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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Becoming Sherlock Holmes
7 min
302
Who Wrote the Bible?
7 min
303
Conversations: Ray Raphael
21 min
304
A King's Deadly Dose
7 min
305
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
306
No Civil War; No Coca Cola?
7 min
307
Stalin Needs a Doctor
8 min
308
Cleopatra and Caesar Have a Baby!
7 min
309
Cinco de Mayo is NOT Independence Day
7 min
310
Abe Lincoln Buys Cocaine
7 min
311
Conversations: Col. Jack H. Jacobs
14 min
312
The Lady Who Said "No" to War
7 min
313
King Tut's Curse
6 min
314
We Didn't Start The Fire: Elvis (Part 1)
43 min
315
Elvis' Last Moments
7 min
316
Conversations: Roger Moorhouse
27 min
317
Boxing Gangsters vs. American Nazis
8 min
318
Killing Socrates
7 min
319
Cod Wars
7 min
320
The Search for Molly Pitcher
7 min
321
Sgt. York's Army of One
7 min
322
Who was Jim Crow?
7 min
323
Catherine's Doomed Husband
7 min
324
Thou Shall Not Kill Cats
7 min
325
Conversations: James Bradley
20 min