All Episodes

SYMHC Classics: Raincoats

Behind the Scenes Minis: Shoes, Shoes, Shoes!

Running Through Sneaker History

Charles Goodyear and Vulcanized Rubber

SYMHC Classics: Penicillin

Behind the Scenes Minis: Dorothy Everywhere

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s Crystalline Chemistry, Part 2

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s Crystalline Chemistry, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Sarah Bradlee Fulton

Behind the Scenes Minis: Stairs and Trains

Elizabeth Blackwell's Curious Herbal

The Many Meanings of the Bunker Hill Monument

SYMHC Classics: Four Paperclippers

Behind the Scenes Minis: Pacts and Facts

Louis Le Prince, the Missing Inventor of Motion Pictures

Catacombs of Rome

SYMHC Classics: Operation Paperclip

Behind the Scenes Minis: Unexpected Information

Rebecca Smith Pollard, aka Kate Harrington

The Life and Afterlife of Casimir Pulaski

SYMHC Classics: Redpath Murders

Behind the Scenes Minis: Piece of Work

E. Virgil Neal: Hypnotist, Fraudster, Tycoon, Part 2

E. Virgil Neal: Hypnotist, Fraudster, Tycoon - Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Mancini Sisters

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Apostrophe and the Rich Guy

Robert Boyle

The Literary Life of Viola Roseboro'

SYMHC Classics: Vanport Flood

Behind the Scenes Minis: Disease Pact

Samuel Hartlib and the Hartlib Circle

Carlos Juan Finlay and Yellow Fever

SYMHC Classics: Deborah Sampson

Behind the Scenes Minis: Art and Theme Parks

Interview: Leslie Iwerks

Uffizi: A Painting, A Bombing, A Restoration

SYMHC Classics: Regulator War

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Laws, Bad Cats

Carrington Event

United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind

SYMHC Classics: Insular Cases

Behind the Scenes Minis: Friends and Bubble Guns

Modern Inventions That Are Actually Old

John Graunt

SYMHC Classics: Red Summer 1919

Behind the Scenes Minis: Greetings and Context

The Memphis Massacre

Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Haymarket Riot

Behind the Scenes Minis: Serving Lip and Ethics

James Braid, Surgeon and Father of Hypnotism

Gladys Bentley

SYMHC Classics: Moms Mabley

Behind the Scenes Minis: Self-talk Hoax

The Pompey Stone Hoax

Émile Coué and Autosuggestion

SYMHC Classics: Louis Daguerre

Behind the Scenes Minis: Atlanta and Textiles

Elizabeth Fulhame’s Colorful Chemistry

Richard Peters and Early Atlanta History

SYMHC Classics: Nelson Pill Hearings

Behind the Scenes Minis: Alaska and Contraceptives

The IUD: A History

Elizabeth Peratrovich

SYMHC Classics: Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor

Behind the Scenes Minis: Carry-on Bags

Gustave Flaubert and the ‘Madame Bovary’ Trial

Elizabeth Bisland, Beyond the Trip Around the World

SYMHC Classics: Marie Laurencin

Behind the Scenes Minis: Censorship Cats

Théophile Steinlen Beyond 'Le Chat Noir'

Hercules Posey & the President’s House

SYMHC Classics: Pueblo Revolt

Behind the Scenes Minis: Coffee, 'Pirats' and Sea Robbers

Francisco Menéndez & Fort Mose

Melitta Bentz and the Coffee Filter

SYMHC Classics: COINTELPRO 2

Behind the Scenes Minis: Whoopsy Whimsy

Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

Benzedrine, Pervitin, and WWII

SYMHC Classics: COINTELPRO 1

Behind the Scenes Minis: It's Not Unprecedented

The Rendition of Anthony Burns, Part 2

The Rendition of Anthony Burns, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Samuel Pepys

Behind the Scenes Minis: Pollution Olympics

Notable Early Women Olympians

John Evelyn's 'Fumifugium'

SYMHC Classics: Hennig Brand

Behind the Scenes Minis: Odd Baby Train

George Stephenson, Father of Railways

Rickets

SYMHC Classics: Three Legendary Pranks

Behind the Scenes Minis: Embroidery Love Letter

Embroidery History Sampler, Part 2

Embroidery History Sampler, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Paul Cuffe

Behind the Scenes Minis: This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven

Unearthed Year-end 2025, Part 2

Unearthed Year-end 2025, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: P.A.R.C. and Mills

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Goals and Spirit Clothes

Jean Baptiste: Grave Robber at Large

Two 504 Figures: Kitty Cone and Brad Lomax

SYMHC Classics: Andrew Crosse

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bullet Journal Dinosaur

New Year’s Eve Iguanodon Party

Self-help Books Throughout History

SYMHC Classics: Paul Julius Reuter

Behind the Scenes Minis: Journalism Carols

William Sandys & English Christmas Carols

Joseph Medill

SYMHC Classics: SS Princess Sophia

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mountains and Glaciers

Walter Harper and the Summiting of Denali, Part 2

Walter Harper and the Summiting of Denali, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Washington Irving

Behind the Scenes Minis: Raccoon Cranberries

Cranberries

Unusual White House Pets

SYMHC Classics: Nutcracker

Behind the Scenes Minis: Much Charles, Many Dogs

Cassius Coolidge and Dogs Playing Poker

Charles Sumner Revisited (part 3)

SYMHC Classics: Public Universal Friend

Behind the Scenes Minis: Morocco!

