Stuff You Missed in History Class

It’s divisive figures week! Holly and Tracy discuss the difficulty in sorting out the reality of Lorenz’s work, because of the polarized view of him [Read more]

Ray Bradbury said Hugo “made us fall in love with the future.” But he’s also been berated as a hack whose proclamations about what does [Read more]

Lorenz is credited with developing treatments that addressed pediatric orthopedic problems. During his lifetime, he was both celebrated and protested within the medical community.  Learn [Read more]

Part two of our Fort Shaw classic covers the four months the Fort Shaw Indian School women’s basketball team spent at the 1904 St. Louis [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about the localization of copycat companies in the cleaning industry, and Holly shares how her robotic vacuum met its untimely end. [Read more]

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has come up in a lot of research for the show. Schomburg the man was an Afro-Puerto [Read more]

Tracking the history of how we clean and why our cleaning needs have shifted also tells the story of human progress in a wider sense. [Read more]

This 2017 episode covers the Fort Shaw Indian School , part of a boarding school system designed to make Native American students conform to white [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss the difficulty of covering the Dreyfus Affair, including the contextual history that needs to be covered for it. They also talk [Read more]

The court-martial and exile of Alfred Dreyfus was such big news that it started to be referred to simply as “The Affair.” And it divided [Read more]