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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Mysteries: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
10 min
27
Conversations: Patrick K. O'Donnell
12 min
28
Who Cracked the Liberty Bell?
8 min
29
Native American Leaders
8 min
30
The First American Novel Scandal
8 min
31
The Amber Room Mystery
8 min
32
Trivia: Deaths of Famous People
4 min
33
Mysteries: Betraying Anne Frank
9 min
34
Conversations: Dan Carlin
19 min
35
Chocolate
8 min
36
First Female Presidential Candidate
9 min
37
1605 Demolition Men
9 min
38
Emperor's Ransom
9 min
39
Trivia: The Great Depression
6 min
40
Mysteries: Sunken Civilizations
10 min
41
Conversations: Roger Crowley
22 min
42
Hitler Diaries
8 min
43
Bloody Angle NYC
8 min
44
Mummifying Lenin
7 min
45
Teapot Dome Scandal
8 min
46
Trivia: The Movies
6 min
47
Mysteries: Marilyn Monroe
10 min
48
Conversations: James R. Benn
18 min
49
Confederados
8 min
50
White House Ghosts
8 min