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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The $36 Million Dollar Scam
10 min
77
Pope's Line Across the World
9 min
78
The Fall of Boss Tweed
9 min
79
Trivia: Candy
5 min
80
Brazilian Expeditionary Force of WWII
13 min
81
Landmarks: Washington Monument
10 min
82
Conversations: Catherine Fletcher
17 min
83
A City Built on Bones
10 min
84
Charlie Brown Christmas
11 min
85
Killing Spartacus
12 min
86
Chappaquiddick
10 min
87
Remastered: It's a Wonderful Life
11 min
88
OSS' Psychological Analysis of Hitler
10 min
89
Landmarks: Kremlin
10 min
90
Conversations: Roman Krznaric
22 min
91
Hollywood Urban Legends
11 min
92
Ford and Edison's Electric Car
10 min
93
Building a Beer Empire
10 min
94
The Chicken of Tomorrow Contest
10 min
95
Vintage News: Archduke Ferdinand
8 min
96
Landmarks: Stonehenge
10 min
97
Conversations: Sharon McMahon
20 min
98
Businesses that Worked w/ the Nazis
10 min
99
Ali Stops the Fight
9 min
100
Did Nixon Delay Peace in Vietnam?
9 min