This 2019 episode covers Sylvia of Hollywood, famous in the 1920s and 1930s for shaping up starlets, cementing the idea that Hollywood's beauties were aspirational figures for the average woman.
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Milton Bradley and the Game That Started It All
Thales and the Battle of the Eclipse
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
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