Asylums 3: Nellie Bly, Undercover Whistleblower

06/15/22 • 30 min

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In 1887, Nellie Bly went undercover at Blackwell’s Asylum to expose its use as a holding pen for different or defiant women, and to reveal the horrors inside.

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Asylums 2: Elizabeth Packard & the Fight for Married Women’s Rights

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Elizabeth Packard has just come out of the fight of her life. She’d spent three years locked in an asylum that she had no power to get out of. Her spiteful husband had committed her and used every legal tool at his disposal to silence her powerful voice. And now, he had taken her children from her.

Elizabeth Packard was a fighter. And there was no way she was going to lay down for this fight for her children and for the rights of married women across the United States.

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Salem Witch Trials - Apologies, Cover-ups, and the Queen of Hell

In this episode, we're going to talk about something that comes up every single October, and that is the Salem witch trials. But we're going to talk about this from a very specific angle. And hopefully it’s an angle from which you’ve not really looked at the trials before. So today we'll talk about an apology, a cover up and the so-called queen of hell.

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