Articles by Stuff You Missed in History Class

This 2012 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina covers Johann Dippel. Originally a theology student, Dippel began dabbling in chemistry, medicine and alchemy. Today [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk casually about the week’s episodes, featuring the photography career of Frances Johnston and the devastation of San Francisco in 1906. Learn [Read more]

On the morning of April 18, 1906, an event that lasted less than a minute changed San Francisco forever. An earthquake and a series of [Read more]

Fannie Johnston is tied to SO MANY people and events that we have talked about on the show before. She’s like a history nexus point. [Read more]

This 2014 episode came up recently because of the event’s inclusion on a television show. “Black Wall Street” was a nickname for Greenwood, a vibrant [Read more]

This is a new feature for the show! On these Friday minisodes, Tracy and Holly will talk in more candid terms about the week’s episodes [Read more]

Couney ran incubator sideshows, featuring premature babies. This is complicated -Couney was making money from these attractions, and his medical experience was questionable. But at the [Read more]

England’s largest and deadliest set of witch trials were largely influenced by one man – Matthew Hopkins, who was known as the Witchfinder General, even [Read more]

Reaching back to a 2014 episode on Maria Tallchief, a Native American dancer who was the first grand ballerina of the United States. Through her [Read more]

In the 1860s, Mumler rose to fame as a photographer of spirits. Whether Mumler was earnest or was just fleecing people is a tricky question, [Read more]