Stuff You Missed in History Class

Charles Addams was a compelling figure. He visited cemeteries for fun, he raced cars, he collected crossbows. But Addams surprised a lot of people in [Read more]

The sinking of the SS Princess Sophia was a massive tragedy for both Canada and the United States. But it was also really overshadowed by [Read more]

Today we revisit an episode from 2014. Before Charles Worth, the idea of ready made clothes for purchase didn’t really exist. Neither did the idea [Read more]

This uninhabited Italian island that has come to be called all manner of scary things, including, “plague island,” “island of ghosts,” and “the Venetian island [Read more]

Violet Paget, more often known by her pen name Vernon Lee, was a historian and an art and literary critic, and she wrote on myriad [Read more]

We’re revisiting a 2013 tale of a witch trial. Decades before the Salem trials, an East Hampton woman was tried for witchcraft. Before Lion Gardiner’s [Read more]

We’re coming up on the centennial of the act of heroism that earned Alvin York the Medal of Honor. His name is known thanks to [Read more]

Her story is often told in a sort of sloppy shorthand: She went to Los Angeles to become an actress, failed, and then became desperate. [Read more]

Today we’re revisiting an episodefrom Sarah and Deblina about Mary Anning. She started hunting for fossils in Lyme Regis in the early 1800s. Around 1811, [Read more]

In part two of this interview, Mindy busts some myths about women and their work in the Walt Disney Studio, and shares some stories of [Read more]