Stuff You Missed in History Class

Mindy Johnson has spent years tracking down the stories of the women who shaped Walt Disney’s life, and the success of the Walt Disney Studios. [Read more]

Today we revisit a Sarah and Deblina episode from 2011. In 1872, the Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria Woodhull for president, but her radical views [Read more]

Magnus Hirschfeld was a groundbreaking researcher into gender and sexuality in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was dedicated to [Read more]

Today we’ve got our live show from our recent East Coast tour, all about Anne Royall. She was a travel writer and a muckraking journalist [Read more]

Today we revisit an episode from prior hosts Sarah and Deblina. Between in 1917, hundreds of women got jobs applying radium-treated paint to various products. [Read more]

As Anne matured and her marriage fell apart, she continued to travel between the Arabian desert and England, always working to improve her horse breeding [Read more]

Anne was the daughter of Ada Lovelace (and the granddaughter of Lord Byron). While she was born into England’s aristocracy in the 19th century, her [Read more]

Today’s episode revisits preacher John Humphrey Noyes founding the Oneida community in 1848. In this episode, Deblina and Sarah recount the rise and fall of [Read more]

Christine de Pizan is often described as a late-Medieval writer. But just “writer” does not really sum up everything she did. She wrote  verse, military [Read more]

We’re delighted to have Anne Byrn back on the show to talk about her latest book, “American Cookie.” Anne shares her vast knowledge of historical [Read more]