Stuff You Missed in History Class

Miss Bland was a jockey, a sports photographer, a journalist, a car dealer and a pioneer farmer. She also built Ireland’s first powered airplane, entirely [Read more]

She was a black Canadian-American who became the first woman in North America to publish and edit a newspaper. She advocated against slavery, for better [Read more]

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many cities were facing the same issue: so much horse manure, they couldn’t keep up with it. It [Read more]

Portrayals of this piece of Scottish and English history are often simultaneously romanticized and oversimplified. It’s a great deal more complicated than any one event, [Read more]

For a long time, astronomers believed that there must have been a planet lurking in the gap between Mars and Jupiter. What they found was [Read more]

The Achaemenid Empire was founded by Cyrus II in the 6th century B.C.E., and it became an empire unlike any the world had seen up [Read more]

Because of his previous ties to the Communist Party, his race, and his sexual orientation, the McCarthy era was extremely dangerous for Rustin. This was [Read more]

Bayard Rustin was an openly gay black man born in 1912. He spent his life working tirelessly for equal rights, peace, democracy, and economic equality, [Read more]

There was a whole lot more to Harriet Tubman’s life and work than her time as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. During the United [Read more]

Most people are familiar with her involvement with the Underground Railroad, but Harriet Tubman was also a spy for the Union during the Civil War, [Read more]