Martha Washington, 2025

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | QCODE

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

As a tie-in to our coverage of Betsy Ambler and Ken Burn's American Revolution documentarty we decided to revisit Martha. Some called her The Mother of the Country, some curtseyed and called her Lady Washington, but no one could doubt that she was uniquely capable to shoulder the responsibilities and rigors of both war and diplomacy. Martha Washington's philosophy of "duty over inclination" became the template for future First Ladies in the newly-formed United States of America. This episode sponsored by: Hungryroot: Use code CHICKS at Hungryroot.com for 40% off your first box and a free item for life. Honeylove:Use code HISTORYCHICKS at Honeylove.com/HistoryChicks for 20% off your order. BLISSY: Use code HISTORYCHICKS at Blissy.com/HistoryChicks for 30% off and a 60-nights risk-free. Quince: Go to Quince.com/CHICKS for free shipping and 365-day returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.
0:08.1	Hello and welcome to the show.
0:10.4	Thanks to a medical situation that took a little bit longer than we had expected, and then a pretty violent windstorm that knocked out power.
0:19.9	We are going to revisit today the story of
0:22.1	Martha Washington. We thought that this was a good tie-in for the Ken Burns documentary,
0:26.9	The American Revolution, that's recently played on PBS, and we knew that a lot of you,
0:32.0	including us, were watching it. We were in a chat group with some of our friends, and they were all watching it each
0:38.7	night and talking about it. But Martha Washington ties into that as well as our coverage of Betsy
0:44.0	Ambler last month. And we will be back in a couple of weeks with a brand new episode, the one that
0:51.0	we were supposed to record this week. And now on with the show.
0:57.0	And here's your 30-second summary.
1:01.3	Though she had been brought up to competently run a large estate, young Martha never would
1:06.1	have guessed how extensive her responsibilities would grow to be.
1:09.8	Martha Washington was the template for all future first ladies
1:13.2	in the newly formed country of the United States of America.
1:18.0	The end.
1:20.2	Let's talk about Martha Washington.
1:22.7	But first, let's drop her into history.
1:24.3	In 1759, the British Museum, the world's oldest national museum,
1:29.8	opened to, quote, all studious and curious persons. Voltaire, Sattire, Candide, was first
1:36.5	published. Selling instruments, sheet music, and composition supplies, the first music store in
1:43.2	America opened in Philadelphia.
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