Girlies with Samantha! Samantha has a speaking competition that is made more complicated by the things she is learning about child labour from her new friend, Neliie.
We meet a new girlie! Samantha lives at the beginning of the 20th century and she is RICH! We talk about her introductory story, which is wild for very boring reasons and we talk about class in America at the turn of the last century. American Girlies is a production of the BabaYaga Project, brought to you by Patreon members just like you. Find our Patreon page at patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, or on TikTok or Twitter @babayagaproject.The music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they).Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective.
Kirsten starts off strong by adopting a wild racoon and letting it burn her house down, then finishes off with some light gravrobbing (?), corpse robbing? Kirsten lets a wild animal burn down her family home and remedies the issue by taking a bunch of stuff from a dead man. See what we think about giving this book to kids! American Girlies is a production of the BabaYaga Project, brought to you by Patreon members just like you. Find our Patreon page at patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, or on TikTok or Twitter @babayagaproject.The music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they).Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective.
Will Kirsten get her whole family eaten by bears? Margot talks bears and honey as we read the 5th installment of the Kirsten Saga.American Girlies is a production of the BabaYaga Project, brought to you by Patreon members just like you. Find our Patreon page at patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, or on TikTok or Twitter @babayagaproject.The music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they).Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective.
Kirsten has a birthday and it is terrible! Join us as Hannah talks us through contraception on the frontier and we are all horrified by how poorly Mama and Kirsten are treated. American Girlies is a production of the BabaYaga Project, brought to you by Patreon members just like you. Find our Patreon page at patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, or on TikTok or Twitter @babayagaproject.The music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they).Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective.
It's Christmas in Minnesota! Join the Baba Yaga Girlies as we dive into a Christmas in July episode. Sonya walks us through the history of St. Lucia and Christmas traditions and we learn about just a few of the ways that Kirsten gets herself into life-threatening trouble in these books. American Girlies is a production of the BabaYaga Project, brought to you by Patreon members just like you. Find our Patreon page at patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, or on TikTok or Twitter @babayagaproject.The music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they).Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective.
In this episode Kirsten makes a new friend, Singing Bird! Join our hosts as we discover if the Kirsten books treat the active genocide of the Indigenous peoples of North America with the care and delicacy the topic deserves, or if this character is plot device to further the idea of the inevitability of the American nation-state! So much fun!!American Girlies is brought to you by Patreon members, supporting the hard working Baba Yaga Team. Find our Patreon page at Patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, on tiktok @babayagaprojectThe music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they) Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective
Welcome to American Girlies! This is the podcast where Canadian Historians read the American Girl books! We're starting off our season of the original girls with none other than Kirsten. Join our first AG episode as we Meet Kirsten, learn all about child mortality and cholera. American Girlies is brought to you by Patreon members, supporting the hard working Baba Yaga Team. Find our Patreon page at Patreon.com/babayagaproject. Follow us on Instagram @thebabayagaproject, on tiktok @babayagaprojectThe music for American Girlies was composed and performed by Esther-Ruth Teel (she/they) Esther-Ruth can be found on instagram @estherruthorgan and their feminist music collective can be found at @sapphonix_collective
What were fashion dolls originally used for? What are Tanagra figures? And what does this have to do with American Girl dolls? Find out in this week's breaktime, where we explore the history of dolls from Antiquity to the modern day!American Girlies drops on the 4th of July, so get ready to talk all about dolls!
It's Pride Month, and this week Sonya and Margot are discussing a trans saint from history! We're talking all about St Marinos, an afab monk from the 6th century. His life had some interesting twists and turns, and we hope you enjoy hearing all about this fascinating story!
TW: discussions of vivisectionWhen did animal cruelty laws come into effect? How did people use animals in experiments in history? And why did the mistreatment of one particular dog lead to riots in London? Find out on this week's BreakTime!
Is AI sentient? Can it actually be creative? And is it even legal? We're discussing all of this and how it relates to history and the humanities more generally on this week's breaktime!
How is King Charles III involved in a Disney contract? And how did adding royals to contracts get started? Find out in this breaktime, where Sonya and Margot discuss this Disney dispute!
Why do we use money? When did people first make coins? And how did people exchange goods and services before money? Find out in this week's BreakTime!
On this week's BreakTime, Sonya and Margot have the dirt on some myths about bathing in medieval Europe.
Sam and Hannah interrupt your post-spring-forward nightmare (Daylight savings? More like daylight losings amiright?) to remind you that it could always be worse: We could still be stuck with the Romans' weird calendar, and you personally could be a genocidal dictator getting stabbed by his closest friends and colleagues.
the sound on this episode is a little weird as we were working with a less than ideal mic set up. This will not be an issue in the future. Thanks for understanding!
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