Stuff You Missed in History Class

Operation Paperclip, also known as Project Paperclip, which was the U.S. effort to bring German scientists to the U.S. after World War II.  Learn more [Read more]

This 2011 episode is from prior hosts Sarah and Deblina. During the 17th century, the Dutch went nuts for tulips, paying exorbitant amounts for a [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about Paré’s work in context on the timeline, and then a very cool modern gardening project using the book we mentioned [Read more]

Gardening is a living history that connects us all to people and places through time. This episode covers precolonial North America, Europeans bringing their own [Read more]

Sixteenth-century barber surgeon Paré has been called everything from “the gentle surgeon” to “the father of modern surgery.” He advanced the field of medicine significantly [Read more]

Revisiting our 2016 episode on black Canadian-American Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who became the first woman in North America to publish and edit a newspaper. [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about how they decided to cover the life of Ralph McQuarrie, and discuss the breadth of his awe-inspiring work. Learn more [Read more]

In our second part of McQuarrie’s life story, we cover how Star Wars became Ralph’s most well-known area of work, but also how it led [Read more]

McQuarrie is responsible for some of the most recognizable imagery in cinema and culture. In part one, we’ll talk about his early life, his work [Read more]

This 2016 episode covers a piece of Scottish and English history that’s often simultaneously romanticized and oversimplified. It’s a great deal more complicated than any [Read more]