Charles Sumner, Revisited (part 2)

Charles Sumner, Revisited (part 1)

SYMHC Classics: Thomas Cook

Behind the Scenes Minis: Balloons and Cat Trees

Inventions for Pets

Balloon Riots

SYMHC Classics: Georgia Gold Rush

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mary and Marjorie

Marjorie Merriweather Post

Mary Golda Ross

SYMHC Classics: Alexandre Dumas Pere

Behind the Scenes Minis: French Fear and Frozen Food

Clarence Birdseye and the Rise of Frozen Foods

The Great Fear of 1789

SYMHC Classics: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

Behind the Scenes Minis: Villas and Tirades

Hammersmith Ghost Murder

Villa de Vecchi

SYMHC Classics: Aleister Crowley

Behind the Scenes Minis: Ghosts and Their Towns

Six Impossible Episodes: U.S. Ghost Towns

Drury Lane Ghosts

SYMHC Classics: Three Hellhounds

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bias 3DS

Unearthed! in Autumn 2025, Part 2

Unearthed! in Autumn 2025, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Paul Robeson

Behind the Scenes Minis: Complicated Werewolf

Peter Stumpp, Werewolf of Bedburg

Loudun Possessions

SYMHC Classics: Bell Witch

Behind the Scenes Minis: Ticks and Spiders

Alice Kyteler and the Kilkenny Witch Trials

Three More Eponymous Diseases: Arthropod Bites

SYMHC Classics: S.S. Arctic

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Grisly Shipwreck

Géricault and the Raft of the Medusa (Part 2)

Medusa Shipwreck (Part 1)

SYMHC Classics: Chesapeake Bay Oyster Wars

Behind the Scenes Minis: Math and Falsehoods

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton

Augustin Jean Fresnel

SYMHC Classics: Max von Pettenkofer

Behind the Scenes Minis: All Things Clean

William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells

A History of Soap

SYMHC Classics: John Dalton

Behind the Scenes Minis: Jane and the Clicker

TV Remotes

Jane Cunningham Croly, aka Jennie June

SYMHC Classics: Rabies

Behind the Scenes Minis: Graffiti Animals

Six Impossible Episodes: The Dickin Medal

The Slow Invention of Spray Paint

SYMHC Classics: Eunice Newton Foote

Behind the Scenes Minis: Estevan and Fury

Buck v. Bell

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

Behind the Scenes Minis: Dorothy and Strawberries

Strawberries

Dorothy Arzner

SYMHC Classics: William Desmond Taylor Murder

Behind the Scenes Minis: Strikes and Dear Kurt

Live From ICC: Kurt Vonnegut

1946 Oakland General Strike

SYMHC Classics: Flint Sit-down Strike

Behind the Scenes Minis: Morality and Friction

Mary Hunter Austin

Children’s Morality Code of 1916

SYMHC Classics: Dr. Couney's Baby Sideshow

Behind the Scenes Minis: Incorrect Lillian and Reading Kids

Gertrude Chandler Warner: ‘The Boxcar Children’ and Beyond

Exum Clement, Attorney at Law

SYMHC Classics: Lost Cause of the Confederacy

Behind the Scenes Minis: Tracy’s Frustration

Pellagra, Part 2

Pellagra, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Coxey's Army

Behind the Scenes Minis: Spiteful Robert

Robert Morris, War Finance, and Early Bankruptcy Law in the U.S.

Spite Houses

SYMHC Classics: Six Impossible Episodes - Other Ins

Behind the Scenes Minis: Hydroponies and Horse Flipping

Great Epizootic of 1872

The Rise of Modern Hydroponics

SYMHC Classics: William Montague Cobb

Behind the Scenes Minis: Law and Medicine

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

United States vs. Wong Kim Ark

SYMHC Classics: Chae Chan Ping vs. United States

Behind the Scenes Minis: Helen and Ada

Ada Coleman and the Savoy’s American Bar

Helen McNicoll, Canadian Impressionist

SYMHC Classics: Jelling Stones

Behind the Scenes Minis: Iceland and Obstinance

Isles of Scilly and the 335 Years War

Jón Arason, Last Catholic Bishop of Iceland

SYMHC Classics: Christine de Pizan

Behind the Scenes Minis: Tamara and Isaac

Isaac Pitman’s Shorthand

Tamara de Lempicka

SYMHC Classics: Peter Roget

Behind the Scenes Minis: Petra Peccadillo

Unearthed! Year-end 2024, Part 2

Unearthed! Year-end 2024, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Zoë and Theodora

