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
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Conversations: Col. Jack H. Jacobs
14 min
252
The Lady Who Said "No" to War
7 min
253
King Tut's Curse
6 min
254
We Didn't Start The Fire: Elvis (Part 1)
43 min
255
Elvis' Last Moments
7 min
256
Conversations: Roger Moorhouse
27 min
257
Boxing Gangsters vs. American Nazis
8 min
258
Killing Socrates
7 min
259
Cod Wars
7 min
260
The Search for Molly Pitcher
7 min
261
Sgt. York's Army of One
7 min
262
Who was Jim Crow?
7 min
263
Catherine's Doomed Husband
7 min
264
Thou Shall Not Kill Cats
7 min
265
Conversations: James Bradley
20 min
266
Napoleon's Missing Hand
6 min
267
The Auschwitz's "Canada"
6 min
268
The Time of Three Popes
6 min
269
Harlem Hellfighters and Jazz
6 min
270
Britain's Twelve-Day Sleep
6 min
271
Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin
6 min
272
Barbers at Moscow's Gates
6 min
273
Mr. Celsius and Mr. Fahrenheit
6 min
274
Picasso Steals the Mona Lisa?
6 min
275
The Real Kamikaze
6 min