Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Scopes Trial, aka the Monkey Trial, played out in Dayton, Tennessee, in the summer of 1925. It all stemmed from a state law prohibiting [Read more]

Over the course of several days in 1934, Adolf Hitler, who was at the time the Nazi Party Leader and Reich Chancellor, directed an action [Read more]

While he’s known primarily as the astronomer who promoted the idea of a heliocentric solar system, Copernicus was also a master mathematician and a doctor. [Read more]

This installment of our impossible episodes series features a set of stories that are all about front-line heroism. Most of them are listener requests. Learn [Read more]

Cole was a lifelong prankster, but none of his stunts could compare with his scheme to gain access to the HMS Dreadnought by getting his [Read more]

The MOVE organization is often labeled as a black liberation group or a black power group, but it’s more complex than that. After a protracted, [Read more]

Although horse racing in general has been around much longer than the Kentucky Derby, including in the United States, the Derby itself has become the [Read more]

Urbanization and mechanization, and all the downsides they brought with them, had continued in Great Britain in the years since the Luddite Rebellion. In response, [Read more]

Abbott and Costello made it big in Hollywood during WWII, but the later part of their career together was beset by tragedy, money issues and [Read more]

The comedy team of Abbott and Costello created some of the most memorable sketches in history. Their perfectly balanced energy catapulted them from burlesque and [Read more]