Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is one of the modern world’s most infamous incidents of unethical medical research. The study’s researchers told its participants that they [Read more]

Whitman is often touted as the best and most important poet in U.S. history, but he also worked as a teacher and a journalist. And [Read more]

One of the most diverse things about the U.S. is its food industry. Foodies obsessively seek out the “authentic” flavors of any given culture. But [Read more]

There have been many moments in history when the world came perilously close to a full-scale nuclear war, due to false alarms or miscommunication. One [Read more]

In our second episode about Brooklyn’s 150-year-old public park, we interview three guests, each with a unique knowledge of the park’s history and its restoration [Read more]

Brooklyn’s massive public green space tells the historical story of its community. From an undeveloped tract of land, the space was developed to become an [Read more]

Writer H.P. Lovecraft created worlds and stories that continue to be influential more than 80 years after his death. His life story is at turns [Read more]

There’s really not a lot concretely known about the life of Aphra Behn, who, in addition to being a spy, was a dramatist, poet, novelist, [Read more]

Khutulun’s story is a little bit cloudy, in part because it’s many hundreds of years old, and in part because accounts of her life involve [Read more]

Jules Cotard was the first psychiatrist to write about the cluster of symptoms that would come to be called “Walking Corpse Syndrome.” But his work [Read more]