Badass Women of America
This podcast is about the women in history who broke barriers and made history yet you probably have never heard of them. Join us each week for a new episode about a woman or women who fought in wars, were amazing explorers, were pioneers in aviation – women who weren’t in our history books. These were exciting, brave, adventurous women who helped shaped this country. Join me, Kit and my friend Sherlock, as we share the exciting stories of these women whom you will want to know. These are the Badass Women of America.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2025
Two Great Ladies of New York
The stories behind the Statue of Liberty and the erection of the Brooklyn Bridge are more interesting than you can imagine.
The construction of the Statue of Liberty didn't happen becaus…
What Suffragettes Suffered for Women's Right to Vote
The suffragettes were not women who only marched with banners in the streets of our country. They were women who for decades were beaten, imprisoned, ostracized, ridiculed and tortured…
Trailblazing Women Doctors of the 1800-1900s
Elizabeth Blackwell and Alice Ball - two women doctors who made history long, long, long before we were born!
Elizabeth Blackwell tried multiple times to get accepted into a medical scho…
Women Codebreakers of WW2-they helped win the war
This episode is about the untold women both black and white who were codebreakers that ended World War II two years earlier than expected because of their incredible ability to break co…
Women Codebreakers Who Helped Win WW1 and WW2
In 1917 11,000 brilliant women were recruited by the US Navy to be codebreakers during World War 1 to fight the enemy.
These women were instrumental in saving lives by their ability to…
Women in Law Enforcement from the 1890s
Women who made a difference!
- Detective Sergeant Marie Owens hired in Chicago in 1889.
- Detective Lola Baldwin hired in Portland, Oregon in 1908.
- US Deputy Marshal F.M. Miller appointed in 1…
Stunt Girls or Journalists? The Bravest Women Reporters of the 1880s.
The newspaper editors and the public in 1880 couldn't call women investigative reporters - that's what the men were called so women reporters were dubbed "Stunt Women" and weren't take…
Women Inventors from 1700s to 1900s
Women have been inventing for centuries! Join Kit and Sherlock as they dip into the plethora of women who have been inventing products from ice cream makers to airplane mufflers.
Invent…
Women Arrested For Wearing Pants - from 1852 to 1938
It may seem like a frivolous thing but even today women lawyers are forbidden to enter some courts wearing pants!
How much longer are we going to be told who we are and what we should we…
Cowgirls of the Wild West
What is a cowgirl? Ranch hand, ranch owner, Wild West performer, rodeo competitor, horse trainer, stagecoach driver, outlaw, cattle rustler - so many definitions. But the ultimate def…
Homesteaders - Women Who Claimed the West - Part 2
Join us, Kit and Sherlock, as we share the stories of four women homesteaders in the Wild West.
The more we read about the women who came before us the more inspired we become.
Be inspire…
Women Homesteaders - single women who claimed the West
Over 100,000 single women took advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and for the first time claimed land in their own name.
These women are not in our history books. These women were i…
Wild West - Women Stagecoach Drivers
Stagecoach drivers had the hardest job at the time. Blizzards, rain, wind, bandits, and predators plagued their routes. Driving a six-horse team through the night these women were det…
Women of the Wild West - Outlaws and Gamblers
Not every woman in the 1800s succumbed to the Victorian era of rules and don'ts. Some went their own way - sometimes with good results and sometimes not so good results.
Today's episode…
My Mother-In-Law the Pilot
My mother-in-law, Marilyn Reber, was a woman who gently pushed against the pressures of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s to be the woman she wanted to be rather than the woman that society th…
Women Test Pilots of WW2
25,000 brave women applied to be test pilots in 1942 for WW2. 1,074 made it into the program. These women were the best of the best pilots in America! They flew planes that men refus…
Pancho Barnes - Aviator Extraordinaire
Pancho Barnes was one of a kind. A daredevil who partied hardy from the 20s to the 50s and one of the best pilots of her time, if not the best. The first woman stunt pilot in Hollywoo…
Bessie Coleman - First African American Woman Pilot
Bessie Coleman was a pioneer of aviation. The first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921.
Bessie earned money as a "barnstorming" stunt flier drawing thousands of pe…
The True Story of Women in Aviation in 1907 America
Join Kit and Sherlock to hear about the original American women of aviation starting in 1907. Nearly two decades before Amelia Earhart there were dozens of American women who not only …
The Darling of the Confederacy
Join us to hear the amazing story of Private Jane Perkins, a soldier in the Danville Artillery during the Civil War. Hear her heroic story of three years in battle, capture, imprisonme…