Stuff You Missed in History Class

Introducing: Very Special Episodes

On Very Special Episodes, we tell one incredible story each week. Stranger-than-fiction tales...

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SYMHC Classics: Lola Montez

This 2021 episode covers Lola Montez, a figure whose life is hard to pin down. That's not because...

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Mademoiselle and the Tunneler

Holly and Tracy discuss the unfortunate and gruesome event that allegedly happened at...

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Harrison G. Dyar, Jr., Entomologist and Tunneler

Harrison G. Dyar, Jr. is known today largely as a hobby tunneler. But he was also an influential...

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Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans

Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orleans has been described by historians as having been one of the richest...

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SYMHC Classics: Dr. Vera Peters

This 2015 episode examines how Dr. Peters helped revolutionize the treatment of both breast...

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Anthony's Secrets and Mammograms

Holly and Tracy discuss van Dyck's personal life and historical photography. They also discuss...

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A History of Mammography

The history of mammography begins with the discovery of X-rays in 1895. But it took a very long...

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Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck was a commercially successful painter in Antwerp and Italy, but he may have had...

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SYMHC Classics: Orphan Tsunami

This 2013 episode covers a tsunami that struck the coast of Japan in January 1700, . It took a...

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Succession and the Roeblings

Holly talks her infatuation with the show "Succession," and why Tracy might not like it. Tracy...

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Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge

Emily Warren Roebling played a crucial role in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her...

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Stakhanovite Movement

In 1935, miner Alexei Stakhanov became a hero of labor in the Soviet Union, and the Stakhanovite...

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SYMHC Classics: Hypatia

This 2013 episode covers Hypatia, one of the earliest female mathematicians and astronomers....

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Shakespearean Floorboards

Tracy explains why there aren't any repatriations or exhumations in this week's edition of...

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Unearthed! in Fall/Winter 2023, Part 2

  Finishing out discussion of things literally and figuratively dug up in the last months of...

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Unearthed! in Fall/Winter 2023, Part 1

We're closing out the last three months of 2023 by talking about things literally and...

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SYMHC Classics: Benjamin Banneker

This 2013 episode covers Benjamin Banneker, a man of color in Colonial America who became an...

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Wow, Phones

Holly and Tracy talk about how actuarial science informs other fields, the book "The Player," and...

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The Birth of Actuarial Science and Life Insurance, Pt. 2

As life insurance and assurance became more common, companies that offered coverage ran into in...

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