Stuff You Missed in History Class

Holly and Tracy discuss the week’s topics, including their own experiences with Central Park, and a segment of the summer edition of Unearthed! that Tracy [Read more]

This edition of Unearthed! covers episode updates, science and history discoveries, books and letters, and potpourri. And yes, there’s (brief) talk about the Verona, Italy [Read more]

Seneca Village was a predominantly black community that built itself from the ground up. But its story is fragmented. Even though it existed at a [Read more]

We’re revisiting a 2013 two-parter. The history lesson kids often get on the Irish Famine could be summed up as “a blight destroyed the potato [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about this week’s two-parter on COINTELPRO, and how they both think about those initiatives. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com [Read more]

In part two of this topic, the show looks at some of the specifics of the COINTELPROs that targeted black liberation organizations and the New [Read more]

FBI surveillance of people associated with the civil rights movement has come up on the show many times. Today, we’re going to talk about the [Read more]

This 2017 episode covered the Scopes Trial, aka the Monkey Trial, that played out in Dayton, Tennessee in the summer of 1925. It all stemmed [Read more]

Tracy shares how she landed at the topic of Ignatius Sancho, and she and Holly discuss his writing style. Free Frank’s unique story, and how [Read more]

Free Frank McWorter was the first black man in the U.S. to design a town and establish a multi-racial community. He did this despite having [Read more]