Stuff You Missed in History Class

Tracy and Holly discuss the difficulty people may have with Civil War history and how surprisingly exciting Constitutional scholarship can be. Learn more about your [Read more]

Holly is joined by Kerry Sautner, Chief Learning Officer of the National Constitution Center, to discuss the museum’s mission, unlikely career paths to history, and [Read more]

The myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy was a distortion of the history of the U.S. Civil War that’s still affecting the world [Read more]

Were revisiting a 2016 episode about the uprising of the Maccabees against the Seleucid Empire during the Hellenistic period, which is an integral part of [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about the animated version of Ibn Al-Haytham’s story, Omar Sharif, waffle cones, and what to do with holiday leftovers. Learn more [Read more]

Waffles are popular and commonplace on tables and as street food around the world, but they’ve evolved a lot over time to become the syrup [Read more]

Ibn al-Haytham made massive contributions to the world’s understanding of light and vision through experiments that he did during a prolonged house arrest in the [Read more]

This is a holiday throwback to a 2017 episodes. Tasty treats associated with winter holidays have some slightly hazy origins, because the evidence of their [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss the issue of final resting places illustrated by Jim Thorpe’s story, the pronunciation of poinsettia, and plant toxicity. Learn more about [Read more]

Poinsett was a statesman who was connected to some very important moments in our nation’s history, with mixed results. He’s also credited with introducing the [Read more]