Stuff You Missed in History Class

This 2017 episode delves into urbanization and mechanization, and all the downsides they brought with them in Great Britain in the years after the Luddite [Read more]

Holly and Tracy reminisce about the use of the word cosplay in costuming groups and how much controversy it initially stirred up. They then discuss the [Read more]

Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson was an outlier among Shakers for a number of reasons, including that she established a community in the city of Philadelphia, [Read more]

Holly speaks with author Andrew Liptak about his upcoming book “The History of Cosplay,” and the way that humans have used costume to play, tell [Read more]

This 2011 episode from prior hosts Sarah and Deblina covers the artist’s life and work. It also examines long-held beliefs about Vincent van Gogh and [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about Falieri’s strange shift from respectability to treason, all that slapping, and the city of Venice. They then discuss time zones [Read more]

Humans have understood how to calculate the length of a day pretty accurately for a long time. But there wasn’t a standard way to approach [Read more]

Faliero was the 55th Doge of Venice, a man who was, at least for a time, well respected. But his legacy is that he was [Read more]

This 2018 episode covers the fraud career of Cassie Chadwick. Her biggest con was convincing banks that she was the daughter of Andrew Carnegie. See [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about Alexis Soyer’s legendary charm, Emma Jones, and famine soup. They also talk about the globes and maps they grew up [Read more]