Stuff You Missed in History Class

While Duplessis had ingratiated himself to voters as a man of the people, he was not exactly viewed as a saint. He’s often described as [Read more]

Maurice Duplessis is described as everything from a lovable rogue to a political beast. He served as Premier of Quebec for longer than any other [Read more]

Abelard was a poet, philosopher and theologian; Heloise was one of his students. This is a tragic love story, complete with lovers forced apart, a [Read more]

Casanova led a life so full of sex and adventure that today we call any particularly charismatic and successful lover by his name. But he [Read more]

Rosa’s arrest for breaking bus segregation laws catalyzed the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the keystones in the American Civil Rights Movement. It was widely [Read more]

Anyone who has ever heard about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States is sure to know that Rosa Parks refused to give up [Read more]

Crown Prince Sado of Korea — sometimes called Korea’s “Coffin King” — has been described as insane, depraved and sadistic, but when you examine his [Read more]

History is written by the victors. But one big exception to that conventional wisdom is the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which Native Americans rose [Read more]

You may never have heard of him, but Avicenna was one of the first, and probably the most influential, Islamic philosopher-scientists. He’s listed among the [Read more]

So how did Ancient Egyptians actually embalm their dead? Thanks in large part to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, we have some great descriptions of what [Read more]