Stuff You Missed in History Class

Katharina von Bora, Marguerite d’Angoulême and Jeanne d’Albret all left their mark on the Reformation, but all in different ways. Each of them has a [Read more]

Carl Tanzler loved a woman, and his love for her continued long after her death. But whether she loved him back is a matter of [Read more]

Today, in honor of Halloween weekend, we’re revisiting an episode about vampirism. Starting in the late 1700s and, small rural communities in New England were [Read more]

Based just on his art, you might imagine Edward Gorey as a dour Englishman, with the peak of his career sometime in the 1920s or [Read more]

After a traumatic event, strange things began happening around Esther Cox. In the 1870s, Amherst, Nova Scotia was abuzz with theories as to whether the [Read more]

We’re revisiting an episode from previous hosts! After Aaron Burr slew Alexander Hamilton in the duel of 1804, his legislative career was over. In March [Read more]

Aaron Burr’s daughter was incredibly smart and very well educated. She also vanished without a trace as an adult, and her ultimate fate is still [Read more]

Before there were superheroes, a Swiss teacher drew entertaining doodles for friends. As he developed his sketches into stories told with multiple captioned images, he [Read more]

We’re revisiting the second installment in the story of the Haunted Mansion. This one goes from concept to fully-realized theme park attraction and covers the [Read more]

In the 12th century, two children, green in color, appeared in Suffolk, England. The green children were written about in the 12th and 13th centuries [Read more]