Welcome to the History Chicks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

This episode of the History Chicks is brought to you by the new podcast called Dog Smarts.

Each episode features researchers and academics that tackle the questions of language, memory, intelligence, and even love as they pertain to our dogs.

You can subscribe to Dog Smarts on iTunes now.

We'd like to welcome a new sponsor to the History Chicks, the Great Courses Plus Video Learning Service,

we're so excited to tell you about the Great Courses Plus because like us, we know your love of learning certainly didn't end when you left school.

The Great Courses Plus is offering one month free to our listeners to watch as many lectures as you want from the list of thousands all type of top professors.

You just need to visit thegreatcoursesplus.com slash chicks.

A brief note on sound quality, mm-hmm, Skype was just having one of its days, I think.

So there's a lot of those drip drop noises that Skype likes to put in. I'm not really sure how they accomplished that.

Anyway, we cleaned it up the best we could, I hope you enjoy it, and now on with the show.

Hello, and welcome to the show! We have a special guest today.

With the success of the Play Hamilton, a lot of you have requested that we cover the Skylar Sisters,

but there's not been enough information out there. Uh-huh, but wait.

Let's introduce our guest, Amanda Veil, lover of history and author of documentaries, articles, and books including an upcoming biography of these very women,

your requested Skylar Sisters, and she has agreed to talk with us today about her work. Welcome!

Well, thank you for calling me. I'm excited to talk to you.

Oh, I was so excited when I found online that you were writing this book. I was like, yes, yes, our people are going to love this.

Well, I'm so excited that people want to know, and it is the best thing that a writer can ever, ever hear is that people want to know about what they're writing about.

Can you tell us anything about the book itself? When is it coming out?

When is coming out? Well, depending on when I finish it, and I have really just begun the research in the past few months. I've started working on it.

So the process of writing a biography is a long one. You can take as much as, if you look at Robert Carrow and his London Johnson biographies, they take 10 years to write just one volume.

...