Stuff You Missed in History Class

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07.08.2020

The Flexner Report in the early 20th century is often credited with changing the medical field and shaping what medical education looks like today. But this document negatively impacted medicine in the black community. Learn more about your ad-choices at ...

Stuff You Missed in History Class episodes:

07.08.2020 Abraham Flexner and the Flexner Report The Flexner Report in the early 20th century is often credited with changing the medical field and shaping what medical education looks like today. But this document negatively impacted medicine in the black community. Learn more about your ad-choices at ...
07.06.2020 A Brief History of Bonsai Bonsai’s origins go all the way back to ancient China, long before Japan became infatuated with the art form. Over time, the western world also became fascinated with bonsai, though there has been plenty of cultural confusion about it along ...
07.04.2020 SYMHC Classics: Robert Smalls - From Contraband to Congress The second of our 2016 episodes on Robert Smalls. After his daring and impressive escape from slavery, Smalls was considered to be contraband, which was a term used for formerly enslaved people who joined the Union. But this was the ...
07.03.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Q&A and the Myth of Irish Slaves Holly and Tracy share stories about touring, and the long period of time Tracy has been planning to work on the falsehood of Irish slavery. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
07.01.2020 Why No One Talks About 'The Irish Slaves' This whole idea of Irish slaves distorts some things that really did happen. So today we’re going to talk about that history, and how it’s being twisted and misused today. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.29.2020 SYMHC: Q & A Since the podcast isn't going on tour this year due to the pandemic, we thought it would be fun to have an episode that's something we normally do as part of a live show -- listener questions. Learn more about ...
06.27.2020 SYMHC Classics: The Incredible Escape of Robert Smalls This 2016 episode covers Robert Smalls, who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1839. He escaped from enslavement during the U.S. Civil War, in a particularly dramatic fashion. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.26.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: H.L. Hunley and Gospel Blues Tracy and Holly talk about Tracy's chat with Dr. Rachel Lance, and the legacy of Thomas Dorsey. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.24.2020 Thomas Dorsey and the Birth of Gospel Blues For a long time, Dorsey lived a sort of double life creatively. When he combined the two forms of existing music he played, he created something new, and changed religious music forever. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.22.2020 Interview: Dr. Rachel Lance and the H.L. Hunley Tracy talks with biomedical engineer Dr. Rachel Lance about the cause of the H.L. Hunley disaster and the book that Dr. Lance wrote about the disaster and her research into the case. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.20.2020 SYMHC Classics: The Sinking of the H.L. Hunley This 2017 episode covers the story of the H.L. Hunley, which really begins with the Union blockade of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.19.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Atlanta History Center and James Baldwin Holly and Tracy discuss the nuances of what becomes historically significant in our troubled times, and then the continued relevance of James Baldwin's work. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.17.2020 James Baldwin James Baldwin was a brilliant essayist, one of the chroniclers of the Civil Rights Movement, and a powerful voice against racism. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.15.2020 Interviews: Atlanta History Center and Covid-19 Holly chats with Sheffield Hale and Michael Rose of the Atlanta History Center about pandemic from the point of view of a living history institution, and also how the AHC, like many history centers, is documenting Covid-19. Learn more about ...
06.13.2020 SYMHC Classics: Harlem Hellfighters This 2015 episode covers a black U.S. Army WWI unit that became one of the most decorated of the war. When these soldiers returned home, they were greeted as heroes, but were still targets of segregation, discrimination and oppression. Learn ...
06.12.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Public Universal Friend and Wat Tyler Tracy and Holly talk about the unique identity of the Public Universal Friend, as well as whether Wat Tyler's story inspired modern storytellers. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.10.2020 Wat Tyler and the Uprising of 1381 There were many transitional events between the the Black Death and the Renaissance; it wasn't a case of a one leading right to the other. One of those transition events was Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, also known as the Uprising of ...
06.08.2020 Public Universal Friend The Public Universal Friend described themself as a genderless spirit sent by God to inhabit the resurrected body of a woman named Jemima Wilkinson. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
06.06.2020 SYMHC Classics: Ida B. Wells-Barnett This 2018 episode connects to a lot of others in our archive. Ida B. Wells-Barnett fought against lynching for decades, at a time when it wasn't common at all for a woman, especially a woman of color, to become such ...
06.05.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Cannery Row & Tumanbay Holly and Tracy talk about the evolution of Monterey's Cannery Row and the history behind the fictional podcast Tumanbay. Their discussion then turns to current events, the death of George Floyd and the protests around the nation. Learn more about ...
06.03.2020 Interview: Tumanbay's John Scott Dryden First, a brief discussion of current events. Then, in a conversation recorded in mid-May, Holly speaks with the creator of the historical fiction podcast Tumanbay about the ways that researching the Mamluk culture shaped the show. Learn more about your ...
06.01.2020 Cannery Row Monterey's Cannery Row is a busy center of tourism, but the area's history starts with indigenous people. Its association with fishing came from immigrant populations, and its reputation as a cannery exploded as that business was imploding. Learn more about ...
05.30.2020 SYMHC Classics: Orphan Trains This 2014 episode covers the 250,000 children in the U.S. taken to new families by train from 1854 and 1929, about. Except ... they weren't called "orphan trains" at the time, the children weren't all orphans, and "family" didn't always ...
05.29.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Home Ec and Practice Babies Tracy and Holly talk about their experiences with home economics in school, and discuss theories about childcare as it relates to practice baby programs. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
