Stuff You Missed in History Class

Sarah Breedlove Walker & Sarah Rector: Who was America's first black millionairess?

28 februari 2011 | 23 min

How the Stono Rebellion Worked

23 februari 2011 | 26 min

Phillip V, Reluctant King

21 februari 2011 | 35 min

The Crafts' Escape to Freedom

16 februari 2011 | 29 min

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

14 februari 2011 | 29 min

Who was the last French Bourbon?

9 februari 2011 | 30 min

How Tulip Mania Worked

7 februari 2011 | 35 min

The Last Emperor of Ethiopia

2 februari 2011 | 33 min

5 Unlikely Inventors

31 januari 2011 | 35 min

Madame de Pompadour and Louis XV

26 januari 2011 | 35 min

Hone Heke's Rebellion

24 januari 2011 | 20 min

The Affair of the Poisons

19 januari 2011 | 25 min

El Dorado and the River of Despair

17 januari 2011 | 18 min

Hedy Lamarr: How did a Hollywood starlet invent cellular technology?

12 januari 2011 | 20 min

The Last Years of the Red Eminence

10 januari 2011 | 20 min

Why did a riot start over Shakespeare?

5 januari 2011 | 26 min

The Rise and Fall of the Green Gallant

3 januari 2011 | 24 min

Unearthed in 2010: 5 Historical Finds

29 december 2010 | 26 min

Mansa Musa and the City of Gold

28 december 2010 | 24 min

Did Oliver Cromwell cancel Christmas?

22 december 2010 | 19 min

Did Empress Wu's reign change China?

20 december 2010 | 22 min

What have we learned from gladiator graveyards?

15 december 2010 | 18 min

5 Amazing Astronomical Discoveries

13 december 2010 | 18 min

Why is there a "graveyard of ships" near Naples?

8 december 2010 | 21 min

Tycho Brahe: An Astronomer's Untimely Demise

6 december 2010 | 24 min

The Mysterious Death of Christopher Marlowe

1 december 2010 | 23 min

Why did Augustus exile his own daughter?

29 november 2010 | 23 min

Who was the real Sherlock Holmes?

24 november 2010 | 24 min

Tagore, Erstwhile Knight

22 november 2010 | 29 min

George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate

17 november 2010 | 38 min

Historical Name-dropping in Lost

15 november 2010 | 37 min

5 Show-stopping Historical Weddings

10 november 2010 | 43 min

A Jewish Pirate's Life for Me!

8 november 2010 | 15 min

The Cinderella of the Harem

3 november 2010 | 21 min

La Reconquista and the Alhambra

1 november 2010 | 22 min

He Was Killed by Mesmerism

27 oktober 2010 | 24 min

10 Historical Animals You Should Know: 6 - 10

25 oktober 2010 | 17 min

The Battle of Marathon

20 oktober 2010 | 23 min

Spring-heeled Jack, Mystery Assailant!

18 oktober 2010 | 23 min

10 Historical Animals You Should Know: 1 - 5

13 oktober 2010 | 22 min

Is there a real Macbeth curse?

11 oktober 2010 | 20 min

The History of Chocolate

6 oktober 2010 | 19 min

Lizzie Borden and Her Axe

4 oktober 2010 | 26 min

5 Sinners in Dante's Inferno

29 september 2010 | 23 min

The Whaleship Essex: Real-life Moby Dick Sinks a Ship

27 september 2010 | 21 min

The Race to the South Pole

22 september 2010 | 22 min

The Curse of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond

20 september 2010 | 20 min

Who was King Tut... really?

15 september 2010 | 16 min

The Death of Mozart

13 september 2010 | 15 min

Sir Roger Mortimer: Who was the "Greatest Traitor?"

8 september 2010 | 17 min

Was there a female pope?

6 september 2010 | 15 min

Napoleon in Egypt: The Savants

1 september 2010 | 30 min

The Trung Sisters vs China

30 augusti 2010 | 13 min

Why is Richard I called the Lionheart?

