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Several times over the past few years, we’ve done an episode on something from U.S. history, and afterward we’ve gotten notes from listeners about the same thing happening in Canada – although this episode starts with one that’s the reverse. Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

Six Impossible Episodes: Deja Vu in the U.S. and Canada

2018-12-1000:41:24

We're revisiting an episode from 2014: the Filles du Roi, or King's Daughters. While the building of a population in a new colony seems like a tricky endeavor, France's King Louis XIV launched a scheme to do just that by shipping eligible ladies to New France in the 1600s.Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

SYMHC Classics: Les Filles du Roi

2018-12-0800:28:281

Nell Donnelly Reed built a successful business starting before women even had the right to vote in the U.S. Her story combines fashion, education, workers’ health and safety, kidnapping, and marital scandal. She is, like any historical figure, complicated. Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

Nell Donnelly Reed

2018-12-0500:38:162

The Straw Hat Riot of 1922 is a strange piece of history, and it all centered around the boater hat. How did how the boater become so important to men’s fashion in the early 20th century? And how did that lead to a very bizarre conflict in the 1920s?Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

The Rise of the Straw Hat and the Riot of 1922

2018-12-0300:32:172

Today we're revisiting the life of Phylo T. Farnsworth, often called the "Father of Television." His initial idea for electronic television came to him as a teen. He's also become something of an icon representing the little guy -- he battled big business in in a patent suit.Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

SYMHC Classics: Philo T. Farnsworth

2018-12-0100:35:473

Any chefs in our listening audience undoubtedly know about Auguste Escoffier, but people who haven’t studied cuisine may not realize that this one man revolutionized food preparation and restaurant dining in ways that are still part of almost any meal you may be served today. Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

Auguste Escoffier

2018-11-2800:33:533

San Francisco’s cable cars are the last working system of their kind. The reason they haven’t been completely replaced by more modern modes of transportation is largely the advocacy of a woman named Friedel Klussmann.Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

Friedel Klussmann and San Francisco's Cable Cars

2018-11-2600:38:032

We're revisiting an episode from 2014 about makeup, which has a rich and lengthy history that spans the globe and crosses cultures. From 10,000 B.C.E. to the 20th century, people have been using cosmetics to enhance their looks -- sometimes with unintended side effects.Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

SYMHC Classics: Cosmetics From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World

2018-11-2400:31:166

There were four Mirabal sisters -- Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede. The sisters are national heroes in the Dominican Republic, but they weren’t very well-known elsewhere until 20 or so years ago when they became the subject of the historical novel “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez.Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

The Mirabal Sisters

2018-11-2100:28:5811

This show, performed live at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, covers a brief overview of USO history, and then delves into Bob Hope's involvement with the organization, which started in the early 1940s and continued for 50 years. Learn more about advertising on the HowStuffWorks podcasts at www.howstuffworks.com/advertisers.htmAnd to learn about your ad choices when listening to podcasts, visit https://www.howstuffworks.com/privacy.htm#ad-choices

SYMHC Live: The USO and Bob Hope

2018-11-1900:45:442

Comments (58)

Baby Cakes

I'm pretty sure that the Vatican just issued an apology to the Dominican gov for the Jesuit involvement in murders there.

Dec 12th

Joey Rocks Guitar

Dec 10th

Khyla

You think you know how bad a person was, and then you listen and he's much, much worse. One of the top episodes I have heard.

Nov 27th

April Barlow

I loved this episode! It was unexpectedly hilarious. Thank you!

Nov 20th

Nicole Rochele Conway

I grew up on the Omaha reservation, and have not heard this story before. very interesting.my home town is Rosalie which is named after Susan's sister, Rosalie La Flesche

Catherine Thomas

I loved this episode after several heavy topics. Thanks for the variety!

