Stuff You Missed in History Class

Holly and Tracy talk about Holly’s childhood perceptions of Isadora Duncan and how the famous dancer broke convention. They also talk about the peccadillos of [Read more]

The comforts afforded by fame were forever clouded for Duncan by an ongoing series of tragedies, leading right up to the famous – and horrifying [Read more]

Duncan, often called the mother of modern dance, had an unconventional upbringing, and a VERY unconventional life. Her early life was full of struggle but [Read more]

This 2012 episode covers the 1936 Berlin Olympics and African-American sprinter Jesse Owens, as well as the games as Nazi propaganda. More nations than ever [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about how young everyone had been during the Mississippi Freedom Summer, voter suppression, and Holly’s trick to stop crying when recording. [Read more]

W. Montague Cobb was the first Black person in the U.S. to earn a PhD in physical anthropology, worked to debunk racist theories in the [Read more]

The Mississippi Summer project of 1964, now known as Freedom Summer, was a in part a voter registration project that was met with an extremely [Read more]

This 2018 episode covers Gertrude Stein, an icon in the world of modernist literature. Alice B. Toklas is often described as her partner and assistant, [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about Spain’s effort to spread the smallpox vaccine, and how Balmis handled things. They also discuss fear about vaccines, bodily autonomy, [Read more]

With the smallpox vaccine established, Spain’s wanted to deliver it to its colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean. Francisco Xavier de Balmis carried the [Read more]