Stuff You Missed in History Class

In the 1920s and 1930s, Sylvia was famous for shaping up starlets, cementing the idea that Hollywood’s beauties were aspirational figures for the average woman. [Read more]

This episode reached back to 2015 for some LGBTQ history. In 1966, a restaurant in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district was the site of a violent [Read more]

Laurencin is a difficult painter to study. In addition to her work not quite falling in line with the artists who were her contemporaries, her [Read more]

The 1919 strike is the largest in Canada’s history, and shut Winnipeg down. While the strike started out as a simple labor dispute, there were [Read more]

Today we revisit a fun episode from 2015. There was a time when Popsicle and Good Humor couldn’t stop suing one another about frozen treats [Read more]

After being forcibly admitted to a mental hospital by her husband, Elizabeth Packard began advocating for herself as well as the improvement of treatment in [Read more]

Elizabeth Packard’s marriage started out well, but soon, her questioning nature exploration of new ideas about religion led her husband to decide she was mentally [Read more]

We’re traveling back to 2011 for this one! Empress Elisabeth of Austria, better known as Sisi, is often considered the public’s “favorite” member of the [Read more]

The P.S. General Slocum burned in the East River in New York on June 15, 1904. It had been chartered for a group outing that [Read more]

Humans have recognized thyroid disease for thousands of years. But in the 1930s. Saul Hertz had an insight after hearing a physicist’s lecture that changed [Read more]