Stuff You Missed in History Class

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.
Episodes
Interview: Leslie Iwerks [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:58
Disneyland's opening seemed like an impossibility throughout the construction process. Holly interviews filmmaker Leslie Iwerks about her new film "Disneyland Handcrafted," which shares the journey from an empty dirt lot…
Uffizi: A Painting, A Bombing, A Restoration [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:37
In 1993, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy was damaged by a car bomb. But this story starts in the 16th century with painter Bartolomeo Manfredi, and reaches all the way to the 2000s with an extraordinary restoration…
SYMHC Classics: Regulator War [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:20
This 2019 episode covers the Regulator War, aka the War of the Regulation, aka the Regulator Movement. It was a North Carolina event which arose in response to unfair taxes, poor representation and corruption.See omnystu…
Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Laws, Bad Cats [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:33
Tracy shares why Bhagat Singh Thind rocketed to the top of her topics list. Holly shares a story of bad cat behavior.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Carrington Event [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:31
The Carrington Event was a massive geomagnetic storm that happened in 1859. It led to expanded understanding of solar phenomena.
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:30
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind was a 1923 case that hinged on what it meant to be white.
SYMHC Classics: Insular Cases [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:15
This 2023 episode covers the Insular Cases, which are SCOTUS cases regarding rights of people in U.S. territories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Behind the Scenes Minis: Friends and Bubble Guns [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:45
Holly talks about how small the circle of London intellectuals was in John Graunt's time. Then there is discussion of disco balls in bathrooms.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Modern Inventions That Are Actually Old [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:59
There are so many things in our modern world that we presume are fairly recent inventions. But the three things we’re going to talk about in this instance are quite old, but they have close associations with the recent p…
John Graunt [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:40
John Graunt was a shopkeeper in 17th-century London who followed his own curiosity to a rather grand result. His work gave rise to the fields of demography and epidemiology.

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