Actually History

These aren't your average history lessons. Actually History revisits the headlines of history — because the full story rarely makes the front page. Join our host Michelle Logan as we celebrate the stories of pioneers, innovators, and trailblazers who have changed the course of history as we know it.

New episodes drop Tuesdays.

Inspired by the book To Her Credit by Kaitlin Culmo & Emily McDermott.

Marie Tharp Discovered Tectonic Plates. No One Believed Her. [STEM HISTORY]

Gladys Mae West: The Hidden Figure of GPS Technology [STEM HISTORY]

Fanny Mendelssohn's Secret Masterpieces: Her Work, His Fame [MUSIC HISTORY]

The Other Mozart: The Sister History Tried to Erase [MUSIC HISTORY]

Chien-Shiung Wu: She Rewrote Physics, They Denied Her Nobel. [STEM HISTORY]

Lise Meitner Explained How to Split the Atom. History Erased Her. [STEM HISTORY]

Big Mama Thornton Sang "Hound Dog" Before Elvis. History Forgot Her. [Music History]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe Invented Rock. History Gave the Credit to Men. [Music History]

Was Einstein's Greatest Idea NOT His Own? The Story of Mileva Marić. [STEM HISTORY]

Vera Rubin Proved Dark Matter Was Real. They Ignored Her for Years. [STEM HISTORY]

How Katherine Johnson's Math Changed the Space Race [STEM HISTORY]

The Intellectual Architect Behind the Guggenheim Museum [ART HISTORY]

Janet Sobel: The Woman Who Dripped Paint Before Pollock [ART HISTORY]

How MoMA's Founders Made Modern Art Mainstream [ART HISTORY]