Stuff You Missed in History Class

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01.24.2020

In today's casual Friday chat, Tracy and Holly discuss the Elgin marbles and the complex issues that museums face regarding the repatriation of artifacts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Stuff You Missed in History Class episodes:

01.24.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Lord Elgin In today's casual Friday chat, Tracy and Holly discuss the Elgin marbles and the complex issues that museums face regarding the repatriation of artifacts. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
01.22.2020 Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures, Part 2 Today's episode covers how the removal of Ancient Greek artifacts from Greece by Lord Elgin played out, how these sculptures became part of the collection of the British Museum, and why the controversy over all this has continued until today. ...
01.20.2020 Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures, Part 1 Starting in 1801, the Seventh Earl of Elgin removed many classical Greek sculptures from Greece, particularly from the Parthenon and other monuments at the Acropolis in Athens. Pt. 1 covers the events leading up to the early removal efforts. Learn ...
01.18.2020 SYMHC Classics: The Ghost Army We’re revisiting a 2015 episode about the U.S. Ghost Army, a top-secret group assembled to create confusion and mislead Axis forces during WWII. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
01.17.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: André Le Nôtre Holly and Tracy discuss the great master gardener's work, delve into the moral implications of opulence, and weigh those against the value of the resulting art. They also discuss the nature of unconscious perception of others based on presentation. Learn ...
01.15.2020 André Le Nôtre, Part 2 In part one, we talked about Le Nôtre's early years and his work at Vaux-le-Vicomte. Today, we'll pick up with his incredible achievements designing and executing the gardens of Versailles and his later life. Learn more about your ad-choices at ...
01.13.2020 André Le Nôtre, Part 1 Le Nôtre's work defined the French formal garden in the 17th century. Today in part one, we’re going to cover his life up to a project that was controversial not for Le Nôtre's part in it, but because of its ...
01.11.2020 SYMHC Classics: Hokusai We're revisiting our 2015 episode on Hokusai, who lived during a time when there was not a lot of contact between Japan and the West. But even so, he drew some influence form Western art, and Western art was greatly ...
01.10.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Joan Curran and Murasaki Shikibu On today's casual Friday talk, Tracy and Holly talk about the surprising level of recognition Joan Curran got from male contemporaries, war debris, and the skeevier aspects of the "Tale of Genji." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
01.08.2020 Murasaki Shikibu and the Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu, sometimes known in English as Lady Murasaki, lived during Japan’s Heian period. She was a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shoshi, and is credited with writing the Japanese classic literature work, "Tale of Genji." Learn more about your ad-choices at ...
01.06.2020 Joan Strothers Curran and Radar Countermeasures Curran was a Welsh scientist who developed a system of thwarting radar for the Allied forces in WWII. What we know of her work is entirely pieced together from accounts by her male colleagues, who, fortunately, recognized the importance of ...
01.04.2020 SYMHC Classics: The Riotous Life of Caravaggio This classic from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina explores the controversial life of Caravaggio. He may not be as well-known as Leonardo da Vinci, but this amazing painter has been receiving more and more attention in recent times. Learn more ...
01.03.2020 Behind the Scenes Minis: Unearthed! in December 2019 In discussing this week's episodes, Tracy explains how she tracks news stories on her Unearthed! Pinterest board, and she and Holly theorize about why some topics have a lot of interest clustered in any given year. Learn more about your ...
01.01.2020 Unearthed! in December 2019, Part 2 It’s part two of our year-end Unearthed! Today, we have some longtime listener favorites, including edibles and potables, Otzi, and exhumations. And some other stuff – beginning with several studies about what exactly caused the Neanderthals to die out. Learn ...
12.30.2019 Unearthed! in December 2019, Part 1 It’s time for the end-of-the-year edition of Unearthed! Today we have episode updates, books and letters, shipwrecks, and animal finds, among a few other categories. Next time we’ll have the edibles and potables, clothing and accessories, and exhumations, among others. ...
12.28.2019 SYMHC Classics: Haile Selassie Haile Selassie wasn't just the last emperor of Ethiopia -- he is also hailed as a messiah. In this classic episode from 2011, previous hosts Deblina and Sarah explore the astonishing life of Haile Selassie. Learn more about your ad-choices ...
12.27.2019 Behind the Scenes Minis: Aspirin and Lalibela On this casual Friday chat, Tracy and Holly share their thoughts on the history of aspirin, as well as the amazing churches carved from stone in Ethiopia. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
12.25.2019 Ethiopia's Rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela The complex at Lalibela was excavated from volcanic rock about 700 years ago, and has been in continuous use since then. It's connected to the overall history of Christianity in Ethiopia -- different from Christianity in the rest of sub-Saharan ...
12.24.2019 Holiday Bonus! NORAD Tracking Santa: A Cold War History Just a little Christmas Eve cheer for our listeners as everyone keeps an eye out for Santa! It's our 2017 episode about how NORAD started tracking Santa. There’s some myth-busting here, and maybe the tiniest bit of bah-humbug. Learn more ...
12.23.2019 The Invention of Aspirin From its natural base substance, salicin, to the invention of its synthetic derivative form that we still use, the story of aspirin has its own controversy and conflict, including whether the proper chemist has been given credit for its invention. ...
12.22.2019 Introducing Service: Stories of Hunger and War How do our food stories change during wartime? Each episode follows a World War II veteran from their home in the United States through their overseas deployment and back again. We hear firsthand where they fought, who they fed, how ...
12.21.2019 SYMHC Classics: Not Ned - Bushrangers in Later Years This 2011 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina continues the bushranger discussion. After 1853, many bushrangers were native-born. Ben Hall seemed on track for a peaceful life until two wrongful arrests put him on different path. And then there's ...
12.20.2019 Behind the Scenes Minis: Chien-Shiung Wu and Helium It's easy to marvel at the work of scientists, both in terms of the scientific concepts themselves and in the ways scientists behave. Both of those things, as well as foreign language verb tense, feature in this casual discussion of ...
12.18.2019 The Discovery of Helium Helium and humankind's understanding of it sits at the earliest intersection of astronomy and chemistry. The story of its discovery also features two scientists who were working on similar ideas concurrently, with a surprising outcome. Learn more about your ad-choices ...
