Stuff You Missed in History Class

Fair was a contemporary of Levi Strauss, living and working in San Francisco around the same time as the denim magnate, but though Fair often [Read more]

We’re revisiting an episode from 2011 featuring previous hosts Sarah and Deblina. Born in 1527 to a Welsh family, John Dee grew to become one [Read more]

Last time, we talked about the many reasons Virginia colonists were frustrated by the 1670s, including the price of tobacco, taxation, and disparities between the [Read more]

For a long time Bacon’s Rebellion was primarily interpreted as a precursor to the Revolutionary War, with patriotic colonists rising up against the tyranny of [Read more]

We’re reaching back to 2011 for an episode from Sarah and Deblina about a woman scientist. The men who are usually credited with discerning DNA’s [Read more]

Holly recently got to visit the set of LAIKA’s new film “Missing Link,” and the production team there agreed to be part of an episode [Read more]

Nopcsa lived an adventurous, scholarly life, funded entirely by his family money. He identified dinosaurs, inserted himself into Albanian politics, and wrote volumes and volumes [Read more]

Today we’re traveling back to a episode from 2014 about the Battle of Hastings, which is often boiled it down to a sentence: The Normans [Read more]

The, founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America had an early life that’s somewhat surprising. But she was deeply interested in [Read more]

Our April Fool’s Day story is the tale of an elaborate hoax. It starts with the Scythians and how their artifacts became highly prized in [Read more]