Stuff You Missed in History Class

Viola Roseboro’ isn’t well-known today, but she played a big behind-the-scenes... more

This 2016 episode covers the May 30, 1948 flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon. What reall... more

Tracy talks about a strange statement in a paper she read while working on the Carlos J. F... more

Samuel Hartlib doesn’t exactly spring to mind when thinking about influential figure... more

Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban doctor who did a lot of work to understand the spread of Ye... more

This 2022 episode covers Deborah Sampson, who could count William Bradford and Myles Stand... more

Holly shares a quote from Daniela Lippi about the importance of ongoing learning in the re... more

Disneyland's opening seemed like an impossibility throughout the construction process. Hol... more

In 1993, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy was damaged by a car bomb. But this story s... more

This 2019 episode covers the Regulator War, aka the War of the Regulation, aka the Regulat... more

Tracy shares why Bhagat Singh Thind rocketed to the top of her topics list. Holly shares a... more

The Carrington Event was a massive geomagnetic storm that happened in 1859. It led to expa... more

United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind was a 1923 case that hinged on what it meant to be whi... more

This 2023 episode covers the Insular Cases, which are SCOTUS cases regarding rights of peo... more

Holly talks about how small the circle of London intellectuals was in John Graunt's time. ... more

There are so many things in our modern world that we presume are fairly recent inventions.... more

John Graunt was a shopkeeper in 17th-century London who followed his own curiosity to a ra... more

This 2019 episode marked 100 years since a wave of racist violence in the U.S. that became... more

Holly and Tracy commiserate about sending greeting cards. Tracy talks about how she shifte... more

The Memphis Massacre was a truly horrific wave of destruction and violence, including sexu... more

Humans have been exchanging tokens of friendship since before recorded history. From calli... more

This 2019 episode covers the color blue, the most popular color in many parts of the world... more

Tracy shares struggles that she encountered pulling together this edition of Unearthed. Sh... more