12.16.2019 Chien-Shiung Wu, First Lady of Physics She was one of the greatest experimental physicists of her era, publishing influential papers before she was even out of graduate school. She made multiple major contributions to the field during her career, and became known as the Chinese Marie ...
12.14.2019 SYMHC Classics: Not Ned - Early Australian Bushrangers While Ned Kelly may be the most famous bushranger, he's certainly not the only one. Join previous hosts Deblina and Sarah as they explore the lives of early bush rangers in this 2011 classic. Learn more about your ad-choices at ...
12.13.2019 Behind the Scenes Minis: Wegener and Italian Hall Tracy and Holly spend a few moments discussing the career of Alfred Wegener, and the needless tragedy of the events of the Italian Hall Disaster. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
12.11.2019 Italian Hall Disaster The Italian Hall disaster happened during a strike in Michigan’s copper country, which lasted from the summer of 1913 to the early spring of 1914. On Christmas Eve, a tragic event played out that claimed the lives of dozens of ...
12.09.2019 Alfred Wegener, Beyond the Drift Dispute Alfred Wegener had a HUGE career outside of his ideas around what we now understand as plate tectonics, which had both detractors and supporters. He did important and respected work that touched on multiple disciplines. Learn more about your ad-choices ...
12.07.2019 SYMHC Classics: Ned Kelly's Last Stand In 2011, previous hosts Sarah and Deblina talked about Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger. He became an outlaw in 1878, and his gang successfully conducted several raids. Now, many Australians think of him as a folk hero. Learn more ...
12.06.2019 Behind the Scenes Minis: Barbecue and Holiday Figures On today's casual chat, Tracy and Holly discuss their Texas tour, regional barbecue styles, and the holiday figures in the fourth installment of the Krampus and Friends Holiday Special. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
12.04.2019 Krampus and Friends Holiday Special, Part 4 Our holiday special is back! We're once again looking at holiday figures from around the world. Today, we’re going to have a mix of Scandinavian and Japanese traditions as we cover the nisse, the Yule Goat, and the Seven Lucky ...
12.02.2019 SYMHC Live: A Brief (U.S.) History of Barbecue In November, we toured Texas! So we selected the very apt topic of barbecue. Barbecue is deeply tied to language and history and culture, especially in the South – so this episode is about a lot more than meat. Learn ...
12.01.2019 Introducing 'The Women' "The Women" is a new podcast from iHeartRadio, hosted by Rose Reid, who interviews changemakers and disruptors to find out what drives them. These interviews are personal, candid, and surprising, and feature people like former CIA agent and Congressional hopeful ...
11.30.2019 SYMHC Classics: The Booth Conspiracy This 2012 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina covers John Wilkes Booth's escape, his co-conspirators' attacks against other officials, and the strange connections between Booth and Lincoln. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
11.29.2019 Behind the Scenes Minis: Belinfante and Chutz-POW! It's Chutz-POW! week! Tracy and Holly discuss some of the details about Frieda Belinfante's life that didn't make it into Monday's episode, and talk about the importance of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh's comic book project at a time when ...
11.27.2019 Interviews: The Team Behind 'Chutz-POW!' We're joined by three members of the team that works on the "Chutz-POW!" comic books series. Birdie Willis, Jackie Reese and Marcel Walker join Holly for discussions about Frieda Belinfante, using comics in education, and the future of this project. ...
11.25.2019 Frieda Belinfante – Musician and Resistance Agent Frieda Belinfante is inspiring as a musician, breaking gender barriers in becoming a conductor. She was also a member of the Dutch resistance, who risked her life again and again during WWII in defiance of the German occupation of the ...
11.23.2019 SYMHC Classics: Alice Roosevelt Today we revisit a 2015 episode about Alice Roosevelt. The eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt was a firebrand who never shied away from the public eye. She was nicknamed "the Second Washington Monument" because of her social power, which she ...
11.22.2019 Behind the Scenes Minis: Occupation of Alcatraz Tracy and Holly talk about the episodes that made up this week's two-parter on the Occupation of Alcatraz, including how they learned about Native American history in elementary school. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
11.20.2019 The Occupation of Alcatraz, Part 2 The Occupation of Alcatraz started 50 years ago on November 20, 1969 and went on for a year and a half. Last time, we talked about context and the events that led up to the occupation. Today we'll cover how ...
11.18.2019 The Occupation of Alcatraz, Part 1 This episode gives context for the Occupation of Alcatraz, including a brief survey of U.S. government policy toward Native people from the colonial period through the 1950. It also covers some Alcatraz history and an earlier occupation in 1964. Learn ...
11.17.2019 Our Sister Show: This Day In History Class Holly and Tracy wanted to share a sample of the spinoff of Stuff You Missed in History Class: This Day in History Class. Every day, host Yves Jeffcoat brings listeners a small slice of history in a short-form episode. Today, ...
11.16.2019 SYMHC Classics: Johann Dippel and the Elixir of Life This 2012 episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina covers Johann Dippel. Originally a theology student, Dippel began dabbling in chemistry, medicine and alchemy. Today he's remembered for creating a panacea that was used on a variety of ailments. Learn ...
11.15.2019 Behind the Scenes Minis: Photos, Quakes and Fires Holly and Tracy talk casually about the week's episodes, featuring the photography career of Frances Johnston and the devastation of San Francisco in 1906. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
11.13.2019 San Francisco 1906: The Great Quake and Fires On the morning of April 18, 1906, an event that lasted less than a minute changed San Francisco forever. An earthquake and a series of fires devastated much of the city and had long-term ramifications. Learn more about your ad-choices ...
11.11.2019 The Photography of Frances Benjamin Johnston Fannie Johnston is tied to SO MANY people and events that we have talked about on the show before. She’s like a history nexus point. And she was able to make a very nice living for herself as a photographer ...
11.09.2019 SYMHC Classics: The Tulsa Race Riot and Black Wall Street This 2014 episode came up recently because of the event's inclusion on a television show. "Black Wall Street" was a nickname for Greenwood, a vibrant suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was destroyed in a race riot in 1921. And while ...
11.08.2019 Behind the Scenes Minis: Witchfinder and Baby Sideshow This is a new feature for the show! On these Friday minisodes, Tracy and Holly will talk in more candid terms about the week's episodes and their research. This first one covers Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins and Dr. Couney's Baby ...
11.06.2019 Dr. Couney's Baby Sideshow Couney ran incubator sideshows, featuring premature babies. This is complicated -Couney was making money from these attractions, and his medical experience was questionable. But at the same time, premature babies weren’t getting a lot of care otherwise. Learn more about ...