05.27.2020 The Practice Babies Practice babies were live human babies, cared for by college seniors who were temporarily living in home ec practice houses. The babies mostly came from orphanages or child welfare agencies, and were usually adopted after their time in the program. ...
05.25.2020 The Bureau of Home Economics For a time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had a whole bureau of home economics, which was run by and for women, and was a huge part of the response to crises like the Great Depression and World War II. ...
05.23.2020 SYMHC Classics: Phineas Gage A 2013 episode about Phineas Gage, who experienced a catastrophic brain injury and survived - though altered - for more than 11 years. Over time, he became one of the world's most famous case studies in how damage to the ...
05.22.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Fritz Duquesne Holly and Tracy ponder the psychology of a lifetime of deception, and discuss the complex nature of the Boers' position in their conflict with Great Britain. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
05.20.2020 The Spying Life of Fritz Duquesne, Part 2 After Duquesne made it to the U.S., he started a whole new life for himself, and worked for the rest of his life as a journalist, saboteur and spy. But eventually, all those lies caught up to him. Learn more ...
05.18.2020 The Spying Life of Fritz Duquesne, Part 1 Duquesne changed his life story to suit his needs, worked under an estimated 40 aliases, and lived a life that directly involves a LOT of significant historical events. One of the things Duquesne excelled at was escaping custody. Learn more ...
05.16.2020 SYMHC Classics: The Dark Legacy of Sea Monkeys Dipping back to a 2015 episode. Despite all the fun cartoons on the packaging featuring tiny humanoid sea creatures having wacky fun and wearing clothes, Sea Monkeys are just brine shrimp. But the story of Sea Monkeys and their inventor ...
05.15.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Bees and Grover Cleveland Tracy and Holly talk about the charm of bees, and the strangely intriguing nature of Grover Cleveland's tumor surgery. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
05.13.2020 Grover Cleveland’s Medical Secret In 1893, President Grover Cleveland noticed a rough spot on the roof of his mouth. This turned into a medical situation and led to a daring surgery that was kept secret from the public for decades. Learn more about your ...
05.11.2020 A Brief History of Beekeeping Beekeeping as you might think of it today, with square hives and and a beekeeper in a white suit with a big veiled hat, is a relatively recent invention. But beekeeping has existed for thousands of years, basically all over ...
05.09.2020 SYMHC Classics: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry This 2016 episode covers John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which set out to create an armed revolution of emancipated slaves. Instead, it became a tipping point leading to the U.S. Civil War. Learn more about your ad-choices at ...
05.08.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Asoka and Catherine Tracy and Holly talk about Asoka and connections to pop culture, and the revelations of Catherine the Great's devotion to the arts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
05.06.2020 Catherine the Great, Librettist Catherine the Great is famous for many things. But one of her lesser-known areas of interest was opera. And she loved it as both audience and creator. She wrote a number of operas during her reign, many of which were ...
05.04.2020 Aśoka the Righteous Aśoka ruled the Mauryan Empire on the Indian subcontinent in the third century BCE. He was a real person – and is also a legendary figure within Buddhism. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
05.02.2020 SYMHC Classics: The Kentucky Derby's First 50 Years This 2017 episode covered the beginnings of the Kentucky Derby. Since its inception, the Derby has become the nation's most famous and prestigious horse racing event. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
05.01.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Emergency Medicine Holly and Tracy talk about their relationships with emergency medicine and 9-1-1, as well as their appreciation for medical professionals. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
04.29.2020 Significant Moments in U.S. Emergency Medicine, Pt. 2 In this second part of our coverage of emergency care in the U.S., we’ll talk about an important white paper that was a turning point for emergency medicine, the advent of the 9-1-1 service, and the ambulance service that set ...
04.27.2020 Significant Moments in U.S. Emergency Medicine, Pt. 1 In this first episode of a two-parter, we’ll be covering early emergency response services, a little bit of CPR history, and advent of the emergency care specialty for physicians. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
04.25.2020 SYMHC Classics: Dazzle Camouflage Flashback to 2014! British Royal Navy lieutenant and artist Norman Wilkinson is usually credited with the idea of disruptive camouflage. But, another man, naturalist John Graham Kerr, claimed that he had the idea three years earlier. Learn more about your ...
04.24.2020 Host Faves: Building Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Pt. 2 The second 2013 episode in the story of the Haunted Mansion going from concept to fully-realized theme park attraction covers the reboot the team went through after the World's Fair and the loss of their leader. Learn more about your ...
04.24.2020 Host Faves: Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Pt. 1 This hist fave is from 2013. One of the most iconic Disney park attractions -- the Haunted Mansion -- had a development process that was anything but smooth. Budget and scheduling issues and creative differences dogged the project for almost ...
04.24.2020 Host Faves: The Green Children of Woolpit In 2017 we talked about two children, green in color, who appeared in Suffolk, England in the 12th century,. The green children were written about in the 12th and 13th centuries as fact, but some people today classify as this ...
04.24.2020 Host Faves: A Brief History of the Pietà This 2016 episode delves into Michelangelo's sculpture of Mary holding the deceased body of Christ. It's the most famous depiction of that moment in art, but that scene has been the focus of many works. And once, the famous version ...
04.24.2020 Host Faves: Edward Gorey We talked about Gorey in 2017. Based just on his art, you might imagine Edward Gorey as a dour Englishman, with the peak of his career sometime in the 1920s or '30s, whose childhood was marked with a series of ...
04.24.2020 Host Faves: Christine de Pizan and the Book of the City of Ladies This 2018 episode is about Christine de Pizan who wrote verse, military manuals, and treatises on war, peace and the just governance of a nation. She was the official biographer of King Charles V of France and wrote the only ...
04.24.2020 Host Faves: Levi Strauss This 2018 episode tells Levi's story, which is historically interesting because it touches on a lot of important moments in U.S. history. His business was tied to the California Gold Rush, the U.S. Civil War and American clothing culture. Learn ...

