Stuff You Missed in History Class
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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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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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Episodes
Blue Ridge Parkway
6/4/2025
The Blue Ridge Parkway is the longest roadway in the U.S. that was planned as a single unit. Its origin is connected to government efforts to provide relief from the Great Depression, and conservation of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Duration:00:44:00
Skyline Drive & Shenandoah National Park
6/2/2025
Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park is a scenic road tied to the “See America First” movement of the early 20th century. The acquisition of land for the project was difficult, and displaced many families from their homes.
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Duration:00:43:55
SYMHC Classics: Palmer Raids Pt. 2
5/31/2025
This 2016 continuation of our coverage of the Palmer Raids covers a series of raids on perceived threats to national security by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Thousands of people were rounded up, many without cause or warrant, and kept in horrifying conditions.
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Duration:00:25:07
Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Science and Library Love
5/30/2025
Tracy outlines all the way RFK Jr.'s claims regarding disease history make no sense. Holly talks about the section of her career that was spent working in a university library.
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Duration:00:33:56
Library of Congress
5/28/2025
The Library of Congress has a lot of responsibilities. It’s massive in both physical scale and in scale of services. So how did it start, and how did it evolve to be the largest library in the world?
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Duration:00:42:50
Three Autoimmune Diseases In Brief
5/26/2025
Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and Crohn’s disease are autoimmune diseases that share a lot of commonalities. This episode covers when and how they were first recognized and described.
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Duration:00:38:52
SYMHC Classics: Palmer Raids Pt. 1
5/24/2025
Part one of this 2016 classic covers the social unrest in the U.S. after WWI. There was a fear that Communist revolutionaries would try to take over the country. Adding fuel to the fear were two bomb plots in 1919.
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Duration:00:24:24
Behind the Scenes Minis: Jokes in Translation and the Wayback
5/23/2025
Holly shares her experience visiting the Meiji Jingu shrine. Tracy mentions that she never found out why the Triple Nickles used the spelling they did, and her use of the Wayback Machine for show research.
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Duration:00:17:33
The Triple Nickles
5/21/2025
The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, also called the Triple Nickles, were the first Black paratroopers in the U.S. military, and their story is connected to the desegregation of the military after World War II.
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Duration:00:38:54
Emperor Meiji and the Meiji Jingu Shrine
5/19/2025
Emperor Meiji of Japan’s reign began in 1867, and it marks a time of significant change in the country’s history. After the emperor and his consort died in the early 20th century, the Meiji Jingu shrine was built to memorialize them.
Research:
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Duration:00:39:08
SYMHC Classics: All American Girls Professional Baseball League
5/17/2025
This 2020 episode covers the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was founded in 1943. Some of these women athletes believed they were starting on a career in professional baseball.
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Duration:00:31:52
Behind the Scenes Minis: Shots and Sidi
5/16/2025
Tracy and Holly share tetanus shot stories and discuss getting boosters. They then discuss the egos of European explorers in Africa.
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Duration:00:27:22
Sidi Mubarak Bombay
5/14/2025
Sidi Mubarak Bombay was sort of a combined guide, translator and nurse, and often the supervisor of the African laborers on expeditions through eastern and equatorial Africa in the 19th century.
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Duration:00:42:22
Tetanus
5/12/2025
Tetanus has probably been around for most of human history, or even longer. But it’s preventable today thanks to vaccines.
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Duration:00:38:09
SYMHC Classics: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
5/10/2025
This 2020 episode covers Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, an accomplished astronomer. She grew up in a society that didn’t really prioritize education for girls, and she was determined and creative about getting around that.
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Duration:00:36:39
Behind the Scenes Minis: Altina and Saving Babies
5/9/2025
Holly talks about the dynamics of Altina Schinasi's family. Tracy shares a dispute over nursing uniform procedures on the Boston Floating Hospital that played out in a trade journal.
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Duration:00:27:31
(Boston Floating Hospital
5/7/2025
The Boston Floating Hospital was a children’s hospital that operated on a boat in Boston Harbor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Duration:00:38:46
Altina Schinasi
5/5/2025
Altina Schinasi is known as the inventor of cat-eye glasses, but she was also an artist, a documentarian, and an activist. And she was very frank about her own faults and bad decisions.
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Duration:00:39:28
SYMHC Classics: Franz Nopsca
5/3/2025
This 2019 episode covers Baron Franz Nopcsa, who lived an adventurous, scholarly life, funded entirely by his family money. He identified dinosaurs, inserted himself into Albanian politics, and wrote volumes and volumes of books and papers.
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Duration:00:26:39
Behind the Scenes Minis: Small Fruit Division and Dorseys
5/2/2025
Holly waxes rhapsodic about fruit. Tracy talks about planning an episode about William Henry Dorsey but then finding she needed to include his father.
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Duration:00:17:12