Stuff You Missed in History Class

Tracy talks about the difficulty of finding English-language writing about another strike ... more

Holly is joined by guest host Bryan Young for a live show at Indiana Comic Con, focused on... more

The 1946 Oakland General Strike was part of a massive wave of strikes that took place in t... more

This late 2021 episode covers a strike in Flint, Michigan, which was at the heart of auto ... more

Holly and Tracy discuss the creepy nature of the Children's Morality Code project. Tracy c... more

Mary Hunter Austin was a U.S. writer known for walking throughout the American Southwest. ... more

In 1916, the National Institution for Moral Instruction had a contest to see who could com... more

This 2019 episode looks at Couney's incubator sideshows of premature babies. This is compl... more

Tracy notes the wild array of incorrect information that circulates about Lillian Exum Cle... more

Gertrude Chandler Warner's most well known writing is "The Boxcar Children." But that seri... more

Lillian Exum Clement Stafford was one of the first women in North Carolina to practice law... more

This 2020 episode covers the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The Lost Cause was... more

Tracy shares issues she has with overly reductive internet videos that misrepresent the st... more

This episode on the pellagra epidemic focuses on its prevalence in the U.S. in the early 2... more

The pellagra epidemic of the early 20th century may have been the deadliest epidemic of a ... more

This 2020 episode covers the first protest march on Washington, D.C., led by Jacob Sechler... more

Holly talks about how impossible it is to build a spite house now, thanks to municipal bui... more