Stuff You Missed in History Class

Tracy and Holly discuss what it feels like, as people who study history, to live through an event that you know will be historically significant. [Read more]

This 2014 episode coverts he 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, which killed somewhere between 20 million and 50 million people. Nobody cured it, or really successfully [Read more]

Holly and Tracy discuss the advance casualness of recording entirely from home, as well as Max von Pettenkofer’s psyche, and the fairly recent rise of [Read more]

How did the U.S. get to the point of having this one resource, specifically for poisoning, that’s so reliable and available that it gets printed [Read more]

Pettenkofer’s ideas about how cholera spread weren’t exactly right, but they still had really beneficial impacts on the way we live. Learn more about your [Read more]

In this 2010 episode, previous hosts Sarah and Deblina trace the life of Tagore through his childhood to knighthood and beyond. Learn more about your [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about aspects of Zanzibari culture that Holly had not considered prior to this week’s episode, and Tracy’s rewatch of “A League [Read more]

In fall 2017, we talked about a strange cultural phenomenon. For a brief window from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, people in the [Read more]

In 2017 we covered the offbeat life of Marchesa Luisa Casati. While many have admired heiress Casati over the years for her life led entirely [Read more]

In 2015, we talked about Franz Liszt, who was a pianist, a composer and a conductor, and basically the first rock star who drove fans [Read more]