Stuff You Missed in History Class

Holly and Tracy discuss the Lincoln’s relationship with the spiritual, and whether they can themselves juggle. Tracy shares a fun story of collectible genever bottles [Read more]

Like many spirits, gin was originally meant for medicinal or alchemical use. But eventually, people started combining juniper with alcohol to make a beverage rather [Read more]

Colchester claimed to be psychic and probably did warn President Abraham Lincoln that he was going to be assassinated. He became an icon for Spiritualism in [Read more]

This 2010 episode from past hosts Sarah and Deblina covers Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant protagonist Sherlock Holmes, who became world-famous. But was Sherlock Holmes based [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about the apples from the childhoods, fruit-based desserts, and a cocktail that Holly stumbled across while researching nachos. Grace Humiston’s tricky [Read more]

Grace was an attorney and an investigator who did a lot of work to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted, expose corruption, and, in one [Read more]

Lots of foods are named after people, but sometimes the stories of those names are hard to pin down. This episode looks at where Granny [Read more]

This 2018 episode covers one of the United States’ first successful Jewish American writers, moving in the New York literary scene of the late 1800s. [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about the aspects of the stethoscope story that didn’t make it into the episode, including the classism related to cleanliness standards [Read more]

In 1856, Foote became the first person to make a connection between the Earth’s temperature and the concentration of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere, [Read more]