A history podcast, two best friends, one long reading list
Nerd Summer started as two best friends spending a summer getting to know the women behind the Founding Fathers — women most of us only know by their husband's name. We're taking a moment to actually introduce them. Next stop: the First Ladies.
Everyone can rattle off the Founding Fathers. Ask who Abigail Adams was beyond being married to John, or what Martha Washington was like before she was married to George, and the answers get thin fast. That's not because their stories don't exist — it's because history filed them under "wife" and moved on. This show is us pulling the file back out.
Season One is dedicated to the Founding Mothers — not as footnotes to their husbands, but as people worth knowing on their own terms. From there, we're moving chronologically into the First Ladies, women who ran the White House, ran campaigns, and often ran circles around the men whose names ended up on the portraits.
Host
Spends the school year teaching history and the summer discovering how much of it she never got to teach. Brings the primary sources and the lesson-plan instincts.
Host
Along for the ride, asking the questions a classroom never got time for. Keeps the show conversational instead of a lecture.
Chapter One
The women behind the men behind the Revolution — advisors, spies, letter-writers, and the ones who kept the country running while it was still an argument.
Chapter Two
From Martha Washington to the women who wrote the job description for "First Lady" before anyone agreed there should be one.
Chapter Three
Where the role turns into a platform — and where the history starts sounding a lot more familiar.
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