Nov 16th

Kayl matthew

just look at a picture of the hosts and you will understand why they pick topics like this

Nov 14th

Kayl matthew Its a huge deal that a native american stopped practicing her native medicine (which was actually very good). Assimilate into white culture. Get a white doctor degree. And take a white as fuck name like SUSAN.

Nov 15th

Kayl matthew you need a better history podcast since you cant tell Matthew is a catholic name.

how do you go from an actual important part of HISTORY (kristalnacht) to this bullshit....

Nov 13th

Sheri R why would you plagiarize show notes from a podcast haha. anyways it isnt a valid topic its just another lame ass personal hero of the hosts

Nov 18th

Sheri R

Kayl matthew Everything is history, cinema and art are still valid and important topics to explore. Chill my guy, it's a great episode and there's no need to trash the hard work that the creators of the show put in. You don't have to get shitty about a show just because it's a topic you can't plagiarize for your high school history class.

Nov 17th

Yanky Spiegelman

I don't have the details but you can Google it. Shirley Chisholm spoke with the Lubavitcher Rebbe who, among other things encouraged her in her career. He also urged her to develop what later became Food Stamps.

Nov 12th

Pat Pascal

thanks.. we a

Oct 27th

🤙🤙

Oct 22nd

Change name to "Stuff you missed in 7th grade Womens Studies"

Oct 18th

Ruth Reynoso

I hope that they start focusing more on historical events and less on biographies of people. it's cool to have background knowledge on historical figures but this has turned out to be quite boring as of late

Oct 12th

Justin Bryce

This show has gotten pretty stale. Women have done some awesome stuff and have had to overcome alot but I feel like lately all of the subjects of this pod have been personal heroes of the hosts, and people whose stories are kind of voring. Did they have historical importance? Yes, but that doesn't make for an entertaining 30 min. Compared to earlier episodes these latest episodes are bland

Oct 10th

Ford Prefect

what an amazing woman

Oct 8th

Lyle Broadhead

Rename to: Stuff WOMEN DID THAT You Missed In History Class Seriously ladies; expand a little. I get that women are awesome, but you can do shows on guys as well.

Oct 5th

Melissa Reed

Lyle Broadhead The hosts addressed this issue in 2016 because this perception comes up often. They counted if subjects of all episodes from March 4th 2013 to June 1 2016 were women, men, or ungendered. The subjects were women in 21% of cases, men in 45% of cases and ungendered in 34% of cases. A quick Google search of 'stuff you missed in history men vs women' will bring up the article with how they choose to classify the episodes. It's really common to think women are being talking way more than men in lots of contexts. There have been studies done in meetings and other contexts illustrating that. This podcast doesn't talk about women more than men.

Nov 24th

AL Hi

Lyle Broadhead Guys are already covered. It's called "history."

Oct 6th

dabney stack

CD by

Sep 27th

Terry Helm

Sep 19th

Ryder Ferenc

Well, Scots is an English dialect and they are more or less mutually intelligible.

Stuff You Missed in History Class

Six Impossible Episodes: Deja Vu in the U.S. and Canada

SYMHC Classics: Les Filles du Roi

Nell Donnelly Reed

The Rise of the Straw Hat and the Riot of 1922

SYMHC Classics: Philo T. Farnsworth

Auguste Escoffier

Friedel Klussmann and San Francisco's Cable Cars

SYMHC Classics: Cosmetics From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World

The Mirabal Sisters

SYMHC Live: The USO and Bob Hope

Baby Cakes

Joey Rocks Guitar

Joey Rocks Guitar

Khyla

April Barlow

Nicole Rochele Conway

Catherine Thomas

Kayl matthew

Kayl matthew

Kayl matthew

Kayl matthew

Kayl matthew

Sheri R

Yanky Spiegelman

Pat Pascal

Joey Rocks Guitar

Kayl matthew

Ruth Reynoso

Justin Bryce

Ford Prefect

Lyle Broadhead

Melissa Reed

AL Hi

dabney stack

Terry Helm

Ryder Ferenc