Wilder

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History

15 Episodes

  1. The Sicilian Inheritance Ep 1: LORENZA

    Published: 5/17/2024

  2. BONUS: "Oh, that Nellie Oleson!" with Alison Anrgrim

    Published: 10/20/2023

  3. 10. “It can never be a long time ago.”

    Published: 8/31/2023

  4. BONUS: Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires

    Published: 8/17/2023

  5. BONUS: A chat with Melissa Gilbert

    Published: 8/10/2023

  6. 9. The Business of Laura

    Published: 8/3/2023

  7. 8. Little Landon on the Prairie

    Published: 7/27/2023

  8. 7. The Problem of Laura

    Published: 7/20/2023

  9. 6. Outside the Little Houses

    Published: 7/13/2023

  10. 5. This American Life

    Published: 7/6/2023

  11. 4. Daughter Dearest pt. 2: Politics and Rose

    Published: 6/29/2023

  12. 3. Daughter Dearest pt. 1: The Hurricane

    Published: 6/22/2023

  13. 2. Heroine with a Thousand Faces

    Published: 6/15/2023

  14. 1. "Now is Now"

    Published: 6/8/2023

  15. Introducing "Wilder"

    Published: 6/1/2023

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Jack Kerouac but make it a girl with braids. Carrie Bradshaw, but without the sex, and also braids. An American Icon. An American Odyssey. American propaganda. Violently so, in some cases. Laura Ingalls Wilder is evergreen. For better or worse. Since the first Little House book was published in 1932, generations of readers have flocked to Laura’s cozy stories of the Ingalls family settling the Western frontier. The series inspired a TV show, pageants, and entire fashion lines. Behind this franchise is a woman who experienced almost a full century of American history. She’d made her first trips in a covered wagon, and eventually flew on a jet plane. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life and legacy remain as powerful, mesmerizing, controversial, and violent as the America she represents. In a country currently at odds with itself and its history could there be a better time for an exploration of this woman?