Stuff You Missed in History Class

This 2021 episode covers how The Nutcracker is a Russian adaptation of a German story that... more

Tracy shares how her Charles Sumner research yielded a three-part episode. Holly mentions ... more

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s most well-known art is the Dogs Playing Poker series. H... more

The third installment of our Charles Sumner episode covers how, two days after Charles Sum... more

This 2020 episode covers the Public Universal Friend, who described themself as a genderle... more

Tracy and Holly talk about their recent podcast trip to Morocco with listeners, arranged b... more

The second installment of our episode on Charles Sumner picks up in the wake of his contro... more

The first installment of the deeper examination of Charles Sumner's life begins with his e... more

This 2019 episode covers Thomas Cook, a pioneer of the idea of a travel agency to manage t... more

Tracy and Holly talk about the proclivity for destruction that was part of the balloon cra... more

Cat litter, it could be argued, kicked off the pet products industry. After its invention ... more

Ballooning became a huge fad starting in the late 18th century, and there was a surprising... more

This 2018 episode covers the period in the late 1820s when north Georgia became the site o... more

Tracy shares the surprising benefit of not having access to a lot of specifics regarding t... more

Marjorie Merriweather Post is most often mentioned today as the person who built Mar-a-Lag... more

Mary Golda Ross was the first Indigenous woman in the U.S. known to have become an enginee... more

This 2019 episode covers Alexandre Dumas, who wrote hundreds and hundreds of works, includ... more

Tracy discusses the challenge of parsing all the nuance of the French Revolution. Holly ta... more

Before Clarence Birdseye, frozen food was perceived as being low-quality and kind of gross... more

The Great Fear was a panic during the French Revolution that spread through rural areas. I... more

This 2019 episode is about general Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, who sounds like a character out... more

Holly talks about the unsubstantiated stories associated with the Villa de Vecchi in north... more