Stuff You Missed in History Class

Holly and Tracy discuss Carlota of Mexico and how that topic was chosen, as well as the many connections between subjects of history. Then, talk [Read more]

While serving as a surgeon with Napoleon’s army in the 1790s, Larrey developed a system for getting wounded soldiers off the battlefield and into treatment. [Read more]

Charlotte and her husband Maximillian became the rulers of Mexico through a plan concocted by France’s Napoleon III. But the strain of conflict there, and French [Read more]

This 2016 episode delves into how industries and governments had a really weird preoccupation with protecting people from margarine way before it was made with [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about Annie Londonderry’s cavalier relationship with the truth and the challenges of travel with the wrong clothes and bike. Then talk [Read more]

The declaration that rinderpest had been eradicated was less than 10 years, but rinderpest’s history goes back much farther than that. And the process of [Read more]

Annie Londonderry gained fame for being the first woman cyclist to circumnavigate the globe. Sort of. In the 1890s, she DID circle the globe, but [Read more]

We’re jumping back just a couple of years to an episode on Ignaz Semmelweis made a connection between hand hygiene and the prevention of childbed [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about selecting subjects for the show while living in strange times, and venture into talk about Emily Dickinson. Learn more about [Read more]

Ida Lewis lived most of her life fairly isolated on a tiny island off the coast Rhode Island. But it was a life she deeply [Read more]