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
SYMHC Classics: Jules Cotard and Cotard Syndrome
6/1/2024
This 2017 episode covers the work of Jules Cotard, the first psychiatrist to write about the cluster of symptoms that would come to be called Walking Corpse Syndrome. But his unfinished work was hotly debated among his colleagues.
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Duration:00:23:28
Behind the Scenes Minis: Strikes, Immigration and Weeds
5/31/2024
Tracy and Holly talk about the Disney animators' strike of 1941, Angel Island, and Tyrus Wong's Christmas cards. They also discuss the merits of dandelions.
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Duration:00:30:55
Gertrude Jekyll's Artistic Gardens
5/29/2024
Gertrude Jekyll was born into a 19th-century English family of means, but her life took an unconventional path for a woman in her circumstances, and she became an iconic and legendary horticulturist.
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Duration:00:42:19
The Art of Tyrus Wong
5/27/2024
Over the course of an extraordinarily long career, Tyrus Wong worked across a range of media in a whole collection of industries – animation, live-action film, commercial art, public art, greeting cards, and in his last years, kitemaking in his personal workshop.
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Duration:00:37:49
SYMHC Classics: San Francisco 1906 - The Great Quake and Fires
5/25/2024
This 2019 episode covers the earthquake of April 18, 1906 that changed San Francisco forever. The earthquake and a series of fires devastated much of the city and had long-term ramifications.
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Duration:00:32:54
Behind the Scenes Minis: Ships and Fences
5/24/2024
Tracy and Holly talk about the eerie similarities of the stories of the Andrea Doria and the Empress of Ireland. They also talk about Jacob Haish's poetry about barbed wire.
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Duration:00:25:39
Joseph F. Glidden and the Contentious Invention of Barbed Wire
5/21/2024
Joseph Glidden is known as the father of barbed wire, but who actually invented it was a matter of disagreement. As a consequence, Glidden's invention was embroiled in legal battles for years.
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Duration:00:35:48
The SS Andrea Doria Rescue
5/20/2024
The SS Andrea Doria was a luxury cruise liner that sank after colliding with another ship in 1956. Most of the people who were on the Andrea Doria lived thanks to one of the biggest civilian maritime rescues in history.
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Duration:00:38:16
SYMHC Classics: The Vanishing of Sister Aimee
5/18/2024
This 2014 episode covers Aimee Semple McPherson, an extraordinary figure in the early 20th-century religious landscape. As an evangelist, she rose to incredible popularity in the 1920s, and then vanished.
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Duration:00:32:50
Behind the Scenes Minis: Sophia Stories
5/17/2024
Holly and Tracy talk about how to pronounce Sophia, and speculate about why Jex-Blake didn't pursue an education at New England Female Medical College.
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Duration:00:18:01
Sophia Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh Seven (Part 2)
5/15/2024
After studying with Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell in New York, Sophia Jex-Blake moved back to England when her father died. But her determination to get a medical education in the U.K. turned her into an education activist.
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Duration:00:37:07
Sophia Jex-Blake’s Early Education (Part One)
5/13/2024
Sophia Jex-Blake was a young English woman who initially pursued a career in teaching before she fell in love with medicine while visiting the U.S. Part one covers the early part of her life and education.
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Encyclopedia BritannicaEncyclopedia BritannicaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Duration:00:35:51
SYMHC Classics: A Culinary History of Spam
5/11/2024
This 2014 episode covers the invention of the canned meat known as Spam. The Hormel Foods product was invented in the 1930s to make use of a surplus of shoulder meat from pigs, and was an instant hit in the U.S. and abroad.
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Duration:00:28:10
Behind the Scenes Minis: Mixed Bag of Bananas
5/10/2024
Holly and Tracy discuss George Heye using his senior thesis to drink beer and how his collection was almost purchased by Ross Perot. They also discuss Maria Orosa and the types of bananas used to make banana ketchup.
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Duration:00:31:16
Maria Y. Orosa & the Food of the Philippines
5/8/2024
Maria Ylagan Orosa was born in the Philippines, and she spent her life working to eliminate food insecurity there. She revived the use of locally available ingredients, and wrote recipes that are found in Filipino cuisine today.
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Duration:00:45:47
George Gustav Heye
5/6/2024
George Gustav Heye’s work in curating a collection of Native American artifacts has enabled many people to learn about indigenous cultures. But his colleting practices and relationship to those cultures are complicated.
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Duration:00:43:43
SYMHC Classics: Horace Wells and the Gas War
5/4/2024
This 2012 episode from prior hosts Sarah and Deblina covers dentist Horace Wells. At an exhibition in 1844 he became certain that nitrous oxide could revolutionize medicine. He tried to demonstrate his findings, but things didn't go as planned.
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Duration:00:29:38
Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Poetry
5/3/2024
Tracy and Holly discuss Sir Humphry Davy's less than spectacular poems, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and the end of Davy's career and life.
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Duration:00:16:21
Sir Humphry Davy and the Miner’s Lamp (Part 2)
5/1/2024
Davy's career after his work in nitrous oxide included the invention of a miner's lamp designed to make mining safer. This invention came with a bit of controversy.
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Duration:00:34:50
Sir Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide (Part 1)
4/29/2024
Chemist Sir Humphry Davy is known for his work with nitrous oxide, or laughing gas. That early part of his career is the focus of part one of this two-parter.
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Duration:00:37:58