Behind the Scenes Minis: It's Not Unprecedented
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Tracy shares her desire to see the rest of the letter that was quoted in this week's episodes on Anthony Burns. Talk also turns to the fact that many of the things that are surprising people today are, in fact, precedented.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy B. Wilson. |
| 0:19.3 | And I'm Holly Fry. |
| 0:24.3 | We spent all week talking about Anthony Burns. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, we did. After I saw the same quote over and over, I feel like a lot very recently in response to what has been happening in Minnesota. |
| 0:44.3 | We're currently about two weeks out between when we were recording things and when things are publishing. |
| 0:48.5 | So the world is moving so fast. Who knows what will happen between this moment and when the episode comes out. |
| 0:54.7 | But I have seen a lot of stark-mad abolitionist quotes recently |
| 1:00.5 | in response to things happening in Minnesota, |
| 1:04.8 | the public response to things happening in Minnesota. |
| 1:08.0 | But I actually think the first time I saw it was months ago |
| 1:12.4 | when Ross Baraka, mayor of Newark, was arrested, which now feels like that happened |
| 1:20.3 | a year. I'm like, was that a whole other word? It was in, I feel like May of last year. |
| 1:28.5 | It was a long time ago. |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.8 | I don't know if it was actually May. |
| 1:32.2 | I did not refresh my memory on when it happened, but, like, it was a while ago. |
| 1:36.5 | And then it has, like, I've seen it again and again on my social. |
| 1:41.3 | I am very curious about what the rest of the letter says. Yeah. And I could not find a scan |
| 1:49.7 | of this letter anywhere. It is in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society. And I |
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