Articles by Stuff You Missed in History Class

Leicester Hemingway’s life was very much lived in the shadow of his brother. It isn’t until after Ernest Hemingway’s death that Leicester made his boldest [Read more]

This 2015 episode revisits an event that was half performance for the British troops, and half actual sham. It led to an attack on Dover [Read more]

Holly and Tracy cover their experiences with croquet and historical stories that didn’t fit into the episode, and then discuss the challenges in researching North [Read more]

King Philip’s War was an armed conflict primarily between English colonists and Indigenous nations in what’s now New England, although there were some Indigenous peoples [Read more]

Croquet’s origins are murky, but because of its relative ease of play and low barrier of entry, it went through a surge in popularity almost [Read more]

We’re revisiting a 2015 episode, where Holly chats with archaeologists Patricia Capone and Diana Loren about Harvard’s Indian College, the school’s importance to Colonial history [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss the nuances of the Equal Rights Amendment’s history, and the whaling industry that we discussed in the biography of Quaker Paul [Read more]

Cuffe protested taxation, built wealth for himself in whaling, became a Quaker and used his fortune for the betterment of others. He was also an [Read more]

The first version of the equal right amendment was first proposed almost 100 years ago. This amendment has been through cycles of support and opposition, [Read more]

This 2017 episode delves into the story of the Jamaican Maroons. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Jamaica’s Maroon communities clashed with British colonial government. [Read more]