Stuff You Missed in History Class
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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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SYMHC Classics: Washington Irving
This 2021 episode covers Washington Irving, who is often associated with Halloween. But his writing had a significant influence on the way Christmas i...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Raccoon Cranberries
Tracy wonders whether Jack the turkey went to the bathroom in the White House. Holly talks about how much she dislikes people arguing over food prefer...
Cranberries
The cranberries we typically eat are native to North America, though they are also grown in other places. How did they become a standard part of the h...
Unusual White House Pets
No dogs or cats here! A number of unorthodox pets have arrived at the White House and become part of the first family in very unusual ways throughout...
SYMHC Classics: Nutcracker
This 2021 episode covers how The Nutcracker is a Russian adaptation of a German story that wasn’t really a Christmas staple in its home country.
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Much Charles, Many Dogs
Tracy shares how her Charles Sumner research yielded a three-part episode. Holly mentions that while there's not a lot of scholarly work about Cassius...
Cassius Coolidge and Dogs Playing Poker
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s most well-known art is the Dogs Playing Poker series. He was a true Renaissance man, and even patented a style of kitsch...
Charles Sumner Revisited (part 3)
The third installment of our Charles Sumner episode covers how, two days after Charles Sumner delivered an incendiary speech before the senate, Repres...
SYMHC Classics: Public Universal Friend
This 2020 episode covers the Public Universal Friend, who described themself as a genderless spirit sent by God to inhabit the resurrected body of a w...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Morocco!
Tracy and Holly talk about their recent podcast trip to Morocco with listeners, arranged by Defined Destinations.
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Charles Sumner, Revisited (part 2)
The second installment of our episode on Charles Sumner picks up in the wake of his controversial antiwar speech. He next argued a school integration...
Charles Sumner, Revisited (part 1)
The first installment of the deeper examination of Charles Sumner's life begins with his early years, including his close relationships with Henry Wad...
SYMHC Classics: Thomas Cook
This 2019 episode covers Thomas Cook, a pioneer of the idea of a travel agency to manage tourist holidays. But Cook was initially motivated by his sup...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Balloons and Cat Trees
Tracy and Holly talk about the proclivity for destruction that was part of the balloon craze. They also discuss cat trees and how hard it is to find o...
Inventions for Pets
Cat litter, it could be argued, kicked off the pet products industry. After its invention in the 1940s, other inventors started to come up with produc...
Balloon Riots
Ballooning became a huge fad starting in the late 18th century, and there was a surprising amount of rioting associated with it. Fervor, excitement, a...
SYMHC Classics: Georgia Gold Rush
This 2018 episode covers the period in the late 1820s when north Georgia became the site of a gold rush that predated the California gold rush by two...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Mary and Marjorie
Tracy shares the surprising benefit of not having access to a lot of specifics regarding the work of Mary Golda Ross. Holly talks about Marjorie Merri...
Marjorie Merriweather Post
Marjorie Merriweather Post is most often mentioned today as the person who built Mar-a-Lago. But she was a unique figure as a woman who helmed a huge...
Mary Golda Ross
Mary Golda Ross was the first Indigenous woman in the U.S. known to have become an engineer. Her impact on the field of aerospace engineering is hard...
SYMHC Classics: Alexandre Dumas Pere
This 2019 episode covers Alexandre Dumas, who wrote hundreds and hundreds of works, including “The Three Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” an...
Behind the Scenes Minis: French Fear and Frozen Food
Tracy discusses the challenge of parsing all the nuance of the French Revolution. Holly talks about how little Clarence Birdseye shared of his interio...
Clarence Birdseye and the Rise of Frozen Foods
Before Clarence Birdseye, frozen food was perceived as being low-quality and kind of gross. But after spending time in extremely cold climates, Birdse...
The Great Fear of 1789
The Great Fear was a panic during the French Revolution that spread through rural areas. It all started with a conspiracy theory.
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SYMHC Classics: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
This 2019 episode is about general Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, who sounds like a character out of one of his son’s books. His life was a series of dramati...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Villas and Tirades
Holly talks about the unsubstantiated stories associated with the Villa de Vecchi in northern Italy. Tracy talks about getting angry about a passage s...
Introducing: Health Stuff
Hi, Stuff You Missed in History Class listeners! We're excited to share with you a sneak peek at iHeartPodcasts' latest release, Health Stuff!
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Hammersmith Ghost Murder
In late 1803, accounts of ghost sightings began to circulate in Hammersmith, England. This led to a tragic event, and a legal case that revealed some...
Villa de Vecchi
Today’s topic is an abandoned mansion, but it was once a gorgeous and luxurious home designed for a prominent citizen of northern Italy. It’s often de...
SYMHC Classics: Aleister Crowley
This 2021 episode covers Aleister Crowley, a truly prolific and deliberately transgressive occultist whose practices included sex and drug use. He inf...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Ghosts and Their Towns
Holly and Tracy talk about ghost experiences in their lives. Tracy thanks all the listeners who suggested ghost towns for this week's episode.
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Six Impossible Episodes: U.S. Ghost Towns
We've had a lot of listener requests related to ghost towns, so this Halloween season, we've got six places in the U.S. that could be labeled as such....
Drury Lane Ghosts
This episode features several ghosts all associated with one place. And that place is a specific building with its own interesting history – the Theat...
SYMHC Classics: Three Hellhounds
This 2020 episode covers three of the many supernatural canines and hellhounds in our collective storytelling. Two are similar and from England, and o...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Bias 3DS
Holly asks follow-up questions about a paper Tracy mentioned in the episodes this week. Tracy talks about the use of the Nintendo 3DS as a Louvre guid...
Unearthed! in Autumn 2025, Part 2
Part 2 of this installment of Unearthed! features animals, swords, art, shoes, shipwrecks, and the miscellany category of potpourri.
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Unearthed! in Autumn 2025, Part 1
Part one of this quarter's installment of Unearthed! features things related to books and letters, and edibles and potables, and as we usually do, we...
SYMHC Classics: Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson’s stances on political and civil rights issues and his communist affiliations catalyzed protests that were fueled with an undercurrent of...
Behind the Scenes Minis: Complicated Werewolf
Holly discusses the complicated nature of the Loudun possessions. Tracy talks about the ways that entertainment media can cause fear.
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Peter Stumpp, Werewolf of Bedburg
Peter Stubbe or Peter Stumpp, also known as the Werewolf of Bedburg, was part of a case in Germany where the concepts of witchcraft and lycanthropy we...