Stuff You Missed in History Class

When the S.S. Arctic joined the Collins line fleet in the 1850s, it was by all accounts a glorious ship. But in 1854, the steamer [Read more]

The Battle of Hastings is often boiled it down to a sentence: The Normans invaded Britain in 1066, and their victory ended the Anglo-Saxon phase [Read more]

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was a chemist, biologist, geologist, physiologist, and economist. But at the end of the day, he’s most often referred to as the father [Read more]

Time for something completely different! There are a few questions that we get asked over and over. Today, we answer four of the most-common queries [Read more]

The second part of 2013’s historical finds includes items unearthed by animals, amateurs and ultra-modern science. Lead coffins, rare torpedoes and mass graves are featured. [Read more]

What historical revelations revealed themselves in 2013? So many, we need two episodes to cover them all. From Viking jewelry to lost Doctor Who episodes [Read more]

During the terrible winter of 1880 and 1881, which was immortalized in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “The Long Winter.” Laura, both real and fictional, was going [Read more]

For many people, Laura Ingalls Wilder is the primary source of information of what life was like for white people on the American frontier. But [Read more]

Why did lions in the Tsavo region start to attack humans in the first place? Modern behavioral and scientific research has given us some surprising [Read more]

In 1898, two male lions killed and ate dozens of people in Tsavo and shut down construction of the Uganda Railroad. Lt. Col. John H. [Read more]