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This 2014 episode covers attacks on women and children of Gevaudan in the 1760s, which sparked a huge push to hunt and kill the mystery [Read more]

Some of the Chicago White Sox players confessed to taking a bribe to lose the 1919 World Series on purpose, but they never admitted to [Read more]

As promised in July, we have some Unearthed this fall! We’ve got past episode updates,  cannonballs, things that are oldests and firsts, textiles, edibles and [Read more]

We’re revising a 2014 episode today. In the late 1700s, medical colleges needed cadavers for educational dissection, but there were no legal means for obtaining [Read more]

Holly sat down with Sarah Roberts, the Vice President of Goizueta Gardens and Living Collections at the Atlanta History Center, to talk about making history [Read more]

Liston is most known for a tale about how multiple deaths resulted from one of his surgeries. But that means that his entire biography as [Read more]

Today’s classic from 2014 features Hetty Green. She was the wealthiest woman in the U.S., skilled when it came to amassing a fortune. But her [Read more]

She was the Spanish empire’s most widely published poet of her time, and her work has survived until today, but not her own thoughts about [Read more]

Venetian portraitist Carriera achieved a surprising level of success in the male-dominated European art world of the early 1700s. Her work helped popularize pastels and [Read more]

We’re revisiting a 2013 episode about John Harvey Kellogg. His last name is famous for breakfast cereal, but was a 19th-century doctor with some unique [Read more]