Stuff You Missed in History Class

Like any grand old hotel, the Grove Park Inn has quite a history, involving real medicine, patent medicine, famous writers and inventors, several wars, and [Read more]

Starting in the late 1700s and running for a century, small rural communities in New England were sometimes stricken with a panicked fear that the [Read more]

The second part of the Luis Alvarez episode covers his time as part of the Manhattan Project designing detonators for atomic bombs. Beyond his controversial [Read more]

Luis Alvarez was a physicist whose broad interests connected him to some of the 20th century’s most influential moments, including the bombing of Hiroshima and [Read more]

Phylo T. Farnsworth is called the “Father of Television” — his initial idea for electronic television came to him as a teen. He’s also become [Read more]

Mendez v. Westminster fought the segregation of Mexican-American students in the state of California in the 1940s — and it went on pave the way [Read more]

In 1848, Phineas Gage experienced a catastrophic brain injury and survived — though altered — for more than 11 years. Over time, he morphed into [Read more]

Marie Taglioni is considered THE ballerina of the Romantic era. She’s often credited with revolutionizing, restyling and redefining dance, though her father was a significant [Read more]

Chester was the first African American war correspondent working for a major daily paper, covering the U.S. Civil War. He also had a troubled relationship [Read more]

About 200 miles southeast of Lima, Peru, between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, there are lines etched into the desert. The glyphs have [Read more]