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Behind the Scenes Minis: Incorrect Lillian and Reading Kids
Tracy notes the wild array of incorrect information that circulates about Lillian Exum Clement. Then she and Holly talk about childhood reading habit…
1 year, 3 months ago
Introducing: SNAFU Season 3: Formula 6
Hi, Stuff You Missed In History Class Fans! We want to share a new season of SNAFU with Ed Helms.
About the show: This is the story of Prohibition y…
1 year, 3 months ago
Gertrude Chandler Warner: ‘The Boxcar Children’ and Beyond
Gertrude Chandler Warner's most well known writing is "The Boxcar Children." But that series is far from the only professional writing Chandler did –…
1 year, 3 months ago
Exum Clement, Attorney at Law
Lillian Exum Clement Stafford was one of the first women in North Carolina to practice law, and the first woman in the South to be elected to a state…
1 year, 3 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Lost Cause of the Confederacy
This 2020 episode covers the myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The Lost Cause was a distortion of the history of the U.S. Civil War that’s s…
1 year, 3 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Tracy’s Frustration
Tracy shares issues she has with overly reductive internet videos that misrepresent the story of nixtamalization. She and Holly also discuss the vari…
1 year, 3 months ago
Pellagra, Part 2
This episode on the pellagra epidemic focuses on its prevalence in the U.S. in the early 20th century. Some of the scientific work done to understand…
1 year, 3 months ago
Pellagra, Part 1
The pellagra epidemic of the early 20th century may have been the deadliest epidemic of a specific nutrient deficiency in U.S. history. Part one cove…
1 year, 3 months ago
SYMHC Classics: Coxey's Army
This 2020 episode covers the first protest march on Washington, D.C., led by Jacob Sechler Coxey in the 1890s. His plan was job creation for the nati…
1 year, 3 months ago
Behind the Scenes Minis: Spiteful Robert
Holly talks about how impossible it is to build a spite house now, thanks to municipal building codes. She also shares some uncertain stories of the …
1 year, 3 months ago