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This 2014 episode covers Reed’s truly groundbreaking work into the causes and prevention of yellow fever, building on a foundation of other doctors and researchers. [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about the news that broke just after the start of 2023, and also how Tracy might consider eating roasted watermelon seeds. [Read more]

Part two of our Unearthed! wrap up of 2022 covers a potpourri of stuff that didn’t go together, books and letters, edibles and potables, and [Read more]

It’s time to cover things and stories that were unearthed in the last quarter of 2022. Part one covers a whole bunch of updates, a [Read more]

This 2011 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina covers an attempt to start a Scottish colony in Panama in the late 1600s. But the [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss the difficulty of remembering what topics have and haven’t been covered on the show. They also talk about group dynamics during [Read more]

The Hume and Hovell Expedition of 1824 established some of the earliest knowledge that European colonists had about the interior of the Australian continent. It [Read more]

Kittie Knox was a cyclist during the bicycle boom of the late 19th century. She was biracial and became known not just for participating in [Read more]

This 2013 episode covers Mildred and Patty Hill’s song “Good Morning to All,” published in 1893. After the tune was paired with the birthday lyrics, [Read more]

Holly and Tracy cover some of the details that were cut from the Pulitzer two-parter, including more information about his brother, artist George Luks, and [Read more]