Stuff You Missed in History Class

Andrée hoped to succeed in reaching the North Pole where others had failed by doing it by air. With a seemingly endless positivity, he and [Read more]

Saponification is the process of turning to soap, and in certain conditions, cadavers do it. The Soap Lady is one of the most famous cases [Read more]

The second half of our interview with Dr. Annie Polland from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum focuses on specific figures in the building’s history [Read more]

The U.S. is, at its heart, a nation of immigrants. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum works to preserve the history of many families who [Read more]

As the New York Sun’s series of astonishing moon discoveries concluded, most people recognized that it was a hoax. But what made people buy into [Read more]

In August 1835, the New York Sun ran a series about some utterly mind-blowing discoveries made by Sir John Herschel about the lunar surface. The [Read more]

Until 1975, children with disabilities in the U.S. weren’t guaranteed the right to a public education. The ruling in Brown v. Board sparked a series [Read more]

Carousels are part of childhood, but they were originally billed as an entertainment for adults and children alike. And even further back than that, it’s [Read more]

Dr. Peters helped revolutionize the treatment of both breast cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But, at the time, her work was largely dismissed. Read the show [Read more]

The pyramids at Giza are iconic Egyptian landmarks, but they weren’t the first to appear. Djoser and his vizier Imhotep are credited with starting the [Read more]