25 augusti 2010 | 20 min

The Lovers of Catherine the Great

23 augusti 2010 | 22 min

The Battles of the Pyramids and Nile

18 augusti 2010 | 25 min

Five Stars of the Wild West

16 augusti 2010 | 25 min

Catherine the Great in Power

11 augusti 2010 | 22 min

Catherine the Great's Rise to Power

9 augusti 2010 | 21 min

Medici Murders and a Basket Baby

4 augusti 2010 | 16 min

A Crusade Gone Wrong

2 augusti 2010 | 16 min

Did any Germans resist Hitler?

28 juli 2010 | 18 min

Ivan VI: Who was the infant ruler of Russia?

26 juli 2010 | 13 min

Why did Henry Ford build a city in the Amazon?

21 juli 2010 | 23 min

Burke and Hare, Who Didn't Steal Corpses

19 juli 2010 | 18 min

Mad King Ludwig Dines Alone

14 juli 2010 | 26 min

Lili'uokalani: Who was the Last Queen of Hawaii?

12 juli 2010 | 18 min

Kamehameha The Great

7 juli 2010 | 19 min

What really happened on Bloody Sunday?

5 juli 2010 | 16 min

Mata Hari, Sinister Salome?

30 juni 2010 | 17 min

A Conspiracy Starring Aaron Burr

28 juni 2010 | 15 min

How Oscar Wilde Worked

23 juni 2010 | 26 min

A Holocaust Story: Hannah Szenes

21 juni 2010 | 17 min

Mutiny on the Bounty

16 juni 2010 | 25 min

How Tecumseh Worked

14 juni 2010 | 22 min

The Bombardment of Baltimore

9 juni 2010 | 21 min

Lillie Langtry, The Jersey Lily

7 juni 2010 | 16 min

How the Pony Express Worked

2 juni 2010 | 14 min

The Emperor Norton Episode: Who was the Emperor of the United States?

31 maj 2010 | 18 min

Caligula Disentangled

26 maj 2010 | 19 min

Nefertiti and the Heretic Pharaoh

24 maj 2010 | 16 min

The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown

19 maj 2010 | 22 min

Simon Bolivar, the Liberator

17 maj 2010 | 17 min

A Grim Tale: The Brothers Grimm

12 maj 2010 | 11 min

The 47 Ronin and the Samurai's Code

10 maj 2010 | 18 min

What is the highest-value art heist in history?

5 maj 2010 | 19 min

How Charlie Chaplin Worked

3 maj 2010 | 18 min

Catherine de' Medici and the Scarlet Nuptials

28 april 2010 | 26 min

Is there a money pit on Oak Island?

26 april 2010 | 14 min

Catherine de' Medici, Italian Orphan

21 april 2010 | 24 min

The Second Act: Notable Vaudevillians

19 april 2010 | 25 min

Who was Emanuel Swedenborg?

14 april 2010 | 18 min

How Michelangelo Worked

12 april 2010 | 27 min

A Brief History of Vaudeville

7 april 2010 | 15 min

Savonarola, the Unarmed Prophet

5 april 2010 | 22 min

Death at the Duomo: The Pazzi Conspiracy

31 mars 2010 | 21 min

Bar Kokhba vs. The Romans

29 mars 2010 | 14 min

Nellie Bly & Stunt Journalism

24 mars 2010 | 23 min

How the Book of Kells Works

22 mars 2010 | 24 min

Brian Boru, High King of Ireland

17 mars 2010 | 14 min

Who stole the Amber Room?

15 mars 2010 | 18 min

What happened to the Romanovs?

10 mars 2010 | 19 min

Josephine Baker, The Toast of Paris

8 mars 2010 | 13 min

Who were Garibaldi's 1000?

3 mars 2010 | 19 min

Stokely Carmichael and Black Power

1 mars 2010 | 15 min

Mary Seacole and the Crimean War

24 februari 2010 | 18 min

Zenobia, Warrior Queen

22 februari 2010 | 14 min

Was Satchel Paige the greatest pitcher in history?

