Stuff You Missed in History Class

This 2022 episode examines the development of a systematic approach to food safety, which ... more

Tracy and Holly talk about their time visiting Chefchaouen during their Morocco trip. Holl... more

The reality of the Bavarian Illuminati is much less dramatic than conspiracy theories woul... more

A lot of European accounts of Sayyida al-Hurra’s life characterize her as a pirate, ... more

This 2021 episode covers Jethro Tull. Today, most people only know that as the name of a b... more

Tracy talks about papers about history written by economists. Holy talks about linoleum ha... more

Frederick Walton caused a lot of financial family friction on the way to developing linole... more

The Swing Riots took place in eastern and southern England in the years between the Luddit... more

This 2018 episode covers the Battle of Amiens, near the end of World War I. It was the sta... more

Tracy and Holly talk about experiences in intensely hot weather. Holly shares how moved sh... more

Samuel Plimsoll was an advocate for better working conditions for sailors, and for a lot o... more

Heat waves don’t get as much attention as blizzards, floods, and hurricanes, but ext... more

This 2018 episode covers Libertalia, which, in truth, may be completely fictional. It's ca... more

Tracy shares the topics she considered for the recording in the Bahamas but decided agains... more

Huxley is an example of having a good attitude about publicly acknowledging errors and lea... more

For part of its history, Nassau was a notorious hotbed of pirate activity. And it was home... more

This 2023 episode covers scarlet fever, which is treatable with antibiotics. But in the mi... more

Tracy shares her irritation with word use in a recent government report. There is also dis... more

The wrap up of things unearthed in the second quarter of 2026 includes the potpourri categ... more

Part one of the mid-year coverage of things literally and figuratively unearthed in the la... more

This 2023 episode covers how humans have worked on ways to make garments water resistant a... more

Holly and Tracy discuss how frustrating Charles Goodyear could be. Then Holly talks a lot ... more

The evolution from leather-soled shoes of the 19th century to the sneakers people wear tod... more

Charles Goodyear's work is important to so many things we have in the 21st century. But hi... more

This 2022 episode covers the development of penicillin, which started – but definite... more

Tracy shares stories of her time in London. There is also a discussion of Dorothy Crowfoot... more

After earning her first-class degree in chemistry from Oxford, Dorothy embarked on an impr... more

Dorothy Hodgkin's career in X-ray crystallography impacted a lot of science in the 20th ce... more

This 2023 episode covers Sarah Bradlee Fulton, sometimes called the Mother of the Boston T... more

Tracy talks about her visit to the Bunker Hill monument. She then describes a very early m... more