Behind the Scenes Minis: Accidental Mary Week

Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary Elizabeth Lease

SYMHC Classics: Griffith Jenkins Griffith

Behind the Scenes Minis: Stitching Hangovers

A Hodgepodge of Hangover History

Helen A. Blanchard, Sewing Machine Innovator

SYMHC Classics: F.W. Murnau

Behind the Scenes Minis: Pumpkin Spice Christmas

Christmas Décor

A History of Nutmeg

SYMHC Classics: Madame Blavatsky

Behind the Scenes Minis: Society for Disastrous Accidents

The SL-1 Reactor Incident

Joaquín Torres-García

SYMHC Classics: Demon Core

Behind the Scenes Minis: Complicated Ely

Ely S. Parker and Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)

Ely S. Parker and the Tonawanda Seneca (Part 1)

SYMHC Classics: Scurvy

Behind the Scenes Minis: Impossible Shoes

Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Six Impossible Episodes: Listener Requests III

SYMHC Classics: Ko'olau Rebellion

Behind the Scenes Minis: Unplanned Sarah Week

Sarah Winnemucca, Part 2

Sarah Winnemucca, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Treaty of Waitangi

Behind the Scenes Minis: Questionable Jokes and Turkey

Thanksgiving vs. Franksgiving

Charles Farrar Browne, the First Standup Comedian

SYMHC Classics: 3 Reformation Women Classic

Behind the Scenes Minis: Hans, Mike, and Nate

Interview - Nate DiMeo and The Memory Palace

Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum

SYMHC Classics: Victorian Orchidelirium

Behind the Scenes Minis: Lyon and the Family

Interview - Toby Ball/Rip Current

1798 Robbery of the Bank of Pennsylvania

SYMHC Classics: Bram Stoker

Behind the Scenes Minis: Farewell, Halloween

Ghosts of the British Isles, Part 2

Ghosts of the British Isles, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Greenbrier Ghost

Behind the Scenes Minis: Literature and Kooky Houses

Horace Walpole’s Gothic Castles, Part 2

Horace Walpole’s Gothic Castles, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Vardø Witch Trials

Behind the Scenes Minis: Tennis Balls on Sticks

Unearthed! in Autumn 2024, Part 2

Unearthed! in Autumn 2024, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Desmond T. Doss

Behind the Scenes Minis: Alger and Carlo

Carlo Gesualdo

Alger Hiss

SYMHC Classics: Women's March Versailles

Behind the Scenes Minis: Crowns and Critters

Medieval & Early Modern Animal Trials

Wawel Castle

SYMHC Classics: Boatload of Knowledge

Behind the Scenes Minis: Anglo, Communist, French

Étienne Cabet and the Utopia of Icaria

Battle of Brunanburh

SYMHC Classics: New Harmony

Behind the Scenes Minis: Submarines and Pecans

Anne Byrn: Baking in the American South

Narcís Monturiol’s Submarines

SYMHC Classics: Mendez v Westminster

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Rebel and Home Dec

António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro and Quinta da Regaleira

Jovita Idar

SYMHC Classics: Tycho Brahe

Behind the Scenes Minis: Tennis, Trash Television and Art

Richard Dadd

Charlotte Cooper Sterry, Tennis Champion

SYMHC Classics: Who was the Real Robin Hood?

Behind the Scenes Minis: Age Gaps and Piracy

Eustace the Monk

Johannes and Elizabetha Hevelius

SYMHC Classics: Waffles

Behind the Scenes Minis: Cats, Caves and Scandal

Domenica Guillaume Walter and l'Affaire Lacaze

The Kentucky Cave Wars

SYMHC Classics: Léonard Autié

Behind the Scenes Minis: Evil Genius Perms

Charles Nessler’s Permanent Waves

Vidkun Quisling

SYMHC Classics: Battleships!

Behind the Scenes Minis: Traveling and Diseases

Three Eponymous Diseases

Gene Stratton-Porter Live at the Indiana History Center

SYMHC Classics: La Scala Opera House

Behind the Scenes Minis: Foodie Fun and Bureaucracy

Domesday Book

Eponymous Foods: Snacks and Sweets

SYMHC Classics: Jeanne Baret

Behind the Scenes Minis: Unpacking Harriet and Watching Olympics

Defunct Olympic Sports

Harriet Williams Russel Strong

SYMHC Classics: 1900 Olympic Games

Behind the Scenes Minis: Diagrams and Iceland Memories

The Skaftáreldar, or Laki Fissure Eruption

John Venn

SYMHC Classics: Beekeeping

Behind the Scenes Minis: Categories, Museums and Cherries

Unearthed! July 2024, Part 2

Unearthed! July 2024, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Battle of Ambos Nogales

Behind the Scenes Minis: Road Trips and Bicycles

The 25th Infantry Regiment Iron Riders

Historical Roads and Highways

SYMHC Classics: Henry Gerber

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Statue Started It

Francisco de Miranda, Part 2

Francisco de Miranda, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Tupac Amaru Rebellion