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Stuff You Missed in History Class episodes:

Abraham Flexner and the Flexner Report

A Brief History of Bonsai

SYMHC Classics: Robert Smalls - From Contraband to Congress

Behind the Scenes Minis: Q&A and the Myth of Irish Slaves

Why No One Talks About 'The Irish Slaves'

SYMHC: Q & A

SYMHC Classics: The Incredible Escape of Robert Smalls

Behind the Scenes Minis: H.L. Hunley and Gospel Blues

Thomas Dorsey and the Birth of Gospel Blues

Interview: Dr. Rachel Lance and the H.L. Hunley

SYMHC Classics: The Sinking of the H.L. Hunley

Behind the Scenes Minis: Atlanta History Center and James Baldwin

James Baldwin

Interviews: Atlanta History Center and Covid-19

SYMHC Classics: Harlem Hellfighters

Behind the Scenes Minis: Public Universal Friend and Wat Tyler

Wat Tyler and the Uprising of 1381

Public Universal Friend

SYMHC Classics: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Behind the Scenes Minis: Cannery Row & Tumanbay

Interview: Tumanbay's John Scott Dryden

Cannery Row

SYMHC Classics: Orphan Trains

Behind the Scenes Minis: Home Ec and Practice Babies

The Practice Babies

The Bureau of Home Economics

SYMHC Classics: Phineas Gage

Behind the Scenes Minis: Fritz Duquesne

The Spying Life of Fritz Duquesne, Part 2

The Spying Life of Fritz Duquesne, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: The Dark Legacy of Sea Monkeys

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bees and Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland’s Medical Secret

A Brief History of Beekeeping

SYMHC Classics: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Behind the Scenes Minis: Asoka and Catherine

Catherine the Great, Librettist

Aśoka the Righteous

SYMHC Classics: The Kentucky Derby's First 50 Years

Behind the Scenes Minis: Emergency Medicine

Significant Moments in U.S. Emergency Medicine, Pt. 2

Significant Moments in U.S. Emergency Medicine, Pt. 1

SYMHC Classics: Dazzle Camouflage

Host Faves: Building Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Pt. 2

Host Faves: Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Pt. 1

Host Faves: The Green Children of Woolpit

Host Faves: A Brief History of the Pietà

Host Faves: Edward Gorey

Host Faves: Christine de Pizan and the Book of the City of Ladies

Host Faves: Levi Strauss

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