Stuff You Missed in History Class

Tracy and Holly talk about the sexism that held back Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin,the desire to see her lecture notes, and stories from their education. Talk then turns [Read more]

Maria Anna Mozart is often left out of brief accounts of her brother’s life. But his sister was sharing the bench with him and was [Read more]

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an astronomer who made a lot of firsts. She grew up in a society that didn’t really prioritize education for girls, and [Read more]

This episode from 2015 covers the Night Witches, an all-female bombing regiment in the Soviet Air Force. Flying biplanes meant for dusting crops and training [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss the wealth of unearthed stories that came up this time around, as well as their favorite finds from this batch. Learn [Read more]

Part two of our autumnal unearthing report includes shipwrecks, exhumations, repatriations, and quite a bit about Vikings, and a bit of potpourri.  Learn more about [Read more]

It’s once again time to take a look at things that have been literally and figuratively unearthed over the last few months. In part one of [Read more]

Happy Halloween! To celebrate, we’re revisiting a 2014 episode. Candy and Halloween go hand-in-hand, but when did candy become the standard for trick-or-treating, and who [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about their experience with tarot cards and readings, and about the bad rap black dogs get. Happy Halloween to all of [Read more]

As we inch closer to Halloween, we’re talking about three of the MANY supernatural canines and hellhounds that have lengthy histories in our collective storytelling. [Read more]