Articles by Stuff You Missed in History Class

This 2016 episode touches on the establishment of a submarine telegraph cable to connect North America and Europe. It took ingenuity, but more than anything [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about how the 1904 marathoners were abused by race organizers, and discuss lighter stories related to one of the runners. Tracy [Read more]

This episode is about two women related to John Singer Sargent: Judith Sargent Murray was a writer and an advocate for women’s rights. Emily Sargent [Read more]

In 1904, the U.S. hosted its first Olympics. It had a host of problems. But the event that was the most dangerous for athletes was the [Read more]

This 2017 episode covers Annette Kellerman, who gets a lot of the credit for developing the women’s one-piece bathing suit. But she was also a [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about how depressing it can be to look into the history of money and politics, but how important it is to [Read more]

  The second part of our campaign finance history starts with both a scandal and reform linked to Theodore Roosevelt, and carries through to more [Read more]

Part one of our discussion of U.S. campaign financing starts before the colonies had gained their independence and covers some of the earliest ways that [Read more]

This 2014 episode – originally a two-parter – covers a perfect storm of nautical carnage: There’s a shipwreck, a mutiny and a massacre.  See omnystudio.com/listener [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about when children find historically significant items. Tracy also reads the long list of Roman items that came up in preparation [Read more]