Stuff You Missed in History Class

Tracy shares a story of hunting for a Berthe Morisot exhibit and her favorite painting by the artist. She and Holly also talk about scheduling [Read more]

Holly is joined by photographer Andrew Feiler, author of “A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed [Read more]

Morisot primarily worked in oils, watercolors and pastels, and her favorite subjects were the other women in her life, often captured very tenderly in private, [Read more]

This 2019 episode covers a man who’s story is tied to SO MANY other notable historic things, including a lot of business with Sir Walter [Read more]

Holly and Tracy discuss the many different professional titles that many people in history have and how tricky it can be to select the proper [Read more]

Starting in 1755, the French-speaking Acadians were expelled from what’s now the Maritime provinces of Canada and northern Maine, with many of them eventually winding [Read more]

Torricelli was born in the middle of a heady few decades when the lives and work of people like Galileo and Johannes Kepler were changing [Read more]

Back in 2017 with the “Great American Eclipse” everywhere in the news, we walked through some of the famous eclipses in history, all while wearing [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss the surprising lack of biographical writing about Annie Jump Cannon. In contrast, they cover how much effort has been made to [Read more]

Mildred Fish-Harnack was a woman from Wisconsin who found herself at the center of a resistance group in Germany working to undermine the Nazis. But [Read more]