17 februari 2010 | 24 min

What was the Champagne Safari?

16 februari 2010 | 16 min

Is the Taj Mahal a symbol of love?

10 februari 2010 | 13 min

Gilles de Rais: Who was the real Bluebeard?

8 februari 2010 | 15 min

Who was "Black Moses"?

3 februari 2010 | 20 min

History's Greatest Battle Horses

1 februari 2010 | 21 min

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution

27 januari 2010 | 19 min

Into the Ghastly Blank with Burke and Wills

25 januari 2010 | 23 min

King Porus vs Alexander the Great

20 januari 2010 | 23 min

Who would have been the Nazi king?

19 januari 2010 | 15 min

Wallis Simpson and the Abdication Crisis

13 januari 2010 | 19 min

The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst

11 januari 2010 | 16 min

How the Hearst Castle Works

6 januari 2010 | 18 min

The Death of Lord Darnley

4 januari 2010 | 24 min

The Real Citizen Kane

30 december 2009 | 21 min

The Virgin Queen's Great Love

28 december 2009 | 22 min

What was Saturnalia?

23 december 2009 | 10 min

Bungled Attempts at One-Person Flights

21 december 2009 | 16 min

Rival Queens: Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I

16 december 2009 | 29 min

How the Taiping Rebellion Worked

14 december 2009 | 17 min

Elizabeth The First, Before She Was Queen

9 december 2009 | 29 min

Harry Houdini, Master Mystifier

7 december 2009 | 26 min

How did Meriwether Lewis die?

2 december 2009 | 25 min

Why did Angkor fall?

30 november 2009 | 22 min

How the First Thanksgiving Worked

25 november 2009 | 12 min

How the Opium Wars Worked

23 november 2009 | 20 min

Pocahontas: An American Princess

18 november 2009 | 19 min

Was there really an Atlantis?

16 november 2009 | 15 min

The Ada Lovelace Episode: Who was the Enchantress of Numbers?

11 november 2009 | 20 min

How Lord Byron Worked

9 november 2009 | 30 min

A History Mystery: the Mad Trapper of Rat River

4 november 2009 | 12 min

How Lucrezia Borgia Worked

2 november 2009 | 20 min

How Marie Laveau Worked

28 oktober 2009 | 17 min

The Birth of Frankenstein and the Vampyre

26 oktober 2009 | 21 min

St. Paul's Watch and the London Blitz

21 oktober 2009 | 10 min

Pompeii: Lost and Found

19 oktober 2009 | 15 min

The Caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate Floor

14 oktober 2009 | 13 min

What happened to Cleopatra's children?

12 oktober 2009 | 16 min

King Herod's Tomb

7 oktober 2009 | 16 min

How the Boston Molasses Flood Worked

5 oktober 2009 | 17 min

Interview with President Jimmy Carter: Cuba

30 september 2009 | 5 min

How Blackbeard Worked

28 september 2009 | 16 min

Interview with President Jimmy Carter: Human Rights

23 september 2009 | 6 min

Madame de Maintenon and Louis XIV

21 september 2009 | 26 min

Interview with President Jimmy Carter: Camp David Accords

16 september 2009 | 7 min

How the Shootout at the OK Corral Worked

14 september 2009 | 18 min

Interview with President Jimmy Carter: Free Elections

9 september 2009 | 7 min

John Snow's Ghost Map

7 september 2009 | 16 min

Interview with President Jimmy Carter: Guinea Worm Disease

2 september 2009 | 6 min

How the Newsboy Strike of 1899 Worked

31 augusti 2009 | 13 min

What happened to Norte Chico?

