Stuff You Missed in History Class

In July 1937, 22-year-old Jean De Koven vanished while visiting Paris with her aunt. It seemed doomed to be an unsolved missing person case, until [Read more]

This 2019 episode is about the man often described as the person who coined the term genocide. He was also the driving force behind the [Read more]

Holly and Tracy discuss Mary Sidney Herbert and the debate about whether she wrote works attributed to Shakespeare, as well as her late-in-life party period. [Read more]

“Holodomor” is a name that was coined in the 1980s to describe a famine that struck Ukraine in the early 1930s. There were food shortages [Read more]

She was a patron of the arts, the first woman to publish an English-language play, and the first woman to publish pastoral poetry. Mary Sidney [Read more]

This 2017 episode covers the life of Aphra Behn, but there’s really not a lot concretely known about the her. In addition to being a [Read more]

Tracy and Holly talk about Tracy’s research process for the William Apess episodes, and how much of his writing she wanted to include in the [Read more]

Apess’s religious work and writing consistently stressed the inherent humanity and worth of Indigenous people, but in the later years of his career he also [Read more]

Minister William Apess is often described as the first Native American to publish their own, book-length autobiography. But that is a reductive way to describe [Read more]

Holly and Tracy share interviews with some of the cast and crew behind the new film “Cyrano” to talk about their thoughts on history and [Read more]