Stuff You Missed in History Class

Once Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine, it spread from England, where he lived, to other parts of the world. Meanwhile, events were unfolding that [Read more]

This 2013 episode covered the Nazca lines in the desert about 200 miles southeast of Lima, Peru, between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about how many things don’t make it into episodes, sometimes due to cutting for narrative structure, and sometimes due to translation [Read more]

Du Châtelet challenged the philosophic and scientific world of her time, but she’s often eclipsed by her far more famous lover. Learn more about your [Read more]

Tello is often called some variation of the father of Peruvian archaeology or the first indigenous Peruvian archaeologist. And his work was playing out across [Read more]

A throwback to 2013! Sir Joseph Paxton was a 19th-century botanist who became instantly famous for the hall he designed for the Great Expo of [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about the fascination of the Griffith story and how contemporary journalists covered Griffith’s crime, as well as how his story ties [Read more]

In the early 1800s, Andrew Crosse observed a strange thing happening on an electrified rock in his lab, and he was catapulted into the public [Read more]

While the Griffith name today is associated with the Los Angeles park and the observatory, during his time, G.J. Griffith was associated with other things: [Read more]

Part two of this 2018 classic delves into the only known successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, when a white mob enacted a violent plan [Read more]