Victoria Woodhull, Revisited

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | AIRWAVE

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Here in the US, voting for the 2020 Presidential election has begun so we're revisiting the life of the very first woman to run for the American Presidency in 1872. Victoria Woodhull crafted a life for herself from very raw materials, she traveled from an abusive childhood to an aristocratic end and, throughout it all, was a woman ahead of her time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely
0:05.7	coincidental.
0:06.7	Hi, it's Susan.
0:09.2	2020 is a presidential election year here in the United States.
0:13.1	While the official voting day is November 3rd, voting has already begun.
0:17.6	Early voting, mail-in voting, absentee voting, has already started.
0:21.6	The election is in progress.
0:23.7	So Becca and I thought it was a good time to remaster and revisit our 2016 coverage of
0:28.8	the very first woman who ran for the office of President of the United States years before
0:34.5	women could even vote.
0:35.9	If you're thinking that she would need to be unique and bold and free thinking, you would
0:41.0	be absolutely right.
0:42.7	We'll be back in two weeks with a brand new episode.
0:46.1	And now on with the show.
0:49.5	And here's your 30-second summary.
0:54.3	Victoria Woodhoell went from rags to riches to rags to riches to rags to riches.
0:59.8	Hooray!
1:00.8	And smash glass ceilings as she went from Wall Street to the publishing world to the very
1:04.8	steps of the White House.
1:06.5	She was the first woman to run for the American presidency in 1872.
1:12.5	Let's talk about Victoria Woodhoell.
1:14.7	But first, let's drop her into history.
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