Behind the Scenes Minis: Leviathan and Athenian

Solon of Athens

Missouri Leviathan

SYMHC Classic: The Bone Wars

Behind the Scenes Minis: Medical Scans and Nobel Prizes

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Part 2

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Radioiodine Therapy

Behind the Scenes Minis: Salty Popcorn

Iodized Salt

Popcorn

SYMHC Classics: Jules Cotard and Cotard Syndrome

Behind the Scenes Minis: Strikes, Immigration and Weeds

Gertrude Jekyll's Artistic Gardens

The Art of Tyrus Wong

SYMHC Classics: San Francisco 1906 - The Great Quake and Fires

Behind the Scenes Minis: Ships and Fences

Joseph F. Glidden and the Contentious Invention of Barbed Wire

The SS Andrea Doria Rescue

SYMHC Classics: The Vanishing of Sister Aimee

Behind the Scenes Minis: Sophia Stories

Sophia Jex-Blake and the Edinburgh Seven (Part 2)

Sophia Jex-Blake’s Early Education (Part One)

SYMHC Classics: A Culinary History of Spam

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mixed Bag of Bananas

Maria Y. Orosa & the Food of the Philippines

George Gustav Heye

SYMHC Classics: Horace Wells and the Gas War

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bad Poetry

Sir Humphry Davy and the Miner’s Lamp (Part 2)

Sir Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide (Part 1)

SYMHC Classics: S.S. Sultana

Behind the Scenes Minis: Extreme Wealth and Wild Research

Dr. Rachel Lance and 'Chamber Divers'

Bradley Martin Ball

SYMHC Classics: Croesus

Behind the Scenes Minis: Piggy Banks and Ruby Slippers

Unearthed! in Spring 2024, Part 2

Unearthed! in Spring 2024, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Croquet History

Behind the Scenes Minis: Eclipse Games

Milton Bradley and the Game That Started It All

Thales and the Battle of the Eclipse

SYMHC Classics: Sylvia of Hollywood

Behind the Scenes Minis: Vinnie's Wild Life

Vinnie Ream, Part 2

Vinnie Ream, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Pig War

Behind the Scenes Minis: Wrong Photo and the Rules

Henry Martyn Robert’s Rules of Order

The Inventive Mind of Margaret E. Knight

SYMHC Classics: James G. Fair

Behind the Scenes Minis: Divorce, Marriage, and Manners

Six Impossible Episodes: Etiquette Manuals

Divorce Ranches

SYMHC Classics: Ambroise Paré

Behind the Scenes Minis: Arsenic and Arm Prosthetics

Götz of the Iron Hand

Charles Francis Hall and His Mysterious Arctic Death

SYMHC Classics: Stephens Island Wren

Behind the Scenes Minis: Fish Sandwich

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the Coelacanth

Eponymous Foods – Sandwiches Edition

SYMHC Classics: The End of Rinderpest

Behind the Scenes Minis: Source Chasing and Measles Shots

Measles: Historical Highlights

'Doctress' Rebecca Crumpler

SYMHC Classics: Three Astonishing Belles

Behind the Scenes Minis: George and Mad Jack

John ‘Mad Jack’ Mytton

George Washington Williams

SYMHC Classics: Mary Breckinridge

Behind the Scenes Minis: Natalie Can't Be Contained

Natalie Clifford Barney, Part 2

Natalie Clifford Barney, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Lola Montez

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mademoiselle and the Tunneler

Harrison G. Dyar, Jr., Entomologist and Tunneler

Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans

SYMHC Classics: Dr. Vera Peters

Behind the Scenes Minis: Anthony's Secrets and Mammograms

A History of Mammography

Anthony van Dyck

SYMHC Classics: Orphan Tsunami

Behind the Scenes Minis: Succession and the Roeblings

Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge

Stakhanovite Movement

SYMHC Classics: Hypatia

Behind the Scenes Minis: Shakespearean Floorboards

Unearthed! in Fall/Winter 2023, Part 2

Unearthed! in Fall/Winter 2023, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Benjamin Banneker

