Stuff You Missed in History Class

British hair guru Raymond Bessone became the first celebrity hair stylist by leveraging the post-war desire for glamour and his own innate skill at marketing. [Read more]

She’s sometimes called the patron saint of cats, and the story of Gertrude’s religious devotion starts when she was just a young child. Her family’s [Read more]

In 1973, after a series of earthquakes, a fissure opened up on the eastern side of the Icelandic island of Heimaey. As the eruption developed [Read more]

While the Bauhaus school is well known, and its original manifesto proclaimed an environment of equality, most of the women who went to the school [Read more]

Fashion historian April Calahan joined Holly for a talk about the surprising ways that women of France protested German occupation during WWII. Learn more about [Read more]

Insatiable hunger completely dominated every aspect of this French man’s existence in the 18th century. His life took a series of twists and turns, but [Read more]

No starving artist, Vigée Le Brun was the first woman to ever become a court painter in France when she was commissioned to paint Marie [Read more]

We get a lot of requests for topics that are very interesting, but for which there’s very little information. In some cases, those people or [Read more]

After years of protesting and resisting British rule in New York, Mulligan passed important information on to George Washington, possibly saving his life. How did [Read more]

Hercules Mulligan was indeed a real person who passed intelligence to George Washington, mostly through two means – one was an enslaved man named Cato, [Read more]