Stuff You Missed in History Class

This 2017 episode covers an American sculptor who was a celebrated artist in her day, but receded from the spotlight; her final years remained a [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about some of stories of Egerton that didn’t make it into the episode. Then discussion of the Nika Riots touches on [Read more]

Large-scale rioting and mass violence were fairly common in Constantinople when this riot – and then massacre – took place in the year 532. But [Read more]

The 8th Earl of Bridgewater’s life is a hodgepodge of privileged eccentricity. From deeply spoiled pets to shoes used as a diary to a whole [Read more]

This classic episode from 2018 covers a 1917 event with elements of a labor strike, a wartime hysteria, a vigilante mob, and a mass propaganda [Read more]

Holly and Tracy talk about the angry-making aspects of the Millar will’s aftermath, and discuss the only Black participants in the derby. They also discuss [Read more]

Parsons was an activist focused on improving the lives of workers, poor people, immigrants, and people who were unemployed or homeless. The Chicago Police Department [Read more]

Toronto’s Great Stork derby of the 1920s and 1930s is often reported with a bit of whimsy. But classism, right to privacy, exploitation, the role [Read more]

This 2018 episode covers what’s often held up as one of history’s great love stories – Plutarch wrote that Pericles kissed Aspasia every single day. [Read more]

Tracy and Holly discuss the difficulty in examining sociological texts as part of research. They also recount their first encounters with the work of Moms [Read more]