Behind the Scenes Minis: Wow, Phones

The Birth of Actuarial Science and Life Insurance, Pt. 2

The Birth of Actuarial Science and Life Insurance, Pt. 1

SYMHC Classics: Alfred Wegener

Behind the Scenes Minis: Planning for Pigeons

The Great English Sparrow War

Almanacs and Day Planners

Holiday Bonus: Brief History of Gin

SYMHC Classics: Iroquois Theater Fire

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mixed Opinions

The Banu Musa

The Stone of Scone Heist

Holiday Bonus: Krampus & Friends

SYMHC Classics: John Wilkins and His Moon Plans

Behind the Scenes Minis: Frozen Ice Hedda

Hedda Hopper

River Thames Frost Fairs

SYMHC Classics: Belinda Sutton

Behind the Scenes Minis: Metric Spinning Bee

Sarah Bradlee Fulton and the Daughters of Liberty

The 17th-century Roots of the Metric System

SYMHC Classics: Traffic Lights

Behind the Scenes Minis: Advent Gazpacho

Montjuïc Castle and the Bombardments of Barcelona

Advent Calendars

Behind the Scenes Minis: Blackouts and Funiculars

Significant Moments in the History of Montserrat

SYMHC Live: Gin Cocktails and Jerry Thomas

SYMHC Classics: Mirabal Sisters

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bertillon and Rebecca

The Rebecca Riots

Alphonse Bertillon

SYMHC Classics: Sarah Josepha Hale

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mourning Dove in Context

Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket, Pt. 2

Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket, Pt. 1

SYMHC Classics: Diving Technology

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Empress and the Queen

Mary Somerville

The Empress of Ireland

SYMHC Classics: The King’s Evil

Behind the Scenes Minis: Murder and Home Decor

Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand, The Empress’s Oracle

The Murder of Pearl Bryan

SYMHC Classics: Paris Catacombs

Behind the Scenes Minis: Jack and Pearl and Patience

Patience Worth and Pearl Curran

Jack-o'-lanterns

SYMHC Classics: Poveglia

Behind the Scenes Minis: Fall Fun

Unearthed! in Autumn 2023, Part 2

Unearthed! in Autumn 2023, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Crescent Hotel

Behind the Scenes Minis: Criminals and the Maco Light

Six Impossible Episodes: Ghost Stories

The Murder of William Weare

SYMHC Classics: Death of Poe

Behind the Scenes Minis: Gothic All Week

Ann Radcliffe, Gothic Great Enchantress, Part 2

Ann Radcliffe, Gothic Great Enchantress, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Mother Shipton

Behind the Scenes Minis: Sad Clowns, Sad Trees

Eponymous Foods – Autumn Apple Edition

Joseph Grimaldi, the First Modern Clown

SYMHC Classics: Frieda Belinfante

Behind the Scenes Minis: Marketing and Activism

Isabel González and Gonzales v. Williams

Alexander Turney Stewart

SYMHC Classics: Henry Every

Behind the Scenes Minis: Fascinating Dean

Dean Mahomed, Restaurateur and Shampooing Surgeon

Dean Mahomed and the Bengal Army

SYMHC Classics: Mary, Queen of Scots

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mysteries of the Morgan Abduction

The Abduction of William Morgan, Part 2

The Abduction of William Morgan, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Benjamin Lay

Behind the Scenes Minis: Licoricia and Glitter Sunscreen

History of Sunscreen

Licoricia of Winchester

SYMHC Classics: Leicester Hemingway

Behind the Scenes Minis: Negligence and the Good Witch

The Beguiling Billie Burke

The Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster

SYMHC Classics: Endlings

Behind the Scenes Minis: Long Articles and Bubbles

Johann Jacob Schweppe and the Rise of Carbonation

The Insular Cases

SYMHC Classics: Buddy Bolden and the Birth of Jazz

Behind the Scenes Minis: Clams and Consternation

Milk Sickness and the Mystery of Dr. Anna

Very Old Animals

SYMHC Classics: Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Behind the Scenes Minis: Running and Sargents

Two Sargents: Judith and Emily

1904 Olympic Marathon

SYMHC Classics: Annette Kellerman

Behind the Scenes Minis: Money, Power and Staying Positive

Campaign Finance in U.S. History, Part 2

Campaign Finance in U.S. History, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: The Wreck of the Batavia

Behind the Scenes Minis: So Much Roman Stuff

Unearthed! Summer 2023, Part 2

Unearthed! Summer 2023, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Auguste Escoffier

Behind the Scenes Minis: Frank, Lizzie, and Noodles

Eponymous Foods: Oops All Noodles

Frank Duveneck and Elizabeth Boott

SYMHC Classics: Great Vowel Shift

Behind the Scenes Minis: Conjecture and Child Actors

The Clifton Star Chamber Case and Kidnapped Child Actors

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

SYMHC Classics: W.C. Minor

Behind the Scenes Minis: War of the Words

Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 2

Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Julian Eltinge

Behind the Scenes Minis: Square Dancing on a Wire

Square Dancing

Vander Clyde Broadway, aka Barbette

SYMHC Classics: George Sand

Behind the Scenes Minis: Music and Tomatoes

Nix v. Hedden and Tomatoes as Vegetables

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

SYMHC Classics: Frederick Douglass

Behind the Scenes Minis: Lucy and Ruth

Ruth Benedict

Lucy Stone

SYMHC Classics: Zoot Suit Riots

Behind the Scenes Minis: Pants and Randolph's Activism

A. Philip Randolph

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

SYMHC Classics: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Behind the Scenes Minis: Ruby and Japan

Hasekura Tsunenaga

Ruby Payne-Scott

SYMHC Classics: Levi Strauss

Behind the Scenes Minis: Goose and Chicken

The Chicken of Tomorrow

Six Impossible Episodes: Mother Goose 3

SYMHC Classics: Julian of Norwich

Behind the Scenes Minis: Birth Year and Buildings

Louis Henry Sullivan

Michaelina Wautier, Flemish Baroque Master

SYMHC Classics: Artemisia Gentileschi

Behind the Scenes Minis: Very Theatrical

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Canaletto

SYMHC Classics: Great Zimbabwe

Behind the Scenes Minis: Head Canon Intrigues

Unearthed! in Spring 2023, Part 2

Unearthed! in Spring 2023, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Air Conditioning

