Stuff You Missed in History Class

Holly and Tracy talk about Madame Blavatsky’s shocking level of cigarette smoking and the surprising amount of Mother Shipton material Tracy was able to find. [Read more]

Mother Shipton may or may not have been a real person. She’s described as living in 16th-century England, and was everything from an oracle to [Read more]

Blavatsky is an iconic figure. She was the founder of the theosophical movement, and lived a life of adventure that’s hard to believe. The impact [Read more]

This 2017 episode covers the story of how, in the 12th century, two children, green in color, appeared in Suffolk, England. The green children were [Read more]

On this casual Friday chat, Tracy and Holly talk about the genius of Tanaka Hisashige, and Tracy’s frustrations at finding the more problematic aspects of [Read more]

Nina Otero-Warren was from a prominent New Mexico family, and worked in education, politics, and the suffrage movement, focusing largely on Spanish speakers. Learn more [Read more]

Tanaka Hisashige was an inventor, a craftsman and an artisan, and he lived during a time that Japan went through enormous cultural, scientific and technological [Read more]

This episode is from 2017. Whitman is often touted as the best and most important poet in U.S. history, but he also worked as a [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about the business dealings of Hollywood in context with the moral scandals that were playing out in the press at the [Read more]

Once Adolph Zukor combined his production company, Famous Players-Lasky, with Paramount’s distribution company, he had consolidate two aspects of the industry under one business. His [Read more]