26 augusti 2009 | 10 min

Franklin's Lost Expedition

24 augusti 2009 | 14 min

How Eleanor of Aquitaine Worked

19 augusti 2009 | 30 min

How Mark Twain Worked

17 augusti 2009 | 24 min

The Story of Bonnie and Clyde

12 augusti 2009 | 27 min

The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee

10 augusti 2009 | 13 min

How the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial Worked

5 augusti 2009 | 17 min

Historical Pooches

3 augusti 2009 | 16 min

Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr

29 juli 2009 | 29 min

How the 1916 Shark Attacks Worked

27 juli 2009 | 15 min

The Red Light District of New Orleans

22 juli 2009 | 16 min

Malaria and the Panama Canal

20 juli 2009 | 14 min

America's Favorite Outlaw: Billy the Kid

15 juli 2009 | 16 min

How the Dancing Plague of 1518 Worked

13 juli 2009 | 13 min

How the Stonewall Riots Worked

8 juli 2009 | 14 min

Duchess of Decadence: Georgiana

6 juli 2009 | 21 min

Ghosts of History: The Borley Rectory

1 juli 2009 | 14 min

The Amelia Earhart Mystery

29 juni 2009 | 24 min

Ghosts of History: Versailles

24 juni 2009 | 19 min

The Golem of Prague

22 juni 2009 | 14 min

Ghosts of History: Winchester Mystery House

17 juni 2009 | 19 min

Fan Pick: Best Innovators in History

15 juni 2009 | 18 min

Were the Robber Barons America's greatest philanthropists?

10 juni 2009 | 19 min

What did Greek philosophers think about happiness?

8 juni 2009 | 16 min

Was Teddy Roosevelt the First Green President?

3 juni 2009 | 14 min

The Marco Polo Pasta Myth

1 juni 2009 | 10 min

Presidential Perks

27 maj 2009 | 22 min

What really happened at Kent State?

25 maj 2009 | 26 min

How the Tuskegee Airmen Worked

20 maj 2009 | 19 min

Did Betsy Ross really make the first American Flag?

18 maj 2009 | 21 min

Mesopotamia: The First Civilization

13 maj 2009 | 16 min

How the Battle of Gettysburg Worked

11 maj 2009 | 23 min

Were people vying to become slaves in the Ottoman Empire?

6 maj 2009 | 17 min

Gandhi's Salt March

4 maj 2009 | 14 min

Was Manhattan traded for nutmeg?

29 april 2009 | 14 min

Were ancient Egyptians the first feminists?

27 april 2009 | 15 min

How Joan D'Arc Worked

22 april 2009 | 20 min

Charlemagne's Coronation

20 april 2009 | 16 min

How the Marshall Plan Worked

15 april 2009 | 13 min

How Archimedes' Death Ray Worked

13 april 2009 | 14 min

How did a shipwreck double the size of the US?

8 april 2009 | 11 min

How the Terracotta Army Works

1 april 2009 | 13 min

How did the East India Company change the world?

30 mars 2009 | 14 min

Historically Inaccurate Movies

23 mars 2009 | 15 min

How the Code of Hammurabi Worked

18 mars 2009 | 13 min

The Bloodiest Battles of World War II

16 mars 2009 | 15 min

How Typhoid Mary Worked

11 mars 2009 | 13 min

Was there really a Pied Piper of Hamelin?

9 mars 2009 | 15 min

How Hitler's Propaganda Machine Worked

4 mars 2009 | 19 min

How the Alamo Worked

2 mars 2009 | 13 min

How Knights Work

25 februari 2009 | 20 min

How the Spanish-American War Worked

23 februari 2009 | 15 min

How the Black Death Worked

18 februari 2009 | 16 min

How Thomas Jefferson's Bible Worked

16 februari 2009 | 13 min

Why did it take more than 20 years to bury Eva Peron?

11 februari 2009 | 16 min

Will the world really end in 2012?

9 februari 2009 | 15 min

How Navajo Code Talkers Work

4 februari 2009 | 13 min

How the Underground Railroad Worked

2 februari 2009 | 14 min

How Revisionist History Works

28 januari 2009 | 14 min

How the Vikings Worked

26 januari 2009 | 15 min

How Medieval Torture Devices Worked

21 januari 2009 | 13 min

How the Civil Rights Movement Worked

19 januari 2009 | 24 min

How the Spanish Inquisition Worked

14 januari 2009 | 16 min

Why were some Japanese soldiers still fighting decades after World War II?