Behind the Scenes Minis: Drinks and Dyer

Mary Dyer and the Boston Martyrs

Eponymous Drinks

SYMHC Classics: Crash at Crush

Behind the Scenes Minis: Joplin and Ockham

William of Ockham

Scott Joplin

SYMHC Classics: Magnus Hirschfeld

Behind the Scenes Minis: Caroline’s Trials

Caroline Sheridan Norton, Part 2

Caroline Sheridan Norton, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Tiara of Saitafernes

Behind the Scenes Minis: Trees and Jennie June

The Autobiographies of Earl Lind - Ralph Werther - Jennie June

Author Interview: John Perlin 'A Forest Journey'

SYMHC Classics: Year Without a Summer

Behind the Scenes Minis: Theater and Thrill Rides

Roller Coasters

Augustin Daly

SYMHC Classics: U.S.S. Akron

Behind the Scenes Minis: Murder and Vivisection

The Brown Dog Affair

Alma Petty Gatlin’s Trial

SYMHC Classics: Jimmy Doolittle and the Doolittle Raid

Behind the Scenes Minis: Balloons and the Mixed Bag

G. K. Chesterton’s Fight Against Eugenics

Balloons of World War II

SYMHC Classics: The Kallikaks and the Eugenicists

Behind the Scenes Minis: Ellen and Eliza

The Case of Eliza Fenning

Ellen Swallow Richards

SYMHC Classics: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Behind the Scenes Minis: Susie and Rip

Old Rip, Famous Texas Horned Lizard

Susie King Taylor, Civil War Teacher and Nurse

Introducing: The Last Soviet

SYMHC Classics: U.S. Contraband Camps

SYMHC Classics: The Eruption at Heimaey

Behind the Scenes Minis: Chocolate and Rabbits

Scarlet Fever

Eponymous Foods: All Chocolate

SYMHC Classics: Constance Markievicz

Behind the Scenes Minis: Colette, a Mixed Bag

Colette, Part 2

Colette, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: The Montgolfier Brothers

Behind the Scenes Minis: Macs and Fletcher

Horace Fletcher, the Great Masticator

The Invention of the Raincoat

SYMHC Classics: Walter Reed

Behind the Scenes Minis: Wrapping 2022’s Unearthed!

Unearthed! Year-end 2022, Part 2

Unearthed! Year-end 2022, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: The Darien Disaster

Behind the Scenes Minis: Bicycles and Miracles

The Hume and Hovell Expedition of 1824

Kittie Knox and the Bike Boom

SYMHC Classics: The Story of 'Happy Birthday to You'

Behind the Scenes Minis: Unmentioned Pulitzer

Pulitzer versus the U.S. Government (Part 2)

Joseph Pulitzer and the Rise of Yellow Journalism (Part 1)

SYMHC Classics: A Brief History of Vodka

Behind the Scenes Minis: Irving's World

Irving Berlin, Part 2

Irving Berlin, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Who was Good King Wenceslas?

Behind the Scenes Minis: Calendars and Kitchen Gadgets

Eponymous Foods: Fourth Course

French Republican Calendar

SYMHC Classics: Five First Flights

Behind the Scenes Minis: Impossibles and Astors

John Jacob Astor

Six Impossible Episodes: More Listener Requests

SYMHC Classics: History's Unforgettable Fires

Behind the Scenes Minis: Food Saftey and Kitties

Louis Wain’s Cat Pictures

The Astronaut Origins of Food Safety

SYMHC Classics: Ed Roberts and the Independent Living Movement

Behind the Scenes Minis: Blood Banks and Lady C

Lady Chatterley’s Obscenity Trial

Charles Drew & Blood Banks

SYMHC Classics: P.T. Barnum's Biggest Stars

Behind the Scenes Minis: Robert-Houdin's Legacy

Robert-Houdin, The Father of Modern Magic, Part 2

Robert-Houdin, The Father of Modern Magic, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: P.T. Barnum

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mancinis and Tragedy

The Cocoanut Grove Fire

Hortense and Marie Mancini

SYMHC Classics: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Behind the Scenes Minis: Worms, Hikes and Tekahionwake

E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake

Unearthed! Autumn 2022, Part 2

SYMHC Classics: Gunpowder Plot

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mansions and Coin Hoards

Unearthed! Autumn 2022, Part 1

Redpath Murders

SYMHC Classics: History Mystery Double Feature

Behind the Scenes Minis: Ouija, Ouija!

