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
76
What If: Mexico Defeated the U.S.
9 min
77
Conversations: Jerry Landry on William H. Harrison
43 min
78
Killing Truman
8 min
79
Fountain of Youth
8 min
80
Mt. Everest Death Zone
8 min
81
Uncle Sam
8 min
82
Trivia: American Presidents
7 min
83
What If: RFK Became President
11 min
84
Conversations: Alan Taylor
12 min
85
Titanic by the Numbers
8 min
86
Sex and Corn Flakes
8 min
87
Sheep Wars
8 min
88
Four Diaries of Anne Frank
7 min
89
Genghis Khan (Where are they now?)
9 min
90
Conversations: Brady Carlson
20 min
91
Grant and Twain
8 min
92
Mayan Portal to the Underworld
7 min
93
1968 Democratic National Convention
9 min
94
Orphans Preferred
7 min
95
The Story of Pocahontas (Where are they now?)
10 min
96
Conversations: James C. Nelson
16 min
97
The Ghost Ship
8 min
98
FDR's Close Call
8 min
99
Shadow Amendment
8 min
100
Lenin Has Second Thoughts
9 min