12 januari 2009 | 13 min

Did the Chinese reach America before Columbus?

7 januari 2009 | 13 min

How the Emancipation Proclamation Worked

5 januari 2009 | 15 min

Could treasure hunters have discovered Nazi Gold?

31 december 2008 | 13 min

How the Great Wall of China Works

29 december 2008 | 13 min

How Agent Orange Worked

24 december 2008 | 13 min

Who was Marco Polo?

22 december 2008 | 14 min

How the African Diamond Trade Works

17 december 2008 | 13 min

How Prohibition Works

15 december 2008 | 15 min

How Henry VIII Worked

10 december 2008 | 13 min

How the Boston Tea Party Worked

8 december 2008 | 14 min

Who was Rosie the Riveter?

3 december 2008 | 14 min

How the Rosetta Stone Works

1 december 2008 | 17 min

How Easter Island Works

26 november 2008 | 20 min

How the Titanic Worked

24 november 2008 | 19 min

How the French Revolution Worked

19 november 2008 | 27 min

How the Crusades Worked

17 november 2008 | 14 min

What was Australia's Stolen Generation?

12 november 2008 | 13 min

How the Louisiana Purchase Worked

10 november 2008 | 15 min

How Presidential Salaries Work

5 november 2008 | 12 min

How the Swing States Works

3 november 2008 | 9 min

Why did Lady Godiva take a naked horse ride?

29 oktober 2008 | 16 min

How can a corpse be incorruptible?

27 oktober 2008 | 11 min

What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?

23 oktober 2008 | 18 min

Do political parties influence the First Lady's duties?

21 oktober 2008 | 14 min

Was an Irish monk the first European to find America?

15 oktober 2008 | 10 min

How Presidential Pardons Work

13 oktober 2008 | 20 min

What was America's first terrorist threat?

8 oktober 2008 | 10 min

Does my vote count?

6 oktober 2008 | 13 min

Did someone really escape from Alcatraz?

1 oktober 2008 | 12 min

The History of Presidential Debates

29 september 2008 | 17 min

Did Marie Antoinette really tell French peasants to eat cake?

24 september 2008 | 10 min

How the Symbols of U.S. Political Parties Work

22 september 2008 | 11 min

Why is there an underground city beneath Beijing?

17 september 2008 | 10 min

How Thomas Jefferson Worked

15 september 2008 | 17 min

Who was America's first murderer?

10 september 2008 | 10 min

Could Noah's ark really have happened?

8 september 2008 | 10 min

How did Rasputin really die?

3 september 2008 | 13 min

What happened to the two other men on Paul Revere's ride?

1 september 2008 | 11 min

Did the Great Chicago Fire really start with Mrs. O'Leary's cow?

27 augusti 2008 | 9 min

How King Arthur Worked

25 augusti 2008 | 8 min

Did the ancient Greeks get their ideas from the Africans?

20 augusti 2008 | 11 min

How the Great Train Robbery Worked

18 augusti 2008 | 11 min

Vlad Tepes: Who was the real Count Dracula?

14 augusti 2008 | 10 min

How the Donner Party Worked

12 augusti 2008 | 10 min

How the Berlin Wall Worked

6 augusti 2008 | 9 min

How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work

4 augusti 2008 | 9 min

What's Mutual Assured Destruction?

30 juli 2008 | 4 min

Why was tax evasion the only thing pinned on Al Capone?

28 juli 2008 | 4 min

Why did England and Spain fight over an ear?

23 juli 2008 | 4 min

Did Nero really play the fiddle while Rome burned?

21 juli 2008 | 4 min

Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?

16 juli 2008 | 3 min

What was the Christmas Truce?