Spirit Boards and the Rise of the Ouija, Part 2

Spirit Boards and the Rise of the Ouija, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Disappearance of Joseph Force Crater

Behind the Scenes Minis: Rose and Mamie

Interview: The Makers of 'Till'

‘The Rev’ Rose Mackenberg

SYMHC Classics: Harry Houdini, Master Mystifier

Behind the Scenes Minis: Psychics and Serpents

Edward May's Strange Monster

Helen Duncan, (Not) Scotland’s Last Witch

SYMHC Classics: Matthew Hopkins

Behind the Scenes Minis: Robeson and Schrepfer

The Necromancy of Joann Georg Schrepfer

Paul Robeson and the Peekskill Riots

SYMHC Classics: The Hagley Woods Murder

Behind the Scenes Minis: Oh, Charles

Charles Chapin’s Complicated Life, Part 2

Charles Chapin’s Complicated Life, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: General Slocum Disaster

Behind the Scenes Minis: Eugene

Eugene Jacques Bullard and the Paris Jazz Age (Pt. 2)

Eugene Jacques Bullard, Combat Pilot (Pt. 1)

SYMHC Classics: Jack Johnson

Behind the Scenes Minis: Lavinia and Imogene

Imogene Rechtin’s ‘Kiss Not’ Campaign

Lavinia Fontana Zappi

SYMHC Classics: Polio, The Dread Disease

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mold and Monarchs

Field of Cloth of Gold

Penicillin: More than a Moldy Petri Dish

SYMHC Classics: Elizabeth Jennings Graham

Behind the Scenes Minis: Dishwashers and Desmond

Viola Desmond

Invention of the Dishwasher

SYMHC Classics: Great London Smog

Behind the Scenes Minis: Lowry and Midgley

Thomas Midgley Jr.’s Deadly Inventions

The Lowry War

SYMHC Classics: Alice Hamilton and Occupational Medicine

Behind the Scenes Minis: Butterflies and Photos

Weegee the Famous

The Developing History of Monarch Butterflies

SYMHC Classics: Giorgio Vasari

Behind the Scenes Minis: Diesel and Ibn Khaldūn

Ibn Khaldūn

The Life and Disappearance of Rudolf Diesel

SYMHC Classics: Tamerlane and the Battle of Ankara

Behind the Scenes Minis: Blood Pressure and Zippers

Zippers!

Hypertension: A History

SYMHC Classics: Unearthed! USS Indianapolis

Behind the Scenes Minis: Gustave and Griswold

Griswold v. Connecticut

Gustave Courbet

SYMHC Classics: 5 Shipwreck Stories

Behind the Scenes Minis: Unearthed! Wrap-up

Unearthed! in July 2022, Part 2

Unearthed! in July 2022, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: The Discovery of 'Planet' Ceres

Behind the Scenes Minis: Busy Emily

Emily Hobhouse and the First World War, Pt. 2

Emily Hobhouse and the Boer War, Pt. 1

SYMHC Classics: The Cuyahoga River's Last Fires

Behind the Scenes Minis: Deborah and Bibb

Lettuce, Slavery, and the Bibb Legacy

Deborah Sampson Gannett, aka Private Robert Shurtlliff

SYMHC Classics: Lucretia Mott

Behind the Scenes Minis: Laocoön and Lucy

Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor

Laocoön and His Sons

SYMHC Classics: The Cato Street Conspiracy

Behind the Scenes Minis: Cosplay and Shakers

Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson

Interview: Andrew Liptak and the History of Cosplay

SYMHC Classics: Vincent van Gogh

Behind the Scenes Minis: Danger Doge and Time Zones

Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Time Zones

Marino Faliero, the Beheaded Doge

SYMHC Classics: The Daring Imposter Cassie Chadwick

Behind the Scenes Minis: Soyer and Mercator

Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection

Alexis Soyer

SYMHC Classics: Anne Lister

Behind the Scenes Minis: Jack and Ponzi

Charles Ponzi’s Schemes

Jack Sheppard, Prison-Breaker

SYMHC Classics: Anne Bonny & Mary Read

Behind the Scenes Minis: M & M

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

Margaret Lucas Cavendish’s Blazing World

SYMHC Classics: John Dillinger

Behind the Scenes Minis: All the Teeth

A Brief History of Dentistry and Oral Health, Part 2

A Brief History of Dentistry and Oral Health, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Veterinary Medicine

Behind the Scenes Minis: Rabies and Jailbreaks

Six Impossible Episodes: Prison Breaks

A Brief History of Rabies

SYMHC Classics: Ruth Harkness and the First Panda in the U.S.

Behind the Scenes Minis: Okapi and Theda

The Invention of Theda Bara

The Okapi and the Western World

Holly Frey In Conversation With Seneca Women to Hear Winner: Lola Omalola

SYMHC Classics: Maria Montessori

Behind the Scenes Minis: Pie and Motion Sickness

The Gallaudet 11

A Look at Pies Through History

SYMHC Classics: Pauline Sabin

Behind the Scenes Minis: Latest Unearthed!

