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Stuff You Missed in History Class
Join Holly and Tracy as they bring you the greatest and strangest Stuff You Missed In History Class in this podcast by iHeartRadio.
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The Memphis Massacre
The Memphis Massacre was a truly horrific wave of destruction and violence, including sexual violence, against the Black community of Memphis just a y...
Greeting Cards
Humans have been exchanging tokens of friendship since before recorded history. From calling cards to Valentines to Christmas cards, the modern greeti...
SYMHC Classics: The Color Blue
This 2019 episode covers the color blue, the most popular color in many parts of the world. But many ancient languages didn’t have a word for blue, an...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Dicey Sources
Tracy shares struggles that she encountered pulling together this edition of Unearthed. She and Holly have a tangential discussion about AI.
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Unearthed! In Spring 2026, Part 2
Part one of this quarter's edition of Unearthed! includes animals, artwork, edibles and potables, shipwrecks, potpourri.
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Unearthed! In Spring 2026, Part 1
Part one of this quarter's edition of Unearthed! features updates, medical things, books and letters, oldest known things, and smells.
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SYMHC Classics: Gustave Courbet
This 2022 episode covers how Courbet was iconic even in his own lifetime. He flew in the face of artistic convention, ushered in a new movement of Rea...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Oh, Kropotkin!
Tracy shares her intentions to cover Peter Kropotkin years ago, and also unpacks some of the positive and negative aspects of his life.
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Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, Part 2
After returning to Russia, Kropotkin was captured and imprisoned. But his life took many turns from there, and in 1902 he published his book book “Mut...
Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, Part 1
Peter Kropotkin was incredibly influential in the development of anarchism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Part one of this subject focuses on t...
SYMHC Classics: Haymarket Riot
This 2021 episode examines the Haymarket Riot, one of the many interconnected events and people and movements that are all integral to defining the ba...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Serving Lip and Ethics
Holly talks about Gladys Bentley's gender presentation, and the trouble with Maceo Sheffield. She and Tracy also discuss James Braid's ethics in both...
James Braid, Surgeon and Father of Hypnotism
Braid is known for his work in hypnotism. But he was also a surgeon with a reputation for pioneering new treatments before he became fascinated with t...
Gladys Bentley
Gladys Bentley was a part of the Harlem Renaissance as a performer – she played piano and sang in ways that drew huge crowds starting in the 1920s, an...
SYMHC Classics: Moms Mabley
This 2022 episode covers Moms Mabley, whose career lasted more than six decades. She was hugely influential, and inspired so many comedians and other...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Self-talk Hoax
Holly and Tracy discuss the idea of autosuggestion and positive self-talk. Tracy shares her thoughts on writings about the Pompey stone.
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The Pompey Stone Hoax
The Pompey Stone was discovered in the early 1820s, and was believed to be hundreds of years old. It turned out to be a hoax, but a fairly benign one....
Émile Coué and Autosuggestion
Émile Coué genuinely seems to have wanted to help people by teaching them how to plant helpful directives in their subconscious minds. Whether he was...
SYMHC Classics: Louis Daguerre
This 2021 episode covers Louis Daguerre, who comes up almost any time we mention photography. Well before he figured out how to capture images through...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Atlanta and Textiles
Holly talks about the frustration of not finding any solid evidence of where Richard Peters stood on the issue of slavery. Tracy wonders what Elizabet...
Elizabeth Fulhame’s Colorful Chemistry
Elizabeth Fulhame’s biography is largely a mystery, but in 1794 she wrote a book on chemistry that was way ahead of its time.
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Richard Peters and Early Atlanta History
Peters is responsible for many of the institutions that make up the identity of the city of Atlanta. And as a man from Pennsylvania, he had unique pos...
SYMHC Classics: Nelson Pill Hearings
This 2021 episode shares how in the U.S., the idea that people should know about the risks involved with the drugs that they are taking is tied direct...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Alaska and Contraceptives
Tracy talks about a "Molly of Denali" episode that references Elizabeth Peratrovich. She then shares her own experience with IUD insertion.
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The IUD: A History
IUDs are under the umbrella of long-acting, reversible contraceptives, and they’re the oldest one of these in use today.
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Elizabeth Peratrovich
Elizabeth Peratrovich is most well-known for her work to pass Alaska’s Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945. But her story also has more to it than that ac...
SYMHC Classics: Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor
This 2022 episode covers Lucy Hobbs, later Lucy Hobbs Taylor, who pursued a career in dentistry before that was recognized as an acceptable vocation f...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Carry-on Bags
Tracy talks about the mixed bag nature of Elizabeth Bisland, and the hosts talk about their own travel experiences. Holly shares the less-than-noble c...
Gustave Flaubert and the ‘Madame Bovary’ Trial
When Madame Bovary was written in the 1850s, it fell under the accusing eye of the French government for its perceived immorality. Flaubert recognized...
Elizabeth Bisland, Beyond the Trip Around the World
Journalist and writer Elizabeth Bisland was sent on a trip around the world in 1889, in a sort of race against Nellie Bly. But that was not something...
SYMHC Classics: Marie Laurencin
This 2019 episode explores the difficult-to-study work of Laurencin. In addition to her work not quite falling in line with the artists who were her c...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Censorship Cats
Tracy talks about how the show's recording schedule meant that this week's Monday episode got revised repeatedly to reflect current events. Holly talk...
Théophile Steinlen Beyond 'Le Chat Noir'
“Le Chat Noir” is one of the most famous pieces of late 19th century European art, but the artist behind it was also very active in France's anarchist...
Hercules Posey & the President’s House
The President's House was the first home of the U.S. president in the temporary capital of Phildelphia. While George Washington lived there, he had ni...
SYMHC Classics: Pueblo Revolt
This 2014 episode covers the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which Native Americans rose up against Spanish colonists and missionaries at the turn of the 17...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Coffee, 'Pirats' and Sea Robbers
Holly and Tracy talk about their coffee preferences. Then Tracy traces the path that led her from a listener mail to the topic of Fort Mose.
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Francisco Menéndez & Fort Mose
Fort Mose was the first officially sanctioned settlement for free Black people in what’s now the United States. It was established as a place where pe...
Melitta Bentz and the Coffee Filter
Melitta Bentz invented the coffee filter in 1908 and changed coffee culture forever. Through the decades and after reckoning with its relationship wit...
SYMHC Classics: COINTELPRO 2
Part two of this 2020 episode looks at some of the specifics of the COINTELPROs that targeted black liberation organizations and the New Left, as well...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Whoopsy Whimsy
Holly shares a story of accidentally taking ephedrine. Tracy shares her delight at a pronunciation of the word catastrophe.
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