Stuff You Missed in History Class

In 1944, one of the most disastrous fires in U.S. history broke out during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performance. Dozens of [Read more]

The Night Witches were an all-female bombing regiment in the Soviet Air Force. Flying biplanes meant for dusting crops and training new recruits, they dropped [Read more]

She’s often called the greatest female painter of the Baroque period, though there were only a few to compare her to. Her work is extraordinary, [Read more]

This massive medieval manuscript, nicknamed “The Devil’s Bible,” contains multiple lengthy entries, a few shorter pieces, and several illustrations. Written by a single scribe, the [Read more]

Though the Brown v. Board ruling overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, it didn’t suddenly solve the segregation problem and end racism in the United States. Learn [Read more]

It would be next to impossible to have ever had a class on American history or the American Civil Rights Movement and not heard about [Read more]

Dr. Leo Baekeland, the inventor of the first synthetic plastic, was a wealthy man at a young age thanks to his innovation in photograph developing. [Read more]

The ruling in this infamous U.S. Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities were equal. But most people [Read more]

Once several cases of narcolepsy were documented in the late 1880s, study of the condition became more common. But it was well into the 20th [Read more]

People were experiencing sleep disorders long before they were studied to the degree they are now. The first European account of narcolepsy appeared in the [Read more]