Stuff You Missed in History Class

Tracy and Holly chat about Olympe de Gouges and the less-than-robust information about her life’s details. When talking about John Dalton and color vision, discussion [Read more]

John Dalton is far more famous for his work in atomic theory. But he wrote one of the first thorough descriptions of what he called [Read more]

Olympe de Gouges is known primarily for her 1791 pamphlet “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Citizen.” But her writing and political activity went [Read more]

This much-requested 2018 episode covers how open racism and hotly contested elections led to a climate of unrest and white supremacist violence in late 19th-century [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about the travel thoughts that the show’s recent Unearthed! episode brings up. Talk also turns to the various biases that people [Read more]

In this second part of the year-end Unearthed! for 2020, topics include art, music, edibles and potables, and exhumations and repatriations, and potpourri. Learn more [Read more]

Time for a wrap up of things unearthed in the last quarter of 2020! Part one includes updates, books and letters, Vikings, mummies, and some [Read more]

This 2016 classic delves into knitting. which has been around for a long time. Exactly how long isn’t entirely clear, but we do know a [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about how small details that get changed in the retelling of history change the context of the larger story, as well [Read more]

Denis made several missteps – some of them criminal – as he tried to prove his superior knowledge in the science of transfusion. Due to [Read more]