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.

History
226
Trivia: Famous Women
8 min
227
What If: Mexico Defeated the U.S.
9 min
228
Conversations: Jerry Landry on William H. Harrison
43 min
229
Killing Truman
8 min
230
Fountain of Youth
8 min
231
Mt. Everest Death Zone
8 min
232
Uncle Sam
8 min
233
Trivia: American Presidents
7 min
234
What If: RFK Became President
11 min
235
Conversations: Alan Taylor
13 min
236
Titanic by the Numbers
8 min
237
Sex and Corn Flakes
8 min
238
Sheep Wars
8 min
239
Four Diaries of Anne Frank
7 min
240
Genghis Khan (Where are they now?)
9 min
241
Conversations: Brady Carlson
20 min
242
Grant and Twain
8 min
243
Mayan Portal to the Underworld
7 min
244
1968 Democratic National Convention
9 min
245
Orphans Preferred
7 min
246
The Story of Pocahontas (Where are they now?)
10 min
247
Conversations: James C. Nelson
16 min
248
The Ghost Ship
8 min
249
FDR's Close Call
8 min
250
Shadow Amendment
8 min