Stuff You Missed in History Class

When we last left the story of W.C. Minor, he’d fatally shot a man in London. In the conclusion of this episode, Sarah and Deblina [Read more]

For every Al Capone, there was a cast of lesser-known men who were often just as dangerous. In this episode, Sarah and Deblina explore the [Read more]

In 1991, two hikers in the Alps found a mysterious body. The frozen mummy turned out to be a 5,300-year-old man — a discovery that’s [Read more]

In the first part of this episode, we look at the early days of William Chester Minor. Minor originally studied medicine and served and practiced [Read more]

In part two of this episode, we continue to uncover some of the most interesting historical discoveries of 2011, from the world’s oldest winery to [Read more]

In this two-part episode, we take a look at some of the most interesting historical finds of 2011, from one of Captain Henry Morgan’s pirate [Read more]

During the first Christmas of World War I, British and German soldiers laid down their weapons and celebrated the holiday together. They sang carols, traded [Read more]

The Halifax Explosion was one of history’s worst man-made, non-nuclear explosions. The disaster killed about 2,000 people, and part of the city was completely leveled. [Read more]

The men who are usually credited with discerning DNA’s structure won the Nobel Prize in 1962, but they used Rosalind Franklin’s research. In 1952, she [Read more]

Fritz Haber has a mixed legacy. The Nobel-Prize-winning Father of Chemical Warfare was responsible for fertilizers that fed billions, as well as poisonous gasses used [Read more]