I love learning about fascinating women in history. But so often, it feels like I’m appreciating them in a cultural vacuum. I mean, what was it really like to be them? To live in their particular time, place, and circumstance?

Welcome to The Exploress, a narrative history podcast where we’ll go time traveling through women’s history, era by era, immersing ourselves in the lived experiences of historical women. We’ll explore a day in the life of your average woman from a variety of different time periods, countries, and cultures, uncovering both the mundane and the bizarre. We’ll walk a mile in her shoes — and learn what shoes she was actually wearing. We’ll discover how women were expected to meet society’s demands to better understand all the ways they subverted them. We’ll go questing for the women behind the famous names we think we know, and meet ladies you’ve probably never heard of. So, lace up your boots.

let’s go traveling.

Welcome to season 6! Catch up on the latest episodes.

Episode highlights include: Civil War Nurses, Lady Spies, Lady Soldiers, Sex & Prostitution in the 19th Century, Spiritualists & Mediums, Pioneer Women, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, A Lady’s Life in 19th Century America, and more. Listen Here!