Articles by Stuff You Missed in History Class

The second part of this offbeat revisit! As the New York Sun’s series of astonishing moon discoveries concluded, most people recognized that it was a [Read more]

This offbeat 2015 episode covers a series of 1835 news articles about some utterly mind-blowing discoveries made by Sir John Herschel about the lunar surface. [Read more]

It’s a 2019 show about urine! Spoiler alert: Hennig Brand discovered phosphorous by boiling pee. But he was trying to do something else: He thought [Read more]

Back in 2014, we tackled SPAM’s story. This famous Hormel Foods product was invented in the 1930s to make use of a surplus of shoulder [Read more]

In October 2017, we talked about mysterious prints that looked like hoof marks appeared all over the English seaside county of Devon in February 1855. [Read more]

We continue out offbeat 2015 story. Once the effort to import hippos to the U.S. got the backing of a politician, two men with intertwined [Read more]

An offbeat episode from 2015: In 1910, the U.S. a meat shortage, and a water hyacinth overgrowth problem. The obvious solution to the dilemma: Import [Read more]

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, and it went on for years after WWII. These women were athletes, some of whom [Read more]

Zanzibar is a relatively tiny place, but its place in history is significant, largely because of its geographical position. Its value as a trading port [Read more]

This 2011 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina covers an often-requested topic. Shakespeare is typically associated with cultural sophistication rather than violent bouts of [Read more]