Unearthed! in Spring 2022, Part 2

Unearthed! in Spring 2022, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Vigée Le Brun

Behind the Scenes Minis: Chocolate Chips and Public Relations

Ivy Ledbetter Lee and the Roots of PR

Two Accidental Inventions

SYMHC Classics: Night of the Long Knives

Behind the Scenes Minis: Antarctica

Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expeditions, Pt. 2

Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expeditions, Pt. 1

SYMHC Classics: Maria Sibylla Merian

Behind the Scenes Minis: Hardy and the Women's March

Women’s March on Pretoria, 1956

Thomas Hardy, Emma Gifford and Florence Dugdale

SYMHC Classics: 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

Behind the Scenes Minis: Maria and Bruno

Giordano Bruno

Maria Gertrudis Barceló, Santa Fe’s Gambling Queen

SYMHC Classics: The Race to the South Pole

Behind the Scenes Minis: Guillotine

De Koven, Weidmann, and Public Execution in France (Pt. 2)

De Koven, Weidmann, and Public Execution in France (Pt. 1)

SYMHC Classics: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mary Sidney and Holodomor

Holodomor

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

SYMHC Classics: Aphra Behn

Behind the Scenes Minis: William Apess

William Apess and the Mashpee Revolt (Pt. 2)

The Autobiography of William Apess (Pt. 1)

Cyrano the Movie

SYMHC Classics: Edmonia Lewis

Behind the Scenes Minis: Egerton and Nika

The Nika Riots & Massacre

The Eccentric Francis Henry Egerton

SYMHC Classics: The Bisbee Deportation

Behind the Scenes Minis: Derby Fury and Complex Lucy

Lucy Parsons, American Anarchist

Great Stork Derby

SYMHC Classics: Aspasia and Pericles

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Bubble and Mr. Moms

Moms Mabley

The South Sea Bubble

SYMHC Classics: Shirley Chisholm

Behind the Scenes Minis: Food and Thesaurus

Peter Roget and His Thesaurus

Eponymous Foods, Third Serving

SYMHC Classics: The Rite of Spring Riot

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Trial and the Unicorn

A Fanciful History of Unicorns

Madeline Pollard vs. Breckinridge

SYMHC Classics: Nome Serum Run

Behind the Scenes Minis: Murder and Benin

The Punitive Expedition of 1897 and the Benin Bronzes

Monte Carlo Trunk Murder

SYMHC Classics: History of Carousels

Behind the Scenes Minis: End of 2021 Unearthed

Unearthed! Year-end 2021, Part 2

Unearthed! Year-end 2021, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: The Verreaux Brothers

Behind the Scenes Minis: Platypus and Cyrano

Cyrano de Bergerac

The Platypus Quarrel

SYMHC Classics: Piltdown Man

Behind the Scenes Minis: Photography Innovators

Robert Cornelius: More Than a Selfie

Louis Daguerre and the Daguerreotype

SYMHC Classics: Christmas Triple-Feature

Behind the Scenes Minis: Irving and Tull

Jethro Tull’s Horse-hoeing Husbandry

Washington Irving’s ‘American’ Christmas

SYMHC Classics: Christina of Sweden

Behind the Scenes Minis: Ballet and Anchovies

Two More Eponymous Foods

The Nutcracker

SYMHC Classics: S.A. Andrée and the 1897 North Pole Balloon Mission

Behind the Scenes Minis: Strikes and Snowflakes

Wilson A. Bentley, the Snowflake Man

The Flint Sit-down Strike

SYMHC Classics: Vernon Lee

Behind the Scenes Minis: Amy Levy and Pranksters

Three Legendary Pranks

Amy Levy

SYMHC Classics: Walter Potter's Wild and Wonderful Taxidermy

Behind the Scenes Minis: Purple and Cock Robin

Six Impossible Episodes: More Mother Goose

Sir William Henry Perkin

SYMHC Classics: A Brief History of Colors

Behind the Scenes Minis: The Tarbell Episodes

Ida M. Tarbell vs. John D. Rockefeller, Part 2

Ida M. Tarbell vs. John D. Rockefeller, Part 1

SYMHC Classics: Inês de Castro and Pedro I of Portugal

Behind the Scenes Minis: Maggie Lena Walker and Pepper's Ghost

John Henry Pepper and His Ghost

Maggie Lena Walker

SYMHC Classics: Mary-Elizabeth Bowser

Behind the Scenes Minis: So Many Edwards, Just One Olivia

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks

The Princes in the Tower

SYMHC Classics: Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery

Behind the Scenes Minis: Haunts and Demons

The Possession Case of Roland Doe

The Rise of Haunted House Attractions

SYMHC Classics: The Tussaud Test of Popularity

Behind the Scenes Minis: October Unearthed!

Unearthed! in October 2021, part 2

Unearthed! in October 2021, part 1

SYMHC Classics: Tunguska Event

Behind the Scenes Minis: Two Williams

William Palmer, the Rugely Poisoner

The Murder(?) of William Marsh Rice

SYMHC Classics: Hernandez v. Texas

Behind the Scenes Minis: Crowley and Cagliostro

Cagliostro

Bad Women: The Ripper Retold Trailer

Aleister Crowley

SYMHC Classics: Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol

Behind the Scenes Minis: Tod Browning

Tod Browning, Part 2

Tod Browning, Part 1