Stuff You Missed in History Class

Today, we’re going back to  an episode about kitties in history! The human culture shift to an agricultural lifestyle started the domestication of animals. Cats [Read more]

Elbridge Gerry signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. Gerrymandering is the drawing of political districts to give a particular party [Read more]

Brown was born into slavery and escaped in an astonishing way. His story of gaining his freedom was so sensational that he basically spent the [Read more]

Today we’re revisiting an episode from Sarah and Katie. Born in 1864, Nellie Bly wasn’t your average journalist. She feigned insanity to gain entry into [Read more]

The Battle of Cajamarca, also known as the Massacre of Cajamarca, ultimately led to the end of the Inka Empire. But it might have gone [Read more]

Great Britain’s relationship with tea is part of its cultural identity. But before the mid-1800s, China was the only source of tea, which was a [Read more]

Today we’re revisiting a talk with fashion historian April Calahan about the surprising ways that women of France protested German occupation during WWII. Learn more [Read more]

The Highland Clearances were a long, complicated, messy series of evictions in the Highlands and western Islands of Scotland, when tenant farmers were forced from [Read more]

Carnegie was a child of poverty who became one of the richest men on Earth. But his life, while largely charmed, had a massive scar [Read more]

Today’s show returns to Marian Anderson. An acclaimed contralto, Marian Anderson was barred from singing in Constitution Hall because of her race. The concert she [Read more]