14 juli 2008 | 4 min

How the First Olympics Worked

9 juli 2008 | 4 min

What was in Peter the Great's cabinet of curiosities?

7 juli 2008 | 4 min

The Cursed Tomb of King Tut

2 juli 2008 | 4 min

Ergot and the Salem Witchtrials

30 juni 2008 | 4 min

Fact or Fiction: Is D.B. Cooper still alive?

27 juni 2008 | 4 min

The Elizabeth Bathory Episode: Was a Hungarian countess the world's most prolific serial killer?

25 juni 2008 | 4 min

Did Genghis Khan really kill 1,748,000 people in one hour?

9 juni 2008 | 4 min

Avsnitt

Estevanico, aka Mustapha al-Azemmour

SYMHC Classics: Prison Breaks

Behind the Scenes Minis: Learned Women and Sharkey

William J. Sharkey’s Not-so-great Escape

Anna Maria van Schurman, Star of Utrecht

SYMHC Classics: Sappho

Behind the Scenes Minis: Fitz Hugh and Sleepytime

Paracelsus and the Doctrine of Signatures

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

SYMHC Classics: James Baldwin

Behind the Scenes Minis: Opera and Joyous Research

Beatrice Kenner and Midred Smith: Sister Inventors

Eadweard Muybridge

SYMHC Classics: Mary Winston Jackson

Behind the Scenes Minis: Good News, Bad News

Unearthed! in July 2025, Part 2

Unearthed! in July 2025, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Lady Jane Grey

Behind the Scenes Minis: Sewing Basket

Paper Sewing Patterns, Part 2

Paper Sewing Patterns, Part 1

SYMHC Class: Poison Control

Behind the Scenes Minis: Pens and Dog Radios

Edwin Howard Armstrong

The Humble Ballpoint Pen

SYMHC Classics: Lettuce, Slavery, and the Bibb Legacy

Behind the Scenes Minis: Murder and War

Wilfred Owen, War Poet

Beauchamp-Sharpe Tragedy of 1825

SYMHC Classics: Sylvia Rivera

Behind the Scenes Minis: Messy Bulwer-Lyttons

Rosina Bulwer-Lytton’s Blighted Life (Part 2)

Rosina Bulwer-Lytton’s Blighted Life (Part 1)

SYMHC Classics: Theodosia Burr Alston

Behind the Scenes Minis: Hearts and Arts

Albert Bierstadt

Electrocardiograms

SYMHC Classics: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion

Behind the Scenes Minis: Pope Riot

Christiana Incident of 1851

Pope Leo XIII

SYMHC Classics: Griswold v. Connecticut

Behind the Scenes Minis: Parks and Roads

Blue Ridge Parkway

Skyline Drive & Shenandoah National Park

SYMHC Classics: Palmer Raids Pt. 2

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Science and Library Love

Library of Congress

Three Autoimmune Diseases In Brief

SYMHC Classics: Palmer Raids Pt. 1

Behind the Scenes Minis: Jokes in Translation and the Wayback

The Triple Nickles

Emperor Meiji and the Meiji Jingu Shrine

SYMHC Classics: All American Girls Professional Baseball League

Behind the Scenes Minis: Shots and Sidi

Sidi Mubarak Bombay

Tetanus

SYMHC Classics: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Behind the Scenes Minis: Altina and Saving Babies

Boston Floating Hospital

Altina Schinasi

SYMHC Classics: Franz Nopsca

Behind the Scenes Minis: Small Fruit Division and Dorseys

Two Dorseys: Thomas J. and William Henry

Eponymous Foods: Fruits

SYMHC Classics: Hatshepsut

Behind the Scenes Minis: Wanda’s Motivations

Wanda Gág, Part 2

Wanda Gág, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Theda Bara

Behind the Scenes Minis: So You Hate Waffles

Unearthed! in Spring 2025, Part 2

Unearthed! in Spring 2025, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: George Wallace

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Tricky Topic

Vietnam Draft Board Raids, Part 2

Vietnam Draft Board Raids, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Lucille Ball