Stuff You Missed in History Class

Ambrose Bierce was a soldier, a journalist, an editor, a satirist and a philosopher. He was a complicated man with an unwavering moral code and [Read more]

It’s not a story of a person with a childhood dream of pursuing a career that wasn’t available to them. Dr. Blackwell had no interest [Read more]

Foot binding was practiced in China for more than 1,000 years — far longer than can be attributed to a mere cultural or fashion fad. [Read more]

“No taxation without representation” is often thought of as the main beef that led to the American Revolution, but it was only one of many [Read more]

After WWII ended, efforts were resumed to conquer Everest, but it took many, many teams and missions to reach the summit. Eventually, a bee keeper [Read more]

Once a British survey effort identified Peak XV of the Himalayan range as the highest point on Earth, a committee was formed with one goal: [Read more]

She was not a shy spinster who wrote some little books mostly to amuse her own family. She also was not a real-life Elizabeth Bennett. [Read more]

In the 1880s, James Reavis launched one of the most ambitious fraud schemes of all time when he claimed a huge part of the Arizona [Read more]

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters became the first African-American labor union to be recognized by the American Federation of Labor. What started as a [Read more]

The 1930 vanishing of Joseph Force Crater is considered one of the largest missing person cases in U.S. history, and has fueled decades of speculation [Read more]