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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Last Days of the Dinosaurs
11 min
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Conversations: Tom Standage
25 min
53
1956 Suez Canal Crisis
12 min
54
Leaflet Propaganda of WWII
11 min
55
King Gillette's Razor
10 min
56
Warrior Queens Who Challenged Rome
11 min
57
Vintage News: Pentagon Papers
9 min
58
Firebombing of Dresden
11 min
59
Conversations: Laurence Jurdem
29 min
60
Blood on the Senate Floor
11 min
61
U.S. Invades Canada - Twice!
12 min
62
Remembering John Q. Adams
12 min
63
The Legend of King Arthur
11 min
64
U.S. and Greenland: A History
10 min
65
Mormon Army of Nauvoo
11 min
66
Conversations: Jonathan Eig
12 min
67
Stealing the Panama Canal
13 min
68
Romulus and Remus of Rome
10 min
69
Kosovo Student Poisoning Incident
12 min
70
FBI's Long Manhunt for Fugitive Webb
11 min
71
Trivia: Accidental Inventions
5 min
72
Father of the Doughnut Hole
11 min
73
Rasputin's Autopsy Secrets
9 min
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Conversations: Norman Davies
27 min
75
Killing Dillinger
11 min