Stuff You Missed in History Class

Tracy and Holly talk about Tracy’s chat with Dr. Rachel Lance, and the legacy of Thomas Dorsey. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See [Read more]

For a long time, Dorsey lived a sort of double life creatively. When he combined the two forms of existing music he played, he created [Read more]

Tracy talks with biomedical engineer Dr. Rachel Lance about the cause of the H.L. Hunley disaster and the book that Dr. Lance wrote about the [Read more]

This 2017 episode covers the story of the H.L. Hunley, which really begins with the Union blockade of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Learn [Read more]

Holly and Tracy discuss the nuances of what becomes historically significant in our troubled times, and then the continued relevance of James Baldwin’s work. Learn [Read more]

James Baldwin was a brilliant essayist, one of the chroniclers of the Civil Rights Movement, and a powerful voice against racism. Learn more about your [Read more]

Holly chats with Sheffield Hale and Michael Rose of the Atlanta History Center about pandemic from the point of view of a living history institution, [Read more]

This 2015 episode covers a black U.S. Army WWI unit that became one of the most decorated of the war. When these soldiers returned home, [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about the unique identity of the Public Universal Friend, as well as whether Wat Tyler’s story inspired modern storytellers. Learn more [Read more]

There were many transitional events between the the Black Death and the Renaissance; it wasn’t a case of a one leading right to the other. [Read more]