History Shorts
Each day, award-winning historian and author Peter Zablocki shares his research into the little-known and hidden-in-plain-sight historical curiosities you probably never heard of. All in the little time you probably do not have.
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Nazi Prisoner on the Run
8 min
227
The White Rose Movement
7 min
228
The Little Truck that Could
9 min
229
Conversations: H.W. Brands
10 min
230
Wall Street Under Attack!
6 min
231
Nero's Party House
7 min
232
The Father of History
7 min
233
The Hammurabi Way
7 min
234
Conversations: Edward J. Larson
15 min
235
Aliens Over Texas
8 min
236
Nazi Bureaucracy
7 min
237
Virginia Breaks Up With Virginia
7 min
238
Edgar Allan Poe's Bad Reputation
7 min
239
Conversations: Rick Beyer
19 min
240
Alexander's Missing Body
8 min
241
Becoming Sherlock Holmes
7 min
242
Who Wrote the Bible?
7 min
243
Conversations: Ray Raphael
21 min
244
A King's Deadly Dose
7 min
245
Medal of Honor: The Toughest Thing He’s Ever Do...
Through numerous wounds and excruciating pain, SP5 Sasser continuously administered aid for 20 hours as his company was attacked in Vietnam.
5 min
246
No Civil War; No Coca Cola?
7 min
247
Stalin Needs a Doctor
7 min
248
Cleopatra and Caesar Have a Baby!
7 min
249
Cinco de Mayo is NOT Independence Day
7 min
250
Abe Lincoln Buys Cocaine
7 min