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Stuff You Missed in History Class episodes:

Behind the Scenes Minis: Lord Elgin

Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures, Part 2

Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: The Ghost Army

Behind the Scenes Minis: André Le Nôtre

André Le Nôtre, Part 2

André Le Nôtre, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Hokusai

Behind the Scenes Minis: Joan Curran and Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu and the Tale of Genji

Joan Strothers Curran and Radar Countermeasures

SYMHC Classics: The Riotous Life of Caravaggio

Behind the Scenes Minis: Unearthed! in December 2019

Unearthed! in December 2019, Part 2

Unearthed! in December 2019, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Haile Selassie

Behind the Scenes Minis: Aspirin and Lalibela

Ethiopia's Rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela

Holiday Bonus! NORAD Tracking Santa: A Cold War History

The Invention of Aspirin

Introducing Service: Stories of Hunger and War

SYMHC Classics: Not Ned - Bushrangers in Later Years

Behind the Scenes Minis: Chien-Shiung Wu and Helium

The Discovery of Helium

Chien-Shiung Wu, First Lady of Physics

SYMHC Classics: Not Ned - Early Australian Bushrangers

Behind the Scenes Minis: Wegener and Italian Hall

Italian Hall Disaster

Alfred Wegener, Beyond the Drift Dispute

SYMHC Classics: Ned Kelly's Last Stand

Behind the Scenes Minis: Barbecue and Holiday Figures

Krampus and Friends Holiday Special, Part 4

SYMHC Live: A Brief (U.S.) History of Barbecue

Introducing 'The Women'

SYMHC Classics: The Booth Conspiracy

Behind the Scenes Minis: Belinfante and Chutz-POW!

Interviews: The Team Behind 'Chutz-POW!'

Frieda Belinfante – Musician and Resistance Agent

SYMHC Classics: Alice Roosevelt

Behind the Scenes Minis: Occupation of Alcatraz

The Occupation of Alcatraz, Part 2

The Occupation of Alcatraz, Part 1

Our Sister Show: This Day In History Class

SYMHC Classics: Johann Dippel and the Elixir of Life

Behind the Scenes Minis: Photos, Quakes and Fires

San Francisco 1906: The Great Quake and Fires

The Photography of Frances Benjamin Johnston

SYMHC Classics: The Tulsa Race Riot and Black Wall Street

Behind the Scenes Minis: Witchfinder and Baby Sideshow

Dr. Couney's Baby Sideshow

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