Stuff You Missed in History Class

Hobhouse’s work in South Africa continued after the second Anglo-Boer War was over, and her work as a humanitarian and peace activist continued during and [Read more]

Hobhouse was a pacifist and humanitarian all her life. Part one covers her work exposing terrible conditions at the concentration camps that Britain established in [Read more]

This 2017 episode covers the Cuyahoga River catching fire for the last time in 1969. This event is often credited with helping pass the Clean [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss Deborah Sampson’s disguise as Robert Shurtlliff and women who were camp followers in the Revolutionary War. They also discuss Major Richard [Read more]

John Bibb is credited with cultivating Bibb lettuce. But his family’s legacy, good and bad, is all tied to having enslaved people build their familial [Read more]

Deborah Sampson could count William Bradford and Myles Standish in her family tree. That tree didn’t include Robert Shurtlliff; that was the alias Deborah used [Read more]

This episode revisits the studio version of our live show the 2018 Seneca Falls Convention Days at Women’s Rights National Historical Park. Lucretia Mott was [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about part of the Laocoön’s story that didn’t make it into the episode, and the ongoing debate about the sculpture. They [Read more]

Lucy Hobbs, later Lucy Hobbs Taylor, pursued a career in dentistry before that was recognized as an acceptable vocation for a woman. She got told [Read more]

Laocoön is a figure in Greek legend, and the inspiration for a beautiful sculpture in the Vatican Museums. And that work of art has been [Read more]